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Savills Investment Management has sold a logistics portfolio consisting of four assets in Kolding and Greve, near Copenhagen.

Sun Venture has purchased 120 Moorgate.

Barratt Developments has acquired Cheshire, U.K.-based land promoter Gladman Developments Ltd. for £250 million pounds (€300 million/$335.2 million) on a debt-free, cash-free basis.

M&G plc has acquired a majority stake in sustainable housebuilder Greencore Construction on behalf of policyholders in its £143 billion (€172 billion/$193 billion) Prudential With Profits Fund.

Oaktree Capital Management has closed on $3 billion in capital commitments for its third global real estate debt fund.

Utah-based Bridge Investment Group has launched a new fund to invest in single-family properties in the United States.

The popularity of secondary markets for real estate investors raises the question, can you still call secondary markets secondary?

The economic recovery in Europe is definitely under way, but unequally by sector, which is creating value-add pricing opportunities in some service sectors.

The holidays have passed, unleashing the impact of reverse logistics in the ecommerce market.

The pandemic acutely revealed the connectedness of real estate with people, the economy and public health.

The return to the office will hinge on ‘smart’ solutions, says Simon Martindale, fund director of the Property Income Trust for Charities (PITCH) at Mayfair Capital.

Investors with a strong ESG-lens could soon be taking a fresh look at real estate, says Benjamin Davis, CEO of Octopus Real Estate.

Refurbish or rebuild? That is the question dominating many net-zero discussions about commercial real estate.

Jordan says that the COVID-19 crisis has played a significant part in driving recent interest. Although self-storage has usually performed well during financial downturns, this tendency has come to the fore over the last two years.

The past decade has been a defining one for India’s real estate sector. Major policy reforms — such as the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act and REIT regulations — have not only brought order and stability, but also better positioned the sector for institutional participation.

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it has highlighted the need for investors to future-proof their portfolios. To this end, many institutions are reassessing their portfolio allocations. For real estate investors, this includes an investigation of alternative property types because these sectors can enhance portfolio returns in three key ways.

There remains a hope, even an expectation, that we have seen the worst of what COVID will throw at us — that the road ahead will be smoother. This is more than likely the case, especially considering whatever is heading our way is likely a variation on what we have already managed.

Life sciences as a property sector is already established in the United States, and the sector is emerging in Europe. In Asia, though, it remains a niche play. That’s surely set to change, due to rising incomes, aging East Asian populations, and favorable population-growth and urbanization trends.

There is a focused need to have measurable environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to show progress.

Despite a few jitters in late 2021 with the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, U.S. REITs performed very well in the past year, with a total return of 43 percent in 2021, according to the Nareit Equity REITs Index.