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Housing 14/02/2020

"The French dream of themselves as inhabitants of urban villages."

At a time when urbanism is at the heart of the debate surrounding France’s municipal elections, private developer Novaxia commissioned polling and market research (...)

Housing 07/02/2020

Groupama Immobilier pays €38.5m for Paris 16th private mansion

Paris-based Groupama Immobilier has acquired, for €38,5m, a 2,600 sqm private mansion from the end of the 19th century on behalf of the SCI (...)

Housing 30/01/2020

Mipim 2020: Choose Paris Region signs a partnership with Business Immo

The BiTV stage, set up under the United Grand Paris tent, will be one of the new features of Mipim for its 2020 edition. Choose (...)

Housing 30/01/2020

Mipim Awards 2020: France leads the way with eight nominations

The finalists for the Mipim Awards 2020 have been unveiled and France comes first with eight projects presented in Cannes, compared to five from (...)

Housing 28/01/2020

French home building slowed again in 2019

French residential construction finished 2019 above the 5-year average, with 449,400 building permits granted, but down 2.3% compared to 2018, reported France’s Department of (...)

Housing 24/01/2020

Abandoned private mansion sold for €35.1m in Paris

The private mansion located at 12 rue Oudinot, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, has been auctioned off to an anonymous private investor for (...)

Housing 23/01/2020

Paris is the preferred real estate market of the world's wealthiest - Barnes

Despite strikes and the yellow jacket crisis, Paris became last year the preferred city for international clients to invest in real estate, according to (...)

Housing 22/01/2020

"2020 will mark the end of the deterioration in the performance of commercial real estate."

VIEWS+S Consulting has just published a study on European listed real estate. Its founder, Philippe Le Trung, looks back on the major lessons to (...)

Housing 21/01/2020

Denmarks’s PFA commits €100m to La Française to build a senior residences portfolio

Paris-based La Française recently signed a mandate with Danish pension fund PFA to build and manage a senior residences portfolio, with a commitment of €100m (...)

Housing 15/01/2020

France's Tikehau Capital buys a €160m French residential portfolio from Covivio

According to BI sources, Tikehau Capital has just finalized the acquisition, for approximately €160m, of a 500 lots residential portfolio from Paris-based REIT/SIIC Covivio. (...)

Housing 09/01/2020

France's Cedrus & Partners and Swiss Life AM raise €100m for their Immobilier Impact Investing fund

French firm Cedrus & Partners and Swiss Life Asset Managers France have announced the second closing of their real estate fund, Immobilier Impact Investing, (...)

Housing 07/01/2020

French existing home sales hit another record high in 2019 - Century 21

Last year’s high sales levels recorded on the French existing home market have given way to new records in 2019, said the Century 21 (...)

Housing 23/12/2019

Greater Paris existing home sales slip 3% to 43,560 in August-October

Sales of existing housing stock in the Greater Paris region slipped by 3%yy in the three months to October to 43,560, but remain at (...)

Housing 20/12/2019

"We need to find more effective ways to contain the global temperature rise"

Business Immo: Foster + Partners has developed a method for assessing carbon emissions of buildings. Why did you take this initiative? David Nelson and Chris (...)

Housing 20/12/2019

La Française adds first coliving property, in Marseille

Paris-based La Francaise Real Estate Managers has acquired a mixed-use property in Marseille, the first building in France fully dedicated to coworking and coliving. Giving no (...)

Housing 19/12/2019

German listed Corestate, US Bain agree €500m Polish student housing partnership

German listed Corestate Capital has agreed a €500m financing and coinvestment partnership in Polish Micro-Living with Bain Capital aimed at converting properties into student housing. Bain Capital (...)

Housing 19/12/2019

Elements in place for German home price rises to continue in 2020 - Europace

Further German house price increases are likely in 2020 since all elements boosting values remain in place, according to home price index provider and (...)

Housing 18/12/2019

France's Réalités enters talks with Cap'Études operator of student residences

France's Réalités Group has entered exclusive negotiations with the shareholder and founding partner of Cap'Études, an operator of student residences, with the intention to (...)

Housing 18/12/2019

2020 Spanish house prices to rise most strongly outside major city centres

Residential prices in Spain should rise moderately during 2020, with those in major city centres gaining no more than 2% and increases elsewhere stronger, (...)

Housing 17/12/2019

France's in'li launches developer aiming at 80,000 housing units in 10 years

In'li, the French intermediate housing subsidiary of the Action Logement group, is launching a development firm to meet its ambition to produce 80,000 housing (...)