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Hospitality 10/07/2018

Canada’s Triple Five enters Europe, seeks Spain site for €3.4bn complex

Canada's privately-owned retail and financial conglomerate Triple Five, developer of the giant West Edmonton Mall, is entering Europe, first seeking a site in Spain (...)

Hospitality 26/06/2018

"We are targeting €1bn turnover in 2020"

Business Immo : What are your key figures respectively? Philippe Plaza: Eiffage Immobilier finished the year 2017 with a volume of 4,750 homes sold and a turnover (...)

Hospitality 22/06/2018

French Covivio unit closes €300m capital raise to finance UK hotel buy

French hotel REIT Foncière des Murs, a unit of the Covivio group, has completed a capital increase to raise €300m and support the group's £858m (€976m) acquisition (...)

Hospitality 15/06/2018

Dutch hotel group CitizenM acquires Paris Champs-Élysées site for €80m

The Dutch boutique hotel group CitizenM has paid €80m for a 4,500 sqm site on the prestigious av. des Champs-Élysées in Paris from French developer Faure (...)

Hospitality 14/06/2018

Swedish listed Balder enters Germany, paying €58m for seven hotels

Swedish listed real estate group Balder has made its first investment in Germany, paying €58m for seven hotels, two of which in Berlin, and says the (...)

Hospitality 14/06/2018

Paris region signs accord with Alibaba to boost Chinese tourism

The Paris Ile-de-France region has signed an agreement with the online travel platform of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba aimed at helping tourists from the People's Republic, who have (...)

Hospitality 14/06/2018

Munich's Real I.S. launches special RE fund targeting €1bn in Europe

Munich's Real I.S., the real estate fund manager of German savings bank BayernLB, has launched a new office special fund targeting €1bn in office assets, with (...)

Hospitality 13/06/2018

Jinjiang's Louvre Hotels in CEE focuses on Warsaw, Belt & Road cities

Paris-based Louvre Hotels, owned since 2015 by China's Jinjiang group, should soon double its Poland assets to 40, says a top executive. Its eastern Europe (...)

Hospitality 12/06/2018

CEE hotel market growth to continue even if peaking now - conference

East European hotel occupancy and room revenue growth has been steady over the last few years and the market will rise further in the (...)

Hospitality 12/06/2018

Amid Spain's hotel boom, Blackstone will do what it takes to buy Hispania

With Spanish tourism booming and no fewer than 173 new hotel openings forecast in the next four years, US giant Blackstone will likely do what it (...)

Hospitality 11/06/2018

France’s AccorHotels signs partnership to boost budget segment

Just days after ceding control of a €4.6bn portfolio, the Paris-based global hospitality group AccorHotels has announced a strategic partnership with budget hotel firm Dalmata Hospitality to bolster (...)

Hospitality 07/06/2018

Fund mgr Aerium finalises €694m refinancing of 11 assets and portfolio across Europe

London-based real estate fund manager Aerium has finalised the €694m refinancing of 11 assets and portfolio across Europe with several major European banks, saying it was (...)

Hospitality 06/06/2018

Thailand’s Minor launches €2.5bn takeover bid for Spain's NH hotels

Thailand-based hotel group Minor International, one of the largest hotel groups in Asia-Pacific, is launching a full takeover bid for Spain's listed NH Hotel group in a (...)

Hospitality 06/06/2018

Swiss Life AM, surging to €70bn in real estate, is far from finished yet

In just a few years, Swiss Life Asset Managers, part of the giant Zurich-based insurer, has surged to become a major player in European real (...)

Hospitality 06/06/2018

French rail, air strikes deal heavy financial blow to travel, events

French rail and airline strikes have dealt a heavy financial blow to travel and event industries in the nation, reaching €1bn in lost travel (...)

Hospitality 05/06/2018

French Immochan is second in week to change name, rebranding as Ceetrus

A second French property firm in a week has announced a change of name. Immochan, the manager and owner of shopping centres anchored by (...)

Hospitality 04/06/2018

AccorHotels confirms it is eyeing France's 14.3% stake in Air France-KLM

Paris-based AccorHotels, which last week sold 57.8% of its AccorInvest unit for €4.6bn, confirmed a Les Echos newspaper report that is considering acquiring the French state's 14.3% (...)

Hospitality 04/06/2018

European commercial real estate bargains drying up, C&W warns

European commercial property bargains are drying up as the cycle matures, with only 19% of the market now underpriced, says adviser Cushman & Wakefield. Only (...)

Hospitality 01/06/2018

Dutch Kempen Capital aims at alternative real estate opportunities

Business Immo : What is the weight of alternative classes in your real estate holdings? Matthijs Storm : Kempen holds around €2.5bn in real estate assets worldwide. The portion (...)

Hospitality 01/06/2018

AccorHotels 57.8% sale of AccorInvest unit to bring in €4.6bn

Paris-based AccorHotels has sold 57.8% of its AccorInvest unit to sovereign funds Public Investment Fund and GIC, institutions Colony NorthStar, Crédit Agricole Assurances and Amundi in a transaction bringing gross proceeds of €4.6bn. PIF is (...)