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Aquilius Investment Partners has completed fundraising of its second real estate secondaries flagship fund, AIP Secondary Fund II (AIP SF II).

BTIG has appointed Ryan Gilbert as managing director and housing and real estate services analyst within the firm’s Research and Strategy team.

CenterSquare has announced that its equity investment in Aligned Data Centers will be purchased as part of the acquisition by a consortium led by Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership (AIP); MGX Fund Management Limited (MGX); and Global Infrastructure Management, a part of BlackRock (GIP; together with AIP and MGX, the AIP Consortium).

Azora, in a joint venture with Twentytwo Real Estate Fund III, has acquired the senior independent living business of Emeis Group (formerly known as the Orpea Group) in France.

Alexia Delaire has been promoted to COO of asset management France at AEW while retaining her role as head of asset management for retail and hotels France.

Eagle Rock, a vertically integrated real estate investment and management firm, has held a final close for Eagle Rock Multifamily Fund VI LLC (Fund VI).

The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) released third quarter 2025 results for the NCREIF Fund Index – Open-end Diversified Core Equity (NFI-ODCE). The NFI-ODCE consists of 25 funds totaling $277 billion of gross real estate assets and $228.2 billion of net real estate assets.

The New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) has committed $150 million to Starwood Capital alongside a $1.5 billion recommendation of its 2026 real estate pacing plan, according to meeting materials from Oct. 30.

Family offices are expanding the number of offices they have around the world as family members are increasingly moving to new countries, according to new global research from Ocorian, a global provider of services for asset managers and owners, including private client, fund administration, capital markets, corporate and regulatory solutions.

Aware Super has appointed Simon Warner to CIO, effective Dec. 1.

Jurong Island, the cornerstone of Singapore’s energy and chemicals (E&C) industry, is pivoting to serve growing demand for decarbonization solutions, specialty chemicals, sustainable materials, circular feedstocks and new energies.

CBRE has launched its Q3 2025 Asia Pacific Cap Rate Survey report, finding appetite for real estate investment has strengthened across Asia Pacific and investment volumes have risen 20 percent year-over-year in the first three quarters of 2025, led by Korea and Japan.

Global real estate investment manager BGO has raised $260 million in its Data Center Co-Investment fundraise, which was established in connection to its U.S. Industrial Strategies I fund. Combined with this co-investment, the inaugural fundraise for the firm’s closed-end strategy totaled approximately $800 million, with a projected gross asset value of $2.4 billion.

Industrial real estate isn’t moving in one direction anymore. While big-box industrial is dealing with rising vacancies and soft demand, small-bay industrial is outperforming across several metrics. That’s the central takeaway from the newly released Q3 2025 Light Industrial Market Update by BKM Capital Partners (BKM), a vertically integrated institutional fund manager specializing in multi-tenant light industrial real estate.

Sagard Real Estate has acquired a 260,989-square-foot industrial facility in San Leandro, Calif., within the Oakland–East Bay industrial corridor.

Bridge Investment Group Holdings has completed fundraising for Bridge Debt Strategies Fund V (BDS V), raising $2.15 billion in equity commitments.

Aware Super’s property arm, Aware Real Estate, has agreed to buy The Barracks precinct in Brisbane for about A$150 million ($97.7 million).

Mapletree Investments has plans for its new 123,000-square-meter (1.3 million-square-foot) flagship commercial project in Singapore’s Greater Southern Waterfront (GSW).

Europe’s manufacturing sector is entering a new phase of high-tech expansion, according to Knight Frank’s European Manufacturing Report. The report states predicted growth of 14.7 percent over the next 10 years is forecast to contribute an additional €318 billion ($368 billion) to the euro zone economy by 2035, bringing the total value of the sector to €2.84 trillion ($3.3 trillion).

Barchester Healthcare has sold to Welltower for £5.2 billion ($6.8 billion). Knight Frank advised Barchester Healthcare on the sale.