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The two firms describe coordinated coverage of North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, with no fund, commitment or fee terms named.

The open-end vehicle follows a closed-end predecessor that raised more than €500 million in 2025 and has committed 80 percent of the capital.

Seven institutions from the Nordics and Germany, all existing Alma backers, committed to the vehicle, leaving €340 million of the €500 million target to raise.

The Texas firm cleared a $900 million target and says Stonelake VIII is the largest fund it has raised since its 2007 founding.

Lee tells the Walker Webcast that the roughly $85 billion real estate book splits almost evenly, with credit active across banks, insurers and opportunistic lending while equity is far more selective than in 2023.

Samsung's commitment comes through a long-duration fund for a platform covering data centers, power and connectivity.

One is a completed commitment for retail acquisitions and development; the other is a registration with no strategy disclosed and no dollars sold.

The 12-year Inland veteran takes over distribution of DST, 721 exchange and opportunity zone programs in a territory that has raised $1.66 billion in equity over a decade.

The 387,945-square-foot portfolio spans 19 states and follows a $75 million, 46-property Family Dollar trade by the same two intermediaries earlier in the year.

The Washington, D.C. developer did not disclose how the $850 million splits between buying assets and funding development.

The commitment adds to the more than $10 billion committed at launch by founding investors including KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA and Vistra.

First-half 2026 volume of $10.173 billion puts the borough on a $20.346 billion annual pace, but BKREA argues the count of properties sold, tracked since 1984, is the number that separates a busier market from pricier deals.

Germany's €600 billion defense and infrastructure program would shift jobs and population, lifting housing demand once industrial and logistics assets absorb the first wave.

The mixed-use plan carries more than 1,000 apartments and condominiums, 100,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a hotel.

The Indianapolis developer's ninth multi-project partnership targets $200 million to $230 million for class A apartments.

The Scottsdale firm is raising $19.1 million for the $42 million purchase of the 229-unit, 35-story tower, projecting a 15.6 percent IRR over a two-to-five-year hold.

Construction materials prices rose 13.3% year over year and diesel topped $6.50 a gallon at an all-time high, according to industry and federal data.

Six public retirement systems and a $158 million Connecticut acquisition reveal more about this vintage than the $2 billion target.

The $97B asset manager takes a board seat and a value-add pipeline in Western markets, wagering that grocery anchors hold their pricing power while the rest of retail reprices.

Both flagship funds cleared their hard caps, and the split between $2.7 billion of equity and $2.3 billion of value-add debt says more about this cycle than the headline total does.

Up to half the equity from a single institution, plus a director's seat, changes what kind of fund Hyperion Grocery Retail Partners III is.

The first close buys a Spanish student portfolio and a reference price that every later bid has to clear.

One $1 billion first-quarter close and a $1.3 billion second-quarter hard cap, with 72 debt funds still marketing, left a shortfall measured in closings rather than dollars.

With 46% of Deloitte's respondents expecting no sales and nearly 80% planning repositioning, the survey describes a market that has stopped setting marks.

The second Homes for LA round is bigger than the first and slower to arrive, handing the carrying cost to sponsors who can sit through the calendar.

The renovation has a price and an architect; the neighborhood on the parking lots has neither, and that is where the capital actually has to be raised.

Six identified projects in five states narrow selection risk for the $200 million to $230 million vehicle, but all six clear into the same delivery window.

A Brookings paper puts the AI capital program at $10.3 trillion and assumes 227 gigawatts of proposed data-center capacity never gets built, a downside case with a unit cost sponsors can hold against their own pro formas.

Tower's first Jersey City purchase pairs Lakerock equity with a five-year fixed loan, trading the rent roll for a sponsor history this market has not yet seen.

Oak gets a Delaware issuer and a $35 million preferred offering; its credit funds, where the economics live, stay undescribed.

A liquidation priced over 24 months will convert one trust's appraisal into the marks its apartment-heavy peers and gated open-end funds have to answer.

A blind-pool debt REIT with an 85% LTV subordinated sleeve looks well-aimed at a market where 11.42% of CMBS loans are in special servicing—and the terms leave the duration with the buyer.

The résumé in the capital-formation seat is a product decision; the release names no fund, target or close to contradict it.

A fully subscribed first DST turns two Sun Belt apartment buildings into product for owners with a sale already in motion.

A national placement desk now owns a registered income fund, and the management contract is the part that compounds.

Two distribution hires land months ahead of the first tax-advantaged program, and the job descriptions say the firm knows which seat is load-bearing.