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JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group has released its annual Global Hotel Investment Outlook, forecasting a continued robust increase in global hotel investment volumes for 2026. The report identifies that strong debt markets, record dry powder and reestablished confidence in the sector’s resilience are creating optimal conditions for accelerating investment activity in 2026.

Global logistics real estate rents declined in 2025, with a 2.3 percent drop in the first half of the year as many customers delayed leasing decisions amid economic and trade policy uncertainty. In the second half of the year, leasing activity picked up and rent declines narrowed to about 1.4 percent, indicating increased market engagement.

Global institutions are set to invest $144 billion into commercial real estate in 2026, according to Knight Frank’s Active Capital survey.

The global data center sector is poised for continued unprecedented expansion, with capacity expected to nearly double from 103 gigawatts to 200 gigawatts by 2030, according to JLL’s newly released 2026 Global Data Center Outlook.

GARBE Industrial and ARTAR to establish a joint venture.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has released its eighth annual Global Alternatives Outlook, providing a 12- to 18-month outlook across key alternative asset classes, equipping investors to make tailored portfolio decisions. This year’s report details high-conviction ideas as private markets mature into a structural mainstay of global finance.

Global real estate investment turnover is set to surpass $1 trillion in 2026, up 15 percent on 2025; the first time this barrier has been breached since 2022, according to Savills World Research.

JLL has released its Global Real Estate Outlook 2026, offering a forward-looking analysis of the commercial real estate landscape as the industry moves beyond a turbulent economic period. With inflation moderating, trade pressures easing, and interest rates trending lower, the environment for commercial real estate is stabilizing heading into the new year.

Hines has released its paper, “The Global Industrial Sector (R)evolution,” which explains how deep structural forces — ranging from shifting trade patterns and fiscal policy to the rise of ecommerce and data-driven convergence — are transforming industrial real estate from a steady, income-oriented sector into an innovation-driven, high-growth market where proximity and power availability are emerging as new sources of value.  

The value of all global real estate (residential and commercial real estate, and agricultural land) was $393.3 trillion as of the start of 2025, according to Savills, maintaining the asset’s position as the world’s most significant store of wealth. 

Direct transaction activity totaled $179 billion in second quarter 2025, rising 14 percent year-over-year, according to JLL in its Global Real Estate Perspective report.

Policy is a major catalyst for retrofits, according to research by JLL and the Economist Impact in a report, which outlines key retrofitting barriers, as well as solutions to accelerate a more sustainable future across the built environment by 2030.

In its latest Global Capital Markets reports, Savills has examined the likely short- and long-term impacts of recent macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, concluding that globally the fundamentals of the office and industrial markets remain sound long-term.

The real estate investment management industry represents several trillion dollars in assets under management globally, according to the IRE.IQ Real Estate Managers Guide, released May 29, 2025.

Savills says that it is anticipating an uptick in investment in retail real estate globally as in some locations retailers are again expanding their store networks, ​leading to​​ the return of rental growth across a number of prime retail markets driving investor interest. 

Contributing around 37 percent of energy related carbon emissions, the built environment has a clear responsibility to urgently decarbonise real estate to meet international climate targets and mitigate climate change risks. However, with estimates suggesting that up to $24.2 trillion — or nearly 17 percent of global financial assets — could be at risk due to climate-related financial shocks under high-emissions scenarios, the real estate sector in particular must act swiftly. 

MAG, a real estate developer in the United Arab Emirates, has signed a $3 billion tokenization agreement with MultiBank Group, a financial derivatives institution headquartered in Dubai, and Mavryk, a blockchain innovator.

There will be an approximately 46 percent increase in data center capacity worldwide by 2027, according to Knight Frank. This equates to an additional 20,828 megawatts.

Although ready to commence a new real estate cycle, real estate leaders globally are braced for another challenging year of uncertainty, with lingering inflation, largely driven by factors including geopolitical instability, and persistently higher interest rates in some regions, potentially delaying a hoped-for recovery in capital markets and occupancy metrics.

Real estate rents declined by five percent in 2024 due to normalizing market conditions, according to Prologis’ 2024: Market rents reset after years of outperformance. Increasing new supply and positive demand boosted vacancy rates in most markets across the globe, says the report. By combining market insights with data, the Prologis Rent Index analyses net effective rental growth trends in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.