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Office 26/05/2020

France's Realiz3D adapts its space planning algorithm to Covid-19 restrictions

In response to the health issues faced by office users, owners and brokers during the resumption of their activities, French software editor Realiz3D has (...)

Office 19/05/2020

HqO launches an end-to-end operating system for commercial office buildings

US technology group HqO, a tenant experience platform with a portfolio of over 8.3 million sqm in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe, announced today (...)

Finance 26/02/2020

“The time is right for Yardi to open an office in Paris”

Business Immo:  What is Yardi proposing to the French real estate sector? Richard Gerritsen: We don't consider ourselves a software company anymore, but a technology (...)

Finance 08/07/2019

Growing uncertainties make guidance more important than ever

Risks and opportunities on international markets: Expo Real, Europe's leading trade fair for property and investment, will be returning to Munich in October to (...)

Finance 04/04/2019

INREV attendees see W. Europe as best €1bn investment, UK in the long run

With €1bn to invest over 10 years, 36% of attendees at the INREV conference voted western Europe as the best target region. Britain was (...)

Hospitality 18/03/2019

Swiss Life wins approval for €1bn European hotel fund

Swiss Life Asset Managers has now received approval for its Luxembourg fund aimed, as previously reported by BIE, to target €1bn in hotels around (...)

Finance 12/02/2019

Germany manager Kintyre nears €1.5bn AUM; focus on innovation, tech in 2019

Frankfurt-based property investment manager Kintyre grew managed assets to nearly €1.5bn last year, a 21% rise from 2017, and will focus this year on innovation and (...)

Office 10/10/2018

"France is very focused on innovation"

Business Immo: How is French PropTech developing? Régis Chemouny: Investments in PropTech are expected to reach $ 20 billion worldwide in 2020, compared to $ 12 billion (...)

Finance 02/10/2018

Launch of iread to provide Big Data research for global real estate industry

iread - Real Estate Research Analysis Data - is pleased to announce the launch of its new Europe-wide research and advisory service using Big (...)

Finance 20/06/2018

Time for real estate to embrace digital tech - MIPIM PropTech Europe

Live from MIPIM PropTech Europe (Paris) - New research released on the opening day of MIPIM PropTech Europe in Paris suggests that while new technologies are transforming (...)

Listed 02/05/2018

Metrovacesa becomes first Spanish property firm to join Blockchain group

Madrid-based residential developer, re-floated in February by bank creditors, has become the first Spanish property group to join Blockchain consortium Alastria. A senior executive told (...)

Finance 27/04/2018

Rows of Chinese at London’s World Built Environment Forum show RICS is changing

It was the 60 or so Chinese sitting in rows at this week's World Built Environment Forum in London, noting every word from simultaneous (...)

Finance 26/04/2018

Real estate future starts now, RICS World Built Environment Forum hears

The transformative impact of digitalisation plus huge growth in global cities will need a new generation of leaders, the RICS World Built Environment Forum in London (...)

Green 26/04/2018

Surging populations, cities, digitalisation sparked WBEF - RICS' Tompkins

RICS' World Built Environment Forum was born from a realisation that many professions needed to come together to provide solutions to surging populations and (...)

Health / Senior 16/03/2018

MIPIM BLOG Day 3: The Awards – for the ‘creative art’ of real estate in Europe

Live from MIPIM (Cannes) - Day Three-Thursday: Despite the driving rain in Cannes, even more evidence that the scope of European opportunities is widening, yes, and (...)

Finance 09/02/2018

Belgian office REIT Befimmo "closes 2017 with a new look", net rises to €136m

Belgian office REIT Befimmo raised EPRA earnings for last year to €3.74 from €3.68, with net soaring to €136m from €90m. It added that it "closed 2017 with (...)

Office 24/01/2018

Despite Brexit worries, London tops 2017 CRE investment for global cities - JLL

Despite Brexit concerns, London topped the global city league tables for commercial real estate investment last year, while Los Angeles moved into second place, (...)

Listed 20/12/2017

Six European office REITs form sustainability and innovation thinktank

Even if real estate is local, clients' technical and environmental needs are the same across Europe, says Meka Brunel, CEO of French SIIC Gecina and one of (...)

Retail 12/12/2017

Unibail-Rodamco in agreed €13.28bn takeover of Australia's Westfield

Europe's largest REIT and its biggest manager of retail space, the Franco-Dutch Unibail-Rodamco, has agreed to buy Australian counterpart Westfield for €13.28bn, adding London and (...)