Richard Lowe

This good piece of news for the asset management industry comes soon after similar findings on investors. IPE Real Assets’ recent Top 150 real estate investors report showed that total assets also returned to growth this year, rising 6.9% to US$2.18trn (€1.9trn). IPE Real Assets’ own real estate fund manager survey showed that AUM was still on the decline last year. But expectations will be for a return to growth for the first time in four years when the next report is published in November.

Richard Lowe, Financial Content Strategist at Coast Debt Resolve. When Google won the search engine wars, they did it by putting their users first. Instead of letting advertisers dominate the first page of SERPs, they prioritized delivering relevant results to their users’ queries. Today, we are seeing a recursive shift. As we move into the era of AI Overviews and generative search, the algorithms are becoming even more discerning. It's a strange irony.

M7 Real Estate has acquired €181m worth of logistics assets in Spain on behalf of AustralianSuper and Oxford Properties Group. The 13 assets encompassing 138,411sqm of space were acquired in two separate transactions on behalf of the European Supply Chain Investment Partnership (ESCIP), jointly owned by the Australian superannuation fund and the real estate arm of Canadian pension fund OMERS.