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Montana board commits $100m to two value-add funds

DRA and Marcus Partners each receive $50m, keeping the pension's real estate allocation near its 12% target.

GLP's RMB4 billion Foshan data center bet starts with 40MW

A purpose-built campus for an unnamed hyperscaler puts 200MW and RMB4 billion on the table; the market will price the option before the next phase appears.

SSS raises real estate allocation to 12%

The Philippines pension fund's 210-basis-point move into property was paid for out of its government securities and equity books.

Ohio Police & Fire backs healthcare property fund with $75 million

The commitment gives Chicago Pacific Founders nearly a fifth of its target raise and covers a tenth of the pension's $750 million gap to its 12% real estate allocation.

Senior housing's $800,000 unit price meets a six-agency stack

Stabilized senior housing trades at going-concern prices while new supply still leans on public credit, and the gap between them is the underwriting engine.

Higher-for-longer mortgage rates feed apartment demand and keep prices falling

J.P. Morgan Asset Management sees a generational affordability gap locking households into rentals, even as apartment prices keep falling.

JLL places five-year refi on Extra Space South Portland

Regional-bank money for a stabilized 90,000-sq-ft Extra Space storage asset in Maine shows the refi market is open to proven operators and selective for everyone else.

BXP pays $30M for a Waltham rezoning option

The Winter Street purchase gives the Boston REIT the right to convert, though no multifamily filing has followed.

Manga pays $50M for second Manhattan hotel from Lam

A second deal from the same family developer comes at a lower per-key price, suggesting a relationship-led entry into New York rather than a one-off acquisition.

DPI Retail's Glenview buy is a Chicago platform bet

The grocery-anchored center gives DPI Retail its stated entry to Chicago, and with no disclosed price, the next acquisition is the proof.

Private capital buys a Milwaukee apartment for the income it already has

The $18.1 million, 142-unit Cudahy Commons sale to Peak Capital is fresh evidence that private money is buying cash flow, not turnarounds.

Rockpoint, Newbond buy Fort Lauderdale hotel for $47M

Athene's $47.7M loan runs $600,000 above the $47.1M deed, pricing the hotel as a cash-flowing business.

Cabinet Office-let Victoria office sells near asking price to overseas buyer

A near-ask Victoria office sale shows cross-border capital rewarding the lease, not the broader London market.

Becknell hires LaSalle veteran to build its REIT selling group

For a young private trust, the selling group is the capital plan.

Namdar's $390M Park Tower loan splits senior and mezz risk

Two floating-rate, interest-only tranches put a 1,049-unit Journal Square tower on a lease-up bet through 2029.

Bitdeer's $100M Alcoa land buy is a power bet

At $500,000 an acre, Bitdeer is paying for grid capacity, water access, and room to scale to 742 megawatts.

ORIX USA bets on operations in $200M multifamily trio

The 1,029-unit Texas-Georgia deal pairs a below-replacement-cost 2025 build with a stabilized community and, so far, stays in the Class A lane.

Crow Holdings asks LPs to price a $3.3 billion renovation bet

A record close for the 78-year-old firm would measure how many investors believe old buildings can earn like new ones.

Terrapin clears the American Motel for Trinsic's 335 Wheat Ridge apartments

A $9 million 2023 motel buy becomes a cleared Wheat Ridge site and a second project for a Denver developer with one open apartment building.

Pinnacle lines up $40.2M for Fort Lauderdale senior housing

Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and six public agencies are underwriting the Fort Lauderdale senior housing deal, where the deepest income band leaves thin coverage for conventional debt.

HMF Americana bets older renters will share a cottage neighborhood

A 221-home Charlotte project mixes build-to-rent with a dedicated 55-plus slice, leaving lease-up to show whether the format works for everyone.

Fortress puts its second 1031 bet on Greensboro student housing

A 600-bed, near-full community gives advisers a clean income story, but the real test is whether two admissions offices can keep the platform patient.

GoldenTree’s Baceline bet is a structure play

The recapitalization folds Baceline's open-air retail vehicles into a single fund, giving a neighborhood-center operator the balance sheet to buy rather than just manage.

Walmart's $1.3B Georgia build reshapes its industrial playbook

The retailer will build its largest automated projects itself rather than lease them from speculative developers.

CIM buys White Plains apartments weeks after Tysons sale

The 134-unit Westchester deal is a small first step, but it follows an office disposition that gives the trade strategic meaning.

AHR's $696M senior buy prices scarcity

At roughly $800,000 a unit and with $675 million awarded but unclosed, the deal gives private buyers a price to argue against.

LaSalle and Camber buy an off-market Long Island industrial portfolio

The fully leased, 270,000-square-foot Long Island deal prices rollover growth on irreplaceable infill buildings.

General Atlantic anchors Related's 625 Madison with five floors

The 150,000-square-foot pre-lease gives the under-construction tower a credit-tenant marker that most legacy Midtown landlords cannot match.

Northmarq places $6.1M refi on Van Nuys industrial trio

A ten-year life-company loan against 1955 and 1969 flex buildings is a bet on the infill land beneath them.

URW pays off Westfield Montgomery’s $350 million loan after special servicing

The payoff, a rarity in this extension-heavy cycle, removes the Bethesda mall from special servicing and puts it among the 11 malls URW means to keep.

Eastham Fund VII buys 220-unit Fox Run with 80 homes still to renovate

With no price or seller disclosed, the St. Charles deal rests on upgrades to more than a third of its 220 apartments and the re-leasing spreads that follow.

Smaller September CMBS cohort carries more refinance risk

Trepp's data show more than a quarter of the maturing balance at a debt yield below 6%, with retail replacing office as the most impaired sector.

Federal Realty Plans 216 Apartments at Phoenix's Camelback Colonnade

The proposal reprices a 62-year-old retail property as mixed use and tests Phoenix's appetite for housing on commercial ground.

Serac, National Real Estate buy Greenway Plaza tower

An 18-story Houston office tower changes hands with a tenant roster running to family offices and foundations, the kind that clears before commodity office.

OZK's $75.5M Merritt 7 loan prices office as housing

A $32 million family-office equity slice is the risk layer behind Bank OZK's office-to-residential construction loan in Norwalk.

Integral targets 907-unit Durham start with affordable fast lane

At least 100 affordable units in the first phase qualify the $343 million Forest Hills Heights redevelopment for expedited review.

Data centers become a 25-year refresh cycle

PwC's baseline treats data centers as repeated capital spending, with the site and its power supply as the appreciating asset.

Location data turns retail leasing into underwriting

Once store-level sales come into view, a rent roll starts to read like a credit file.

Related pays $235,000 a unit for an Atlanta vintage asset

The $110 million Manchester at Mansell trade puts a price on renovating 1984 garden apartments in Roswell/Alpharetta—and the math behind it stays with Related.

Trammell Crow doubles down on Hillsboro industrial spec

Less than a year after Phase I delivered, the second phase of Sewell Corporate Park breaks ground with three buildings still on the market.

C-PACE stands alone on $172.5M Shoma Bay tower

Newmark placed the full construction financing for Shoma Group's North Bay Village condo tower through C-PACE, a stack that carries no bank debt.

LaSalle and Camber buy a fully leased Long Island industrial portfolio that can't be replaced

The off-market, credit-anchored buy extends LaSalle's occupancy-first streak into a market where the buildings can't be replaced.

Aviva hands a CBRE IM veteran a 450,000-square-foot industrial pipeline

George Richards arrives with a development mandate that tests whether origination beats buying stabilized assets.

Sound Point names Cerberus veteran to lead CRE credit fundraising

The dedicated fundraising title indicates Sound Point will ask institutions to back its commercial real estate credit strategy separately.

Data center backlash becomes a political-risk premium

State moratoriums and a Texas grid audit mean development capital must now price permission, not just power and land.

Redevco buys four German transport assets, taking its logistics platform to €1 billion

Three truck service facilities and a full-service truck stop arrive fully occupied, adding 936,500 square feet to a 32-asset logistics book.

Madison vacancy rises despite strong leasing

A construction wave is adding apartments faster than renters can absorb them in Wisconsin's capital.

CRE's cheap-buying window closes, and operators take the trade

With valuations firm and rate relief slipping, the income statement is where CRE value gets made.

Dallas operators win on execution, not countertops

At 89% occupancy, Dallas renters have options, and the operators who answer first and close first will separate themselves.

Trump's data center broadside makes approval risk part of the underwriting

July's $33.8 billion data center deal volume is colliding with a political backlash that is turning permission into the sector's scarcest asset.

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