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  • 03/2021 - ... : Business Immo Group - Rédacteur en chef Print
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Finance

Catella to become majority shareholder in Aquila AM

“France is one of Europe's most attractive and largest real estate markets, where we already have a strong presence, primarily in corporate finance. Having (...)

Finance

"Why institutional investors are increasing allocations to private real estate debt"

BiTV Interview welcomes Simon Wallace, Global Head of Real Estate Research and Strategy at DWS Group. The firm's recent report, “Europe Real Estate Debt Strategic (...)

Finance

“For Blackstone, the current dislocation creates opportunities”

Business Immo Global: Can we conclude from the successful fundraising of the Blackstone Real Estate Partners X fund that institutional investors still have a (...)

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 (...)

Housing

Coliving, promising or pipe dream?

Coliving is a very young asset class, having appeared in Europe less than a decade ago. But after a few years of running in, (...)

Hospitality

Driven by high room prices, French RevPAR jumps 29% in April (Extendam)

While occupancy rates were good but not exceptional in April, the French hotel industry can congratulate itself on having seen its RevPAR jump by (...)

Housing

"Co-living and student housing are among the most attractive and strategic asset classes for the coming decade"

BIG: What is Brookfield AM’s positioning on the coliving sector in particular? Vincent Kerboull: The residential sector is one of our main focuses globally, but (...)

Finance

"The stabilisation of the global real estate market may be drifting towards the end of the year"

BiTV Interview welcomes Damian Harrington, Head of Research, Global Capital Markets and EMEA, at Colliers. When we last spoke with him on BiTV, last December, Colliers (...)

Office

“Deloitte University EMEA is not primarily a real estate project, but an entrepreneurial project”

The story Bertrand Boisselier: Deloitte University EMEA is not primarily a real estate project, but an entrepreneurial project. We started to imagine it about ten (...)

Green

"ESG regulations are often not tailored to real estate"

BiTV Interview welcomes Lisette Van Doorn, CEO Europe at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). With her, we discuss the main conclusions of the study “Mapping (...)

Finance

Why “simple beta strategies" will no longer be effective for real estate investors

BiTV Interview welcomes Ben Sanderson, Managing Director Real Estate and Head of Active Equity at Aviva Investors, who recently cosigned, alongside Head of Real Assets (...)

Housing

Ares Management reiterates its enthusiasm for French coliving

The French coliving market has definitely caught the attention of Ares Management. After an initial partnership with Colonies last year, the American investor has (...)

Office

AEW buys Lyon's Welink office building for €100m

JLL announced this morning that the Lyon investment market is at a low ebb, with only €213m committed in the first quarter (-58%). However, (...)

Office

GA Smart Building and Crédit Agricole Immobilier to build Stellantis' Green Campus in Poissy

According to BI sources, a group of developers and investors made up of GA Smart Building and Crédit Agricole Immobilier Corporate et Promotion has (...)

Hospitality

Despite the social unrest, the French hotel industry continues to be dynamic in March (Extendam)

Despite a tense social climate, the French hotel industry ignored the disruptions and continued its good momentum in March, reveals the monthly barometer produced (...)

Finance

Citron PropTech raises €20m

Citron, a PropTech company specialising in the energy transition of buildings, has raised €20m. The fund-raising round was led by Eiffel Investment Group, via (...)

Retail

"Ingka Centres has wanted to enter Paris for a long time"

BiTV Interview receives Karoline Nader-Gräff, Global Investment and Divestment Manager at Ingka Centres. A part of the Ingka Group, which also includes IKEA Retail and (...)

Housing

Kley becomes The Boost Society and launches new coliving brand

As it launches Hife, the new brand associated with its coliving residences, the Kley Group is changing its name to The Boost Society. Through (...)

Retail

With three Paris 13th acquisitions, Ingka Centres' looking to develop its first French "urban Meeting Place"

Behind Hammerson's disposal programme (see our article) lie the unabashed ambitions of Ingka Centres, which has acquired Italie Deux and its extension Italik, as (...)

Finance

"MNK Capital will structure M&A real estate club-deals for institutional investors"

BiTV Interview receives Mansour Khalifé, Founder and Chairman at MNK Group. The Paris-based investment manager recently launched MNK Capital, a subsidiary specialising in real estate M&A. (...)

Office

Corum acquires two office buildings in Belgium and the Netherlands for €73m

Judging that "there is currently a window, the duration of which we do not know" for the acquisition of real estate assets, Corum intends (...)

Office

"The acquisition of the Castiglione complex allows Kering to create a tailor-made product for Gucci”

Business Immo: Choiseul REIM has signed one of the key transactions of the last year with the sale to Kering of the Parisian complex (...)

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

French PropTech Fiveoffices raises €3.2m with an eye on international expansion

Five months after its launch, the office sharing platform Fiveoffices has completed its first round of financing of €3.2m. This round of financing, carried (...)

Finance

La Française REM lifts the veil on its new market values

Over the past year, La Française REM has completed €2.6bn in transactions: €900m in disposals, "double what we usually do," notes Philippe Depoux; and (...)

Hospitality

Between corporate tourism and winter vacations, the French hotel industry maintained its good shape (Extendam)

The labor unrest of recent weeks has not affected the good form displayed by the French hotel industry in recent months, reports the monthly (...)

Finance

"Each crisis reminds us a little of the fundamentals from which we should not have drifted"

Business Immo: Faced with strong macroeconomic and geopolitical tensions, real estate investors must now deal with a new financial context. How do you interpret (...)

Hospitality

Checkmyguest joins forces with Swiss Life Banque Privée on a €50m vehicle

Checkmyguest has signed a partnership with Swiss Life Banque Privée to buy hotels or office buildings to turn them into apartments for short and medium-term (...)

Finance

"Why a third of commercial real estate loans in European CMBS face significant refinancing risk"

BiTV Interview receives Florent Albert​, Senior Director Structured Finance at Scope Ratings. In a recently published note, the ratings agency reported that “20% of the loans in (...)

Finance

TwentyTwo Real Estate reorganises its various activities

In an effort to improve clarity between its various entities and in order to "better understand market developments and strengthen its commitment to ESG", (...)

Office

Life Sciences: Kadans accelerates its pace in France

After completing its first French acquisition in Villejuif at the end of 2022, Kadans Sciences Partners announced in mid-February its second French project, this (...)

Finance

“Institutional investors are still looking towards real estate investments”

Business Immo : What are your main take-aways from the year 2022 for Generali Real Estate? Aldo Mazzocco : Generali Real Estate has closed another (...)

Finance

"Doorfeed is opening an entirely new asset class for institutional investors"

BiTV Interview receives James Kirimy, CEO and Founder of Doorfeed. The London-based PropTech recently expanded into France through a new fund launched alongside Laillet Bordier - (...)

Finance

"Why Russia’s invasion seemed to signal a new era for commercial real estate"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Tom Leahy, Head of EMEA Real Assets Research at MSCI. One year ago today, Russia started its invasion of Ukraine, which had wide ranging (...)

Listed

After a successful 2022, Covivio is thinking about the future

With €968m in consolidated rental income (+12.7 % on a like-for-like basis), Covivio reports a 5 % increase in its recurring net income (adjusted (...)

Finance

"Core plus strategies are a good answer to this uncertain market environment"

BiTV Interview welcomes Jocelyn de Verdelon, Head of Transactions Europe at PGIM Real Estate. Six months after launch, the real estate investment arm of PGIM, Prudential Financial's asset (...)

Finance

“We are expecting numerous opportunities to arise in the first half of 2023”

Business Immo: Aviva Investors is rebuilding its presence in France following the sale of Aviva France in the fall of 2021. Where are you (...)

Housing

"New constraints have appeared on the horizon, shaking up our certainties"

Business Immo Global: Last fall, Nexity presented its Imagine 2026 strategic plan, through which your group intends to become a "global real estate operator". (...)

Hospitality

The French hotel industry is starting the year on a positive note (Extendam)

The passage to a new year will not have seized the good form displayed last fall by the French hotel industry, reports the monthly (...)

Career

France's real estate industry must strengthen its skills in the face of the crisis

The uncertain macroeconomic and geopolitical context, which points to the possibility of a recession at a time when the climate emergency and changing practices (...)

Finance

"The pressure on real estate professionals to transact will be high in 2023"

BiTV Interview welcomes Alexandre Grellier, CEO and Co-Founder of Drooms. The firm published earlier this week its Real Estate Outlooks 2023 study, the survey of which (...)

Housing

Uxco Group gives a new dimension to France's student housing and coliving sector

Majority owned by a private real estate fund of Brookfield Asset Management, Uxco Group today focuses its activity on three businesses hotels, with the (...)

Listed

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has returned to pre-Covid performance levels in 2022

"Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has delivered excellent financial results in 2022, confirming the end of the Covid effect on our activities," Jean-Marie Tritant said this morning. After (...)

Finance

Avison Young France strengthens its Capital Markets department

Established in France since last year, Avison Young France is continuing its development in the country by strengthening its Capital Markets department with the (...)

Finance

“M&G will continue buying real estate assets, but will be a little more disciplined doing so”

Business Immo: M&G Real Estate had a record year in France in 2022, with €475m invested. Why were you so active on the French (...)

Finance

"Why European investors could decrease real estate allocations in 2023"

BiTV Interview receives Iryna Pylypchuk, Director of Research and Market Information at INREV. With her, we discuss the recently published 2023 Investment Intentions Survey published (...)

Retail

With Act 4 Good, Klépierre raises its CSR targets

Through a first plan entitled "Act for Good" and built around three pillars (environmental, territorial and human), the real estate company has managed since (...)

Office

Divergence intensifies between France’s office markets (IEIF)

Demand for office space is falling sharply, investment volumes are down, and net absorption is low... France’s office sector has seen better days, according (...)

Logistics

Boreal IM and Cadillac Fairview JV makes debut acquisition and opens office in Paris

In its first French acquisition, a joint venture between Boreal IM and Cadillac Fairview has acquired a fully let 17 ha logistics site north (...)

Logistics

M&G Real Estate acquires a warehouse near Lille for €50m

M&G Real Estate has finalised, at the end of 2022, the off-plan acquisition of a new 50,148 sqm class A warehouse located in the Lauwin-Planque/Brebières (...)

Listed

"The listed real estate investor sentiment is strategically positive but tactically cautious"

BiTV Interview receives Dominique Moerenhout, CEO at the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA). As mentioned at the recent EPRA Insight Paris 2023 conference, the (...)

Housing

"Residential assets are less linked to the cyclicality of the economic environment"

BiTV Interview receives Dr Marcus Cieleback, Chief Urban Economist at Patrizia In Patrizia’s latest European Living Cities Index, Paris was crowned as the most attractive (...)

Green

"My ambition is to increase the impact that Longevity France can have on the real estate sector"

Business Immo: Where is Longevity Partners today in its development in France? Bernard d'Arche: Longevity Partners France is in its third year of operation with (...)

Hospitality

The French hotel industry has demonstrated its strong resilience in 2022 (Extendam)

« We were all expecting a year of transition in 2022, but that was not the case at all, says Vianney Lautrous, head of (...)

Logistics

In first French acquisition, Penta Infra buys a data center campus near Paris

Penta Infra, a European data center services provider and subsidiary of Dutch group Photon Capital, is making its entry into France. According to our (...)

Finance

"We expect a greater polarisation within real estate markets between the best and the worst assets"

BiTV Interview receives Mike Bessell, Managing Director - European Investment Strategist, at Invesco Real Estate. In a forward-looking note published last week by Invesco, he argued (...)

Finance

Allianz Real Estate to be rebranded

Following the merger of Pimco and Allianz Real Estate, in October 2020, the group's full range of real estate capabilities will come under the (...)

Listed

"We believe 2023 will be a difficult year for listed real estate"

BiTV Interview welcomes Jaap Kuin, Managing Director and Head of Research at Kempen. With him, we look back on the performance of the listed real (...)

Career

Thomas Charvet replaces Hideki Kurata as Head of Greystar France

After 15 years with BNP Paribas Real Estate, Thomas Charvet has joined Greystar France as Managing Director. He replaces Hideki Kurata, who headed the (...)

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 (...)

Finance

"Property pricing across markets suggests we are adjusting to a new normal"

BiTV Interview welcomes Damian Harrington, Head of Global Capital Markets and EMEA Research at Colliers. In its latest Global Investor Outlook, which is is based on (...)

Hospitality

Despite seasonality, French hospitality industry remains in good shape in November (Extendam)

While a seasonality effect traditionally makes November a quieter month for French hoteliers, they have seen the upward operational trend of recent months continue, (...)

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 (...)

Listed

With macroeconomic turbulence ahead, Covivio keeps its head down

"If we had been told a year ago that there would be war in Europe, that inflation would be at 10% in the euro (...)

Office

“The evolution of coworking has become a revolution”

Business Immo Global : You founded the Regus Group, now IWG, in 1989. What trends did you identify in the office market at the (...)

Finance

French brokers facing the crisis: how will they manage their workforce?

During November, CoStar News* reported that CBRE, JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, Newmark, Colliers, and Avison Young were all anticipating cost-cutting and cost-reduction measures to (...)

Green

"CBRE wants to be the point of reference for ESG issues applied to real estate"

Business Immo: Why did you integrate Green Soluce within the CBRE France structure? Fabrice Allouche: We have long been convinced that sustainable development is an (...)

Office

"Digital Technologies play an important part in solving ESG and organisational challenges"

BiTV Interview welcomes Sebastian Kohts, Country Director for France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the DACH region at Wiredscore. Having recently been appointed as Country Director for (...)

Retail

Could retail real estate be better equipped to weather the storm?

The last few years have not been kind to retail real estate, a martingale for investors not so long ago. Challenged by the rise (...)

Finance

“We’re expecting significant repricing in 2023”

Business Immo: M&G Real Estate released today a report entitled “Global Real Estate Outlook: Steering through volatility in the search for value”, in which (...)

Retail

Two portfolios for sale, €1.3 bn expected from entities of the Mulliez family association ?

The time seems to be ripe for real estate outsourcing for the Mulliez Family Association (AFM). According to our information, two of the brands (...)

Finance

"Rising debt costs are reducing cash-on-cash returns for European real estate investors"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Mike Barnes, Associate Director European Research at Savills. With him, we discuss the recently published Savills EME Investor Sentiment Survey, which revealed (...)

Logistics

TwentyTwo Real Estate acquires an 80,000 sqm logistics platform in Bourges

Pan-European investor TwentyTwo Real Estate has acquired the GreenBerry logistics platform in Bourges on behalf of its latest value-added fund, TwentyTwo Real Estate Fund (...)

Finance

Despite its owner's insolvency risks, its "business as usual at Stam Europe"

"Business as usual at Stam Europe!" assures Edward Bates, CEO of Stam Europe, when asked by Business Immo about the impact that the financial difficulties (...)

Logistics

"Why the Panhard group is changing its name to Telamon"

Business Immo : The Panhard group announces today its change of name and officially becomes Telamon. Why this new identity ? Christophe Bouthors : The (...)

Hospitality

French hospitality continues to outperform in October (Extendam)

September had been a satisfactory month for French hoteliers, with RevPAR up 12% compared to 2019, but October will have been even better, according (...)

Housing

"Residential occupier fundamentals are clearly favourable in France"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Simon Wallace, Global Head of Real Estate Research and Strategy at DWS Group. Over the last few months, DWS has acquired two build-to-rent (...)

Office

Storm warnings at IEIF's annual conference

Unsurprisingly, this year's annual conference of French property association IEIF (Institut de l'épargne immobilière et foncière) was held in a context of macroeconomic tensions, (...)

Finance

"The European PropTech ecosystem is the most diverse and richest in the world"

Business Immo Global: How has the European PropTech ecosystem evolved in recent years? Dirk Paelinck: PropTech encompasses all the technological and business model innovations throughout (...)

Finance

"Why real estate transaction volumes are down 37 % on the quarter in Europe"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Tom Leahy, Head of EMEA Real Assets Research at MSCI. The volume of European commercial real estate investment transactions fell 37 % (...)

Finance

"Sofidy is in a period of cautious underinvestment, even though it has been collecting funds"

Business Immo: In the face of soaring inflation and rising interest rates, many investors and observers are expecting a repricing movement on the European (...)

Finance

European CRE professionals brace for difficult prospects in 2023 (ULI/PwC)

For their “Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2023 report, the 20th edition of the study, 1,038 property professionals – including investors, fund managers, developers, property companies, (...)

Office

What distinguishes the winning projects of the ULI Europe Awards for Excellence 2022

BiTV Interviews welcomes Sophie Henley-Price, Principal Partner at Studios Architecture and Chair of the ULI Europe Awards and Global awards for Excellence Jury. The Urban Land Institute (...)

Hospitality

"There is a potential of at least 1 500 new rooms in Spain for Accor's luxury brands"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Xavier Grange, Senior Vice President Development Southern Europe at Accor. The Paris-based global hospitality group inaugurated this week in Barcelona the first hotel of (...)

Logistics

"Trammell Crow Company is well positioned to enter the French market"

Business Immo: Trammell Crow Company announced last week the appointment of its director for France and Belgium. How is your foray into the European (...)

Finance

"Market corrections are going to happen more and more"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Veronica Gallo-Alvarez, Head of Core Europe Funds at abrdn. Because of inflation and rising interest rates, there is a lot of uncertainty on (...)

Territories

"There is stong growth to come in Val d'Europe"

In a special edition of BiTV Interview, recorded from Expo Real, we receive Boris Solbach, Chief Financial Officer at Disneyland Paris, and Corrine Le Cam, (...)

Finance

Amidst market uncertainty, Expo Real awaits repricing

"This 2022 edition feels a little bit like 2019, as we have achieved similar figures with 1 880 exhibitors and 18 000 visitors expected," (...)

Finance

After a 2021 recovery, French real estate professionals are apprehensive about the incoming financing storm (IEIF/IFPImm)

After seeing their production drop from €26bn to €20bn between 2019 and 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, real estate financiers produced €30bn in (...)

Green

"An ESG strategy should not be a box-checking exercise"

Business Immo: What is the investment strategy guiding Patron Capital and how does it translate into your portfolio?  Keith Breslauer: Patron Capital is a private (...)

Finance

"The key for us lies in sectors and tenants that can afford long-term inflation-linked rents"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Lee McDowell, Fund Manager - UK and European Long Income at M&G Real Estate. The M&G European Secured Property Income Fund was (...)

Green

"We must all have a pragmatic vision of the low-carbon city"

Business Immo: What are Altarea's ambitions in terms of reducing its carbon footprint? Nathalie Bardin: We are all aware that the building and urban sector (...)

Finance

More than €3bn of transactions pulled from the French investment market over the summer

"Between July and August, we recorded between €5bn and €6bn in unsuccessful marketings, either due to a lack of supply or because the offers (...)

Green

"Cushman & Wakefield strives to really make an ESG impact"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Haley Friedlich, Director, Global ESG, Corporate Relations and Policy at Cushman & Wakefield. With her, we discuss the group's Environmental, Social and Governance (...)

Territories

"We need to think differently about the city"

Business Immo: You were elected mayor of Nantes in 2014 and re-elected to this position in 2020. How has your vision of the city (...)

Finance

"In the current environment, real estate has attractive attributes for investors"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Fergus Hicks, Real Estate Market Strategist at UBS Asset Management. In the opening of UBS Asset Management’s mid-year Panorama outlook report, titled  “Inflation (...)

Finance

Prepare for recession, says Nouriel Roubini at EPRA

The economist, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and the chairman of the Roubini Macro Associates economic consultancy firm, is (...)

Career

"There is a growing commitment from the CRE industry to address diversity, equity and inclusion"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Lonneke Löwik, CEO at INREV With her, we discuss INREV and ULI Europe's recently published short paper focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). (...)

Listed

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield indicators return to green in H1 2022

While Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield said at the beginning of the year that it was "still in an extremely difficult Covid-19 context", it seems that the Paris-based (...)

Finance

Between repricing and holding pattern, investors are navigating the rising interest rate environment by sight

"Central banks are now trying to use the accelerator and the brake to try to curb the evolution of interest rates, knowing that their (...)

Hospitality

After €550m Paris Westin buy, Henderson Park eyes more across Europe

Following its €550m acquisition of the Westin Paris-Vendome last year, its second luxury Paris hotel buy, private equity firm Henderson Park is looking for more across (...)