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French Sociétés Civiles de Placement Immobilier (SCPIs) were behind 12 percent of overseas investment into the U.K. commercial property market in 2025, says CoStar, deploying £1.1 billion ($1.5 billion) – an 85 percent year‑over‑year increase and the highest total in three years. 

Ambrose has made three promotions.

The U.S. retail sector entered 2026 with solid momentum, supported by resilient consumer spending and tightening retail fundamentals, according to Marcus &Millichap in its 2026 retail national investment forecast.

With New York City undergoing a political transition, investors are weighing how fiscal policy, taxes and regulatory changes could affect real estate activity in the coming years. In an IREI interview, Danny Fishman, co-founder and CEO of GAIA Real Estate, a U.S. investment and asset management company based in Miami, addresses how policy uncertainty is influencing capital allocations, development feasibility and housing supply. He also discusses the role of institutional investors, the signals the market is watching most closely and how developers are adjusting strategies as conditions evolve.

Fund size in private real estate has long been viewed as a signal of success, but growing concentration in mega-funds is exposing the limits of scale. Larger pools of capital can create deployment challenges, narrower exit options and pressure to pursue oversized deals, which can weaken underwriting discipline and returns.

While gleaming new buildings may get fawned over as potential future trophy assets, the future belongs mostly to existing ones. Analysts predict 80 percent or more of buildings that will exist in 2050 are already standing. In some mature markets in Europe and elsewhere, estimates run as high as 95 percent.

In most of the world, affordable multifamily housing belongs to two basic phyla: public and private, writes Bennett Voyles. The public may enlist the private sector’s help through a few different mechanisms, and the private may be given a boost by the public. But except for that overlap, each phylum sticks to its own side of the street.

The office market is increasingly behaving like a two-tier system, writes Wolfgang Roeck,   CEO of WÖHR + BAUER. At one end, a relatively small pool of best-in-class assets in prime locations continues to attract attention, capital and premium rents. At the other end, a much larger stock that no longer meets today’s technical, energy-related or functional requirements sits in district and secondary locations.

India boasts one of the world’s largest and youngest workforces and is a growing tech business hub. Given the ease of doing business in the country has improved significantly over the years, what should institutional investors interested in the nation expect?

While gleaming new buildings may get fawned over as potential future trophy assets, the future belongs mostly to existing ones. Analysts predict 80 percent or more of buildings that will exist in 2050 are already standing. In some mature markets in Europe and elsewhere, estimates run as high as 95 percent.

As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to reshape real estate investing, the biggest obstacles to adoption are not technical but cultural. According to Ben Miller, CEO of Fundrise and co-founder of RealAI, generational dynamics inside firms are slowing meaningful change even as AI is already embedded in day-to-day investment work. In an exclusive interview with IREI, Miller discusses why younger analysts quietly using AI are already producing core investment outputs, yet senior leaders worry about the erosion of alpha — a reaction that mirrors the slow adoption seen during earlier shifts, from the internet to cloud computing. He also outlines what institutional real estate firms must do now to move from experimentation to real impact as AI accelerates productivity, reshapes workflows, and alters the economics of the industry.

Bracewell has announced that Alex Dimock and Sam Murphy joined as partners in its Dallas office.

Apache Capital Partners and the institutional investors behind one of Europe’s most prominent build-to-rent platforms have appointed CBRE to conduct a strategic review of a portfolio valued at more than €1 billion ($tk billion).

According to the fourth annual Investor Survey conducted by Savills and Savills Investment Management, involving investors who collectively hold €540 billion ($625 billion) in real estate assets under management (AUM), Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) remains the most sought-after sector in Operational Real Estate (OpRE) for the second consecutive year.

Pan-European industrial real estate investment manager Boreal IM has announced three promotions.

The United Kingdom’s elderly care market is forecast to reach capacity by 2033 without a wave of new development, according to new analysis by Knight Frank.

The self-storage sector experienced strong demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, supported by the shift to remote work, government stimulus and low interest rates, which contributed to increased housing transactions and rental activity.

Australian developer and fund manager Hale Capital Partners has secured A$750 million ($527 million) in equity commitments for the second vintage of its logistics investment platform, reported Mingtiandi.  

Ardian has reached an agreement with a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), to launch a new real estate secondaries platform.

Rubenstein Partners has secured a $127 million refinancing of Chesterbrook, the 1.1 million-square-foot, 14-building office campus in the King of Prussia/Wayne, Pa., submarket, part of the greater Philadelphia region.