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Logistics 12/04/2023

Two deals to revive the French logistics property investment market

The file has just arrived on the desks of several investors, and it has the potential to interest some. CBRE IM and Virtuo are (...)

Office 10/12/2019

Foncia Property Managment changes name to Esset

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 (...)

Finance 05/07/2019

German 1H property investment reaches €32bn, should hit €70bn for full year - JLL

Despite negative reports, German real estate investment continued to perform well in the first half-year at €32.2bn, and should reach some €70bn for the (...)

Logistics 11/06/2019

Blackstone said planning new firm for €6bn European logistics

Two years after Blackstone sold logistics firm Logicor for €12bn, the US wealth manager is reportedly planning to pool €6bn smaller or last-mile European properties into (...)

Housing 03/04/2019

Germany's Union, ZBI close largest 16,000 unit resi purchase, indicated at €1.4bn

Germany's Union Investment and ZBI group have closed the purchase of 16,000 domestic housing units held by the firm BGP, indirectly indicating a price (...)

Housing 18/03/2019

Deutsche Wohnen confirms resi buy from Sweden's Akelius, for €685m

Deutsche Wohnen, Germany's second largest listed housing firm, has confirmed that it is acquiring nearly 3,000 domestic assets from Sweden's Akelius, paying €685m. The German (...)

Housing 14/02/2019

Deutsche Wohnen said eyeing €750m German resi buy from Swedish Akelius

Deutsche Wohnen, Germany's second largest listed housing company, is reported to be preparing to purchase, for some €750m, some 2,800 domestic residential assets from (...)

Housing 14/02/2019

Union Investment's 16,000 German housing buy from China's CIC said worth €2bn

Germany's Union Investment is nearing a deal to buy about 16,000 domestic housing units from Chinese investor CIC, taking over the company BGP at (...)

Logistics 15/01/2019

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, (...)

Logistics 12/09/2018

Blackstone to acquire 49-unit logistics portfolio from Starwood, M7

US investment management giant Blackstone has agreed to acquire a logistics portfolio comprising 49 assets held in the MStar Europe joint venture between US (...)

Logistics 07/09/2018

China reported to order divestment of Logicor stakes

China is reported to have ordered some investors in Blackstone's former European industrial property firm Logicor, saying the stakes violate regulations on overseas holdings. The report, (...)

Logistics 28/06/2018

Blackstone confirms purchase of five German logistics assets

US investment management giant Blackstone has confirmed that it was the buyer of a five-asset German logistics portfolio reported by the seller Prologis, totalling 157,645 sqm. A spokesman (...)

Logistics 14/03/2018

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 05/02/2018

European 2017 CRE investment rises 4% to €293bn; 2018 looks good - RCA

Europe’s commercial real estate in 2017 experienced the third most active year on record for investment, rising 4 % from 2016 to €293.4bn, according (...)

Office 17/01/2018

Finland's €10bn RE investment record in 2017 unlikely to be repeated - KTI

Real estate investment in Finland soared in 2017 to €10.2bn, beating by 38% the prior record set in 2016, according to research group KTI. (...)

Logistics 17/01/2018

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 (...)

Logistics 05/01/2018

Eight months after Logicor sale, Blackstone eyes 24 Goodman logistic assets

Just eight months after giant US wealth manager Blackstone agreed to sell its Logicor logistics unit for around €12bn to China's CIC, it is back in the market (...)

Logistics 24/10/2017

European logistics dots that lead to China, Jack Ma mean yields are headed lower

It doesn’t take much to join the dots in logistics real estate. When Alibabafounder Jack Ma sees it as crucial to globalisation and aims (...)