More than ever, investors are looking to gain access to this sector in India, which remains undersupplied. The opportunity continues to challenge new market entrants, who are trying to unpack why demand continues to deepen in a market where suitable investable stock remains thin.

Disclosure is a legal and regulatory necessity. Risk management is an operational discipline. Confusing the two may satisfy counsel, but it does little to protect capital.

Despite concerns about AI-driven job losses, a new study from JLL finds a majority of senior business leaders across Asia Pacific expect their workforces to grow (61 percent), even as the region simultaneously contends with the world’s most acute AI talent shortage.

Energy and carbon have traditionally dominated real estate sustainability discussions. This makes sense given their contributions to net operating income and long-term asset value. However, there is increasing recognition that water use is emerging as a material risk and opportunity for real asset investors.

Asia Pacific’s commercial real estate markets kept their momentum into the second quarter of 2026. Despite a nervy start to the year with the outbreak of the US-Iran war and resurgent borrowing costs, aggregate deal volumes continued their upward trajectory, growing 20 percent year-on-year to reach US$46.1 billion in the second quarter.

Seventeen closed-end real estate funds held a final close in second quarter 2026, raising an aggregate US$35.8 billion, according to the latest data collected by Institutional Real Estate, Inc’s IRE.IQ database. That marks a substantial increase in capital raised from first quarter 2026, when 26 funds raised US$27.0 billion, even as the number of funds holding a final close declined.

The Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association (APDCA) has launched a new white paper titled “Data centres as catalysts for infrastructure modernisation in APAC”, highlighting how data centres are helping to strengthen the energy and water systems needed to support Asia Pacific’s future development.

Japanese investors are increasing allocations to rental housing across Asia Pacific, driving the next phase of living sector growth as capital targets markets backed by strong demand and long-term income stability, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

Ares Management has held a final close for its Japan Logistics Development Partners V (JDP V), the latest vintage in its Japan-focused logistics real estate development fund series. Raising ¥612 billion (US$4 billion), including investor equity commitments and a manager commitment, JDP V closed at its hard cap and is nearly 50 percent larger than its 2021-vintage predecessor, JDP IV.

The Philippines’ Social Security System (SSS) has increased its allocation to real estate and properties to 12 percent of total assets under management as of the end of July 2026, according to Asia Asset Management.

In a sponsored interview published in the October issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, David Chen, Principal Asset Management’s head of private equity portfolio management, describes how capital markets dislocation and a range of structural forces are complicating the private real estate landscape, opening up opportunities that require strategic shifts in how investors think about sectors, drivers, and diversification, and placing a greater premium on investment managers that combine institutional scale with an owner’s mindset.

In a sponsored supplement that accompanied the October issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, the founders of Agentic Assets, Dr. Cayman Seagraves and Dr. Stace Sirmans, spoke with Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder, chairman and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., about their AI tech­nology company that builds AI platforms specifically for insti­tutional commercial real estate.

In a sponsored supplement that accompanied the October issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, Will McIntosh, founder and CEO of ArcBridge Research Group, spoke with Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder, chairman and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., about why he built an outsourced research business, and why independent research is needed in the industry.