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The industrial market is realigning and entering a more complex phase—one that requires a deeper understanding of global interdependence, evolving trade policies, and shifting supply chains, according to Principal.

CBRE’s 2025 Japan Logistics Occupier Survey, conducted in March 2025, revealed that restrictions on truck drivers’ working hours are top of mind for logistics occupiers across Japan.

In a dramatic swing that signals evolving corporate real estate priorities, JLL’s 2025 Occupancy Planning Benchmark Report reveals portfolio optimization has surpassed cost-cutting as the primary focus for corporate real estate leaders, and office utilization has increased as organizations tighten policies on hybrid work. Improving space data accuracy and reporting, increasing employee presence on site, and growing the use of utilization data for space planning round out the top five priorities. 

Australian asset managers’ total real estate assets under management (AUM) stood at A$330 billion ($214 billion) in 2024, up 18.1 percent from the A$279 billion ($tk billion) recorded in 2023, according to the latest Fund Manager Survey by industry associations ANREV, INREV and NCREIF.

The Asia Pacific region is on track to overtake the United States as the largest colocation data center market by both capacity and rental revenue before 2030, according to analysis from Cushman & Wakefield.

Global markets are waking up to a new reality as the first half of 2025 is punctuated by tariff shocks, inflation persistence, rising yields on longer-term bonds, and growth downgrades, according to Hines.

The latest Market Insights report from INREV reveals a drop in sentiment towards the European real estate market for a second consecutive quarter, with the Consensus Indicator for June declining to 52.2, down from 56.7. This comes despite the first quarter 2025 Quarterly Fund Index posting a positive total return of 1.04 percent and capital growth increasing to 0.56 percent, its strongest showing since second quarter 2022. 

Global prime warehousing costs (rent, taxes and service charges) increased by 1.1 percent in the six months to March 2025, taking the increase in overall warehousing costs to occupiers to 3.6 percent in a 12-month period, says Savills.

Barings on behalf of a core European real estate strategy, has acquired a portfolio of four multi-let urban logistics properties across the southeast of England for £145.2 million ($184.4 million) from Blackstone.

Healthcare real estate transactions in the United Kingdom reached £3.2 billion ($3.71 billion) in 2024, the highest figure seen since 2020, according to property adviser Knight Frank.

Geopolitical uncertainty, the rise of automation and the rapid expansion of data centers are reshaping traditional site strategies, according to Robert Hess, practice leader and senior principal for Newmark’s global consulting and strategy solutions group, in an interview with IREI. Hess outlines how companies today are navigating complex challenges — including labor shortages, energy constraints, rising costs and shifting global trade dynamics — when evaluating locations for new operations or expansion.

Cushman & Wakefield has released its Midpoint 2025 Outlook, providing a comprehensive snapshot of the U.S. economy and commercial real estate markets.

Despite widespread hopes for a rebound, 2024 marked another year of recalibration across the private markets. Rather than a resurgence in deal activity, general partners (GPs) faced prolonged exit timelines, delayed distributions, and heightened competition for capital, according to a report by Juniper Square.

The U.S. life sciences real estate sector is experiencing some turbulence in 2025, as business uncertainty contributed to a sharp drop-off in demand in the first quarter, but a notable uptick in pharma companies announcing U.S. investments could lead to a boom in domestic biomanufacturing.

Cushman & Wakefield’s ‘Midpoint 2025: From Caution to Strategic Conviction’ report reveals a European commercial real estate market that is stabilizing and showing signs of renewed investor confidence, despite ongoing macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties.

Asia Pacific continues to assert its dominance on the global investment stage and play a key role in overall capital movements, according to Colliers’ Global Capital Flows June 2025.

Leo Addimando, co-founder and managing partner of Alterra IOS, shared with IREI how a recent project opens new pathways for innovation in U.S. industrial real estate—particularly by aligning sustainability goals with the rising demand driven by infrastructure investment.

Institutional investors are recognizing the European living sector’s potential as a cornerstone of diversified portfolios, offering stable and attractive long-term returns, according to CapitaLand Investment in its report Unlocking Resilient Returns: Navigating Europe’s Dynamic Living Sector.

Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) has announced a major enhancement to its IRE.IQ platform, a market intelligence database serving global real estate investment professionals including investors, managers, lenders, operators, consultants and investment managers.