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- Fundraising
I Squared backs Saragon data center launch with $1B
A $225 million cash purchase of ten Cogent facilities seeds a nine-market, 53-megawatt bet on densifying urban AI inference capacity.
- Deals
ORIX pays $87.5 million for Buckhead apartments, 17% below 2019
The 423-unit sale is one leg of a $200 million, three-property Texas-Georgia multifamily portfolio and prices the asset below Passco's 2019 entry.
- Deals
Clarion buys Stoneshield platform, tripling European AUM
The majority-stake transaction adds a European platform for living, student housing, digital infrastructure, and other supply-constrained sectors to Clarion's logistics-heavy book.
- Fundraising
Vital fully subscribes $9.7M DST, its third since 2024
The third fully subscribed sub-$10 million healthcare DST since 2024 suggests RIAs and independent broker-dealers are a repeat source of capital.
- Deals
Inland crosses $1 billion in senior living acquisitions
Two Illinois communities push the firm past the milestone, extending a trade built on scarce new supply and an aging population.
- Sectors
Trammell Crow and CBRE Japan deliver a 686K-SF spec park with two exits
Buford Creek Business Center arrives unleased in Buford, Georgia, marketed for sale or lease as one cross-dock and two small-bay buildings.
- Fundraising
Azora Private sells a Coconut Grove office as 20 stories of zoning
A Coconut Grove office acquired for $47.5m sells for $62.3m less than a year later, the $14.8m spread owed to twelve added stories of residential entitlement.
- The Wrap
Covenant bets on capital markets with new CIO
The hire puts a 30-year capital-markets career atop Covenant's investment team and points the next cycle toward financing.
- Real estate debt
Trophy tower clears maturity wall at 120 Park Avenue
A $382.4 million refinancing, 14 percent above the loan it replaces, shows the top tier can step over the wall.
- Sectors
Canada's retail vacancy holds at 2.5% on decade-low construction
CoStar sees Canada's 2.5 percent retail vacancy holding for another year, propped up by the weakest construction pipeline in a decade, with mall vacancy still at 8 percent.
- Fundraising
TEP packs 98 federal leases into one $450 million stack
Centennial Bank and Eagle Point priced the portfolio as a single government-tenant credit; the question now is whether that structure travels to acquisitions.
- Deals
Savills IM exits two decade-old European retail assets
A Copenhagen landmark and a Dutch former factory found buyers only after they had stopped looking like ordinary retail.
- Sectors
Class B demand returns, with amenities as entry fee
First-half leasing puts Manhattan B and C demand above its pre-pandemic average, but the condition is an amenity standard that makes owners underwrite like Class A landlords.
- Real estate debt
The 2021-22 bridge book drives August's CRE CLO distress spike
A nine-point jump to 28 percent was the worst one-month move of any deal type this year, and the collateral is a few floating-rate bridge and SASB loans from the peak rent-growth era.
- Fundraising
CIM pulls PIMCO workout pro onto real estate equity desk
Adam Lerer, PIMCO Prime Real Estate's former head of special situations, will source deals across CIM's core and value-add strategies.
- Sectors
Lower Manhattan grew by shrinking its office stock
The Financial District removed 24 million square feet of office and added 11,000 rentals—a physical clearing trade for Midtown to study.
- Sectors
The power play inside industrial outdoor storage
Electrified IOS pairs infill zoning with excess power capacity, giving institutions a narrow claim on the land beneath the electrification buildout.
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- Fundraising
Cincinnati sets a record first half with gains in every sector
An all-sectors record in an interior market suggests the resolution of maturing debt is turning into trades. The next six months will determine how much it means.
- Sectors
Data-center land values now follow the power calendar
The energization calendar has displaced acreage and fiber as the asset buyers underwrite.
- The Wrap
Data-center supply chain takes 10M SF in DFW
The data-center buildout is moving Dallas-Fort Worth industrial absorption, and warehouse landlords hold the second-order trade without the land or power risk.
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- Deals
Astra said to be lining up three London office buys
The reported pipeline moves an alternative credit manager from pricing London office risk to owning it.
- Sectors
Milwaukee industrial leasing runs 13% ahead of prior year
CoStar counts 8.7 million square feet of signed industrial space in the past year—tenant demand that has yet to reach rents.
- Sectors
Data center supply chain occupies 10M SF in Dallas-Fort Worth
Suppliers and contractors supporting data center development have taken more logistics space in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2025 than in any other major U.S. market, a sign the buildout is now moving industrial absorption.
- Sectors
Apartment rents stall, snapping eight-month streak
Annual gains keep firming, but a flat current month leaves per-door growth plans without a market tailwind.
- Sectors
Canada's defense buildup is a concentrated CRE trade
CoStar's forecast makes big-city office and industrial the first play, with retail and multifamily following only where the spending actually lands.
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- Deals
Life-Company Loan Anchors Small Retail Trade
Adoni's Highlands Village buy pairs a 60,614-square-foot necessity center with insurance-company financing, putting fully leased small retail back in institutional credit range.
- Real estate debt
Otay River refi carries a construction bet
The debt fund gets paid from the 30% of Phase IV still unleased.
- Sectors
AI lifts tech to No. 2 in NYC office leasing
AI companies drove 60% of tech's 1.1M-sf quarterly haul; the citywide squeeze is concentrated at the top.
- Real estate debt
Torrance refi is office debt's selective clearing trade
A 93 percent leased South Bay tower gets a larger loan while Los Angeles vacancy holds at 25.3 percent.
- Deals
ICP buys Kalamazoo campus as industrial-conversion option
Fifty-five acres and flexible I-1 zoning put the Kalamazoo campus up for more than its corporate-office past.
- Fundraising
Blue Owl's data center REIT is a known-book bet
A $6.5 billion seed of existing assets would turn Blue Owl's private data center book into permanent public equity, testing whether investors pay for a known portfolio rather than a blind pool.
- Deals
MDH buys Laredo warehouse as border-trade bet
A fully leased DHL warehouse minutes from the World Trade Bridge pairs a 25-year tenancy with Union Pacific rail service at the chokepoint that clears more than $25 billion a month.
- Deals
Timberlane's $37M buy bets on Issaquah upside
The Seattle firm's third Fund II deal pencils to roughly $406,600 a door, a price that only makes sense with future rents in mind.
- Deals
MLG Capital buys 29-building Indianapolis industrial portfolio
The 94%-leased portfolio is a Midwest demand data point, even with the price kept private.
- The Wrap
Data center capital splits: cheap shells, pricier ground
Hutto's $280 million shell, Bitdeer's $500,000-an-acre land, and GLP's RMB4 billion Foshan campus all trace value as it leaves the building for the ground.
- Sectors
Hutto Groundbreaking Puts $280 Million Data-Center Budget to the Test
What Colovore once priced at $500 million now breaks ground in Hutto at $280 million for nearly the same building.
- Real estate debt
Football's top 25 campuses carry $6.1B of securitized student-housing debt
Trepp finds nearly twice the debt around AP-ranked schools as around U.S. News national universities, but the per-unit gap is where the two lists really diverge.
- Real estate debt
Gaia extends Williamsburg loan again, waiting out rates
With loan-to-value below 50 percent and lenders ready, the second renewal is a decision to wait out tomorrow's rates.
- Sectors
Ailanthus's 400-unit Gowanus filing is an entitlement option
The developer's ground-lease structure at 424 Hoyt Street is the real bet behind 400 apartments, a school and retail.
- Sectors
Sam Moon ties 307 apartments to Metropark Square
The Class A Shenandoah project opens in 2027, betting its lease-up on an AMC, Dave & Buster's and Hyatt House already drawing crowds.