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GI Partners has completed the acquisition of two data centers located in Laurel and Severn, Md.

U.S. investor home purchases ticked up 2 percent from a year earlier in the fourth quarter, coming in at just under 50,000, according to a new report from Redfin. That’s the eighth straight quarter of minimal changes in investor activity.

Core Spaces has acquired The Collective at Columbia, a 318-unit, 972-bed student housing community near the University of Missouri (Mizzou). The seller was Preiss and a real estate fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital. 

In a market defined by repricing and prolonged deleveraging, the opportunity set is pervasive, but it’s increasingly idiosyncratic rather than driven by broad market momentum, so “you need to know where to look,” said Andrew Gindy, founder and managing partner at Range Equity Management, L.P. (REM), in an interview with IREI. He is concentrating on operationally complex “special situations,” targeting properties facing capital structure stress, refinancing pressure, or operational underperformance where active asset management creates value rather than stabilized, income-oriented assets.

Noble Investment Group has acquired Renaissance Reno Downtown Hotel & Spa, a premium riverfront hotel located in downtown Reno, Nev.

LaSalle Investment Management has appointed Peter Sibilia as head of U.S. transactions.

There is continued expansion across the U.S. and strong demand for credible, measurable, performance-based sustainability standards, according to BREEAM, in its recently released 2025 report.

Larissa Herczeg, founder and managing partner, 1 Seed Partners, recently participated in a special feature highlighting accomplished women in the real estate sector for the Institutional Real Estate Americas publication. She shared her perspectives on leadership, investing and career evolution. While an excerpt of that interview appeared in the print magazine, the entire conversation, lightly edited, appears below.

Kennedy Wilson has announced its U.K. single-family rental housing joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has reached a significant milestone, deploying a further £300 million ($401.88 million) to scale the platform to approximately 2,000 homes across the United Kingdom.

The fundraising landscape for industrial and logistics strategies is entering a new phase as capital markets begin to normalize and investor confidence gradually returns. While the sector has demonstrated resilience, capital allocation is becoming more selective, with greater emphasis on platform capabilities, specialization and execution. Aasif Bade, founder and CEO, Ambrose, in an interview with IREI, examines the key drivers of investor demand and how the sector is evolving alongside changes in global supply chains and manufacturing trends.

Alterra IOS has received a passive, minority investment from Almanac, the private real estate arm of Neuberger.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) and Equinix have entered into a joint agreement to purchase atNorth, a Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit data center provider, from Partners Group.

Energy availability and security is fast becoming a defining factor in commercial real estate decision-making, with critical implications for project viability, property values and building performance. JLL’s new research, Where energy meets property, reveals how today’s power crunch is reshaping the industry and the challenges and opportunities for owners, developers and occupiers across all major sectors.

A growing divergence in consumer spending is splitting the U.S. grocery market, with value-focused and premium fresh-format grocers rapidly gaining momentum and foot traffic, according to JLL’s 2026 Grocery Tracker report. The report finds this market bifurcation is creating clear winners among grocery anchored sites/centers, driving performance for the real estate they occupy. 

Harrison Street Asset Management (HSAM) has sold two data center campuses located in Maryland.

Consumer behavior is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. The shift away from brand loyalty toward habit-driven consumption is often attributed to generational preferences or digital disruption, but the reality is more structural. Three converging forces — time scarcity among dual-income households, a K-shaped economy that rewards convenience and the geographic reorientation of daily life toward suburban and exurban communities — are fundamentally reshaping how consumers spend, where they shop and what kinds of retail real estate outperform.

Invesco has launched its Invesco Core Plus Real Estate Trust, a collective investment trust (CIT) exclusively designed to provide defined contribution (DC) plans access to private real estate through a daily valued structure purpose-built for retirement portfolios.

GTIS Partners announced that Santander Brasil will relocate its corporate headquarters to Campus JK, the firm’s development currently under construction, in the second half of 2028.

Machine Investment Group (MIG), a real estate investment platform focused on opportunistic, distressed and special situations across the United States, announced that Charlie Leonard has joined the firm as partner, investments and capital formation.

American Express will build a new, state-of-the-art global headquarters at 2 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.