Savills Investment Management has launched a global REITs fund which, MD Thomas Körgen told BIE, targets a 5% annual return and €100m initial size using (...)
RICS' World Built Environment Forum was born from a realisation that many professions needed to come together to provide solutions to surging populations and (...)
Swedish listed Castellum, managing property worth €7.87bn, is to cut its loan-to-value cap to 50% - a move CFO Ulrika Danielsson told BIE came largely in response (...)
Major shareholdings in German listed TLG have shifted again. Hedge fund Adar has sold its entire 18.17% stake while another, Ouram controlled by Israeli investor Amir (...)
In a deal being watched at home and abroad, French railway SNCF is selling a portfolio of 4,000 homes in a rare public sector sale that (...)
South African REIT Growthpoint is to take a direct stake in Poland's Griffin Premium, now renamed Globalworth Poland, subscribing between €120m and €150m to a new equity (...)
Japanese institutions are finally entering European property, BIE has learned. Requests for proposals have been landing with several senior investment managers since late last (...)
Real I.S., the real estate closed fund manager of Munich's BayernLB group, remains in cautious buying mode in Europe, with €1.5bn in equity to invest, (...)
Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Merlin Properties intends to float housing affiliate Testa Residencial on the stock market before summer to become the nation's first listed residential investor, CEO Ismael Clemente says. Its (...)
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%, (...)
Despite false impressions given by television reports, security in Ukrainian capital Kyiv is good and improving, says Vitaliy Klitschko, former world heavyweight boxing champion (...)
The impact on Paris office property of the UK's plans to leave the EU has so far been slight but the better investment climate (...)
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 (...)
If anyone still doubts if European commercial property yields will fall further it’s certainly not Oxford Properties and New York-based Madison who last month signed to (...)