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Brennan Investment Group has acquired 31 buildings in Denver and Deerfield Beach, Fla., part of the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., metro area.

The Florida-based multi-family owner-operator American Landmark Apartments announced that it has held a final close for American Landmark Fund IV (ALF IV) with a total of $1.04 billion in capital commitments, surpassing its initial target fundraise of $975 million.

The Federal Open Market Committee once again moved to keep its rates steady during its meeting on Jan. 31. The decision to keep rates between 5.25 and 5.5 per cent comes as Fed chair Jerome Powell stressed the importance of continued progress towards a two percent inflation target.

The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) committed $300 million to Lubert-Adler Workforce Housing II (LAWH II) and $275 million to GI Data Infrastructure Fund II (GIDIF II) in first half 2023, confirmed Michael Pramik, communication strategist/spokesperson (OPERS).

New entrants into healthcare continue to be the first movers in driving digital health innovation and consumer-focused patient care, according to JLL.

The markets set to provide the greatest value opportunities for European industrial and logistics investment in 2024 include France and the Netherlands, both of which have seen rental growth above 30 percent since first quarter 2022, according to Savills.

European commercial real estate investment fell in 2023 to the lowest level since 2012.

After an average increase in bankruptcies of nearly 50 percent across the G7 from 2021-2023, a further double-digit rise is likely in 2024. But while the surge in bankruptcies sounds alarming, it comes from abnormally low levels during the pandemic, according to Oxford Economics.

RBC Investor Services (RBCIS) has reported that its Canadian Defined Benefit (DB) pension plans generated a collective 9.1 percent return for 2023, after an 8.2 percent median return in the fourth quarter 2023.

Data centers are becoming more dominant fixtures in our society as their use cases increase due to the increased application of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

The New Jersey Division of Investment (NJDOI), one of the largest U.S. pension fund managers, has made an investment of $500 million as an initial capitalization for an NJ StepStone Real Assets SMA and a commitment of $150 million to KSL Partners Tactical Opportunities Fund II, confirmed Niraj Agarwal, head of real assets, NJDOI.

Multifamily looks to remain stable with solid fundamentals in 2024, although rent growth will likely moderate from the prior year, while somewhat lower interest rates may encourage some renters to purchase housing.

As reducing carbon emission grows ever more significant in real estate investment strategy and asset management, embodied carbon or whole-life carbon, has emerged as an important element in measuring carbon impact.

Australia is the world’s leading lithium producer and has significant copper, nickel and cobalt reserves, making it an important exporter of energy-transition resources.

“It’s an exhilarating time, prospectively, to be investing in real estate,” says Al Rabil, CEO of Kayne Anderson and CEO and co-founder of Kayne Anderson Real Estate.

A smart-sector strategy is a good way to approach the current real estate marketplace with its “an increasing pipeline of stress and distress,” explains Walton Street Capital’s co-founder and managing principal, Jeff Quicksilver.

What property owners need to meet their decarbonisation targets and what information many tenants are prepared and able to hand over to them remain two quite distinct things.

When assessing the existing ESG rules set out in the EU disclosure and taxonomy regulation for the real estate sector, writes Jochen Schenk, chief executive officer and chair of the board at Real I.S., one particular question springs to mind: Does the current regulatory framework actually work?

If economic trends are now harder to predict, as the G30 report argues, similar observations could be made about real estate markets. The effect of COVID-19 in real estate markets is probably more long-lasting and profound than the legacy of the global financial crisis.

As 2024 unfolds, the prospects for Asia Pacific commercial real estate are better than at any time since the COVID-19 pandemic seized the global stage in 2019. After the market-warping lockdowns and business restrictions of the pandemic era, property investors in Asia Pacific then faced rounds of inflation-fighting rate hikes by major global and most regional central banks.