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Office 31/07/2023

Are regional office markets ready to hold their own against Paris?

Arthur Loyd has just published its first study* of regional office markets, covering 28 cities. While 4.3 million sqm were placed in France in 2022, (...)

Logistics 31/07/2023

Off-market logistics portfolio fetches €110m

"Big Deal". This is the name of the logistics portfolio signed off-market by Alderan, on behalf of its Activimmo SCPI, for a total of (...)

Finance 31/07/2023

"For the next five years, the asset story will be more important than the sector selection"

Business Immo: How do you analyse the European commercial real estate at the moment given the macroeconomic tensions felt in recent months? Mike Bessell: All (...)

Finance 28/07/2023

"Q2 2023 was the worst quarter ever for the sales of European office property"

BiTV Interview welcomes Tom Leahy, Head of EMEA Real Assets Research at MSCI. With him, we first discuss the MSCI Real Estate Market Size report, published (...)

Health / Senior 27/07/2023

Orpea sells two property portfolios in Austria and the Netherlands for €83m

Orpea has signed two agreements for the sale and lease-back of property portfolios for a total of €83m. These transactions are in line with (...)

Listed 27/07/2023

Lower debt, higher rents: URW follows its roadmap

Jean-Marie Tritant, Chairman of the Management Board of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, has painted an idyllic picture of the first half of 2023, during which the property (...)

Office 27/07/2023

La Française REM and EDF acquire Paris 13th's Memphis building for €130m

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) and AXA IM Alts have today signed an agreement for the sale of the Memphis building, located at 109-111 (...)

Listed 27/07/2023

Nexity lowers its financial targets for 2023

Nexity, which recently joined forces with Carrefour, has unveiled its financial results for the first half of the year*. The group has revised its (...)

Finance 27/07/2023

Property transactions plummet across Europe, but Paris holds up well

Hampered by rising interest rates, weak economic growth and structural changes across multiple asset classes, commercial property transaction volumes in Europe fell to their (...)

Finance 27/07/2023

Corum L'Épargne's SCPIs to collect €609m in H1 2023

In the first half of 2023, Corum L'Épargne's SCPIs collected €609m, up 10% on the same period last year. This puts Corum at the (...)

Listed 26/07/2023

Carmila: recurring earnings per share up 2.6% in H1 2023

Following the signing of an agreement to acquire Galimmo (see our article), Carmila has just published its financial results for the first half of (...)

Office 26/07/2023

Norma Capital's European SCPI acquires a coworking space in Barcelona

On behalf of its NCap Continent SCPI, Norma Capital has acquired a 900 sqm office complex in Barcelona's Sagrada Familia district. Renovated in 2022, the (...)

Housing 26/07/2023

Ardian opens doors to residential property in Italy

According to Rodolfo Petrosino, Head of Real Estate Southern Europe, Ardian sees "interesting investment opportunities in the European residential property market". Particularly in Italy, (...)

Finance 26/07/2023

Savills expects European property investment to rebound by 35% in 2024

According to Savills, total European property investment could reach €220bn by 2024, up 35% on the €163bn forecast for 2023. The property consultancy even (...)

Listed 24/07/2023

Parisian prime serves SFL well in H1 2023

Given the macroeconomic storm of the past 12 months, the half-yearly results of listed real estate companies have rarely been as eagerly awaited as (...)

Office 24/07/2023

MNK Partners buys a new asset in Amsterdam

MNK Partners, on behalf of its professional pan-European real estate yield fund MNK Europe +, has acquired the Keienbergweg 100 office and warehouse complex (...)

Listed 24/07/2023

After 100 days at the helm of Icade, Nicolas Joly fine-tunes his strategic plan

After 100 days at the helm of Icade, Nicolas Joly is beginning to outline his strategic project. The listed group's new CEO has carried (...)

Finance 24/07/2023

"Alternative sub-sectors account for over 60% of Primonial REIM's allocation"

Business Immo: You have just finalised the first stage of the €1.4bn purchase of Icade's stake in Icade Santé. In concrete terms, what does this (...)

Listed 21/07/2023

Gecina leverages its billion euros to "deliver sustainable outperformance"

Since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Gecina in April 2022, Beñat Ortega has not spoken to the media, with the exception of (...)

Retail 21/07/2023

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield pursues its debt reduction strategy in the United States

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has finalized the sale of the two parcels that make up the Westfield Mission Valley shopping centers in San Diego, California. The transaction (...)