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Finance 18/11/2019

Powerhouse Habitat wins €560m BNP Paribas, Natixis facility

French residential REIT/SIIC Powerhouse Habitat has won a €560m eight-year senior mortgage financing arranged and underwritten by domestic banks BNP Paribas and Natixis. This financing (...)

Office 07/10/2019

Paris-based AEW adds two Dutch offices for EVI II, taking fund value to €200m

Paris-based manager AEW has acquired two assets located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on behalf of its Europe Value Investors II (EVI II), taking the fund (...)

Finance 18/09/2019

French Keys Asset Management 2.0 rocket ready for takeoff

The duo Pierre Mattei and Cyril Garreau has already set course .. for 2024. Their Paris-based Keys Asset Management, founded in 2011, has hit (...)

Listed 13/09/2019

French Gecina raises 'green' loans to €910m, 20% of total bank debt

French REIT/SIIC Gecina has finalised three new 'green' loan agreements with BNP Paribas, Natixis and Société Générale for €660m, taking such financing to €910m (...)

Housing 26/08/2019

AEW acquires two Helsinki apartment blocks for German pension fund

Property investment manager AEW has acquired, for a German pension fund, two modern apartment blocks in Finnish capital Helsinki comprising 87 units and 5,018 (...)

Retail 29/07/2019

AEW’s Europe City Retail enters Portugal, taking fund value to €650m

Investment manager AEW is entering Portugal with its Europe City Retail fund, adding eight properties to take holdings to 23 assets in 13 cities worth (...)

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 (...)

Office 04/07/2019

Paris's Lumière office complex said bought by Primonial, Korea's Samsung for €1.2bn

Likely to be France's deal of the year, Paris's largest office complex, Lumière, has been acquired by fund manager Primonial and Korea's Samsung SRA for (...)

Logistics 03/06/2019

AEW wins €275m separate logistics mandate from German insurer

Paris-based asset manager AEW has won a €275m separate account mandate from a German insurance group to establish a core logistics property portfolio across (...)

Finance 23/05/2019

Paris REIT Gecina places 15yr €500m bond issue at 1.625% to buy back notes

Paris office and housing REIT Gecina has placed a €500m bond issue with a 15-year maturity at 1.625% and launched a tender offer on (...)

Listed 26/04/2019

Spain's Merlin completes €1.55bn ESG-indexed refinancing

Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Merlin Properties has completed a refinancing through a €1.55bn ESG-indexed facility which is the largest in the European real estate sector to date. The new (...)

Housing 05/03/2019

Stam raises €100m Natixis financing for €400m Paris resi fund

Paris-based Stam Europe has raised a €100m financing line from French bank Natixis for its Opera fund launched in January and targeting €300m to (...)

Finance 07/02/2019

AEW grows assets 10% to €31bn in Europe over 2018

Real estate fund manager AEW, part of the French Natixis group, boosted managed assets 10% last year in Europe to reach €30.6bn, and said (...)

Finance 15/01/2019

French CDC's Ampere and Swiss Life raise €650m to close the Vesta deal

French Ampere Gestion, a CDC Habitat subsidiary, and Swiss Life Asset Managers announced that it had successfully secured funding of €650m to close the (...)

Retail 03/01/2019

Italy's Generali in €600m, 53-asset French retail purchase at year-end

Italy's Generali Real Estate, part of the Trieste-based insurance group, boosted its portfolio by €600m at year end, signing on a 53-asset retail portfolio in (...)

Housing 29/11/2018

AEW closes French resi fund at €370m equity, investment capacity of €600m

European investment manager AEW has made the final close of French residential fund RESIDYS at total investor commitment of €370m, giving total asset capacity (...)

Finance 23/11/2018

Even if yields rise, over half of Europe's RE markets remain attractive - AEW

Despite expectations that bond yield normalisation will raise property yields in the next five years, investment manager AEW says that over half the markets assessed for (...)

Finance 06/07/2018

France’s Crédit Foncier – chronicle of a pre-announced death

French savings bank BPCE, the second largest banking group in France, last month announced the closure of its Crédit Foncier subsidiary, a specialist property lender that traces (...)

Office 19/06/2018

La Francaise buys fully-let Paris office for S.Korean consortium led by Hyundai IAM

French investment manager La Francaise has acquired Le Balthazar, an eight-storey office building in the north of Paris for a consortium of Korean institutions headed by Hyundai (...)

Finance 07/06/2018

Fund mgr Aerium finalises €694m refinancing of 11 assets and portfolio across Europe

London-based real estate fund manager Aerium has finalised the €694m refinancing of 11 assets and portfolio across Europe with several major European banks, saying it was (...)