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Contributors

Ludovic Charpentier

Managing Director - Head of Separate Accounts

Alex Griffiths

Executive Director, Investor Relations

Russell Jewell

Managing Director - Head of European Private Equity Funds

Tracy Jones

Head of Fund Operations and Debt Finance

Jane Petrie

Pan-European Retail Asset Management Director

Ludovic Charpentier

Managing Director - Head of Separate Accounts

Alex Griffiths

Executive Director, Investor Relations

Russell Jewell

Managing Director - Head of European Private Equity Funds

Tracy Jones

Head of Fund Operations and Debt Finance

Jane Petrie

Pan-European Retail Asset Management Director

Tim Sankey

Managing Director - Head of Separate Accounts

Jonathan Stevens

Head of Private Debt

Alexander Strassburger

Executive Director, Private Equity Investment

Hans Vrensen

Head of Research & Strategy

Frédérique Weber

Country Manager Netherlands

Rob Wilkinson

Chief Executive Officer

Matilda Williams

Director, Investor Relations

Finance

AEW acquires the private debt business of Natixis IM International

AEW Europe has just acquired the private debt business of Natixis Investment Managers International, which designs and structures investment solutions in the field of (...)

Finance

"For 2024, logistics and residential are our top markets for capital value recovery"

BiTV Interview welcomes Hans Vrensen, Head of Strategy & Research Europe at AEW. In a report titled “2024 European Outlook: Repricing Triggers Revival”, AEW projects that (...)

Finance

Finally the year of the new cycle?

"Central banks have a mandate to ensure price stability in the medium term, so they had no choice but to raise their interest rates", (...)

Career

Jonathan Stevens joins AEW to lead €3bn private debt platform

AEW Europe has appointed Jonathan Stevens to the newly created role of Head of Private Debt with the aim of developing its existing €3bn (...)

Finance

The debt funding gap looms over the property industry

The pre-pandemic years were a good time for the French property markets. "Property investment continues to be very dynamic in France, particularly with commercial (...)

Finance

"There is light at the end... but we are still in the tunnel"

BiTV welcomes Hans Vrensen, Managing Director and Head of Research & Strategy Europe at AEW. The global real estate investment manager recently published its 2023 (...)

Finance

Towards a rebound in real estate yields in Europe according to AEW

All real estate sectors are expected to benefit from stronger rental growth and yield compression starting in 2024 : this is the main finding (...)

Finance

The times they are changing... and the real estate cycle with them

A lot can change in a year. “At the end of 2021, real estate market activity was dynamic," recalls Christoph Knaack, CEO of Preqin, (...)

Finance

Will 2023 be a year of (re)definition for real estate markets?

"The specificity of the current period is that it distinguishes between two time scales: the first around a peak in inflation that may or (...)

Office

A landmark transaction for La Française REM in Manchester

According to CoStar*, La Française REM, acting on behalf of two collective real estate investment vehicles, has acquired 101 Barbirolli Square in Manchester from (...)

Finance

"Property yields are clearly expected to move up in 2023"

BiTV interview welcomes Hans Vrensen, Head of Research & Strategy at AEW Europe. With him, we discuss the firm's recent report, “2023 European Annual Outlook: Positioning (...)

Logistics

Allianz completes commitment to its UK develop-to-core logistics vehicle

Allianz Real Estate, acting on behalf of a number of Allianz Group companies, has finalised the initial commitment of €290m for its develop-to-core logistics (...)

Office

"Regional European markets will be more resilient when the working from home trends continues"

BiTV Interview welcomes Hans Vrensen, Head of Research & Strategy at AEW Europe. In a recent AEW Monthly Research Report, its is stated that the share of (...)

Finance

AEW launches Eurocore fund with €410m first close

AEW has announced the first close for Eurocore, the firm’s new open-ended pan-European core fund, at €410m of equity commitments. Investors that have committed (...)

Office

Tishman Speyer and PSP Investments buy Canal+'s headquarters near Paris for €230m

Tishman Speyer and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) recently acquired the Espace Lumière building in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, from a fund (...)

Finance

Allianz RE, already at record €67bn AUM, sets sights on €100bn by 2024

Allianz Real Estate, part of the Munich insurer, is targeting €100bn AUM by 2024, up from a record €67.1bn now, achieved by diversification across (...)

Office

French office investment, at €9.77bn in 1H, boosted by regional cities - BNPPRE

With take-up of 2.06m sqm and €9.77bn invested in 1H19, the French office market remains healthy, with regional cities rising fast in popularity, says (...)

Finance

Lille, the rising office market in the North

The Lille metropolitan area posted remarkable numbers during the first half of 2019, with take-up reaching 150 600 sqm, a 40% jump in transaction (...)

Office

Asian appetite for Paris-La Défense continues as GIC nears €550m closing on Tower PB6

Asian investor appetite for large office towers in Paris-La Défense continues unabated, with BI sources saying Singapore's GIC is near to closing on Tower PB6 for (...)

Retail

AEW’s Europe City Retail enters Portugal, taking fund value to €650m

Investment manager AEW is entering Portugal with its Europe City Retail fund, adding eight properties to take holdings to 23 assets in 13 cities worth (...)

Finance

No sector for old cowboys

A maturity is entering real estate. Recognition that it is not for old cowboys but a sector where success is tied directly to user (...)

Listed

French Covivio boosts 2018 EPRA earnings 6.4% to €381m, 4.5% per shr

Giant French REIT/SIIC Covivio boosted 2018 EPRA earnings 6.4%yy to €381m group share, and 4.5% to €5.08 per share, exceeding guidance of 3%. In its results release, the firm (...)

Finance

AEW expands German platform with acquisition of Hypoport Invest

Real assets manager AEW has acquired Hypoport Invest, a unit of Berlin's listed Hypoport group, adding a German regulated capability to its pan-European investment (...)

Finance

French La Francaise adds German Veritas to aid €70bn AUM target

Paris-based investment manager La Francaise has acquired German property asset manager Veritas, which runs over €7bn AUM in two firms based in Frankfurt and (...)

Office

Sweden's Castellum enters Finland office with €81m Helsinki buy

Aiming to become a "major player in a new attractive market," Sweden’s listed Castellum is the latest foreign investor to enter Finland, paying €81m (...)

Office

Germany's Corpus Sireo, part of Swiss Life, is latest to enter Finland, at €28m

Germany's Corpus Sireo Real Estate, part of Swiss Life Asset Managers, has become the latest major foreign fund to enter Finland, paying €28m for a commercial (...)

Retail

AEW is latest to re-enter Helsinki, paying €109m for Stockmann asset

London and Paris-based AEW has become the latest large institution to invest in Helsinki, paying €108.5m for a retail-led asset in the CBD from store group (...)

Housing

French residential market offers opportunities in Paris and beyond

French institutions have a low exposure to their residential sector in comparison to German and Dutch investors in their domestic markets. This offers the (...)