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Primaris REIT has agreed to acquire a 100 percent interest in Upper Canada Mall in Newmarket, Ontario, for $411 million.

An affiliate of Lone Star Real Estate Fund VII has acquired a multi-asset residential real estate portfolio across multiple locations in the Netherlands for €215.5 million ($252.1 million). The seller is the Catella Panta Rhei Dutch Residential Fund.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has announced an INR 30 billion ($309 million) investment in Prestige Hospitality Ventures Ltd. (PHVL), the hospitality platform of Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. (Prestige Group), one of India’s leading real estate developers. Through the investment, CPP Investments will acquire an approximately 27 percent stake in PHVL, with the majority of the capital supporting the platform’s continued expansion.

Urban Partners has sold a portfolio of 10 logistics assets in Finland to Catena, the Swedish-listed logistics property company, for €191 million ($223.5 million).

According to Savills’ latest research, European real estate investment volumes are forecast to reach €156 billion ($182.5 billion) for first quarter to third quarter 2026, a 4 percent year-over-year increase.

RCLCO Fund Advisors (RFA) and a.s.r. real assets investment partners have formed a strategic global alliance designed to provide cross-border investment capabilities to institutional real estate investors. The alliance unites the expertise of two research-driven firms with complementary geographic strengths and specialists, creating a coordinated collaboration focused on market intelligence, data analytics, investment strategy and implementation in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Redevco has launched and held a first close for its Redevco European Retail Parks Evergreen fund (RERP Evergreen), a new open-end strategy focused on investing in convenience-led retail parks and essential retail assets across Europe attractively located within strong catchment areas.

Alma Property Partners held a first close of €160 million ($181.5 million) for Alma IV, the firm’s fourth diversified Nordic value-add real estate fund. The first close was completed with commitments from seven institutional investors from the Nordics and Germany, all of which invested in Alma’s prior funds.

Sentinel Real Estate has acquired Hearthstone Investments, a U.K.-based investment manager specializing in affordable private rental housing.

Everyone is writing about artificial intelligence (AI) and jobs. Fewer people are writing about what happens to the buildings where people live. That is the piece missing from the conversation and the one that matters most to those of us who allocate capital to housing. Nearly half of U.S. renters already spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing. That is before AI begins to meaningfully reshape the labor market. No one knows exactly how quickly AI adoption will affect employment. But investors do not have to predict the future perfectly. They only need to recognize where today’s trends are likely to intersect.

Patron Capital is bringing together three senior women leaders in European real estate for the latest installment of its Patron Greatness Lecture Series.

Texas-based private equity firm Stonelake Capital Partners announced the final close of its eighth opportunistic real estate fund, Stonelake Opportunity Partners VIII (Stonelake VIII), on Sept. 30, 2026.

Link Logistics, an operator of last-mile industrial real estate and warehouse properties, announced the addition of Delta Industrial Park, an 878,104-square-foot industrial property in the Charlotte metropolitan area.

Industrial real estate has long been sorted into small-bay and big-box, but a distinct segment in between has gone largely undefined — until now.

National Real Estate Advisors, an investment manager developing, operating and managing commercial real estate and infrastructure projects across the United States, announced the promotion of Ben Kanne to managing director, investments.

Barings, a global alternative investment manager, has acquired a cross-dock logistics asset comprising 58,000 square meters (624,307 square feet) of lettable space in Hanover, Germany, on behalf of a core European real estate strategy.

Savills Investment Management (Savills IM), the international real estate investment manager, has added two grade A logistics assets in Dettelbach, Lower Franconia, near Würzburg, to a European logistics strategy.

SC Capital Partners Group, a Singapore-headquartered private equity real estate investment manager, announced the sale of Rivervale Mall in Singapore on behalf of its SC Core Fund (SCORE).

UBS Global Wealth Management’s chief investment office published the “Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2026,” analyzing residential property prices in 23 major cities worldwide, including four U.S. cities — Miami, Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco.

After a brief summer break, Chase McWhorter, managing director, Americas, at IREI, is back and interviewed Matt Sheeleigh, vice president at Stockbridge, about manufactured housing, a property type not yet covered in the series.