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Housing 17/04/2024

Around the world, housing between crisis and opportunities

"The housing crisis is by no means unique to France; on the contrary, it can be observed in most of the world's developed economies", (...)

Housing 15/04/2024

"The Primonial group will be refocused essentially on its real estate activities"

Business Immo: A lot of rumours are fuelling concerns about the future of the Primonial group, particularly as regards governance. Where do you stand (...)

Housing 10/04/2024

Kaufman & Broad goes against the grain

Although the property development market is suffering, Kaufman & Broad is holding up well, reporting a 10% rise in reservations in Q1 2024, to (...)

Housing 04/04/2024

"The most active player in the residential market last year, Greystar hopes to surpass its investments in 2024"

Business Immo : You took over as head of Greystar France over a year ago. What is your assessment of the managed residential property (...)

Housing 04/04/2024

European listed property ready for another rebound, according to Sofidy

"At the beginning of 2022, we left the realm of negative interest rates and property companies adjusted instantly to an unknown interest rate landing (...)

Housing 03/04/2024

Colliers France enters phase 2 of its growth

His objective was to "turn around Colliers France". A "challenge" that "immediately appealed" to him. Three and a half years after his arrival at (...)

Housing 03/04/2024

Only €1.4bn invested in French CRE in Q1 2024

"At €1.4bn,Q1 2024 was well below the ten-year average of €4.6bn, with a performance comparable to that of Q1 2010." These are the words of Antoine Grignon, Head (...)

Housing 29/03/2024

"France was not the only real estate market reporting a negative total return in 2023"

 BiTV Interview welcomes Tom Leahy, Head of EMEA Real Assets Research at MSCI. With him, we discuss the recently released MSCI France Annual Property Index, which (...)

Housing 25/03/2024

France's investment property performance plummeted in 2023 (MSCI)

The MSCI France Annual Property index posted an annual performance of -7.7% to December 2023, a sharp fall compared with 2022 that has not (...)

Housing 22/03/2024

Mipim 2024 : the English speakers of BiTV and CoStar News

This is the second part of our "best of" series, devoted to the various testimonials gathered on the sets of BiTV and CoStar News. (...)

Housing 21/03/2024

"Robust" 2023 results for Caisse des Dépôts, despite the negative impact of real estate

"All asset classes performed positively, with the exception of office property," observed Éric Lombard, Chief Executive Officer of French state financial institution Caisse des Dépôts, (...)

Housing 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 (...)

Housing 14/03/2024

A third €50m vehicle for Checkmyguest and Swiss Life Banque privée

Exactly one year ago, Checkmyguest formalised its partnership with Swiss Life Banque Privée through the creation of a €50m investment vehicle. According to our (...)

Housing 14/03/2024

AEW Patrimoine remains firmly in a "buy" position

Although it has not been completely spared by the complicated market environment for SCPIs, between asset devaluations and liquidity issues, AEW Patrimoine has not (...)

Housing 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 (...)

Housing 13/03/2024

Redevco Living targets a 10,000-unit development pipeline

Redevco aims to "stimulate residential supply in European markets", according to Steven Zeeman, Managing Director of Redevco Living, its pan-European residential asset management platform, (...)

Housing 13/03/2024

SLAM France and Linkcity put build-to-rent into action

Swiss Life Asset Managers France and Linkcity are to build the first 73-unit residence in Rouen for Neoz, their joint build-to-rent offering of serviced (...)

Housing 12/03/2024

"Newmark wants to be a global operator in France, not a boutique"

Business Immo: Why did you join the Newmark adventure in France? François Blin: By competing with each other in our respective companies (editor’s note : (...)

Housing 11/03/2024

Newmark officially arrives in France

It's now official. Just a few hours before the opening of Mipim 2024 in Cannes, Newmark Group has confirmed its move into France. Heading (...)

Housing 07/03/2024

Hines launches its brand of student residences in France

Hines created its student residence brand in 2017. Aparto, as it is known, currently operates 18 residences, with almost 6,500 beds, in Ireland, the (...)