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Housing 21/04/2023

Discovering new living concepts in Europe’s residential sector

We see a market in transition. Demographic trends support bespoke living solutions across the lifecycle. This is especially true for living in old age. (...)

Finance 26/01/2023

Germany leads Q4 slump for European CRE investment (MSCI)

European commercial real estate investment plummeted in the final quarter of last year, led by Germany amid a generalized slump in values and total (...)

Housing 23/02/2022

92.3bn invested in the multi-family segment in Europe in 2021 (Savills)

Driven by large-scale mergers and acquisitions, European multi-family (or residential) investment volumes in the 12 countries analysed reached around €92.3bn in 2021, up 79% (...)

Listed 17/09/2019

Berlin housing firm ADO eyes sale of quarter of its resi portfolio

Shares in Berlin housing firm Ado Properties have risen on news it is negotiating the sale of around one-quarter of its portfolio, some 5,800 (...)

Listed 28/08/2019

Deutsche Wohnen follows 14% 1H FFO rise to €283m with €615m sale to ZBI

Following half-year results showing FFO1 rose by 13.5% to €283.4m, German listed firm Deutsche Wohnen has sold a package of 6,350 housing units to (...)

Housing 25/06/2019

Germany's Vonovia, responding to rent pressures, says houses diversity of people, incomes

Germany's largest private landlord Vonovia, responding to pressures over rising rents, said it provides homes for a diversity of the population, including lower income (...)

Housing 25/06/2019

Berlin's Deutsche Wohnen in voluntary commitment to limit rents rises

Berlin listed housing group Deutsche Wohnen, the epicentre of a citizens’ expropriation campaign, has made a voluntary commitment to limit rents to a maximum of 30% (...)

Housing 16/05/2019

German firms say private capital is acting responsibly to close housing gap

Deutsche Wohnen, the main target of Berlin's housing expropriation debate, plus Germany's largest residential owner Vonovia, say private capital is acting responsibly to meet shortages. Initiated (...)

Housing 07/05/2019

Common approach not expropriation fantasies needed to solve Berlin's housing shortage

The initiative Expropriate German Housing & Combat Speculation aims to expropriate private homeowners with more than 3,000 apartments in Berlin. On the agenda are (...)

Listed 06/05/2019

Greek billionaire Economou becomes 2nd largest shareholder in Germany’s TLG

Greek shipping billionaire George Economou has become the second largest shareholder in Germany's TLG Immobilien after buying nearly 8% from Swiss M&A boutique Bedrock. According (...)

Housing 26/03/2019

Berlin housing demand brings boom in outskirts, innovative solutions

Because Berlin new-build housing continues to lag demand, more residents are looking toward the 'gravy belt' communities, while developers introduce innovative topping-up solutions. In a (...)

Finance 26/03/2019

Deutsche Wohnen FFO up 11% to €479m, ends 2018 with 167,000 units worth €22bn

Germany's Deutsche Wohnen reported a near-11% surge in 2018 funds from operations to €479.4m, ending with 167,000 residential units valued at over €22bn. The group, (...)

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 (...)

Listed 04/03/2019

Spanish resi developer Neinor posts 2018 €46m net profit, demand strong

Spanish residential developer Neinor Homes reported net profit of €45.99m in 2018, turning round a 2017 loss of €25.93m, and said it continues to see strong (...)

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 (...)

Listed 04/02/2019

Germany's Vonovia raises €698m with sale of Deutsche Wohnen stake

Bochum-based housing giant Vonovia has raised €698.1m with the sale of its stake in German listed peer Deutsche Wohnen via an accelerated bookbuilding offer to institutions. Made (...)

Listed 22/01/2019

Ouram requests TLG extraordinary meeting to change supervisory board

Ouram Holding, the senior minority shareholder in Berlin’s listed real estate firm TLG, has requested an extraordinary shareholder meeting to make major changes to (...)

Housing 12/10/2018

Foreign ownership in French housing is no cause for concern

The participation of Germany's Vonovia and Zurich's Swiss Life in the winning bid for French SNCF's housing portfolio is good for Europe, good for France – (...)

Finance 10/09/2018

EPRA delegates rise as investors, analysts seek undervalued assets, M&A

There seems little doubt that the more than 400 delegates to the EPRA conference last week reflected the rising interest in listed real estate (...)