All REIM articles – Page 8
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White papersChicago Multifamily: Fundamentals Outpacing Perceptions
Nationally, commercial real estate total returns declined by an average of 3.4% annually from the 2022 peak through 1Q 2025 (Exhibit 1), primarily due to the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes. While these macro headwinds have affected all markets, our attention is now shifting to local supply-and-demand fundamentals, which will increasingly determine performance. In this context, Chicago’s multifamily sector stands out: After years of underperformance, it now appears poised to close — and potentially reverse — its valuation gap relative to peers.
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White papersGlobal Real Estate Outlook Mid-Year 2025: Opportunity amidst uncertainty
We are living through a period of unprecedented change, where accepted norms are challenged and new opportunities (and risks) continue to arise. A key question for investors is how to distinguish between cyclical signals, structural trends and short-term noise. Our mid-year Global Real Estate Outlook 2025, featuring top sector and market picks, is designed to support this balance, helping investors to walk the fine line between caution and opportunity.
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White papersInvesting in the nature and climate transition: Creating value beyond traditional sustainable timberland management
There’s a growing consensus that the inexorable nature and climate transition taking place across the globe will have profound implications for the world economy. From where we sit as a global asset manager, this ongoing, multifaceted transition also implies a vast and rich spectrum of possibilities—many of them still emerging— for discerning asset allocators.
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White papersScaling for success: creating value in mid-market infrastructure
In the mid-market infrastructure market, scaling a business into a fully functional institutional platform and capturing the associated scale premium are powerful drivers of value at exit. Among value-add approaches, buy-and-build can unlock significant growth. Over the past decade, InfraVia has consistently scaled platforms through a balanced combination of organic growth (CAPEX) and acquisition-led expansion (M&A).
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White papersTimber’s tipping point: why global demand is set to outpace supply by 2050 according to Gresham House analysis
The ongoing increase in Greenhouse Gas emissions from human activities since the industrial revolution is a major contributor to climate change and rising global temperatures; average global temperatures have risen by 1.2°C according to The National Centre for Atmospheric Science, 2025. There is a strong global consensus that urgent and extensive action is needed, both to limit future warming and to adapt to a changing world to reduce the impact of climate change.
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White papersThe evolution of Real Assets and the key to overcoming growing complexity
Real assets fund managers are pursuing ambitious growth targets the coming years to stay ahead of competitors in today’s market, however, they are also facing increasing complexity in their operations and reporting requirements to support such growth ambitions.
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White papersThe case for growth markets infrastructure
We firmly believe that the global investment landscape is being shaped by three mega-trends: decarbonisation, digitalisation and deglobalisation. These trends are generating what we think are strong opportunities to invest in critical, essential service sustainable infrastructure.
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White papersThe WHO’s WHO of Swiss real estate 2025
UBS managers continue to be recognized as leading figures in Swiss real estate
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White papersOn the rise? Exploring potential returns within the UK commercial real estate market
Annual capital growth in the UK commercial real estate (CRE) market turned positive for the first time since 3Q22 by the end of last year. In 1Q25, capital growth accelerated, hitting 1.4% on an annual basis. That may sound small, but income return boosted the annual total return to 6.3% on a non-levered basis during the same period.
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Asset Manager Newsa.s.r. and PFZW reposition Amvest’s real estate activities
PFZW and a.s.r. have today agreed to divide the real estate activities of Amvest. As from 1 January 2026, PFZW will acquire a.s.r.’s shares in the management and development organisation, becoming the sole shareholder of Amvest Vastgoed B.V. The current development portfolio of Amvest will be split between PFZW and a.s.r. Management of a.s.r.’s separate account, comprising 7,500 residential units, will be transferred to a.s.r. real estate. No changes will be made to the funds managed by Amvest. By dividing the activities, both shareholders enhance their effectiveness and will be able to pursue their own strategic direction going forward. The transaction is subject to approval by the AFM and ACM.
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White papersTargeted investment: Untangling the building and the grid
Integrating the right metrics into the investment process can help to effectively promote sustainability and boost returns.
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White papersEuropean Real Estate: So, We Survived Til ’25?
Global geopolitical uncertainty has postponed the hoped-for European real estate recovery this year. However, while macro risk is high, property market risk is low—and the pause in recovery arguably extends the opportunity to invest near the start of a new property cycle.
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White papersKeep calm and carry on? The ISA Outlook 2025, six months in
In a recent conversation, Dominic Silman and Brian Klinksiek revisited LaSalle’s ISA Outlook themes amid 2025’s rapidly developing and unpredictable geopolitical and macroeconomic climate.
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White papersQ&A with Global CEO Mark Gabbay
Real estate: The world’s simplest, most complicated asset class
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VideoGlobal REITs Update – Q1 2025
In our video update for the 1st quarter of the 2025 calendar year, Portfolio Manager, Marco Colantonio covers key developments in the Global REIT sector and market insights
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White papersUnexpect the Expected – The World According to Trump
The dramatic changes to U.S. tariffs settings challenges the financial market’s Trump pro-growth market narrative which heralded the start of 2025. Instead, investors now face conditions which look likely to invoke a global economic slowdown, if not recession, with significant pressure on corporate earnings from higher costs together with unsettled consumer demand and production patterns.
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White papersAPAC Research Perspective - Q2 2025
Q2 2025 was a turbulent period for financial markets, driven by tariff threats, protracted negotiations, geopolitical tensions, and heightened bond volatility. In equity markets, US exceptionalism was challenged, prompting investors to reallocate in search for more attractive valuations, eventually resulting in Asia Pacific benefiting.
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White papersEssential Housing Research Perspective - Q2 2025
The 90+ days stretching from April 2nd Liberation Day through the July 4th signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) represents one of the most consequential periods of federal government policy change in many years. When taken together, these policy changes are, at best, mixed and in some ways negative for both future essential housing development and the financial wellbeing of essential housing renters.
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White papersSeniors Housing Research Perspective
The seniors housing sector showed continued strength through the second quarter, with healthy gains in both revenue and net operating income (NOI). Net absorption reached near-record highs, driven by move-ins outpacing move-outs, 11% above last year’s second-quarter pace and more than any quarter before the pandemic according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC).
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White papersU.S. Economic & Property Market Perspective - Q2 2025
Bookended by “Liberation Day” on April 2nd and the President signing into law the “One Big Beautiful Bill” on July 4th, the past 90+ day period is arguably the most consequential period of federal government policy change in the U.S. since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in the latter part of 2008 and early 2009.
