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Nick Axford

Head of Research, Global

Richard Barkham

Global Chief Economist - Head of Global Research

Graham Barnes

Executive Director, Capital Advisors

Neil Blake

Global Head, Forecasting and Analytics

Chris Brett

Head of Capital Markets EMEA

Nick Axford

Head of Research, Global

Richard Barkham

Global Chief Economist - Head of Global Research

Graham Barnes

Executive Director, Capital Advisors

Neil Blake

Global Head, Forecasting and Analytics

Chris Brett

Head of Capital Markets EMEA

Jack Cox

Head of EMEA Industrial & Logistics Capital Markets

Philip Cropper

Chairman, UK, Capital Advisors

Jeremy Eddy

Head of Living Capital Markets

Ian Entwisle

Chief Executive Officer, Global Workplace Solutions, APAC/EMEA

Chris Gardener

Executive Director - Head of European Retail Investment

Mike Gedye

Executive Director - Head of Technology Sector Vertical

Chris Gow

Executive Director - Head of Debt and Structured Finance

Richard Holberton

Head of Occupier Research, EMEA

Jonathan Hull

Managing Director, EMEA, Investment Properties

Andrew Jay

Executive Director, Data Centres

Jonathan Priestley

Senior Director, UK Industrial and Logistics team

Kevin Restivo

Director Data Centre Research

Andrew Saunderson

Head of UK Residential Capital Markets

Finance

"Many asset classes offer attractive prospects for investors"

Business Immo Global : How are the inflationist pressure and interest rate environment evolution affecting the American commercial real estate markets? Richard Barkham : Even (...)

Career

CBRE hires European Head of Living Capital Markets

Global real estate advisor CBRE has hired Jeremy Eddy as Head of Living Capital Markets for Europe. He will report into Chris Brett, Head of Capital (...)

Office

Amundi puts a mega office portfolio up for sale

Amundi has commissioned JLL to sell a portfolio of European offices worth €2.5bn, according to a report from ReactNews that CoStar News* was able (...)

Logistics

Prologis signs European logistics portfolio for over €1.5bn

Prologis, on behalf of the Prologis European Logistics Fund (PELF), has acquired a European logistics portfolio from Crossbay for €1.585bn. This diversified portfolio, comprising (...)

Logistics

Dream Industrial REIT acquires a Pan-European logistics portfolio worth €882m

Dream Industrial REIT, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Dream Industrial Europe Advisors Cooperative UA, announced the acquisition of shares of a corporation that owns (...)

Logistics

J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives buys pan-European logistics portfolio for €540m

A fund managed by J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives, the alternative investment arm of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, has acquired a €540m portfolio of logistics (...)

Finance

"Global investment volumes were down 35 % in 2020, but we are starting to see a revival"

BiTV Interview welcomes Richard Barkham, Global Chief Economist and Head of Research at CBRE. With him, we discuss how the global commercial real estate investment market (...)

Logistics

Blackstone pays €270m for 28 urban logistics assets in France and Germany

Funds managed by global private investment firm Castlelake and its joint venture partner Melcombe, have sold the Proximity Portfolio, a 28-asset prime last mile/urban (...)

Office

Post-Covid offices won’t be affected as much as anticipated by remote working — UBS AM

The implementation of home working policies across every major European office market due to the outbreak of Covid-19 has led to discussions regarding the future of (...)

Finance

European real estate investment volumes drop 39 % in Q2 2020, at €43bn - CBRE

Total real estate investment in Europe reached €43bn in Q2 2020, a 39% decrease from the same period last year, according to real estate (...)

Finance

With capital overflowing, where can CRE investors find returns?

Annual global private real estate fundraising exceeded $150bn for the first time in 2019, according to a recent study by London-based research firm Preqin, (...)

Office

UK's Valesco pays € 1.2bn for Brussels Finance Tower in off-market transaction

London-based European real estate investment and asset manager The Valesco Group has acquired Finance Tower, a 185,754 sqm skyscraper located in Brussels’ CBD, for (...)

Retail

Outlets: is the enduring retail asset coming out of its niche?

“In the current wider retail malaise context, outlet centres investment activity has been relatively strong over the course of the past five years, and (...)

Listed

Austrian UBM, S Immo sell Vienna's Quartier Belvedere project parts for €233m

Two Austrian firms, developer UBM and listed group S Immo, have sold the last elements of Vienna's Quartier Belvedere Central project for €233m well before completion. The (...)

Logistics

Savills IM logistics fund grows to €605m with €49m German cross-docks buy

Savills Investment Management's €48.7m acquisition of a portfolio of three cross-docks in Germany for its European Logistics Fund 2 takes fund volume to €605m. Located (...)

Office

Starwood said front runner at €200m for Madrid airport office complex

US-based Starwood group is reported to be the front runner with a bid of over €200m for the 79,000 sqm Las Mercedes office complex (...)

Housing

TPG, Round Hill form German student housing JV, purchase 13 assets

Two large US wealth managers, TPG and Round Hill, have formed a joint venture to invest in student housing in Germany, and announced its first acquisition, (...)

Office

Tristan adds office buildings in Helsinki, development sites for its CCP 5 LL fund

Tristan Capital Partners has acquired a group of office buildings in Helsinki, including three parking sites with unconditional development rights, for its core-plus perpetual (...)

Office

GEG German Estate acquires Frankfurt's Palazzo Fiorentino for €50m

GEG German Estate Group, in the process of being merged into Frankfurt's listed DIC Asset, has purchased the 11,000 sqm Palazzo Fiorentino in Frankfurt (...)

Office

Invesco wins Frankfurt's Welle office complex, paying seller AXA IMRA €620m

In one of the most eagerly awaited and biggest deals in Germany, US manager Invesco has won the bidding for Frankfurt's Welle office complex, (...)

Finance

Eastdil splits from Wells Fargo in MBO backed by Singapore's Temasek, Guggenheim

New York-headquartered Eastdil Secured, adviser on some of the largest global real estate deals, is splitting from lender Wells Fargo in an MBO backed by Singapore's Temasek and (...)

Retail

Investors don’t count retail out just yet

“There is usually a time lag of 1-2 years between what happens in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe”, according to Darren Yates, (...)

Finance

European investors are going to beds

"Demographic change, rising house prices and supply shortages have established residential alternatives as desirable investments with positive rental growth prospects," says Savills in its (...)

Finance

Investors still favour offices above all else

With €29.7bn spent on offices last year, a 24% jump from 2017, Germany established itself as the biggest office market in Europe, a surge (...)

Logistics

Gramercy Europe adds Czech, Slovakian warehouses for €50m

In deals together worth around €50m, logistics specialist Gramercy Europe has made two warehouse purchases, one in the Czech Republic and the other in (...)

Logistics

German logistics supply shortage causing ongoing yield compression - CBRE

The 2018 transaction volume on the German warehouse and logistics investment market came in at around €6.8bn in the final quarter of the year, (...)

Office

Co-working here to stay but unlikely to dominate office lettings - EPRA

Co-working space offered by firms such as WeWork should be included in office investor strategies and while it is unlikely to dominate letting demand it serves (...)

Office

AIM's Globalworth pays Europa Capital €101m for refurbished Warsaw tower

Globalworth, an AIM-listed central European property investor backed by South African REIT Growthpoint, has paid London-based Europa Capital €101m for Warsaw's landmark Spektrum Tower. The purchase, by its (...)

Retail

Spain's S.Africa-controlled Castellana eyes €1bn retail AUM, listing

Spain's Castellana Properties, controlled by South African REIT Vukile, aims to expand its portfolio over the next three years to €1bn from €400m, and to do (...)

Logistics

UK Tritax EuroBox IPO targets £300m for Euro logistics; eyes €600m AUM

British logistics REIT Tritax Big Box has launched a £300m initial public offering for a separate firm, Tritax EuroBox, to target continental European logistics. It is (...)

Housing

Blackstone adds 2,500 Berlin residential units from local managers

US investment management Blackstone has added 2,500 residential units in central Berlin to its portfolio of over 100,000 units spanning Germany, Spain, Sweden and (...)

Listed

Cushman & Wakefield said being prepared for IPO by US owner TPG

Global commercial real estate advisor Cushman & Wakefield is being prepared by its owner, the Texas-based private equity group TPG, for an initial public (...)

Logistics

Logistics is main European investor target amid higher overall allocations - CBRE

Live from MIPIM (Cannes) - Logistics is now the most sought-after property class for European investors, overtaking office for the first time, according to CBRE’s annual EMEA (...)

Office

Allianz RE in €190m forward buy of Munich Atlas office renovation

Allianz Real Estate, a unit of the giant Munich insurer, has made a €190m forward purchase of the 26,000 sqm Atlas office building renovation (...)

Logistics

UK, Germany power European 2017 RE investment to peak; logistics, hotels lead - CBRE

A strong UK market and a near record in Germany last year boosted commercial real estate investment in all of Europe by 9.3% to (...)

Office

Berlin’s Sony Center: N. American weight of capital outweighs even Korean

If anyone still doubts if European commercial property yields will fall further it’s certainly not Oxford Properties and New York-based Madison who last month signed to (...)