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Last updated: May 13, 2026, 5:30 AM ET

Real Estate Investment Strategies Shift to Alternatives

Major investment managers are aggressively pursuing alternative real estate strategies across Europe and Asia, signaling a pivot away from traditional core assets. BNP Paribas Asset Management Alternatives has amassed €3bn for a new European credit strategy focused on lending against transitional real estate, aiming for high single-digit internal rates of return. In alignment with this diversification trend, AEW Europe’s new CEO Vanessa Roux-Collet plans to expand the firm’s product range beyond core and core-plus offerings in the region. This strategic repositioning is also evident in Asia, where Japan's Advantage, a buyout specialist, is expanding into real estate with a focus on corporate-owned properties to help double its assets under management.

Digital Infrastructure & Hospitality Acquisitions

The pursuit of specialized digital assets continues, even as public and private markets diverge. Digital Realty is reportedly charting a significant private fundraising push, targeting up to $3bn for a cornerstone raise in an upcoming US open-end fund series, illustrating the REIT’s pivot toward private capital deployment. Meanwhile, elsewhere in hospitality, Pro-invest made an opportunistic move in Australia, acquiring the A$100m Coogee Sands Hotel & Apartments near Sydney, which is intended to serve as a starting point for repositioning hospitality assets into other forms of temporary accommodation. Separately, Newcore Capital achieved a first close of approximately £100m of equity commitments for its sixth social infrastructure fund focused exclusively on the UK market.

Market Acceleration and Regulatory Influence

Large institutional players anticipate a swift deployment cycle in established markets, driven partly by potential regulatory changes. Brookfield Asset Management expects to execute $20bn worth of transactions in real estate over the next two months, reflecting what the firm’s president views as a "very rapid acceleration" in the asset class’s recovery. Concurrently, policy shifts in Australia could unlock further capital for affordable housing, as reforms under consideration propose introducing an ‘emerging covered asset class’ to encourage greater investment in that sector following performance test overhaul. Shifting focus to healthcare investment drivers, analysts suggest that the oncology sector commands roughly 40% of national drug spend, closely followed by retina treatments, indicating where distributors are concentrating their ecosystem build-out following drug expenditure trends.