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Finance 10/04/2020

“In the current capital-constrained environment, having a significant amount of dry powder positions Blackbrook Capital quite well”

The onset of a global pandemic might seem like a bad time to launch an investment real estate investment firm. Yet, with €1bn of (...)

Listed 27/03/2020

“CBo Territoria is approaching this crisis with caution, but also with confidence”

Business Immo: While publishing its results earlier this week, CBo Territoria announced it was ahead of schedule in its 2017-2021 strategic plan, which plans (...)

Office 26/03/2020

"Primonial REIM is confident it will meet its commitments to its investor clients"

Business Immo: How have the containment measures affected your teams? Grégory Frapet: We spent the first part of last week reorganising Primonial REIM by capitalising (...)

Office 26/03/2020

"Core assets should be favoured, even more so than yesterday"

Business Immo: How do you see the current context related to the coronavirus? Julien Pinault: The circumstances are, in more ways than one, exceptional. The (...)

Finance 24/03/2020

"The real challenge for Constructa lies in the activity on the building sites and with the notaries"

The shutdown of building sites, the inability of notaries to meet clients physically, the closures of administrations delivering planning authorisations: numerous problems caused by (...)

Logistics 23/03/2020

"This crisis will highlight logistics as an essential part of the primary infrastructure of any country."

Business Immo: Facing the Covid-19 outbreak, what challenges do Gazeley and your logistics platform tenants face? Fabrice Cervoni: The slowdown in activity, or even the (...)

Hospitality 23/03/2020

"The hotel business will have to question itself and adapt, but it will not lose its relevance"

The Coronavirus epidemic is hitting the hotel industry hard due to containment measures and travel restrictions around the world. Extendam, a specialist investor in (...)

Listed 20/03/2020

"Covid-19: More than ever, we need to be able to listen and be agile"

Despite the coronavirus epidemic, Paris-based REIT/SIIC Covivio is continuing its takeover bid for the German company Godewind, which was launched in mid-February and in (...)

Finance 20/03/2020

“We must take collective action and responsibility with a European vision”

In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments are taking measures to slow the spread of the virus and try to support economic players. (...)

Juridicial 19/03/2020

"Owners could dispose of their real estate assets, which would generate investment opportunities."

With the containment and closures decided by the French government, the real estate market is impacted as a whole. So, what happens to the (...)

Office 13/03/2020

“More than 1.3 million sqm will be delivered in 2020 in the Paris Region”

Business Immo: In your opinion, what are the main findings of the barometer? Marie Gilmas : JLL's analysis is based on two axes and one (...)

Hospitality 11/03/2020

"Yays aims to sign at least 500 apartments in Paris over the next five years"

Business Immo: What does Yays offer to the apart'hotel market? Steven Smit: Yays is an apart'hotel brand with top-of-the-range services, offering well-designed, modern and functional (...)

Finance 10/03/2020

“Paris is the World’s leading real estate market because of very attractive fundamentals”

Business Immo: What are your main takeaways from the global real estate investment market in 2019? Virginie Houzé: The global real estate investment market reached an (...)

Logistics 09/03/2020

“There is a lot of appetite from US investors and managers to get exposure to European logistics”

After committing €122.5m to forward fund two Class A warehouses located in the cities of Réau and Brebières and acquiring an 18,857 sqm warehouse (...)

Office 05/03/2020

“France’s deep market is what attracted us”

Business Immo: What is the Eaglestone Group? Gaétan Clermont: Eaglestone is a private real estate development and investment company with a value-added strategy. The group is (...)

Finance 04/03/2020

"This name change allows us to simplify our communication by capitalising on the Edmond de Rothschild brand"

Edmond de Rothschild reaffirms its ambitions in real estate by adopting a single brand, Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) for its (...)

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 (...)

Territories 19/02/2020

"Despite the coronavirus, Mipim will proceed as planned"

While the coronavirus has taken over Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress and some of the future major professional events seem to be in the hot (...)

Office 17/02/2020

“With the acquisition of Godewin, Germany becomes our 3rd office exposure”

Covivio has just completed a €1.2bn takeover bid for Godewin, a German listed real estate company specialising in office property. A strategic investment that (...)

Territories 14/02/2020

"The French dream of themselves as inhabitants of urban villages."

At a time when urbanism is at the heart of the debate surrounding France’s municipal elections, private developer Novaxia commissioned polling and market research (...)