Global real estate research and insights from LaSalle Investment Management.

LaSalle Investment Management outlines the key factors for institutional investors to consider when allocating to real estate debt (RED), framing it as a potential portfolio shelter during market downturns. The piece covers hedging characteristics, portfolio positioning, and timing considerations, with references to both European and US real estate debt opportunities.

LaSalle Investment Management's Craig Oram and peers discuss how rising competition, tighter spreads, and elevated refinancing volumes are reshaping the US real estate credit market in 2026. The roundtable highlights the importance of underwriting discipline and identifies multifamily, self-storage, industrial outdoor storage, and select office as key sectors for alternative lenders seeking differentiated returns.

LaSalle Investment Management examines U.S. affordable housing as a core-plus institutional investment, highlighting that affordable apartments have maintained vacancy rates 340 bps below market-rate peers since 2000 and delivered yield premiums averaging 25 bps above conventional apartments since 2015. The report quantifies a $510.9 billion investible universe across LIHTC and Project-Based Section 8 properties, identifies an $93.6 billion pipeline of stabilizing assets through 2033, and outlines market-selection and operational strategies for institutional allocators.

In a keynote interview for the PERE Japan Report, LaSalle's Asia Pacific CIO Steve Hyung Kim explains how Japan's transition to a reflationary environment and gradual interest rate normalization is shifting real estate return drivers away from macro tailwinds. Investment performance is increasingly defined by execution, local expertise, and market access, with a greater focus on income growth.