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Xavier Bindel

Vice Chairman Industries, EMEA Investment Banking

Finance

Only €5.5bn invested in the Paris CRE market since the start of the year

It comes as no surprise to anyone, but once again the ImmoStat results, revealed this morning, have only served to confirm the suffering state (...)

Listed

URW continues its deleveraging strategy and signs a lease in Trinity

As part of its Q3 2021* results presentation, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) announced that it is continuing its deleveraging strategy. At the same time, the property (...)

Finance

French CRE investment in decline... temporarily?

Knight Frank reports on the French corporate investment market at the end of the second quarter of 2021. While the end of the crisis (...)

Office

BNP Paribas continues disposal strategy with €170m selling of Paris 18th's 8 rue de Sofia

February 4, 2021 is proving to be a key date for BNP Paribas in its real estate disposal strategy. After selling 14,000 sqm of office (...)

Office

J.P. Morgan and Altarea take over 14,000 sqm of office space from BNP Paribas in Paris CBD

The BNP Paribas banking group is accelerating the sale of its Paris buildings. The latest example to date: J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives and Altarea (...)

Office

Brexit: Paris consolidates its second place behind Dublin - Knight Frank

Following the entry into effect of Brexit on 1 January 2021, Knight Frank France is taking stock of the movements of companies and their (...)

Office

After Dublin, Paris benefits the most from Brexit – Knight Frank

Since the June 2016 referendum, 530 business relocation or expansion projects have been registered in Europe, reports Knight Frank. Dublin is the city that (...)

Territories

Société du Grand Paris issues record €2.5bn green bond

Société du Grand Paris, the public body in charge of building the Grand Paris Express, issued its fourth green bond under its "Green Euro (...)

Listed

Berlin's Adler to pay €708m for 33% of ADO Properties

Berlin's listed Adler Real Estate is to pay €708m to acquire 33% of ADO Properties from its senior shareholder, the Israeli-listed ADO Group. ADO Properties (...)

Listed

Berlin's TLG raises €1bn financing at 1.875% to cover 10% Aroundtown stake

Berlin's TLG Immobilien has raised €1bn financing at 1.875% to cover a 9.99% stake in peer Aroundtown as the two move toward a merger (...)

Housing

Round Hill, after €1.4bn Dutch housing sale, to invest more in NL

US-based Round Hill Capital says it will continue to make investments in Dutch housing following the sale today of a portfolio worth €1.4bn to (...)

Office

France's ICAMAP, Canada's Ivanhoé target €1.6bn low-carbon Paris office

French investment manager ICAMAP and Canada's Ivanhoé Cambridge are launching a joint venture called ICAWOOD to develop low-carbon office in Greater Paris, targeting investments of €1.6bn. The firms said (...)

Finance

French Primonial said put up for sale by London's Bridgepoint

French investment manager Primonial, which manages around €15bn in real estate, is reported to be up for sale by its owner, the London-based private (...)

Finance

J.P. Morgan closes 4th European opportunistic fund with $5.3bn capacity

Investment bank J.P. Morgan has closed a new European opportunistic property fund at $1.3bn in commitments, investment capacity of $5.3bn, targeting office, retail, industrial and (...)

Office

"La Défense is THE premier business district of Paris"

Business Immo: What makes La Défense different from other French business districts? Marie-Célie Guillaume: La Défense is THE premier business district of Paris. It is (...)

Office

One year before Brexit, Paris La Défense gears up for rising demand

One year before the UK's scheduled exit from the European Union, Paris office quarter La Défense is gearing up with rising lettings, infrastructure upgrades (...)

Hospitality

Icamap's £50m easyHotel capital raise aims to fund expansion - Poitrinal

Icamap, the investment fund started by former Unibail CEO Guillaume Poitrinal, has invested £50m in UK super-budget easyHotel group in a capital raise that took its stake to 38.7%, (...)

Office

Election of Macron brings foreign investors back to Paris – Expo panel

Expo Real 4 Oct. 2017 – The election of President Emmanuel Macron is ushering in a sea change in foreign perceptions of France, and external investment is (...)