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Arrow hires lender-side veteran to build multifamily debt desk

Ari Mandelbaum joins the two-year-old advisory firm as a director, part of a push into full-service debt placement as multifamily borrowers face a tougher refinancing market.

Blackstone-led consortium takes H&R REIT private for C$6.7 billion

GO REIT, Crestpoint and PSP Investments join Blackstone in taking the Toronto-listed trust private.

Florida Tech's $96M student housing uses P3 and municipal bonds

A 556-bed dorm on the Melbourne campus shows how universities can pair private development with municipal bonds.

Pivot turns Nashville office tower into Hilton hotel, timeshare

Pivot paid $55.25 million for the Fifth Third Center and will split the tower between an LXR hotel and Hilton Grand Vacations timeshares.

Lone Star PACE closes $64.8M on six Texas projects

Six Texas projects, from a data center to a hotel, drew $64.8 million in C-PACE financing backing $279 million in investment.

Triten refinances Mill Residences before it stabilizes

The East End complex's construction loan is retired early, with new capital funding the retail buildout.

Thin DSCR cushions explain the 2023-vintage multifamily CMBS delinquency spike

Trepp data tie the 2023 conduit vintage's delinquency to thin underwriting cushions; the larger 2024 vintage starts even thinner.

CBRE arranges $45.8M refi for Scottsdale Towne Center

A five-year, full-term interest-only loan gives a nearly full Scottsdale retail center breathing room.

Multifamily investors sour on the second half but plan to keep buying

Pessimism about the next two quarters has not shaken buying plans. Multifamily is repricing, and its buyers are staying.

Brookfield, Varia form $694M multifamily venture

Brookfield takes 90% of four buildings and Varia gets a $200 million acquisition line, with nine more properties to be sold over three years.

AvalonBay and Equity Residential complete merger into Vivmark, the largest apartment REIT

The $70 billion enterprise-value company controls more than 184,000 apartments and nearly doubles its nearest rival in units.

Goldman Sachs to acquire LCN Capital Partners for up to $410 million

The bank pays $260 million upfront, with $150 million more tied to long-term performance.

Capital costs reset multifamily values even where cash flow grows

Cap rates rose in all nine census divisions, even where cash flow kept growing.

Atrium maps $1.3 trillion of U.S. data center development debt

Atrium's "Who Finances America's Data Centers" follows the money across county filings, CMBS trusts, bank syndications and utility-company credit.

PPM America lends $236M on SparrowHawk-Almanac industrial buy

A five-year fixed-and-floating loan funds a 20-building Midwest logistics portfolio at roughly 59% loan-to-value.

Invesco Real Estate writes $3.2B in senior loans

The average loan size nearly doubled as private credit rotates into real estate debt ahead of a $3 trillion maturity cycle.

H&R REIT breakup sends apartments to GO, industrial to Blackstone

The breakup quadruples GO Residential's portfolio, sends the industrial assets to Blackstone and partners, and parks the rest with H&R's CEO.

The property recovery runs on more than data centers

A drop in construction across office, industrial and apartment markets is giving owners leverage, and the largest brokers are posting double-digit revenue growth.

Brookfield enters Japan multifamily with 50-building buy

The young portfolio is roughly 96% leased across four major metros.

SparrowHawk pays just under $400M for EQT's Midwest warehouses

The Houston firm picks up a 4.4 million-square-foot Midwest portfolio.

BREIT exits self-storage, shifts billions into QTS data centers

The $852.3 million exit closes a three-year unwind and cements data centers as the REIT's priority.

Brookfield buys 50-building Japan multifamily portfolio

The 3,700-unit deal puts the firm at scale in one of Japan's most compelling sectors.

Ryman Hospitality pays $1.4B for Grande Lakes Orlando Resort

The deal marks the largest non-gaming U.S. resort sale on record, IPE Real Assets reports.

North America data center absorption hits 25GW record

A 65-point gap between AI support and local acceptance is the new constraint on supply.

Multifamily lending rebounds 32% as rate calm returns

Fannie and Freddie took 40% of 2025 originations as 2,530 lenders split a $381.8 billion book.

Six asset giants sign $500B MOU with Nvidia for AI build-out

Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR have signed a framework with Nvidia that steers institutional real estate capital into data centers and changes how the deals get built, underwritten and priced.

Spirit Airlines' shuttered Dania Beach headquarters sells for $93.25M at auction

An affiliate of Boston-based Hill City Capital bought the property, which spans more than 600,000 square feet.

Sack Capital's $91 million structured deal for Step Up Housing includes property management duties

The two purchases total 406 units. A $91.35 million structured package covers the acquisition, and Sack Capital will manage the properties.

Four Springs TEN31 Xchange buys Georgia Amazon sortation center via $58.9M DST

The $58.93 million all-cash offering packages a cross-dock sortation center leased to Amazon under a corporate guarantee, giving 1031 buyers fractional ownership.

Fortress: private capital can outlast real estate's institutional clock

Fortress's David Hammerman says reset values favor investors who can hold beyond a fund's mandate.

IPE sees a hidden infrastructure asset in Prologis's Segro bid

An IPE Real Assets analysis frames Prologis's £14bn offer for Segro as a hunt for a hidden infrastructure asset.

Millennium secures $281M C-PACE for Winthrop Center condos

The Boston refinancing, New England's largest commercial PACE deal, replaces construction debt with permanent capital repaid through a property assessment.

Blackstone's BREIT exits self-storage, bets on data centers

The trust sold 79 storage properties and closed an $852 million data center deal the same day it announced a QTS partnership.

BREIT sells last self-storage assets, pours into data centers

Blackstone's real estate trust sold its final 79 storage properties. The proceeds are now funding a data center push.

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