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GARBE Commercial Living, a subsidiary of the pan-European real estate company GARBE, has launched a hospitality investment platform for institutional investors with B&B HOTELS Central and Northern Europe. The cooperation combines GARBE’s development and investment management expertise with B&B HOTELS’ operational strength.

A new U.K. living platform led by student accommodation pioneer Tim Butler, has appointed Richard Simpson as managing director – investment.

QuadReal Property Group has acquired a 27-asset self-storage portfolio in the United Kingdom from Padlock Euro Storage Fund I, as well as the establishment of a new joint venture partnership with Clear Sky Capital, a privately owned real estate investment management and development company.

Kajima Properties Europe (KPE) has established a joint venture with a U.S. investor to own and manage a 130,000-square-meter (1,399,308-square-foot) logistics facility in Bischweier, Germany. KPE will retain an ownership position in the project and act as long-term asset manager.

Creative dealmaking will define the European hotel investment market over the next two to three years, as investment volumes rebounded to €23.6 billion ($27.3 billion) in 2025 (up 4.8 percent year over year), according to Savills.

Cabot Properties has made a series of leadership appointments and firmwide promotions.

Shifting global trade patterns and cost pressures are reshaping industrial real estate demand across North America, with logistics users increasingly moving large-scale distribution activity away from coastal port markets and toward lower-cost inland logistics hubs, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

Cortland has appointed Jennifer Glasgow vice president of brand strategy and experience to lead Cortland’s national resident experience strategy.

The commercial real estate lending market is entering a more constructive phase of the cycle as liquidity gradually improves and investors begin deploying capital with greater conviction after two years dominated by distressed situations.

A group of large LPs and consultants has developed an investor-led real estate data model called the Real Estate Data Initiative (REDI) to address long-standing challenges with inconsistent, fragmented and largely PDF-based reporting from GPs. The initiative aims to provide a common data model, delivered as an Excel-based template, that standardizes core fund-, asset- and portfolio-level data fields used by most global real estate investors.

Japan Real Estate Investment Corp. has plans to acquire two office properties in Tokyo and Sapporo for a combined JPY 23.7 billion ($149.7 million), according to a company announcement.

Core Spaces has marked a new phase of construction on Hub Tampa Fowler, a 1,195-bed student housing community located west of the University of South Florida campus.

The CRE Finance Council (CREFC) has announced Lisa Pendergast, president and CEO, to retire on or about Aug. 3, 2026, following a decade of her leadership.

A four-story commercial shophouse in Singapore’s Central Business District has been launched for sale via expression of interest, with a guide price of S$28 million ($21.87 million). The property, 38 Circular Road, is being exclusively marketed by Brilliance Capital.

U.S. commercial real estate is in the early stages of recovery, but the next phase of the cycle is likely to differ meaningfully from past rebounds. Rich Hill, senior managing director and global head of research and strategy at Principal Real Estate, said in an interview with IREI that rather than a broad-based recovery, he expects a more uneven, K-shaped pattern, with performance increasingly driven by sector, market and asset-level selection. In this environment, returns are expected to rely less on financial tailwinds and more on underlying property fundamentals, particularly net operating income and active asset management. As a result, he sees greater dispersion emerging across strategies, with outcomes increasingly tied to manager skill, selectivity and execution rather than scale alone.

Realty Income Corp. and Apollo have announced that Apollo-managed funds and affiliates intend to provide a $1 billion investment to Realty Income to acquire a 49 percent interest in a new joint venture entity that is expected to own a diversified portfolio of single-tenant retail properties subject to long-term net leases.

Security Properties has made a strategic decision to transition its property management business to third-party providers. The has selected Bozzuto as its primary property manager in the Pacific Northwest.

Today’s real estate environment reflects a “new old cycle,” where conditions feel familiar but are shaped by fundamentally different structural forces, according to Mike Acton, head of research and strategy at AEW, in a recent report.

Prologis and GIC have formed a $1.6 billion joint venture to develop and own build-to-suit logistics facilities across major U.S. markets.

Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $350 million aggregation debt facility with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for a self-storage REIT platform sponsored by a joint venture between Centerbridge Partners, L.P. and Reframe Holdings LLC.