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MaxCap has secured a new $400 million mandate with APG, on behalf of its Dutch pension fund clients, further deepening the firms’ long-term partnership.

Korea Post has appointed IGIS Asset Management and Capstone Asset Management to manage a KRW 500 billion ($360 million) domestic real estate loan fund, according to Asia Asset Management.

Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate GmbH is restructuring the management areas that make up its real estate platform in response to changing market requirements. The new organizational structure will replace the existing four management areas with three: fund management, real estate management and operations.

To an American investor, the Canadian mortgage market looks familiar enough to ignore and distinctive enough to reward a closer look. So why is it consistently overlooked? Canada and the United States share a common language (mostly), legal traditions, and appetite for homeownership, yet Canada has built a residential credit system that behaves in almost the opposite way to the one south of the border.

Vistry Group has been reconfirmed as a Strategic Partner and has secured a significant direct grant award under the first allocation of funding made available as part of the government’s £39 billion ($53 billion) Social and Affordable Homes Program.

Aberdeen Investments is seeking investor approval to combine the abrdn Real Estate Fund (aREF) and the abrdn Real Estate Feeder Fund with the abrdn Global Real Estate Fund (GREF), creating a flagship global hybrid real estate fund with more than £700 million ($954 million) in assets.

It appears Texas is taking a page from New York state’s book in its approach to new data center development.

Kern County (Calif.) Employees Retirement Association (KCERA) has committed $160 million to real estate funds, including strategies managed by Hines, TPG Angelo Gordon and Hudson Bay Capital Management.

Resolving enterprise-level data is still an imperative. But it is not among the most immediate hurdles institutional real estate needs to clear to become profitably AI-native. There are three bigger challenges in the field, and all are resolvable if firms approach AI investment with the same discipline they bring to real estate investment: namely, a clear thesis and a focus on measurable returns.

The San Joaquin County (Calif.) Employees’ Retirement Association (SJCERA) has committed $75 million to Hines Rialto Credit Partners.

One Orchard has launched as an investment firm and holding company designed to concentrate capital into fully integrated, proprietary real asset platforms. One Orchard, based in New York City, is co-founded by David Elliott and Bradley Guz.

The Virginia Retirement System (VRS) has committed $725 million to real estate funds, including funds managed by Apollo, Blue Owl, Kayne Anderson, and Meadow Partners.

The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) has committed $100 million to EQT Exeter Industrial Core-Plus Fund V, a vehicle of EQT Real Estate.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP) has committed €600 million ($695 million) to European real estate funds, including Aermont Capital Real Estate Fund VI and Southern European Opportunities III.

The Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System (SRPS) has announced a net investment return of 13.2 percent for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, exceeding the 6.8 percent actuarial target by 6.39 percentage points and outperforming the policy benchmark by three basis points.

Alpaca Real Estate combines a technology-enabled investment platform with institutional real estate judgment. The firm uses standardized data and agentic AI to accelerate sourcing, underwriting, research and asset management—while keeping accountability and final investment decisions with its investment professionals.

United Hampshire U.S. REIT has agreed to sell BJ’s Quincy for $34 million as part of its portfolio optimization and capital recycling strategy.

Corebridge Real Estate Investors (CREI) has announced the formation of a strategic joint venture with ACD Fund V, LP, an affiliate of Armstrong Capital Development (ACD), to acquire and develop high-quality retail assets in select high-growth markets across the United States.

Aberdeen Investments has announced the acquisition of six modern residential properties in central Tokyo in partnership with Weave Living, on behalf of a large European investor that is a long-term partner of Aberdeen in the region, further expanding both firms’ living sector investments in Japan.

Varia US Properties AG, the Swiss-listed investor in the U.S. multifamily sector that is externally managed by global alternative investment group Stoneweg, has signed an agreement with affiliates of Brookfield Asset Management to recapitalize 13 of its 17-property U.S. multifamily portfolio, through a newly formed two-vehicle joint venture.