London-based private equity investor Henderson Park has completed the €550m purchase of the Westin Paris-Vendôme hotel in Paris from Singapore sovereign GIC, securing senior (...)
After a decade of economic and political turmoil in Greece, investment opportunities are now appearing in its real estate, especially in assets coming out (...)
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 – (...)
Following clearance by several national cartel authorities, Austria's listed Immofinanz has completed purchase of 29.14% of smaller peer S Immo for €390m, a price (...)
After several delays, Portugal is planning to introduce REIT legislation in January for all real estate asset classes and will finalise details before year end, says (...)
CBRE Global Investment Partners and Madison International Realty are jointly acquiring a 6,458-unit Spanish residential portfolio valued at €870m from Madrid's Azora group, which (...)
The European listed real estate firms HIAG, Montea and Civitas, respectively quoted in Zürich, Brussel/Paris and London, are to be added to the FTSE (...)
There seems little doubt that the more than 400 delegates to the EPRA conference last week reflected the rising interest in listed real estate (...)
The future of retail lies not in online or stores but in multi-channel, the EPRA conference heard last week. But internet shopping has further (...)
Poland will, after several delays, bring forward legislation to introduce REITs from next year but will restrict the status initially to residential real estate, (...)
Co-working space offered by firms such as WeWork should be included in office investor strategies and while it is unlikely to dominate letting demand it serves (...)
European hotel investment has gone from a small sector to a mega-industry and, with the global middle class expected to double in 20 years, (...)
Azora, the Madrid-based investment manager that built and then sold Spanish REIT Hispania to Blackstone, aims to invest further in resort hotels but is (...)
Airbnb and other similar internet-based lodging platforms pose no real threat to the hotel industry but more to rented housing in the major cities, (...)
Berlin listed housing firm Deutsche Wohnen aims to exploit rental income potential from its 160,000 housing units, and sees this with more potential than (...)
German listed housing firm Vonovia has acquired the US Starwood Capital Group's full stake in Sweden's Victoria Park at its original offer price, taking (...)
The European listed real estate industry is improving gender diversity in management with women making up 28% of board memberships up from 22% in (...)
Large and accelerating investment into alternative real estate segments will double the size of the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Europe real estate index to (...)
Publicly-quoted housing firms like Germany's giant Vonovia will boom in Europe as policymakers grapple with soaring demand, EPRA executives say. Markets in Netherlands and (...)
The EPRA annual conference in Berlin, which starts today, has attracted over 400 participants, the largest to date, as investors seek personal contact with (...)
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