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Senior housing affordability measures often don’t account for key factors that influence immediate and long-term affordability for older adults. To address this gap, the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) launched the NIC Senior Housing Affordability Calculator, an interactive tool designed to expand how senior housing affordability is evaluated, initially focused on assisted living affordability.

Data from the newly launched Property Council/MSCI Australia Build-to-Rent Property Index shows Australia’s build-to-rent sector is gaining scale, with a growing pool of institutional capital and assets contributing to a clearer picture of the market.

The U.S. housing market remains structurally constrained by elevated home prices, elevated mortgage rates and limited supply, creating continued support for multifamily housing demand, according to a May 2026 report from New York Life Investment Management.

While many organizations are accelerating adoption, the real differentiator is not the tools themselves, but how people think about and organize information. The biggest hurdle is not access to artificial intelligence (AI); it is mindset.

DWS has announced the appointment of JB Park as head of alternatives client coverage for Asia Pacific, underscoring DWS’ continued commitment to strengthening alternatives distribution and investor engagement in the region.

Park Madison Partners has released its midyear review, providing a shorter-form update on how events during the first half of 2026 have affected the firm’s house view and expectations for the second half of the year.

Eastnine has entered into an agreement with Ghelamco to acquire the 40-story office property The Bridge in Warsaw.

ESR and PT MC Urban Development Indonesia (MCUDI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp., have entered into a joint development agreement to develop two institutional-grade logistics and industrial facilities in Greater Jakarta.

Newmark Group has arranged $515 million in fixed-rate financing on behalf of Rithm Capital for 31 West 52nd St., a 785,000-square-foot class A office tower in Midtown Manhattan’s Plaza District.

American workers expect to retire with just $515,000, roughly half of the million-plus figure financial experts recommend, according to a new report from Clever Real Estate, a St. Louis-based real estate company.

Southeast Asia is entering a more strategic phase of real estate development shaped less by broad cyclical recovery and more by structural forces, including geopolitical fragmentation, supply chain diversification, state-led infrastructure investment, digitalization and rising sustainability standards. According to JLL, successful investment and occupant strategies require moving beyond traditional cyclical indicators to embrace a structural understanding of the region’s evolving fundamentals.

Valor Real Estate Partners has completed the acquisition of Horizon Logistics Park, one of Europe’s best-connected and strategically important logistics hubs, in Swords, North Dublin. The transaction underpins the company’s strong conviction in the high-growth Dublin industrial and logistics market.

A new investment cycle is underway in real assets as higher financing costs and geopolitical uncertainty encourage institutional investors to deploy capital more selectively, with the strongest conviction focused on residential living sectors and infrastructure, according to PATRIZIA’s sixth annual global investor survey.

Realterm and the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA) have formed a strategic partnership to develop a new state-of-the-art, flexible cargo facility at Harrisburg International Airport (MDT).

Agentic Assets, an AI technology company founded by two finance professors, has announced the launch of Corbis.

Barings has acquired a prime luxury retail property located at 336 Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris, one of Europe’s most prestigious luxury shopping destinations.

The office sector is showing improving demand, but buyers and lenders remain selective. In an exclusive interview with IREI, Michael Lee, principal and partner at HKS Real Estate Advisors, discusses where office fits in today’s market and how lenders are evaluating deals today.

I read a piece on leadership recently that named a trap I have watched derail capable people for the better part of 40 years. The author called it a landmine — one of those internal habits of mind that quietly stop us from getting where we mean to go — and the most destructive one on the list was certainty: the unwavering belief that you are right and the people who see it differently are wrong.

LaSalle Investment Management has announced the acquisition of Zenith Minami Shinjuku, a 14-story office building located in one of Tokyo's most supply-constrained and high-growth office submarkets. The acquisition was made on behalf of LaSalle Asia Opportunity VI, LaSalle's Asia-Pacific opportunistic real estate fund.

BNP Paribas and COIMA SGR have made a joint investment in Torre Diamante, or Diamond Tower, in Milan’s Porta Nuova district, home to BNP Paribas’ Italian headquarters since 2016.