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Hines has acquired Heathrow Logistics Park.

On Oct. 6, 2007, I was a member of the No. 1-ranked USC football team. That evening, we were playing Stanford and were favored by 41 points. Admittedly, we did not have a great week of practice, and no matter what we did that evening, nothing seemed to work. We lost 24-23 in one of the biggest upsets in college football history.

M&G Real Estate has acquired a residential scheme valued in excess of €250 million ($284 million) in Greater Copenhagen on behalf of the €5.2 billion ($5.9 billion) M&G European Property Fund.

Geopolitical uncertainty and higher borrowing costs are reshaping investor behavior in the European commercial real estate market, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

Over the past few decades, open-ended real estate funds cemented their position as a preferred vehicle for institutional investors to access the core and core-plus sectors. Their scale, diversification and income-oriented characteristics attracted a broad range of institutional investors seeking stable, long-duration returns. For much of that period, the structure worked as intended; periodic liquidity windows, steady inflows and manageable redemption activity kept these vehicles functioning smoothly.

MSCI has acquired First Street, a provider of physics-based climate risk data and analytics for every property in the world. 

New Forests has expanded its North American presence with the acquisition of 44,200 acres of forestry assets in Washington state, reported Financial Standard.

S3 Capital has originated a $102 million construction loan for 311 W. 43rd St.

Madison International Realty has made a series of key promotions into senior leadership positions within the firm.

CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM), on behalf of a fund sponsored by the firm, has acquired a portfolio of eight logistics assets strategically located across Italy’s five largest logistics corridors, representing a significant step in expanding CBRE IM’s European logistics platform.

The total European real estate investment universe has surpassed the €2.0 trillion ($2.28 trillion) threshold, confirming its scale as an institutional asset class, according to new joint research published by INREV and EPRA, Europe’s leading real estate industry associations.

A shift toward neo-mercantilist policies is reshaping commercial real estate, as governments prioritize domestic production, supply-chain security and strategic industries, according to a March 2026 report from New York Life Investments.

After more than 40 years in the institutional real estate investment industry, Tom Klugherz has announced his retirement from J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

For institutional investors, one of the most underappreciated risks in private markets today sits at the intersection of liquidity, vehicle structure and governance. It is showing up not in asset quality alone, but in how liquidity promises interact with plan-level cash flows and decision-making.

Every so often, one of those tidy little market sayings gets repeated often enough that it starts to sound like settled science. “Public REITs typically lead private commercial real estate valuations by six to 12 months” is one of them. It is a useful shorthand, but it is still a shorthand. And for institutional investors, shorthand can be dangerous if it is mistaken for a law of nature.

Harbert European Real Estate (HERE), the European real estate investment platform of U.S.-based alternative asset manager Harbert Management Corporation (HMC) and Aire Capital Partners, an independent French real estate asset and investment manager, has announced the forward funding of a business park development in Limeil-Brévannes, a commune in the southeast of the Paris city-region. Financial details are not being disclosed.

Japanese developer Mori Trust has agreed to acquire two office floors at Kamiyacho Trust Tower in central Tokyo from travel agency HIS for ¥32.5 billion ($201 million), according to Mingtiandi.

Sunstone Hotel Investors has plans to sell the 821-room Hyatt Regency San Francisco to funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate for a gross sale price of $279 million, or approximately $340,000 per key. The sale price represents a 21.4 multiple on Hotel Adjusted EBITDA-R and a 3.5 percent cap rate on Hotel Net Operating Income for the trailing 12-month period ending May 31.

Public Storage has agreed to acquire Public Storage Canada in a transaction valued at approximately $1.2 billion.

Nearly three in five homes in Newark, N.J., sold above their original asking price in May, the highest share of the 50 most populous U.S. metros, according to a new report from Redfin.