Key Takeaways
- • Avison Young has joined Dealpath Connect, distributing its investment sales and debt listings digitally to thousands of institutional investors through what Dealpath calls the industry's largest private exchange for institutional real estate listings.
- • Clients have added $27B of deals sourced from Dealpath Connect to their pipelines since the platform launched in November 2024, according to Dealpath.
- • Buy-side teams engage with nearly 60% of listings delivered through Dealpath Connect, which Dealpath says is meaningfully higher than traditional broker email distribution.
- • Avison Young joins JLL, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield and a growing roster of regional and specialty brokerages already on the platform.
- • Dealpath positions Connect as a foundation for an AI-powered data network for real assets, building on a platform it says has powered more than $10 trillion in transactions.
Summary
Dealpath, the AI-powered operating system for real estate investing, announced on May 6, 2026 that Avison Young, a global commercial real estate advisor recognized by Fast Company as one of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies for Urban Development, has joined Dealpath Connect. Under the arrangement, Avison Young's investment sales and debt listings will be distributed digitally to institutional investors on the private exchange.
Dealpath says Connect has changed how buy-side investors source deals from sell-side brokerages since its launch in November 2024. The company reports that clients have added $27 billion of deals from Connect to their pipelines. Avison Young joins JLL, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield and a growing list of regional and specialty brokerage teams on the platform. Dealpath states that buy-side teams engage with nearly 60% of listings delivered through Connect, and that each opportunity is enriched by Dealpath AI with market, property and tenant insights to help investment teams screen deals more quickly.
Mike Sroka, CEO and co-founder of Dealpath, said the addition marks another significant step in the expansion of what he described as the industry's first private exchange connecting institutional buyers and sell-side firms. He said commercial real estate has been held back by fragmented, manual deal distribution, and that Connect offers sellers broader reach and buyers higher-quality deal flow.
Dealpath describes itself as having powered more than $10 trillion in transactions and counts Blackstone, Nuveen, LaSalle, CBRE IM, MetLife, Newmark, Oxford Properties, New York Life, UBS, Manulife, DWS and Principal among its partner firms. The company says Connect is part of its evolution into an AI-powered data network for real assets. The figures above are company-reported and were not independently verified in the source.
Dealpath says Connect has changed how buy-side investors source deals from sell-side brokerages since its launch in November 2024. The company reports that clients have added $27 billion of deals from Connect to their pipelines. Avison Young joins JLL, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield and a growing list of regional and specialty brokerage teams on the platform. Dealpath states that buy-side teams engage with nearly 60% of listings delivered through Connect, and that each opportunity is enriched by Dealpath AI with market, property and tenant insights to help investment teams screen deals more quickly.
Mike Sroka, CEO and co-founder of Dealpath, said the addition marks another significant step in the expansion of what he described as the industry's first private exchange connecting institutional buyers and sell-side firms. He said commercial real estate has been held back by fragmented, manual deal distribution, and that Connect offers sellers broader reach and buyers higher-quality deal flow.
Dealpath describes itself as having powered more than $10 trillion in transactions and counts Blackstone, Nuveen, LaSalle, CBRE IM, MetLife, Newmark, Oxford Properties, New York Life, UBS, Manulife, DWS and Principal among its partner firms. The company says Connect is part of its evolution into an AI-powered data network for real assets. The figures above are company-reported and were not independently verified in the source.
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