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Marcus & Millichap has published two new national research reports highlighting continued strength in the U.S. single-tenant net-lease (STNL) retail sector.

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has expanded its Spanish build-to-rent (BTR) platform, acquiring a brownfield development site in Valencia, Spain, with plans to develop 132 residential units across two residential blocks.

Clarion Partners, a real estate investment manager and partially owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, has announced that it has recently executed on more than a dozen highly curated single-asset healthcare investments totaling over $1 billion.

As capital reallocates and pricing gaps persist across U.S. real estate, investors are increasingly focused on precision — where to invest, how to structure deals and how to create value post-acquisition. Melissa Reagen, portfolio manager, U.S. strategic alternatives strategy, and Matt Neary, director, alternatives and strategic transactions, Americas, at Nuveen, discuss the self-storage sector in an interview with Institutional Real Estate, Inc., addressing broader factors influencing investment decisions, including capital flows, affordability patterns and the growing use of data and artificial intelligence (AI).

A joint venture between Vanderbilt Office Properties, Hillwood and TriPost Capital Partners has acquired The Towers at Williams Square.

Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management is continuing to expand its diversified Pan-European real estate strategy in the United Kingdom, where it has secured three acquisitions and has two further transactions in exclusivity, with a target to deploy a £100 million ($134 million) more during the next 12 months.

Investcorp has acquired a diversified industrial real estate portfolio located across key U.S. distribution markets.

Blackstone has formed a joint venture with Google Cloud.

Benchmarks have long been a staple of institutional real estate investing. They offer structure, comparability and a sense of discipline. In quarterly reviews and boardrooms alike, they provide a convenient shorthand for answering the enduring question: How are we doing?

The global workforce has found its post-pandemic equilibrium, stabilizing around structured hybrid models, according to JLL’s Global Occupancy Planning Benchmark Report 2026. The report draws on insights from 84 organizations representing 716 million square feet of portfolios across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

Sachem Capital Corp., a real estate lender specializing in originating, underwriting, funding, servicing and managing a portfolio of loans secured by first mortgages on real property, and Industrial Realty Group (IRG).

Patron Capital has completed its first direct-lending deals following the launch of its real estate credit business in 2025.

Frasers Property Australia has exchanged contracts with Vicinity Centres for the sale of the three-stage Eastern Creek Quarter (ECQ), its retail development in Western Sydney, for A$400 million ($256 million).

CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM) has launched its U.K. single-family housing (SFH) strategy.

The Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Fund (CRPTF) Investment Advisory Council has committed $200 million to Smart Markets Fund, a program of Stockbridge Capital Group.

Institutional capital is increasingly moving beyond traditional gateway markets, with investors taking a closer look at interior U.S. regions offering lower costs, demographic growth and evolving economic fundamentals. In an exclusive interview, John Budd, CEO of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, discusses how markets like Oklahoma are gaining traction among allocators, the data points shaping underwriting decisions and the sectors attracting the most capital. He also addresses how diversification, infrastructure and energy capacity are strengthening the state’s investment profile, and what will determine whether current capital flows into these markets become a sustained, long-term trend.

In a sponsored report published in the June issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, Actis’ Praveen Kumar and Raghvendra Chandak, Principals, Real Estate and Data Centres, describe the dynamics transforming India’s commercial real estate market into core economic infrastructure for a rapidly expanding economy, and the enterprising strategy Actis executed in building a platform that is now in a prime position to capitalize on India’s enormous growth potential.

In a sponsored interview published in the June issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, Fergal Harris, managing director of the Global Investors Group (Affinius’ capital-raising division), discusses the perspectives he has seen from the standpoint of Australian investors looking at the current global real estate market, the reasons for their continued long-term interest in American and European markets despite recent political volatility, and how Affinius Capital can meet their needs.

In a sponsored report published in the June issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Nuveen’s Dan Manware, director of research, makes the case that institutional portfolios are still underallocated to alternatives, highlighting the diversification benefits and strong NOI growth they generate, which will be increasingly important as we head into a slow-growth cycle when investors can no longer expect cap rate compression to drive returns.

In a sponsored report published in the June issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Kevin Kabnerna, co-head, and Sam Moore, senior managing director of Greystar's Americas Principal Business, convey their strong conviction in the future of multifamily, discuss the many overlapping indicators pointing them in a positive direction, and detail how Greystar’s scale, data infrastructure, and operational expertise position them to take the lead in a recovery cycle.