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White papersExploring the Opportunity in Alternative Real Estate
Alternative real estate sectors are gaining traction. In this Q&A, Anar Chudgar explores what’s driving demand and how to underwrite these opportunities.
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White papersNew Logistics Demand Drivers offset Impact from Iran Conflict
Regardless of short-term cost pressures from the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, the long-term prime European logistics recovery is forecasted to withstand its effects and stay on track. Potential upside might come as occupiers switch their focus from just-in-time to just-in-case approach by adding more space to facilitate higher inventories.
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White papersHeadline ODCE returns mask a selection-driven cycle
Performance across core real estate funds, as reported by ODCE indices, improved in 1Q26, but the underlying story remains one of divergence rather than uniform recovery. Europe outperformed the U.S., though for different reasons: U.S. returns are still income-led, while Europe is increasingly benefiting from recovering capital appreciation.
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White papersUK real estate in 2026: an income‑led real asset opportunity
UK commercial property has undergone a period of repricing and adjustment but is once again demonstrating the qualities long-term investors value most: resilient income, relatively low volatility and tangible scope for value creation through active management.
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White papers2026 Europe - Student Housing, Sector Update
On the Continent, we have continued to observe strong performance of student housing assets. However, the latest academic year marked a material slowdown in operational performance for assets in the UK. Pricing in the sector has reflected changing fundamentals, as yields on the continent have remained stable or shown early signs of compression on a small number of markets, including Spain, Italy and Denmark.
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White papers2026 Europe - Specialty Residential, Sector Update
Residential performance in 2025 remained robust in 2026. The sector continues to be characterised by strong operational performance, with occupancy remaining high and positive rental growth across key target markets.
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White papers2026 Europe - Senior Housing, Sector Update
The European senior housing sector continues to benefit from extremely strong levels of demand. Occupancy remains at record levels (93%) and income growth remains in the high single digits in our high conviction markets of the UK, Spain, Germany and France. These dynamics are attracting a record level inflow of capital to the sector, with existing investors remaining expansionary and new investors entering the market.
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White papers2026 Europe - Self Storage, Sector Update
The self storage sector in the Europe continues to see solid fundamentals, with strong rental growth and stable occupancy despite a marked increase in supply reflecting demand for the sector. Self storage’s relative outperformance to other commercial real estate sectors continues to drive an increase in institutional interest in the sector.
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White papers2026 Europe - Life Sciences, Sector Update
The life sciences industry in the UK has transformed in the last few years. The growth of the sector has been supported by the requirements for medical advancements, improving therapies and technologies, and strong capital investment. With these factors driving the sector forward, real estate requirements have also evolved alongside the growth of occupiers in this space.
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Asset Manager NewsAPPF Commercial and Charter Hall reach agreement on Sydney CBD assets
Australian Prime Property Fund Commercial (APPF Commercial), a fund managed by Lendlease, has entered into a process with Charter Hall on a series of transactions across the Spring and O’Connell Street precinct in Sydney’s CBD. The transactions reflect continued depth of capital and strong demand for well-located office assets and will be conducted in two phases
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White papersLending standards hold steady, with early easing at large banks
The Federal Reserve’s newly released Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey for April reinforces our view that the CRE lending environment is stable and, in fact, selectively easing, even amid a more volatile macro backdrop. While the headline result points to largely unchanged lending standards, the underlying detail tells a more constructive story.
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White papersReal estate fundamentals remain intact amid geopolitical noise
Geopolitical risk has intensified, but markets are signaling volatility rather than systemic stress, which matters for commercial real estate. So far, the impact has flowed through commodity prices, not a repricing of long-term rates or broader financial conditions, helping preserve valuation support for income-oriented assets.
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White papersUK Real Estate: Talking Points April 2026
Welcome to Columbia Threadneedle Investments’ concise quarterly snapshot of current real estate market trends, using transparent market data to summarise key implications for asset allocation and performance prospects.
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White papersU.S. Real Estate: Dispersion Shaped by Shocks
Macro shocks reinforce the importance of asset-level and micro-location relevance in a market defined by dispersion.
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White papers2026 Mid-Year European Outlook: European Real Estate Recovery Can Withstand Pressure From Middle East Conflict
The conflict in the Middle East retains centre stage. Regardless of its short-term pressures, the long term prime European real estate recovery is forecasted to withstand its effects and stay on track with solid current income yields and projected rental growth offering resilience over our 5-year horizon.
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White papersAddressing and Demystifying Risk in Senior Construction Lending
Although real estate construction lending is sometimes perceived as one of the riskier segments within the credit markets, we believe well structured and properly monitored senior construction loans tend to exhibit strong risk mitigating features.
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White papersNew real estate cycle: Why opportunities are opening up again for institutional investors
Interview with Wolfgang Kessler and Michael Kammerzell from Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – Switzerland, Edition 1H26
The year 2025 was marked by a high degree of economic policy uncertainty, as the US import tariffs placed a noticeable burden on export‑oriented economies such as Switzerland. With the start of 2026, geopolitical risks have come to the forefront. The conflict in the Middle East has driven commodity markets into extreme volatility and has heightened concerns about stagflation. Europe is feeling these effects very acutely, which is dampening the expected economic recovery.
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Asset Manager NewsAchmea Real Estate delivers outperformance across the board for clients
Achmea Real Estate delivered returns in 2025 across all its real estate funds and client portfolios (separate accounts) that exceeded the MSCI benchmarks*. All client portfolios recorded clear outperformance.
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White papersISA Briefing: Dissecting macro memes
Since the end of February, all eyes have been on events in the Persian Gulf. (LaSalle’s latest views on the potential economic and real estate impacts are conveyed in our ISA Quick Take, published March 25th, “The Iran war, four weeks on”.)
