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Brookfield Asset Management expects to complete roughly $20 billion of real estate transactions over a two-month period as recovery across parts of the commercial property sector accelerates, according to the Financial Post.

U.S. industrial and logistics real estate remains compelling despite shifting macroeconomic conditions, structural changes in supply chains and rapid technological evolution. Todd Henderson, head of real estate, Americas, at DWS, said in an exclusive interview with IREI that a combination of supply discipline, technological innovation and shifting demand patterns is setting the stage for renewed strength across the sector.

In the third installment, Chase McWhorter, managing director, Americas, at Institutional Real Estate, Inc., interviewed Dan Meador, executive vice president, asset management and national leasing, at Dermody.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) has committed $900 million to real estate vehicles in March, according to meeting materials.

The San Diego City Employees Retirement System (SDCERS) has committed $40 million to KKR’s Real Estate Partners Americas IV fund.

KingSett Capital and University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP) have formed a strategic partnership to invest in income-generating industrial real estate assets across Canada’s major urban markets.

CenterSquare Investment Management has appointed Nevin Torres as a senior vice president in the firm’s capital markets team.

 Artificial intelligence is projected to generate approximately 330 million square feet of additional commercial real estate (CRE) demand in the United States over the next decade, according to new analysis from Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK). The study, AI Impact on Commercial Real Estate: The Next 10 Years, is the first global, multi-sector, scenario-based assessment of how AI adoption will reshape real estate fundamentals across all major property types.

For the first time in years, the office market has headline numbers that genuinely look better, according to Lee & Associates.

CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM), on behalf of ABP Pension Fund, has reached an agreement with Breevast on the purchase of 475 new rental homes.

Consider a typical scenario in private real estate: A general partner (GP) comes back to market to raise Fund IV. Their predecessor vehicle, Fund III, is three years into its life and boasting an impressive 16 percent IRR. The GP sits across from an existing limited partner (LP), presents the pristine pitch deck, points to the early markup, and confidently asks for a re-up.

S3 Capital has held a final close for its S3 LB RE Credit Fund III, with $850 million of discretionary fund commitments and an additional $465 million of co-investment commitments.

Science and innovation leasing across the United Kingdom’s Golden Triangle – between London, Oxford and Cambridge – reached 234,779 square feet in the first quarter of the year, according to Knight Frank, 43.2 percent above the five-year average and 6 percent ahead of the same period in 2025.

Centuria has launched a new Sydney office trust tied to the acquisition of stakes in two CBD office towers, according to The Australian.

 JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality group has arranged $600 million in financing for The Diplomat Beach Resort, a beachfront resort with 1,000 guest rooms in Hollywood, Fla.

Anheuser-Busch has sold its former facility in Newark, N.J., to Goodman Group for $360 million. Newmark Group advised Anheuser-Busch on the deal.

Americold Realty Trust has formed a new joint venture with EQT’s Active Core Infrastructure fund focused on the ownership, operation and potential development of high-quality cold storage warehouse facilities in North America.

An affiliate of Inland National Development Co. (INDC), a member company of The Inland Real Estate Group of Cos., has sold Ogden Hill East, an 8,050-square-foot multitenant retail building located within the Ogden Hill Shopping Center at 1060 Ogden Ave. in Montgomery, Ill.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has entered into an agreement to sell its remaining interests in its European nonperforming loan (NPL) portfolio to a newly formed joint venture vehicle established between funds managed by affiliates of Arrow Global Group and funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group.

Berkadia has secured a $401 million condo inventory loan for The Ritz-Carlton Residences in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., designated as an Estate Collection property due to the property’s unique estate home attributes.