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A majority of occupiers in India believe that at least half of their office portfolio should be powered by renewable sources by 2030 to align with broader net zero carbon (NZC) goals.

Nearly 4 in 10 (37 percent) leaders reported that their organizations were only slightly or not at all prepared to address talent concerns related to Generative AI adoption.

Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Investments and a leading specialist in U.K. real estate investment and lending, has provided a commercial loan to complete the purchase of a site located in Deptford, London.

A U.S.-Korean development consortium between Hines and National Pension Service of Korea, has received approval for the development of trio of towers at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, 18 Blackfriars Road, in London.

Real estate development company LVXP has announced plans to deliver a new experiential mixed-use development on the Las Vegas Strip.

Oxford Economics’ global relative return index (RRI) signals that risk-adjusted investment opportunities in commercial real estate should start to emerge this year before becoming more widespread in 2025. The expected returns move higher than required returns, pushing the global all-property index above the 50 mark.

The current downturn in the U.S. real estate industry, largely catalyzed by higher interest rates and shifts in demand following the COVID-19 pandemic, creates opportunities to generate enhanced value but will require executing a focused, selective, and hands-on strategy and partnering with a manager with experience across periods of dislocation.

In the past year and a half, AI awareness has rocketed, with thousands of media stories about it, trillions of dollars accumulated because of it, and doomsayers warning about the end of the world as we know it. Amid this cacophony, companies around the world have been seeking to integrate AI to enhance and expedite their operations.

Are we entering a distressed environment for investing? Where will the distress occur, and how do we capitalize on the opportunity?

Green leases are becoming increasingly popular among among landlords and tenants to ensure assets are being sustainably developed and operated.

Both the U.S. and the European date center markets are benefiting from strong fundamentals — low vacancy, rising rates, strong tenant demand. But there are some nuanced differences.

Asia offers real estate investors opportunities that are not as readily available in the more developed and institutional U.S. and European markets.

Green leases — rental contracts containing extra clauses related to the environmental performance of a building — are on the rise in Europe.

As society and financial conditions continue to change in Europe, alternatives are becoming mainstays for institutional investors, writes Lewis Dayton.

Investors’ embrace of real estate was on display in the April release of the 2024 Institutional Investors Real Estate Trends report, which collects the results of Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s Annual Investor Survey (now in its 28th year) and assesses institutional investors’ asset allocations, risk and return assumptions, expected capital flows, and real estate investment strategies for the coming year.

Transactions in once-reliable sectors such as office have slowed to a crawl, faced with a structural shift in use, and many assets have not performed as predicted in a world of higher borrowing costs. So, investors are faced with a quandary: hold on to underwhelming fund positions or physical assets, with returns eaten away by rising interest rates, or sell when values, rents and deal flow are down.

Jeffrey Shuster has been named president of LaSalle Value Partners U.S. (LVP US).

Investors, developers and providers are looking to significantly increase their presence in the UK healthcare sector, according to CBRE’s 2024 UK Healthcare Sentiment Survey.

Invesco Real Estate and Trammell Crow Co. (TCC) have formed a partnership to develop a class A logistics facility at CORE Temnitzpark.

Supermarket Income REIT has acquired a portfolio of Carrefour supermarkets in France through a sale-leaseback transaction (SLB) for a total purchase price of €75.3 million ($80.7 million).