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InfraVia has named Laëtitia Archambault as asset management director within its real estate team. 

The Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago (PABF) has committed $20 million TA Realty Value-Add Fund XIV.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board SWIB) has committed $410 million to real assets funds.

Asia Pacific real estate investment reached $201 billion in 2025, up 13.7 percent, hitting Knight Frank's 10 percent to 15 percent forecast range, as stabilizing rates drew capital back to quality assets.

Clarion Partners has acquired a seven-building, $592 million portfolio totaling 2.2 million square feet of newer class A and class B industrial assets strategically located in infill submarkets across Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, and Seattle. The portfolio is 100 percent leased to credit tenants.

Croatan Investments has launched its affordable housing platform, led by Nina-Lee Jewell Alhambra as managing partner.

Cityview and Stockbridge have completed Apollo – a 265-unit multifamily community in Los Angeles’ South Bay. Now leasing, Apollo is ideally located in a rapidly growing area of the South Bay near major aerospace, automotive and tech employers, including SpaceX, the Tesla Design Center and Ring.

Hines has acquired a new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) project in Móstoles, Madrid, currently under construction. The transaction, executed on behalf of the Hines European Real Estate Partners III (HEREP III) fund, marks the company’s entry into Madrid’s student accommodation segment and reinforces its commitment to the living sector in the Iberian Peninsula. This new asset joins Hines’ existing PBSA projects in Barcelona, Valencia and Porto.

Sei-Hyun Kwon has joined Blue Vista Capital Management as head of Asia Pacific region, marking the firm’s first formal on-the-ground presence in the region.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI) announced the company has entered into a definitive agreement with Athene Holding to sell the company’s entire approximately $9 billion commercial real estate loan portfolio for a purchase price based on 99.7 percent of total loan commitments, net of asset specific CECL reserves, except for two loans with a combined total principal balance of $146 million expected to be repaid prior to closing.

Berkadia announced the establishment of Berkadia special situations team, led by Kyle Stevenson.

L&G has appointed Tim Morris and Philipp Westermann, co-managing partners of Proprium Capital Partners, as global co-heads of real assets.

Griffin Capital has recently released a report titled, “Institutional Ownership of Single-Family Homes, Homeownership Affordability, and the Role of Build-to-Rent,” to give an evidence-based perspective on the Executive Order to restrict institutional purchases of single-family homes, and why housing affordability is primarily a supply-and-cost-of-ownership problem, not an investor-competition problem.

Damien Webb will join Brighter Super in April as CIO of the A$37 billion ($26 billion) superannuation fund following an extensive international recruitment search.

Aware Super, an Australian pension fund, has invested $300 million in Vantage Data Centers’ Asia Pacific business.

Apollo announced that Apollo-managed funds have completed an approximately €900 million senior secured financing of a pan-European logistics and industrial portfolio owned by a joint venture between an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, a global alternative investment manager, and Arrow Capital Partners, a specialist investor, credit provider, developer and manager of real estate in Europe and Asia-Pacific .

Kaitlyn Furey has become senior vice president, head of investor relations at Buckingham Companies, a fully integrated real estate investment firm specializing in the development, acquisition, management and construction of multifamily, mixed-use, commercial and hospitality projects across the United States.

Stockdale Capital Partners announced the acquisition of Avant at Fashion Center, a 355-unit luxury mid-rise apartment community in the Phoenix submarket of Chandler, Ariz., for $110.25 million.

The Lubbock Fire Pension Fund (Texas) has committed $4 million to S3 LB Real Estate Credit III, a program of S3 Capital.

The Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund has committed $40 million to Cabot Industrial Value Fund VIII, a vehicle of Cabot Properties.