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Housing 17/12/2019

Catella adds €120m residential assets in German, Dutch, Danish deals

The Swedish Catella group has made six acquisitions for its main housing fund, Catella Wohnen Europa, for some €120m, taking its assets under management (...)

Housing 16/12/2019

Commerz Real adds Frankfurt student residence eyeing €227m redevelopment

Commerz Real is adding a student residence to its portfolio from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, with plans to redevelop the site (...)

Housing 13/12/2019

France calls for 25yr maximum maturities for banks' home mortgages

France's High Financial Stability Committee has called for banks to limit their residential home mortgage issuance to a maximum maturity of 25 Years. Including the (...)

Housing 12/12/2019

Amundi, Crédit Agricole acquire 38-asset mixed portfolio on Lyon Presqu'île

Live from Simi (Paris) - Amundi Immobilier and Crédit Agricole Centre-Est have acquired a mixed portfolio of 38 real estate assets located on Lyon's Presqu'île for (...)

Housing 11/12/2019

"Coliving is not a risky investment, but a positioning in hyper-urban residential rental housing"

Business Immo: What is Colonies’ coliving proposition?  François Roth: Our ambition is to enable people from all walks of life to live together comfortably and (...)

Housing 11/12/2019

Coliving at the forefront of Europe’s housing solutions

In its recently published European Coliving Index, JLL estimates that coliving has grown to 23,160 beds either built or in the development pipeline across (...)

Housing 11/12/2019

French Gecina to spin off €3bn residential to allow unit to open capital

Giant French REIT/SIIC Gecina is to spin off of its 6,000-unit residential portfolio worth €3bn to allow, at the appropriate moment, this subsidiary to (...)

Housing 10/12/2019

Foncia Property Managment changes name to Esset

Foncia Institutional Property Management, a unit of France's Foncia Group, has changed its name to Esset Property Management as it moves into new headquarters in the CB16 tower (...)

Housing 06/12/2019

Dutch 2019 rental home sales rise 7.5% to €9.3bn, foreign interest strong

A record €9.3bn in Dutch rental homes were sold this year, up 7.5% against 2018, with interest from both domestic and international investors holding (...)

Housing 04/12/2019

Stiffened Berlin rental rules may hit home prices via mortgage limits

Stiffened Berlin rental cap rules may hit home prices if mortgage banks are obliged to mark down values originally used in the issuance of (...)

Housing 04/12/2019

Corestate adds first Spain property for JOYN biz apartment brand, eyes 10

Corestate Capital Holdings, listed in Luxembourg, has acquired the first Spanish property for its JOYN brand business apartments in Madrid, and aims to have 10 operational (...)

Housing 03/12/2019

Top floor penthouse on Cannes' Croisette sells for €70,000 per sqm

The Finamas group, controlled by the Masliah family and specialising in luxury residential, has sold a top floor penthouse on the Croisette in Cannes for €70,000 per sqm. The (...)

Housing 02/12/2019

ADO closes €920m sale of Berlin residential portfolio to Gewobag

Berlin-based ADO Properties has closed the €920m sale of a residential portfolio in the German capital to Gewobag, the communal housing firm that sold off (...)

Housing 29/11/2019

Greater Paris home sales rise 9%qq in 3Q19 on steady demand

Sales of existing homes in Greater Paris rose by 9%qq in the third quarter of this year, accelerating from a slowdown to 4% in (...)

Housing 26/11/2019

Catella, Elithis kick off €2bn Euro energy-positive resi towers program

Catella Residential IM, part of Sweden's listed Catella, together with French group Elithis, is starting a €2bn program to develop 100 energy-positive residential towers (...)

Housing 26/11/2019

French public-private initiative aims at challenges in housing

A major new public-private initiative is being launched in France today to investigate ways to approach and, if possible, solve some of the nation's (...)

Housing 25/11/2019

Strong Berlin, Madrid, Paris resi prices joined by Frankfurt, Geneva, Zurich

European home prices in Berlin, Madrid and Paris have, as predicted, performed strongly in 2019 but have been joined, and often beaten by, Frankfurt (...)

Housing 21/11/2019

European house price growth seen strongest in Germany

House price increases among major European nations will be strongest in Germany going forward, followed by France, says Geneva-based bank Edmond de Rothschild. In a (...)

Housing 19/11/2019

Aroundtown, TLG to form one of Europe's three biggest property firms, with €25bn AUM

Two of Europe's largest commercial property groups, Aroundtown and TLG, are to merge into the largest firm of its kind and one of the (...)

Housing 19/11/2019

German property prices rising but growth is slowing - Pfandbrief Banks

German real estate prices continue to point in only one direction: upwards, says the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks (vdp). But growth momentum is (...)