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Marcus Partners has completed fundraising for Marcus Capital Partners Fund V, L.P., a value-added real estate fund with commitments totaling $875 million.

JLL Income Property Trust  has secured a $1 billion credit facility with a syndicate of ten market-leading real estate lenders.

JLL’s Capital Markets group has arranged a $370 million refinancing for Society Brooklyn, a premier 517-unit, two-tower residential development positioned along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood.

Canopy Real Estate Partners has held a final close of its $75 million inaugural real estate fund.

Walton Global has launched U.S. Land Income & Growth Fund for offshore investors.

Franklin Templeton and Clarion Partners have announced Clarion Partners Real Estate Income Fund Inc.’s acquisition of three healthcare real estate properties across Texas, Florida, and Colorado.

Gio Tramonto has joined IDR Investment Management as director of private equity real estate.

Nikki Chavez has joined Interstate Equities Corp. as director of capital formation.

Institutional investors worldwide are recalibrating their investment approaches as three powerful megatrends — artificial intelligence (AI), energy transition and deglobalization — reshape the global economic landscape, according to preview results from Nuveen’s sixth annual EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Survey.

Nuveen Real Estate has raised $330 million for its U.S. Cities Retail Fund (USCRF) from three Australian superannuation funds, marking the largest allocation into the strategy from the region to date. The Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (Rest), the Australian profit-to-member superannuation fund, anchored the capital raising with a $250 million commitment.

AWH Partners, a privately held national hotel real estate investment, management and development firm, has announced its first of a series of closings for its $100 million Strategic Income Fund.

Starlight Investments has held a close for its Starlight Canadian Residential Growth Fund IV.

Burstone Group, the fully integrated international real estate business, and Hines, a leading global real estate investment manager, on behalf of Hines European Real Estate Partners III (HEREP III), have formed a joint venture to aggregate a Pan-European portfolio of light industrial assets.

The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) has released a statement expressing deep concern regarding two executive orders issued by the Trump Administration last week that claim to promote access to mortgage credit and remove regulatory barriers to spur the development of affordable homes. These orders will remove critical mortgage protections responsible for fairness and do little to nothing to boost the supply of affordable housing.  

Deborah Considene, managing director, capital markets at CenterSquare Investment Management, recently participated in a special feature highlighting accomplished women in the real estate sector for Institutional Real Estate Americas. 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.

Fortress Investment Group has launched Fortress Real Estate Exchange, a new 1031 exchange platform designed to provide advisors and their clients with access to institutional quality real estate investments through Delaware Statutory Trusts (DSTs).

U.S. equity REITs experienced a significant surge in capital-raising activities in February 2026, reaching their highest level in five months, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. The total capital raised amounted to $7.11 billion, marking a 209 percent increase from January and a 259.3 percent rise from the previous year. This growth was primarily driven by debt offerings. \ Key highlights from the analysis include:

Healthpeak Properties and Janus Living Inc. announced that Janus Living has launched an initial public offering of 37 million shares of Class A-1 common stock.

Public Storage will acquire National Storage Affiliates in an all-stock transaction valued at an enterprise value of approximately $10.5 billion.

The oldest Americans held 26 percent of America’s $48 trillion in real estate wealth as of third quarter 2025, the most recent period for which data is available, according to Redfin.