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Finance 15/03/2024

At Mipim, real estate investors want to believe in a normalisation of the market

After the macroeconomic storm of the last two years, whose thick fog forced property investors to put their allocation decisions on hold, could it (...)

Finance 14/03/2024

"At Blackstone, we are not waiting for the ‘all clear’ signal"

Business Immo : The European property markets have been particularly turbulent over the last two years, with galloping inflation, a sharp rise in interest rates (...)

Finance 29/02/2024

"Buying against the cycle is always very interesting"

Business Immo: Are you active in these difficult times? Diego Roux: Yes, very clearly, both in terms of investment and rental activity. 2023 was a (...)

Listed 28/02/2024

"I'm organising my group for a deep and long crisis"

Business Immo : As you pointed out several times this morning during the presentation of Altarea's 2023 annual results, the property industry is in (...)

Finance 08/02/2024

Retail property funds collection impacted in 2023

"2023 was a pivotal year for the property market," sums up Jean-Marc Coly, Chairman of Aspim. And retail property funds have clearly been affected. (...)

Finance 05/02/2024

"Value destruction has sped up since the summer"

Business Immo: How do you interpret the sharp fall in the volume of investment in commercial property in 2023? Olivier Ambrosiali: In France, investment volumes (...)

Finance 01/02/2024

European commercial real estate investment tumbles to lowest in 11 Years

European commercial real estate investment tumbled last year to the lowest level since 2012, according to the latest Europe Capital Trends report from MSCI (...)

Career 17/01/2024

Stagnating salaries, hiring freeze... France's real estate hiring market at a standstill

"Real estate players are showing a great deal of caution, with 2023 likely to be a year of two halves, with the first half (...)

Finance 15/01/2024

Will this be the year of the PropTech rebound ?

For some years now, technology has been everywhere, and no sector has escaped it, not even real estate. This was all the more true (...)

Logistics 11/01/2024

"The challenge for Logicor is to maximise its land reserves or reposition its existing assets"

Business Immo: You've been in charge of Logicor's business in France since September 2022. What is your group's current position in France? Laurent Dubos: Logicor (...)

Finance 14/12/2023

The year 2023 worse than expected, according to the MSCI Barometer

Carried out in October 2023 among a panel of investors whose combined real estate assets exceed €280bn, the survey conducted by MSCI and BPCE (...)

Finance 12/12/2023

Geographical diversification and value-adding, the new keys to the property market?

As we know, the European Central Bank's (ECB) initial wait-and-see attitude, particularly in the first half of 2022, led to a harmful delay in (...)

Housing 08/12/2023

"The beginning of the end of the crisis"

Business Immo : What impact has the crisis had on the Réalités group ? Yoann Choin-Joubert : A tsunami hit the entire sector, with (...)

Retail 27/11/2023

"Investors are more selective than ever, with no urgency to act"

Business Immo : How is retail property investment faring on the eve of Mapic ? Antoine Grignon : Is it worth pointing out that (...)

Finance 21/11/2023

Past performance is no guarantee of future performance

Judging the prospects for property investment over the next 20 years is a perilous exercise, and one that calls for modesty. A few introductory (...)

Housing 21/11/2023

"Our discussions with developers are taking place in a tighter context than in 2020"

Business Immo: At the end of spring, CDC Habitat launched a plan worth more than €3bn to build 17,000 homes. What is the current (...)

Finance 16/11/2023

At the IEIF conference, the new world takes shape between "making do" and "doing better"

Although the economic context seems to be dampening hopes of continued growth, "it offers a much healthier environment", believes Christophe Morel. Taking note of (...)

Listed 08/11/2023

The stabilisation of interest rates is serving Europe's listed property well, according to Sofidy

Listed property in Europe is currently enjoying an impressive rebound. With a 16% rally since 25 October - "the strongest rally ever recorded for (...)

Office 07/11/2023

57,570 sqm of office space placed, €20m invested in Q3: Lille between two waters

Buoyed by its own accounts over the past two years, the Lille office market is continuing to normalise its activity and is showing great (...)

Finance 27/10/2023

"Debt cost, repricing, stock shortage are the three main restraints for investors"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Mike Barnes, Associate Director European Research at Savills. Savills recently published its annual "Spotlight : EME Investor Sentiment Survey". As interest rates (...)