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Last updated: April 10, 2026, 11:30 AM ET

Real Estate & Private Equity Transactions

Ares Management is moving to acquire retail-focused Whitestone in a $1.7 billion deal, marking the third privatization of a retail REIT by a major private equity real estate manager over the last year, signaling continued consolidation in the sector. Simultaneously, institutional capital deployment continues in logistics, as La Caisse and Prologis formed a €1 billion pan-European joint venture, which will consolidate the Canadian pension manager’s regional warehousing assets into a single operational platform. This focus on deployment comes as some investors adjust exposure; for instance, ASRS’s private markets head signaled optimism regarding lowering the Arizona pension fund’s overall real estate allocation target, preferring to recycle capital into new segregated managed account opportunities.

Infrastructure Secondaries

Buyers in the infrastructure secondaries market are aggressively seeking out scarce opportunities to gain exposure to unique assets that remain inaccessible in the primary market, according to discussions at the recent Infrastructure Investor Global Summit 2026. This demand underscores a broader trend where institutional capital is looking beyond traditional primary fund commitments to secure hard-to-access assets, particularly as large infrastructure funds struggle to deploy capital quickly into fully priced primary offerings.