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Nada Holdings, a financial technology company helping homeowners access and manage their home equity through innovative financial products, has announced a forward flow purchase agreement with a private fund for which O’Connor Capital Solutions acts as investment manager (OCS) providing up to $300 million to purchase home equity agreements (HEAs) originated by Nada.

Office occupiers across Asia Pacific have entered a new phase of workplace transformation as office attendance stabilizes, AI adoption accelerates, and companies increasingly prioritize premium office space. Half of companies expect their office space to expand over the next three years, according to CBRE's latest 2026 Asia Pacific Office Occupier Survey.

Tritax London Logistics Fund (TLLF) has completed the acquisition of two industrial and logistics assets located in attractive Greater London submarkets.

PGIM has sold a German data center development site near Munich to a European infrastructure investor.

Fiera Real Estate UK Limited, the European real estate arm of Fiera Capital Corporation (TSX: FSZ), and Wrenbridge have completed the sale of AIR Heathrow to Tritax London Logistics Fund for £77 million ($104.2 million).

Artificial intelligence (AI) has yet to show clear evidence of broadly destroying jobs, despite growing concerns about the technology’s wider risks, according to Ryan Severino, chief economist and head of U.S. research at BGO, in his recent post.

PATRIZIA has appointed Hassan Awada as senior executive officer, MENA.

Goodman Group has raised $455 million of equity for the Goodman Hong Kong Data Center Partnership (GHKDC), the only private institutional investment platform focused exclusively on Hong Kong’s data center market.

Commercial real estate investors have used artificial intelligence to sift deals and spot red flags for several years. Lenders are only beginning to catch up — and a wave of loan maturities, tighter capital-raising conditions and investor demands for faster reporting is pushing them to move quicker.

An Ares Real Estate fund, managed by Ares Management Corp., and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) have established a new joint venture to invest up to $2.4 billion in logistics real estate opportunities in the United States.

The Federal Open Market Committee has announced an increase in the target federal funds rate, following its meeting Sept. 15–16. The FOMC decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent, in support of the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate.

Suffolk in partnership with the MIT Center for Real Estate and MIT Media Lab City Science group, has released “Construction in the Age of AI,” a new joint study that examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping construction performance and productivity, and where it can deliver the most meaningful gains in processes, scheduling and project feasibility.

Brookfield Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) have launched a C$50 billion ($35.9 billion) Maple Fund to pursue large-scale investments in critical infrastructure and strategic industries across Canada, according to The Globe and Mail.

JLL has appointed Paul Morgan to COO.

Savills Investment Management SGR has entered the Italian real estate debt market after receiving authorization from the Bank of Italy to extend its operations to the management of Italian alternative investment funds (AIFs) focused on direct lending.

Data center development across the Americas has reached a record 37.7 gigawatts under construction as relentless demand for AI, cloud and hyperscale infrastructure continues to reshape the market, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s “H1 2026 Americas Data Center Update.” Increasingly, however, access to power and infrastructure is determining where that growth can occur.

Shawn Kimble has joined Stream Realty Partners’s investment management platform as executive managing director.

Driven by the strength of the world’s largest economy, U.S. metropolitan centers dominate Oxford Economics’ 2026 Global Cities Index, capturing 16 of the top 50 spots worldwide. New York claimed the #1 overall position for the second consecutive year, leveraging its sheer scale, high productivity and undisputed leadership across global finance, technology, media and culture.

LNL Capital has appointed appointed Joel Tomlinson as managing partner to expand the company’s structured debt and equity strategy within the single-tenant retail, industrial, and healthcare net lease space.

UBS Asset Management has named JT Straub as U.S. real estate head of client solutions, succeeding Tom O’Shea, who will retire at the end of October after a 34-year career, including more than 22 years at UBS.