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The Orange County (Calif.) Employees Retirement System (OCERS) has committed $105.7 million (€90 million) to EQT Exeter Europe Logistics Value Fund V, a vehicle of EQT Real Estate.

The San Joaquin County (Calif.) Employees’ Retirement Association (SJCERA) has committed $100 million to Invesco U.S. Income Fund, according to meeting materials from Sept. 12.

The Oregon State Treasury has committed $317.4 million to real estate funds, including vehicles of Blue Owl, Hines and Abacus Capital Group.

JLL‘s Capital Markets group announced today that it has arranged a $1.1 billion, 15-property national multi-housing portfolio venture located in six states.

BlackRock, through its European value-added real estate series, has announced plans to commit up to £500 million (€578 million/$681 million) to an investment program delivering next-generation enterprise data centers across the United Kingdom, supporting evolving demands from businesses for high-density compute capabilities. Boosting the United Kingdom’s overall data center capacity, the program will finance the modernization of operational enterprise data centers to better serve blue-chip companies with enhanced hybrid cloud solutions. 

BRIDGE Housing has launched its first private equity fund to accelerate its mission-driven work to address the affordability crisis for low- and moderate-income families in some of the nation’s costliest housing markets.

GLP Pte Ltd. has closed its GLP China Income Fund XIV (CIF XIV) with nearly RMB 2 billion ($280 million) of assets under management in partnership with a leading global institutional investor.  

Investment in Thailand hotels totaled $301 million (THB9.8 billion) in the first half of 2025. More broadly, Asia Pacific hotels reached $4.7 billion in the first half of 2025, with investors focusing more selectively on the region’s more established hospitality markets, with 84 percent of total transaction volume occurring in just five key countries, according to JLL.

AXA IM Alts has acquired, on behalf of its logistics strategy, a 61,000-square-meter (657,000-square-foot) logistics center in Bleiswijk, one of the Netherlands’ most established logistics hubs. 

Cottonwood Group, a private equity real estate investment firm with offices in Los Angeles, Boston and New York, has exceeded its original fundraising goal for the Cottonwood Real Estate Special Situations Strategy. The strategy reached the milestone of $1 billion at final closing on August 31, 2025. Commitments received comprise of pooled-fund vehicles and separate accounts.

BKM Capital Partners (BKM), a vertically integrated institutional fund manager specializing in multi-tenant light industrial real estate, and Kayne Anderson Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of Kayne Anderson, have acquired an 889,352-square-foot portfolio in Metro Phoenix.

Oxford Properties Group, the global real estate investor, developer and manager owned by OMERS, has announced a planned leadership transition.

Hulic REIT, a Japanese REIT company investing in offices, retail properties, hotels and other assets, and its management company, have agreed to transfer ownership of two network centers in Tokyo and Nagano to Hulic Co., the parent company of Hulic REIT Management.

The Contra Costa County (Calif.) Employees’ Retirement Association (CCCERA) has committed $50 million to real estate funds, according to meeting materials from Aug. 20.

Bain Capital’s data center portfolio company WinTrix DC Group has entered into a binding agreement to sell its China operations to a consortium led by Shenzhen Dongyangguang Industry Co. (HEC) together with institutional investors including insurance companies and local government funds.

Alan Miyasaki, Blackstone’s senior managing director real estate and head of real estate Asia acquisitions, based in Singapore, is set to leave the firm after 24 years, according to various reports.

JLL's Capital Markets group, in conjunction with BlueGate Partners, announced that it has arranged a $340 million refinancing for 50 & 70 Columbus, a 938-unit mixed-use property located in Jersey City, N.J.

Hines, a global real estate investment manager, announced the acquisition of a significant industrial portfolio in Sweden on behalf of its Hines European Core Fund (HECF).

Yugo has announced the acquisition of Campus Advantage, a student housing property management business in the United States.