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A brand new year means new headlines to look out for in the IREI NewsCloud and IREN. To check out the January weekly wrap-up issues of IREN, click here, and to see this month’s first issue, click here. To become an IREN subscriber, click here.

Headlines you may have missed include:

Hotel REIT buys Southern California hotel for record price
Two Manhattan office properties sell for more than $1b
CBRE Global Investment Partners fund exceeds $1.2b
Harrison Street fund exceeds $750m goal
Lone Star launches $5b real estate fund
Louisiana Teachers commits $70m to noncore real estate
CMBS delinquency rate falls 168 basis points in 2014
Two European portfolios sell for $1.2b

Remember to check out Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s newest publication, Real Assets Adviser, which also offers a daily newsfeed. To sign up, click here.

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Andrea Waitrovich is editor of IREN and web content editor of Institutional Real Estate, Inc.

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