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Matt Pomeroy has been appointed managing director, valuations at Sagard Real Estate.

Blackstone is selling its $1.8 billion investment in senior housing that has resulted in more than $600 million in losses, according to Wall Street Journal reporters Deborah Acosta and Peter Grant.

The Fresno County (Calif.) Employees Retirement System has committed $50 million to data center and real estate funds managed by PIMCO and ACORE Capital, respectively.

New York City’s multifamily construction pipeline has slowed dramatically, with starts down 67 percent since early 2024, according to CoStar data. Developers who rushed to break ground before incentives like 421-a expired now face a less favorable replacement program, 485-x, leaving many projects stalled.

Amid U.S.-E.U. trade tensions and tariff negotiations that have reshaped global sentiment, the European market is demonstrating a steadier economic base and more balanced fiscal outlook. In a recent interview with Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI), Gianluca Romano, head of capital raising, and Petra Blazkova, head of research and strategy, of Catella Group, discussed how investors — from Asia to North America — are turning their attention to European opportunities.

In the latest edition of BGO’s The Chief Economist, Ryan Severino examines how central bank policy shifts are shaping global bond yields and commercial real estate outlooks.

According to Savills’ latest Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) data center spotlight report, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a key driver of data center growth in the region, behind public cloud demand that continues to serve as the bedrock for capacity take-up.   

Stoneweg Group has completed the acquisition of a 16,300-square-meter (175,452-square-foot), modern logistics facility in Hørning, near Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city.

Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. dominates the multifamily real estate investment trusts (REITs) in U.S. counties with a projected working adult population growth of at least 5 percent during the next few years, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Hines has released its paper, “The Global Industrial Sector (R)evolution,” which explains how deep structural forces — ranging from shifting trade patterns and fiscal policy to the rise of ecommerce and data-driven convergence — are transforming industrial real estate from a steady, income-oriented sector into an innovation-driven, high-growth market where proximity and power availability are emerging as new sources of value.  

Coastal Ridge has closed on three new student housing properties totaling just under 1,600 beds combined and a gross asset value of approximately $90 million.

Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of SB 79 marks a major turning point for California’s housing policy. In an exclusive interview, Sean Burton, CEO at Cityview, explains how the new law expands state authority over local zoning near major transit stops and builds on recent California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) reforms that streamlined approvals for infill development. He discusses how the measure introduces greater predictability to the entitlement process, reduces predevelopment risk, and restores investor confidence in the state’s housing market. Together, these changes signal a shift toward a more consistent, rules-based framework for housing delivery across California.

Henderson Park and Landmark Properties have closed on the acquisition of a 1.21-acre site in Charleston, S.C., which they will develop into a 335-bed, six-story student housing community adjacent to the College of Charleston. 

The U.S. retail sector continues to demonstrate exceptional resilience and adaptability, with leading markets and segments outperforming expectations even in a dynamic economic environment, according to Newmark.

Pan-European industrial investment manager Boreal IM has extended the German logistics portfolio it manages on behalf of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to 370,000 square meters (3.98 million square feet), following the acquisition of a 76,000-square-meter (818,000-square-foot) newly constructed warehouse in the port of Bremerhaven.

M7 Real Estate, the pan-European investor and asset manager, has acquired of Raiffeisenstrasse 5–7, a high-quality last-mile urban logistics asset in Frankfurt, Germany.

NEPI Rockcastle, Europe’s third largest listed retail real estate company with a portfolio value of more than €8 billion ($9.2 billion), has decided to appoint Marek Noetzel as its designated CEO, effective April 1, 2026.

Axis, the last-mile logistics platform founded by Pictet and Stoneweg, has acquired two strategic properties at Steinfurtstraat 9 in Zwolle and Park Forum 1119-1121 in Eindhoven, two key logistics locations in the Netherlands. 

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, through investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI), has acquired an industrial outdoor storage (IOS) facility located in Southern California for approximately $92 million. The property is subject to a long-term absolute triple net lease with Oldcastle Infrastructure, a subsidiary of CRH plc, the world’s largest building materials company.

Callan has released its 2025 Asset Manager Sustainable Investment Practices Study, highlighting asset manager responses to environmental, social and governance (ESG) questions in Callan's proprietary database. Compiling input from more than 1,500 unique organizations, the study reveals how, and to what extent, asset managers integrate sustainability-related factors into their investment processes.