The Polish affiliate of AIM-listed eastern Europe real estate group Globalworth has raised €450m in fresh equity via a private placement with its parent, and senior (...)
US investment firm Apollo and the Wecken Group, the two major shareholders in Germany's DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate, have converted a €10m bond into equity which (...)
The Spanish financial regulator CNMV has approved the takeover bid by Blackstone for hotels REIT Hispania. If successful, the firm will be taken private and all profits will move (...)
Hungary has become the latest European nation to introduce a REIT status that should attract property firms after adjusting laws first introduced in 2011. (...)
Giant French-Dutch shopping centre REIT Unibail Rodamco is to be renamed Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield following closure of its acquisition of the Australian group, and said it moves into (...)
Fast-growing listed CRE group Aroundtown has appointed one of Germany's most high-profile managers to its advisory board just days after releasing first quarter figures showing a (...)
US private equity firm Starwood Capital, which Wednesday announced 24.4% acceptances in a Swedish housing group bid, has by contrast won only a fraction of (...)
US private equity firm Starwood Capital has announced acceptances of 24.4% in its takeover bid for Swedish listed housing firm Victoria Park, and will go ahead and (...)
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% (...)
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 (...)
Polish listed shopping centre specialist Echo Polska Properties, following approval by its shareholders, is to shorten its name to EPP, emphasising that it is now (...)
French listed retail park group Frey has announced a €201.9m capital increase to help fund 412,000 sqm in 14 new projects, and acquisitions. The move also (...)
One of France's largest REIT/SIICs, Foncière des Régions managing €21bn in office, residential and hotel property, is changing its name to Covivio to reflect its truly (...)
Shares in German listed real estate group Patrizia surged by over 11% on Thursday following news that its first quarter operating income quadrupled to nearly €43m (...)
Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Colonial should be able to boost annual rental income by €200m to €500m after the inclusion of newly acquired peer Axiare, plus a number of (...)
Fast-growing European quoted commercial property group Aroundtown, which also controls listed German housing firm Grand City Properties, has sold over €720m in non-core assets year to (...)
Emerging technologies such as Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain will optimise efficiencies in real estate, transforming business models, but will also disrupt those (...)
Savills Investment Management has launched a global REITs fund which, MD Thomas Körgen told BIE, targets a 5% annual return and €100m initial size using (...)
Spanish real estate manager Azora Altus, which created and manages the REIT/SOCIMI Hispania, is postponing its own IPO in light of uncertainty created by Blackstone's (...)
French listed mall group Carmila, an affiliate of giant hypermarket chain Carrefour, has significantly boosted exposure to Spanish retail by buying six shopping centres (...)