SmartStop Self Storage REIT Inc., a self-managed real estate investment trust, is sponsoring the plane for Flight for Hope, a round-the-world journey by Callum Wallace to raise awareness and funds for the nonprofit Home Suite Hope and other charities. An advisor at real estate firm Engel & Völkers Oakville, Wallace is the fourth Canadian to…

Blackstone’s $68 billion flagship property fund is selling assets and preparing to spend billions on data centers. The Financial Times reports that the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, plans to pump $8bn into building new data centers through its asset QTS Data Centers, as it predicts a surge in artificial intelligence workloads...

Blackstone has sold an office campus in Costa Mesa for $91.5 million — about 10 percent less than what it assembled it for between 2013 and 2015. MGR Real Estate, run by Michael Rademaker, bought the 553,000-square-foot complex at 3070 and 3100 Bristol Street, according to Orange County property records. The sale came to about $165…

Nearly $12 billon of loans in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) became newly delinquent, pushing the late payment rate up by 34 basis points from June to 3.93%, a report by credit rating agency KBRA said on Wednesday...

Private equity funds worldwide had a difficult time on the fundraising trail in the second quarter, raising a combined $106.7 billion, down from $164.4 billion in the prior quarter and also down from $165.3 billion in the year-earlier quarter, according to a just-released Preqin report....

Due to work-from-home and hybrid work options and the appeal of more affordable lifestyles, many people have left big cities behind and are calling less costly, less congested smaller markets home. In such places, the desire for a work-play balance becomes more of a reality than just part of a wish list...

JLL Capital Markets announced today that it arranged the $74.7 million sale of an infill industrial, build-to-suit transload facility totalling 136,240 square feet in Savannah, Georgia...

Apartment developers are finding ways to pay for new construction projects–without using loans from traditional banks. For years, multifamily developers have relied on large, short-term loans from banks to finance the construction of new apartment buildings. But rising interest rates and a string of banks failures—most prominently Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic…

Warren Thomas, a managing partner at ExchangeRight, explained that NLP 59 is designed to focus on tenants and industries that have been historically resistant to economic downturns