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Avila Real Estate Capital has closed $390 million in new capital and co-investments from two institutions: a large insurance company and a major university endowment. This new capital brings total commitments and co-investments to more than $750 million.

Triten Real Estate Partners, a Houston-based real estate investment, development and operating firm, has closed on a strategic joint venture with Principal Asset Management, on behalf of a large U.S. public pension fund, to recapitalize a 17-property industrial outdoor storage (IOS) portfolio.

Clarion Partners Europe has acquired a roughly 1.26 million-square-foot logistics facility in Amiens, northern France, from ESR Europe on behalf of one of its commingled funds.

Galvanize Real Estate (GRE), the sustainable real estate strategy of Galvanize, has acquired a four-property, 300,000-square-foot industrial portfolio located in Milpitas, an infill submarket in the Interstate 880 East Bay corridor.

Ascentris and San Francisco-based developer DM Development have closed 321 Florida, a 152-unit multifamily development located in San Francisco’s Mission District.

The Alaska Retirement Management Board has approved three $100 million core real estate mandates with Principal, AEW and TA Realty.

The Asia Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) market entered a new phase of expansion in 2025–2026, with the Chinese mainland and India REIT markets emerging as the principal engines of regional growth, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s “Asia REIT Market Insight 2025–2026.”

JLL has appointed Jason EungSeok Lee as executive director, Hotels & Living capital markets, Korea.

Barings has acquired a large-scale logistics development site in Mantova Sud, Italy.

As the multifamily construction pipeline contracts and occupancy begins to improve, developers are looking ahead to what today’s pullback in new supply could mean for the next cycle. Sean Rae, senior managing director, capital markets, at Crow Holdings Development, discusses where supply is tightening, what it takes to finance new development in the current environment, which markets are becoming more attractive and why projects breaking ground today could ultimately deliver into stronger supply/demand conditions.

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has committed more than $5 billion to real estate in the first half 2026.

CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM), on behalf of West Midlands Pension Fund (WMP), has acquired a prime logistics distribution facility in Bedford, United Kingdom.

Partners Group, acting on behalf of its clients, and Aboria Capital, the operational real estate-focused investment management business, have completed the acquisition of a five-asset, 1,570-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) portfolio from HSBC Asset Management for £165 million ($222 million).

NEPI Rockcastle has entered into an agreement to sell the Ozas Shopping and Entertainment Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania.

PRODEA Investments S.A. is set to partner with Invel Real Estate, through its flagship fund series Invel Eudora Fund 2, and LGT Capital Partners to create one of Greece’s leading institutional logistics platforms.

Cabot Properties has acquired Springbrooke Trade Center, a two-building, 483,938-square-foot, class A industrial portfolio in Aston, Pa., within the Greater Philadelphia area.

EQT Real Estate Industrial Value Fund VI, a fund managed by EQT Real Estate, has acquired a 5.2 million-square-foot logistics portfolio across Southern California from Rexford Industrial Realty.

Walbridge has launched L5 Mission Critical, a new company that will provide a full range of data center services.

Technology adoption is often framed as a systems challenge — selecting the right platforms, integrating workflows and optimizing performance. But in practice, the success or failure of any digital transformation hinges far less on the technology itself and far more on the people expected to use it. Beneath every implementation plan lies a complex web of emotions: excitement, skepticism, fear, fatigue and sometimes quiet resistance. Understanding and managing these emotional undercurrents is where emotional intelligence (EQ) becomes not just valuable, but essential.

Nada Holdings, a financial technology company helping homeowners access and manage their home equity through innovative financial products, has announced a forward flow purchase agreement with a private fund for which O’Connor Capital Solutions acts as investment manager (OCS) providing up to $300 million to purchase home equity agreements (HEAs) originated by Nada.