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London's Tristan Capital Partners, together with Germany's Investa Real Estate, has paid €147m for a portfolio of eight German office buildings from Frankfurt's Cording Real (...)
Paris-based manager AXA IM-RA has completed the acquisition of a pan-European logistics portfolio of some 275,000 sqm from counterpart AEW on behalf of one (...)
Swedish listed property firm Sagax has invested €45.3m in convertible bonds in the private French family real estate company BMG which invests in provincial industrial and (...)
Germany's Union Investment and Italy's Generali Real Estate are paying €475m in a 50/50 joint venture to acquire the Puerto Venecia shopping resort in Zaragoza, Spain. The (...)
Sales of existing housing stock in the Greater Paris region slipped by 3%yy in the three months to October to 43,560, but remain at (...)
France's Covéa Immobilier has finalised the lease of the entire 38 avenue Kléber in Paris' 16th quarter to HSBC France, which will set up its head (...)
Spain's Bankinter and Portugal-headquartered Sonae Sierra are to launch one of Portugal's first REIT/SIGIs, mirroring their cooperation with a similar vehicle in Spain in recent years. "Extending (...)
German listed investment manager Patrizia has paid €190m to acquire the iconic Louise Tower in Brussels as part of a 65,000 sqm portfolio of (...)
France's Palladio Foundation, together with La Fabrique de la Cité and Institut Montaigne, are launching the University of the City of Tomorrow forum, with (...)
Warsaw's office market is likely to hit a record €3.6bn of investment this year as take-up booms, reaching levels that outstrip even developed European (...)
The healthcare unit of French REIT/SIIC Icade has completed acquisitions in its home market, and in Germany and Italy worth a total €315m to (...)
Romania-headquartered Globalworth has added a further asset in Poland, the Podium Park office complex in Kraków for which it will pay a maximum €134m, (...)
French investment manager Primonial, one of the nation's biggest real estate investors, has reorganised its capital to accelerate internationalisation and the expansion of its product range. Long-time shareholders Bridgepoint (...)
London-based Tristan Capital has sold two convenience shopping centres in Amsterdam to domestic institution Altera Vastgoed, taking total Dutch disposals this year to just over (...)
Stockholm private real estate investment manager Genesta has sold a prime office property in central Copenhagen for DKK1.42bn (€190m) to Swedish listed Klövern. The asset, located at Kalvebod Brygge (...)
German listed Corestate Capital has agreed a €500m financing and coinvestment partnership in Polish Micro-Living with Bain Capital aimed at converting properties into student housing. Bain Capital (...)
Further German house price increases are likely in 2020 since all elements boosting values remain in place, according to home price index provider and (...)
German Union Investment has extended its portfolio in Finland, adding an 8,300 sqm retail and office property in Helsinki city centre, its 4th asset in (...)
Adviser Cushman & Wakefield's is to acquire Réponse, one of France's leading design & build firms, aiming to combine integrated design and building services in (...)
Days after launch of a giant three-way merger in German listed property, another has started: Aroundtown has won clearance to tender for counterpart TLG (...)
The German PropTech group Architrave has appointed English national Ashley Smallwood as new Chief Operating Officer, and member of the Executive Board. Before joining Architrave, Smallwood was (...)
France's Réalités Group has entered exclusive negotiations with the shareholder and founding partner of Cap'Études, an operator of student residences, with the intention to (...)
Germany's Union Investment has applied for clearance to acquire Logistrial Real Estate, an €800m logistics fund currently owned and managed by Hamburg's Garbe group. A note in (...)
Paris-based AXA IMRA has appointed Laurent Lavergne as Global Head of Asset Management & Development, naming Timothé Rauly as sole Head of Fund Management. The changes result largely from the (...)
Investment manager N A S Invest has acquired its first development project in Germany, 99 West in Frankfurt from BNP Paribas Real Estate Property (...)
Residential prices in Spain should rise moderately during 2020, with those in major city centres gaining no more than 2% and increases elsewhere stronger, (...)
European healthcare real estate investment was second strongest in alternative property last year, up 40%yy to €7.7bn, and its fundamentals make it especially attractive, (...)
The expansion of the China-backed New Silk Road Initiative means European port locations offer interesting investment opportunities in logistics real estate, says a new (...)
US wealth management giant BlackRock has made its first investment in France from its Europe Property Fund V raised in summer - the 36,000 (...)
French private equity group LBO France has acquired the 16,800 sqm five-storey Grande Angle corner office block in Paris Saint-Denis from UK manager Tristan Capital (...)
In'li, the French intermediate housing subsidiary of the Action Logement group, is launching a development firm to meet its ambition to produce 80,000 housing (...)
French manager BNP Paribas REIM, acting on behalf of its Eurozone Logistics Fund, has closed two additional grade A logistics transactions in France and (...)
Just a week after selling a Berlin office package in a JV, US manager PGIM has added to holdings there, acquiring the office tower project Stream (...)
Jens Engwall's latest Swedish company Nyfosa, founded just over a year ago, is adding assets fast, signing on a SEK4.17bn (€400m) portfolio of 79 properties, part financed (...)
The Swedish Catella group has made six acquisitions for its main housing fund, Catella Wohnen Europa, for some €120m, taking its assets under management (...)
France's major commercial property trade fair Simi attracted welcomed nearly 26,000 visitors last week in Paris despite disruptions linked to strike activity. Organisers said that the (...)
Paris-based global hotel operating giant Accor has completed the sale of the Polish group Orbis to its AccorInvest associate for €1.06bn, retaining only the (...)
French REIT/SIIC Foncière Atland has closed a €41.6m capital increase, aiming to deploy proceeds to develop the business and finance several construction projects. The gross proceeds of (...)
The US-based Hilton hotel group has signed a franchise agreement with Dokhan Luxury Hotels to open its first Tapestry Collection hotel, the 46-room Le Belgrand Hôtel Paris Champs-Élysées. Located (...)
After more than 20 years in the management team at Union Investment Real Estate, including the last 12 as chairman, Dr. Reinhard Kutscher is (...)
The complex merger transaction between ADO Properties and Adler Real Estate has brought deep changes in the boards of ADO, with Covivio executive Thierry Beaudemoulin named new CEO. Five (...)
The merger of Germany's ADO Properties and Adler Real Estate, including control of Consus Real Estate, will be transformational, with a compelling growth profile, the companies (...)
Paris and London-based AEW has won a new €150m separate account mandate from German public pension fund RVK for a core strategy focused on French office (...)
Commerz Real is adding a student residence to its portfolio from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, with plans to redevelop the site (...)
Germany is to get a new listed housing giant after Berlin's ADO Properties launched an agreed €708m bid for Adler Real Estate, also including Consus, to (...)
The UK-based Cain International, just a week after purchasing a 26-asset Spanish office portfolio in a JV with Germany's Freo Group, has added two (...)
France's High Financial Stability Committee has called for banks to limit their residential home mortgage issuance to a maximum maturity of 25 Years. Including the (...)
In one of the largest European logistics property deals of the year, Singapore sovereign fund GIC is purchasing the Maximus portfolio from US manager Apollo for (...)
Singapore's Keppel DC REIT is acquiring a purpose-built data centre in Kelsterbach near Frankfurt for €81.8m, its second facility in Germany and eighth in Europe. Vendor is local developer Maena KG, (...)
The 10-year-long positive development in German real estate investment will take it to €77bn in volume in 2019, replacing UK for the first time (...)
Live from Simi (Paris) - Amundi Immobilier and Crédit Agricole Centre-Est have acquired a mixed portfolio of 38 real estate assets located on Lyon's Presqu'île for (...)
France's Korian nursing homes group, present in Italy since 2007, is acquiring a 42% stake in that nation's Over to develop a residential out-of-home offering for (...)
Live from Simi (Paris) - After three years of stability in Greater Paris office production, this rose 13%yy to a record 2,275,000 sqm in (...)
A new Korean name has become active in European real estate: Eugene Investment & Securities, which has acquired the FENIKS office building in Warsaw from Germany's (...)
German listed property group Demire has expanded its portfolio to about €1.5bn by adding two properties for €118m - the Roomers hotel in Frankfurt and a (...)
Live from Simi (Paris) - France's Groupama Immobilier has signed with UK-based Aviva Investors to sell the 5,500 sqm SoCo building in the 9th quarter of (...)
In one of the largest European PropTech transactions of 2019, US-based property data provider Real Capital Analytics has acquired Swedish real estate technology firm Datscha. The transaction combines Datscha’s technological (...)
Live from Simi (Paris) - French retail park specialist ImocomPartners is acquiring from Klépierre an 18,500 sqm retail park in Pontault-Combault for a total of €28m. Thanks to this (...)
Live from Simi (Paris) - French REIT/SIIC Foncière Atland and its subsidiaries have invested some €800m in 2019, a 60% increase in one year, the company (...)
Icawood, the investment fund created in 2019 by France's Icamap and Canada's Ivanhoe Cambridge, has made its first investment - in a 31,500 sqm low-carbon project (...)
Live from Simi (Paris) - BNP Paribas REIM has announced the acquisition of two standing assets in Paris: Square d’Orléans, located at 80 rue Taitbout, (...)
Live from Simi (Paris) - French real estate data provider iread, a sister company of Business Immo, has acquired the datasiic.com website, a tracking service (...)
Germany-based Allianz Real Estate has acquired two manage-to-core office developments in Saint-Ouen, Paris, with a total value of €415.6m on behalf of several group (...)
Innovative styles of hotels are growing in popularity in Europe, with customers expecting accommodation plus co-working and other services linked by digital platforms, says (...)
Giant US wealth manager Blackstone has sold four Spanish office assets to French private group Tikehau plus the Singapore-based IREIT Global for a reported €130.5m. The US (...)
Giant French REIT/SIIC Gecina is to spin off of its 6,000-unit residential portfolio worth €3bn to allow, at the appropriate moment, this subsidiary to (...)
German housing giant Vonovia is to make a last extension to 8 January of its takeover offer for Sweden's Hemblaafter the latest expired with 95.3% of shareholders (...)
Dubai-based Rasmala Investment Bank has disposed of two Amazon logistics assets in Dortmund, Germany for $155m, saying it generated a return of 30% over two (...)
Foncia Institutional Property Management, a unit of France's Foncia Group, has changed its name to Esset Property Management as it moves into new headquarters in the CB16 tower (...)
Deka Immobilien, part of Germany's savings bank group, has acquired the office and commercial building 23 Opéra in the Paris central business district. The seller (...)
Spanish property investment manager Azora has filed its private equity fund with regulators, which targets investing around €1.3bn in resort hotels in southern Europe. Called (...)
French real asset debt fund manager Acofi Gestion is preparing a sixth generation of real estate debt funds for next spring following issuance of €1.3bn in (...)
For the third consecutive year, the French city of Lyon is at the top of the barometer of the attractiveness and dynamism of French (...)
Parisian shopping centres have taken a 6% hit in attendance due to the national strikes that began on 5 December, according to the National (...)
After a delay of nearly 18 months, construction is due to start in January on Y-Towers, one of Amsterdam’s most spectacular projects, in which (...)
Investments in real estate are expected to remain attractive in 2020, according to the 17th edition of Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe, the (...)
Belgian REIT/RREC Cofinimmo has signed to sell the Souverain/Vorst 23/25 office building in Brussels, widely known as the AXA building, for €50m. The company gave no (...)
A record €9.3bn in Dutch rental homes were sold this year, up 7.5% against 2018, with interest from both domestic and international investors holding (...)
Belgium's AG Real Estate said the sale of a large package of logistics properties in France to Allianz Real Estate and AEW was done (...)
Allianz Real Estate has expanded its logistics footprint in France, adding a core portfolio from Belgium's AG Real Estate alongside AEW, and taking its (...)
A joint venture between a fund advised by Tristan Capital, and Allianz Real Estate, has sold the prestigious Warsaw Financial Center to CPI, a (...)
German listed investment manager Patrizia has acquired a vast 42-unit pan-European portfolio of 42 logistics assets from BentallGreenOak, paying some €1.2bn for the package. The assets will be placed in (...)
Germany's HIH Property Management has won the contract for the eight commercial properties just acquired by Commerz Real in Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig for (...)
Germany's Union Investment has sold the 38,000 sqm CityZen office complex in the sub-market of Bois-Colombes, north-west of Paris, trimming French holdings to a value of €2.8bn. The (...)
Ireland's Greenman Investments, which is German food-anchored retail-focused, has added a €112m portfolio of Kaufland anchored retail centres in the nation. The five assets are (...)
M&G on Wednesday halted trading in its £2.5bn London property fund after fears over Brexit and a retail downturn prompted investors to rush to withdraw (...)
France's iconic vacation group Club Med is to continue development of global mountain locations, adding three by end-2020 to the current 20, representing over (...)
The Swiss IWG group, encompassing its original flexible office arm Regus, is boosting its presence in the French city of Bordeaux, aiming to place all four (...)
Stiffened Berlin rental cap rules may hit home prices if mortgage banks are obliged to mark down values originally used in the issuance of (...)
Corestate Capital Holdings, listed in Luxembourg, has acquired the first Spanish property for its JOYN brand business apartments in Madrid, and aims to have 10 operational (...)
Germany and France are Europe's most attractive countries for healthcare property investment, says Luxembourg's AviaRent Invest, which runs a sector fund with France's Primonial. A report, (...)
Frankfurt listed DIC Asset has signed to lead a €500m club deal early next year to acquire the Stadthaus building in Cologne from Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments. The (...)
Cain International’s acquisition of a €225m Spanish office portfolio from Merlin Properties this week shows, quite separate from the deal itself, just how deep (...)
Spain's largest REIT/SOCIMI Merlin Properties has agreed with US-based Cain International and Germany's Freo to sell a 26-unit office portfolio for €225m. The deal represents a (...)
The Finamas group, controlled by the Masliah family and specialising in luxury residential, has sold a top floor penthouse on the Croisette in Cannes for €70,000 per sqm. The (...)
Commerz Real, part of Germany's Commerzbank, has taken a 20% stake in 10 Kaufhof department stores, intending to develop them and boost value together (...)
Gecina, one of France's largest REIT/SIICs, has signed a €185m agreement to sell the Park Azur building in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge (...)
In a new sign of confidence in the UK capital, Pontegadea, the investment vehicle of Spanish Zara founder Amancio Ortega is about to pay (...)
London-based Europa Capital is buying a portfolio of five logistics properties in the Netherlands from vendor Altera Vastgoed. It gave no financial details of the (...)
Latvia-based East Capital’s third real estate fund is to pay a special dividend as it starts to make regular income distributions since completing its (...)
Philippe Le Trung has joined iread as a senior advisor, responsible for developing Europe-wide expertise in the listed real estate sector. Philippe Le Trung, aged (...)
Three years after joining France's global beauty products group L'Oréal, Frédéric Ciuntu has structured his real estate division as a property firm to ensure professional management (...)
US co-working giant WeWork will on 12 December officially open its fifth Paris location at 198 avenue de France in the 13th quarter, especially utilising the larger floor (...)
Live from Simi (Paris) –Prime yields on Paris central business district office investments have reached a floor, say Carine Dassé, vice-president of MSCI Real (...)