Daewoo E&C has finalised an investment in a $291 million housing project in Palisades Park, New Jersey, marking its return to the United States property development sector after two decades. Partnering with New York developer Tamares, the firm will build a 540-unit apartment complex. The company also plans to back a luxury mixed-use project in Prosper, Texas, later this year.
European investor Urban Partners has launched a new regeneration fund with strategic partners Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Viessmann Generations Group. Backed by anchor investors PensionDanmark and SamPension, the vehicle has secured an initial unlevered investment capacity of up to €650 million. The fund targets brownfield sites across growth cities in the Nordics, Germany and the UK to build mixed-use communities and address critical housing shortages.
The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia has signed a non-binding agreement with Talaat Moustafa Group Saudi for Real Estate Development. The partnership intends to explore mixed-use property opportunities across the asset portfolio of the wealth fund. This initiative directly supports the newly launched urban development and livability ecosystem within the strategic 2026-2030 roadmap of the sovereign fund.
US real estate firm GID has launched its national development platform, GID Residential Partners, into the Boston housing market. The expansion into the supply-constrained region will be led by industry veteran Chris Spendley, who joins the firm as Managing Director. Spendley brings over two decades of multifamily experience to the role, having previously overseen billions in transactions and thousands of residential units.
The Inter-American Development Bank Group and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean have launched a joint data platform to address housing shortages and urban development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Named Housing and Urban Intelligence, the platform is the region’s first integrated data hub of its kind, launched with support from the OECD. The platform provides over 3,000 indicators, 18 country profiles, and information from more than 500 official sources.
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