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Housing 19/10/2017

Eastern German housing markets on course for further growth

Eastern German urban housing markets are on course for further growth in both rents and purchase prices as populations expand while vacancy rates fall, (...)

Office 19/10/2017

Warsaw’s Griffin Premium RE eyes Polish office expansion after Globalworth entry

Warsaw-listed Griffin Premium RE is turning itself into a pure Polish office play ready to become a REIT if and when the law allows. US private (...)

Retail 18/10/2017

Material news from the European listed universe: Unibail, Hypoport, Colonial

Ahead of third quarter results, which will be upon us starting this week, here are some selected actions and calls that are material to (...)

Office 18/10/2017

Berlin’s Sony Center: N. American weight of capital outweighs even Korean

If anyone still doubts if European commercial property yields will fall further it’s certainly not Oxford Properties and New York-based Madison who last month signed to (...)

Housing 18/10/2017

Vonovia looks beyond Germany for housing, signs agreement with French SNI

Germany’s largest listed housing group Vonovia has made the decision in principle to seek residential assets outside Germany, and signed an agreement Wednesday with the French SNI (...)

Retail 17/10/2017

Echo Polska said on track to boost mall AUM with giant €621m buy

Warsaw’s Echo Polska Properties has reportedly made good on the intentions explained by CEO Hadley Dean to BIE recently – agreeing to pay €621m for a large shopping (...)

Office 17/10/2017

"I’m surprised how active it is this late in the cycle but there is a comfort around where yields are"

Business Immo Europe : What is your feeling for the mood this year ? Damian Harrington : I think the mood is good this (...)

Housing 17/10/2017

German resi stocks still offer value; price, rental cycle to go further

Investment bank HSBC remains optimistic about German residential real estate, saying in a study of the sector Monday that the end of the price (...)

Housing 16/10/2017

No wide-scale house price inflation in EU but Nordics most at risk

Depite house price rises across western Europe in the past few years there has been no wide-scale house price inflation during the recovery from (...)

Office 14/10/2017

The reason why office space demand in Poland, CEE will remain strong for a while yet

New Eurostat figures show that one working hour in Poland last year cost €8.60, around one-third of the EU average of €25.40. Surrounding countries (...)

Housing 14/10/2017

Asian institutions active in European housing for first time – Catella

Asian institutional investors were active in continental European residential property for the first time last year, while 40% of buyers in Berlin housing were (...)

Housing 13/10/2017

German resi prices ending 7yr uptrend but holding steady

German residential prices are coming to the end of a seven-year uptrend and will stagnate at a high level in the medium term, according (...)

Finance 12/10/2017

Dear Japanese investors: If you don’t come to Europe now, forget it until the next cycle

They’ve been setting up, restructuring, researching and laying plans for years, but Japanese investors are not yet in European mainland real estate. Why? My (...)

Housing 11/10/2017

Grab for assets 2: Large funds in frenetic search for Spanish residential land

The largest Spanish property developers, many of them controlled by foreign investment funds, are competing at an almost frenetic pace to acquire zoned residential (...)

Housing 11/10/2017

Spanish home sales up 16%yy in August, most active in Valencia, islands

Spanish residential sales rose 16%yy in August to reach 41,282 units, the fourth consecutive month of increase, according to Spain’s National Institute of Statistics. (...)

Office 09/10/2017

Intense grab for assets as Expo Real attendance smashes record

The mood at Expo Real was extremely intense this year. New companies and alliances are forming. Big Deals are happening in a grab for assets. 41,500 (...)

Office 05/10/2017

Election of Macron brings foreign investors back to Paris – Expo panel

Expo Real 4 Oct. 2017 – The election of President Emmanuel Macron is ushering in a sea change in foreign perceptions of France, and external investment is (...)

Office 04/10/2017

Globalworth buys US Oaktree control stake in Poland’s Griffin Premium

Less than a year after South Africa’s largest REIT Growthpoint took a stake in Romania-focused, AIM-listed Globalworth, the latter has already started expansion, buying control of Polish (...)

Housing 03/10/2017

Despite Spanish vote violence, Barcelona, Madrid resi prices in pull of Airbnb

It may be that the violence in Barcelona amid the Catalonia referendum slows visitors to that beautiful city but this is likely to be (...)

Office 02/10/2017

Growthpoint joins other S.Africans in CEE, eyes expansion

Growthpoint, the largest primary listed REIT in South Africa, has its eye on other eastern Europe markets after taking a stake in Romania’s Globalworth, says (...)