Europe is on the brink of recession, but the good news is that it may already be close to the bottom, and the key (...)
The European property industry is unlikely to suffer a sharp downturn despite the late cycle but faces other challenges such as digitisation, and environmental, (...)
French developers Brownfields and Vinci Immobilier have acquired from energy group Engie a portfolio of 50 industrial sites, mostly old gas plants, totaling more (...)
Tritax EuroBox, a UK-based REIT launched last July to focus on pan-European logistics, is to apply to move to the London Stock Exchange big (...)
Dutch fund manager Bouwinvest took €364m new capital into its Dutch residential, office and retail real estate funds in 2018’s second half, taking it closer (...)
London private equity firm Patron Capital has applied to acquire, together with the Marriot hotel group, the 5-Star Sheraton Warsaw, which last changed hands (...)
Hamburg's AIF manager Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate grew managed assets last year by 22.3% to €8.2bn, and said it managed 56 funds at year (...)
Germany-focused listed Corestate Capital has paid about €66m to acquire an office building in Munich, and will reposition it using a manage-to-core strategy in (...)
US investment funds KKR and Round Hill Capital are reported to be leading the bid, at up to €170m, for a 500,000 sqm logistics (...)
The first German landesbank to be privatised in a takeover, HSH Nordbank is rebranding as Hamburg Commercial Bank, aiming to focus on real estate project finance, (...)
Geopolitical concerns weighed on European real estate investment in 2018, with transactions down 15% from a strong 2017 to €277.7bn, albeit still close to (...)
Paris-based senior care specialist Korian, after in December raising a €450m German Schuldschein financing, has entered Spain with the acquisition of Malaga firm Seniors. The group acquired the Spanish (...)
Global investment manager Invesco has taken residential holdings in Europe to €270m with a forward purchase of two multi-family buildings in Amsterdam suburb Holland (...)
Stuttgart-based landesbank LBBW is to solely underwrite a €1.1bn financing for US-Canada giant Brookfield's redevelopment of the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin's premier business centre. Acting as agent, arranger and (...)
Bochum-based housing giant Vonovia has raised €698.1m with the sale of its stake in German listed peer Deutsche Wohnen via an accelerated bookbuilding offer to institutions. Made (...)
Hungary's Futureal Group has won HUF16.3bn (€51.4m) in loans for its residential developer Cordia from the domestic OTP Bank and Takarékbank to finance five Budapest projects. The credit (...)
Swiss insurer Zurich, in one of its first visible deals in Spain, has paid €163.5m for five office assets in Madrid, part of the (...)
Allianz Real Estate and CBRE GIP have jointly acquired a Nordic logistics portfolio of eight properties in Sweden and Denmark valued at over SEK4bn (...)
Around 20 housing developers in Spain, some newly established, will reach 'cruising speed' this year, handing over almost 16,000 homes and starting another 34,000. A (...)
Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Lar Espana has sold an office building in Madrid to global fund manager Invesco for €37m, nearly doubling the asset's value in (...)