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Finance 18/03/2019

No sector for old cowboys

A maturity is entering real estate. Recognition that it is not for old cowboys but a sector where success is tied directly to user (...)

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 14/03/2019

European investors are going to beds

"Demographic change, rising house prices and supply shortages have established residential alternatives as desirable investments with positive rental growth prospects," says Savills in its (...)

Finance 13/03/2019

Swiss Life reaches €81bn RE in Europe after €7.6bn added last year

Swiss Life Asset Managers finished with €81bn managed assets in Europe last year after transacting €10bn in total, of which €7.6bn added in Swiss, (...)

Housing 21/02/2019

France's Nexity agrees to produce 8,000 homes for CDC Habitat

France's largest residential developer, listed group Nexity, is boosting sales for professional landlords, and has agreed with state-owned CDC Habitat to produce 5,000 intermediate (...)

Office 15/02/2019

How the €1.7bn Swiss Life/Terreïs mega-office deal came about

The two executives explain the background to one of the largest French transactions in recent years: the acquisition of 28 office assets in the (...)

Office 13/02/2019

Swiss Life's €1.7bn Paris office buy to trigger seller Terreïs privatisation offer

Swiss Life Asset Managers is to pay €1.7bn to acquire a portfolio of 28 Paris CBD office buildings from REIT/SIIC Terreïs, triggering a privatisation offer by (...)

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 (...)

Housing 11/01/2019

French CDC's Ampère raises €900m commitments for new housing fund

French Ampère Gestion, part of French state financier CdC which led the first-ever takeover of a public sector housing portfolio last summer for €1.4bn, has raised (...)

Health / Senior 12/12/2018

Swiss Life pays €70m for Belgian office, senior project for German fund

Swiss Life Asset Managers has paid over €70m to acquire a standing office and a senior living project in Belgium for its German open (...)

Housing 03/12/2018

French railways to invest €3bn in new housing, refurbishments

ICF Habitat, the housing arm of French railway SNCF which this year sold off a €1.4bn portfolio in a landmark deal, aims to invest €3bn (...)

Finance 28/11/2018

Italy's Generali aims to grow €30bn property AUM, 3rd-party funds - Mazzocco

Italy's Generali Real Estate aims to add €5bn to its €30bn in property assets over the next three years while significantly growing its fund (...)

Office 16/11/2018

Lebanon's SFO enters Europe in German office pact with Swiss Life

Swiss Life Asset Managers has sold a majority ownership in the German office portfolio Artemis to SFO Group, a Lebanese multi-family office and real estate investor, (...)

Finance 15/11/2018

Helaba Invest buys Beos Corporate Fund Germany for over €500m

Helaba Invest, a unit of German savings bank Helaba, has paid over €500m to acquire the open-end AIF Beos Corporate Real Estate Fund Germany I, holding (...)

Office 14/11/2018

Swiss Life AM pays €241m for Cologne neighbourhood development

Swiss Life Asset Managers' German units, Swiss Life KVG and Corpus Sireo, have paid €241.5m to acquire the CologneoI mixed-use neighbourhood development in Cologne from Berlin's CG Group. The package comprises (...)

Housing 13/11/2018

Why we acquired the SNCF/Vesta housing portfolio

Swiss Life Asset Managers and Ampère Gestion, a unit of French state institution CdC, were revealed last month as winners of the largest French (...)

Hospitality 09/11/2018

The rationale for a pan-European hospitality strategy

Europe, the largest playground to gain exposure to hospitality 2017 was another record year for international tourism with 1.323bn visitors of which 51% came to (...)

Housing 16/10/2018

In Denormandie France has its first minister for housing. Period.

After the government reshuffle today France has its first minister for housing. Period. Not for urban planning; not also for cohesion or equality of (...)

Housing 12/10/2018

CDC Habitat, Swiss Life confirm group buy of SNCF resi portfolio

Following a BIE report, French CDC Habitat and Swiss Life Asset Managers have confirmed that their group, which includes Germany's Vonovia and two state pension funds, (...)

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 – (...)