JLL Arranges $60.65M Sale and $42.91M Financing of Walnut Tech Business Center for AEW and CIP Real Estate II LLC
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Newmark Arranges $85 Million Refinancing for InterVest Capital Partners at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo
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Ardian and Emerige Advance La Pointe des Arts Mixed-Use Project on Île Seguin in Greater Paris
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Invesco, DeA Capital RE and Banque des Territoires Acquire Two Paris Student Residences from Assembly and Eternam
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Skanska Sells H2Offices Phase Two in Budapest to ERSTE Open-Ended Real Estate Investment Fund for €98 Million
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Newmark Hires Gonzalo Ladrón de Guevara From Savills to Lead Spain Capital Markets Push
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Hines Names Laura Hines-Pierce and Adam Hines Co-CEOs in Planned Leadership Transition
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DevelopmentAffordable
Arada London and Clarion Housing Group Top Out 30 Social Rent Homes at 100 Chalk Farm Road in Camden
Arada London and Clarion Housing Group have reached the topping-out milestone at 100 Chalk Farm Road in Camden, marking a key construction benchmark for 30 new social rent homes. The development is one of three Camden sites where the two organisations have agreed a forward-purchase partnership to deliver a combined 136 social rent homes.
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Värde Partners Closes $65.5 Million Refinancing for Empire Group's Phoenix Build-to-Rent Community
Värde Partners has closed a $65.5 million floating-rate refinancing for Village at Sonoran Vista, a 240-unit build-to-rent community in north Phoenix developed by the Empire Group. WAY Capital arranged the loan, which supports lease-up of the newly completed property near Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s Arizona campus.
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Delancey Secures £400 Million Mandate Expansion From UK Pension Scheme, Bringing Total to Nearly £1 Billion
Real estate investment firm Delancey has expanded its mandate with one of the UK's largest corporate defined benefit pension schemes by up to £400 million, bringing the total commitment to just under £1 billion. The additional capital is available for immediate deployment into sector-agnostic, value-add UK real estate opportunities.
•Delancey
Property TransactionsMultifamily
Niam Acquires 168-Unit Gyngemose Park Residential Property in Søborg, Denmark, Launching Bellavia Platform
Niam has acquired a 168-unit residential property at Gyngemose Park in Søborg, Denmark, marking the first asset in the firm's newly launched Greater Copenhagen residential platform, Bellavia. The 2017-built property totals approximately 15,677 square meters and is located roughly 8.5 kilometers from central Copenhagen.
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Edmond de Rothschild REIM Launches European Value-Add Industrial Strategy, Names Niek van Genugten as Fund Manager
Edmond de Rothschild REIM has launched a value-add investment strategy targeting European light-industrial and logistics assets, appointing Niek van Genugten as fund manager. The new strategy builds on the firm's existing industrial platform and is designed to generate alpha through active asset management across established European markets.
•Edmond de Rothschild
DevelopmentMultifamilyMixed Use+2
Arada Submits Planning Applications for AED 12 Billion Thameside West Development in London's Royal Docks
UAE-based developer Arada has submitted planning applications to Newham Council for the first phase of Thameside West, a Royal Docks regeneration project valued at AED 12 billion that would deliver approximately 1,500 homes across six buildings. The scheme, developed in partnership with the Greater London Authority, is part of a broader masterplan capable of delivering at least 5,000 homes on a more than 47-acre brownfield site in east London.
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Corporate UpdatesMultifamily
Sentinel Real Estate Acquires Hearthstone Investments to Accelerate UK Affordable Rental Expansion
Sentinel Real Estate has acquired Hearthstone Investments, a UK-based investment manager focused on affordable private rental housing, adding more than 1,800 homes across England, Scotland and Wales to its portfolio. The deal, announced Sept. 30, 2026, accelerates Sentinel's UK expansion just months after the firm formally entered the market.
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People
Sonae Sierra Names Luís Mota Duarte as CEO, Effective January 2027
Sonae Sierra has named Luís Mota Duarte, currently the company's deputy CEO, as its next chief executive officer, effective January 2027. Mota Duarte will succeed Fernando Guedes de Oliveira, who is stepping down after 35 years at Sierra and more than four decades with the Sonae group.
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DevelopmentMultifamily
Greystar Opens 758-Home Momento Berlin Rental Community in Neukölln, Developed with Bauwens
Greystar has officially opened Momento Berlin, a 758-home rental community at Buschkrugallee 64 in Berlin's Neukölln district, developed in partnership with Bauwens and Goldbeck on the site of the former BLUB leisure pool. The opening marks a significant addition to Berlin's constrained rental housing market, where active vacancy stands at just 0.3%.
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Property TransactionsMultifamily
BauMont Real Estate Capital and Reneo Group Launch €200 Million German Multifamily Partnership With Munich Acquisition
BauMont Real Estate Capital has entered the German market through the acquisition of a multifamily property in Munich's Obersendling district, marking the first investment under a strategic partnership with Reneo Group targeting more than €200 million in German residential deals over the next 12 months. The brown-to-green redevelopment will upgrade the building from energy class H to class A while adding more than 30 new apartments.
•Reneo Group
Corporate UpdatesMultifamilyStudent Housing+5
QuadReal Expands $15.4B Real Estate Debt Platform Into Europe With $3.5B Allocation
QuadReal is expanding its global real estate debt platform into Europe, backed by a $3.5 billion regional allocation and £275 million already deployed across five UK loans since October 2025. The firm is targeting the €50 million-to-€80 million loan segment across sectors including industrial real estate, self storage real estate, built-to-rent and student housing.
•QuadReal
Property TransactionsLand
Moishe Mana's Mana Common Sells 30-Acre Wynwood Assemblage to Citadel's Ken Griffin for $1.1 Billion
Mana Common closed the sale of about 30 acres of its Wynwood assemblage to Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin for approximately $1.1 billion on Sept. 29, 2026. The site is planned to host a new Carnegie Mellon University campus.
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DevelopmentHospitality
InterContinental Hotels Group plc Opens 250-Room Crowne Plaza Paris Marne-la-Vallée in Hospitality Real Estate Expansion
InterContinental Hotels Group plc has opened the Crowne Plaza Paris Marne-la-Vallée, a 250-room hospitality real estate property in Magny-le-Hongre, France. The renovated hotel sits on 2.5 hectares of landscaped grounds and targets both leisure and corporate demand in one of Europe's busiest tourism corridors.