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GoldenTree Asset Management has made a strategic investment in Baceline Group as part of a recapitalization and consolidation of the real estate investment manager’s open-air retail investment vehicles.

Elevation Advisors has launched European Senior Living, a real estate investment platform targeting €600 million ($698 million) of investments in care homes and assisted-living assets across Germany.

Elevation Advisors has launched European Senior Living, a real estate investment platform targeting €600 million ($698 million) of investments in care homes and assisted-living assets across Germany.

Faris AbiNader has joined Sound Point Capital Management as head of real estate capital formation, with a focus on institutional capital formation for Sound Point’s commercial real estate credit business.

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has added to its real estate equity investment team with the appointment of George Richards as director, investment manager.

Pushback against data center development has intensified in recent weeks as states and localities move to restrict or halt new construction amid concerns about the industry’s impacts, according to Yardi. Opposition has been driven by concerns ranging from resource consumption and higher utility bills to tax incentives and pollution.

Redevco has acquired a portfolio of four transport-led logistics assets in Germany, further expanding its logistics platform to 11.9 million square feet and approximately €1 billion ($TK billion) in assets under management across 32 assets.

LaSalle Investment Management has grown an existing mandate within its direct U.K. Custom Accounts business through a further capital allocation of more than £300 million ($404 million). The additional commitment, made by a longstanding local authority pension fund client, will take total assets under management across the client’s portfolios to £1 billion ($1.35 million) once the capital is fully deployed.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) and Equinix have completed the $4 billion acquisition of atNorth, a Nordic data center developer and operator with a scalable portfolio of high-density colocation and built-to-suit data facilities.

The Scion Group has acquired a four-community, 2,316-bed student housing portfolio from SCHENK+, in partnership with Ares Real Estate funds.

Ares Management Corp. has held a final close for its Japan Logistics Development Partners V (JDP V), the latest vintage in its Japan-focused logistics real estate development fund series. Raising ¥612 billion ($4 billion), including LP equity commitments and a GP commitment, JDP V closed at its hard cap and is nearly 50 percent larger than its 2021-vintage predecessor, JDP IV.

LaSalle Investment Management (LaSalle) and N.J.-based Camber Real Estate Partners have formed a joint venture partnership to acquire a three-property industrial portfolio totaling more than 270,000-square feet on Long Island. The off-market transaction presented a rare opportunity to invest in 100 percent leased, high-performing infill assets in one of the nation's most-competitive and supply-constrained logistics corridors.

The number of U.S. store openings may be at its lowest level in six years, but IKEA’s expansion pattern this year shows retailers are not retreating from physical space. They are changing how they use it.

Graceada Partners has released “Equal Footing: The Inland West and the Southeast”, a research paper that measures the Inland West as a single economy rather than as fragments of 11 states. Defined from the 100th meridian to the coastal ranges, the region has roughly 47 million residents — more than any single state — and includes 10 of the country’s fastest-growing large metros, including Boise, Idaho; Denver; Las Vegas; Phoenix; Sacramento; and Salt Lake City.

Institutional investors may want to reconsider the role of real estate debt within their portfolios as higher borrowing costs challenge the return assumptions underlying value-add and opportunistic equity strategies, according to a new analysis by Manoj Vasudevan.

Keppel DC REIT and Keppel have indirectly entered into agreements with unrelated third-party sellers to collectively acquire 90 percent effective interests in Tokyo Data Center 4 and Tokyo Data Center 5, two freehold, fully fitted hyperscale colocation data centers in Inzai City, Greater Tokyo, Japan.

The U.S. life sciences real estate sector is moving toward a gradual rebalancing as development activity contracts, investment sales recover and funding conditions strengthen, according to Cushman & Wakefield. While elevated vacancy and softer rents continue to weigh on near-term fundamentals, a reduced construction pipeline and improving demand indicators are positioning the market for healthier long-term growth.

TMG Partners, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest mixed-use property developers, and Grove Real Estate Partners, a multidisciplinary commercial real estate investment firm, in a joint venture with Lone Star, have acquired Washington Holdings’ class A R&D portfolio, the largest and most cohesive institutionally owned 2.2 million-square-foot collection of predominantly single-story research and development properties in Silicon Valley.

Avila Real Estate Capital, which finances land acquisition, development and construction for homebuilders and land developers across the United States, has closed a $305 million credit facility with a master-planned community developer to fund the development and construction of more than 3,000 lots in California.

Tishman Speyer has closed on the acquisition of Songdo CoStay, a stabilized 411-unit living asset in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea.