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The New Mexico State Investment Council (NMSIC) has approved a new structure study for the council’s real estate portfolio, which seeks to narrow the core and core-plus strategies’ allocation ranges and to broaden the noncore strategy.

Google is planning to invest $1 billion to build a data center and public cloud region in Thailand, expanding its digital footprint in Southeast Asia.

The $198 billion Florida State Board of Administration (SBA) has upped the target allocation for its real estate portfolio from 9.6 percent to 12 percent and removed REITs from the portfolio.

Two decades ago, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the European Union.

Shopping in person and experiential retail are not going to disappear, at least not any time soon. People enjoy it, and it is more practical in many instances, as well as being genuinely necessary for certain services.

More institutional property investors are actively developing strategies and allocating portfolios to the niche markets, which might offer higher returns, and if not that, then at least some ballast to the undulations of the core sectors.

Solving partnership challenges is the focus of Crow Holdings Capital’s Partner Solutions investment program.

The stressors in the real estate market due to high interest rates and inflation the past several years may mean some owners are under pressure to sell at a less opportune time in order to gain liquidity.

Even though volatility persists in the European economy, supply of logistics real estate still lags demand and fundamentals remain solid for the sector, according to a report by Karen Martinus, senior vice president, research and investments, with Affinius Capital.

Demand chronically outpaces supply in Australia’s living sector, and is currently exacerbated by increasing construction costs and a shortage of labor, according to a report by Joe Williams, senior vice president in Brookfield’s Real Estate Group.

There is some oversupply in some industrial markets, and land prices are still high, but a buying window is emerging for disciplined investors, according to Jon Pharris, co-founder and president of CapRock Partners.

Real estate investors who can gauge where overall societal trends are headed have a greater chance of being proactive with real estate investments, rather than reactive.

Strong performance has attracted record-high investor attention and allocations to the industrial property sector.

Getting more out of real estate space through creativity, sustainability and finding “pockets of value” in submarkets or micro-markets are some of the ways investors are adding value to occupiers and delivering value-added returns to investors in the current market, marked by a lack of transaction activity.

Open storage, or industrial outdoor storage (IOS) as it is also commonly referred to, is on the rise in Europe.

The economic landscape across the Asia Pacific region remains challenging, with consumption expenditure moderating from the post-pandemic surge and higher cost-of-living pressures weighing on households. Despite these headwinds, bright spots persist, including signs of a turnaround in global trade and easing inflationary pressures.

The office sector has faced a torrent of bad news the past few years and lost its appeal for many investors. But the really bad news has been coming mostly from the United States and Europe. Asia Pacific office? It is not nearly as bad and has more positive trends going forward.

Farmland produces returns from appreciation as land values increase as well as income from rents paid by farmland operators.

Kennedy Wilson has recently closed senior construction loans for the development of three student housing projects totaling $184 million at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, University of North Texas and University of California, Berkeley.

NEPI Rockcastle has acquired the 100,000 square meter Magnolia Park shopping center in Wroclaw, Poland, from Union Investment in an off-market transaction.