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Retail 02/07/2020

To house its second downtown Paris store, Ikea will pay €130m for 144 rue de Rivoli

Despite the current retail environment, IKEA clearly has no intention of revising its ambitions to set up operations in the heart of Paris. Not (...)

Retail 02/07/2020

2019, an excellent year for France's portfolio market - Arthur Loyd

The year 2019 will go down in the annals of the real estate portfolio sales market! According to the latest Arthur Loyd data, €8.3bn (...)

Retail 01/07/2020

“There are important economic reasons to adopt an environmentally conscious approach to investing”

Over the last 10 years, Norges Bank Investment Management, the investment manager of Norway's giant Pension Fund Global, has built an unlisted real estate (...)

Retail 01/07/2020

France registered a record €3.2bn in sale-and-leaseback transactions in 2019 - JLL

In France, the volume of real estate disposals by businesses and owner-occupiers, also known as sale-and-leaseback transactions, reached a record €3.2bn in 2019, according (...)

Retail 30/06/2020

Emmanuel Macron in favour of a moratorium on new commercial zones on the outskirts of cities

In the aftermath of the green wave in the municipal elections, French President Emmanuel Macron received the 150 members of the Citizen's Climate Convention (...)

Retail 29/06/2020

French government plans to create property companies to buy back downtown retail premises (press)

The French government is considering creating property companies to buy back retail premises and make them available at attractive rents, reports the newspaper Les (...)

Retail 29/06/2020

Paris’ RIVP launches a support plan for more than 2,000 retailers

French public housing agency Régie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris (RIVP) has announced, in conjunction with the City of Paris, the implementation of (...)

Retail 26/06/2020

"Our centres give us important responsibilities in terms of responsible consumption"

Recently awarded a "B" rating by ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services) for its environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices, Giant Paris-based REIT/SIIC Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield continues to (...)

Retail 25/06/2020

France’s Acsan and Regional Partner merge to form Ancoris

French real estate operator Axtom today announced the acquisition of Regional Partner, a company working in the promotion of territories and business prospecting, and (...)

Retail 25/06/2020

Mipim Startup Competition 2020: and the winners are...

The final of the Mipim Startup Competition 2020 was held today as part of a digital event. Spanish start-up Mayordomo, whose Smart Points connect (...)

Retail 24/06/2020

France's CFC to acquire multiple assets near Paris’ Place Vendôme

France’s Compagnie financière de Choiseul (CFC) continues its shopping in Paris CBD. According to BI sources, the group chaired by Éric Elkain is going (...)

Retail 24/06/2020

Aiming for carbon neutrality, Frey will invest €35m in the French timber industry

French retail REIT/SIIC Frey presented yesterday a new CSR strategy, which should enable it to achieve greenhouse gas emission neutrality by 2030. To this (...)

Retail 24/06/2020

With lockdowns easing, investments should resume in 2H20 - Savills

As the world is starting to get out of lockdown and a majority of countries are loosening restrictions, occupier demand has been the first (...)

Retail 23/06/2020

URW successfully places €750m of bonds

Giant Paris-based REIT/SIIC Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield today successfully priced a €750 Mn senior bond offering with a 12-year maturity and a 2.0% fixed coupon. The offering (...)

Retail 23/06/2020

“We can expect a lot of activity on Europe's CRE markets for the rest of the year”

Even though investors still had capital to deploy over the last few months, the Covid-19 pandemic led to a 40% drop in CRE investment (...)

Retail 19/06/2020

Catella Residential Partners sells Paris 2nd mixed-use asset

Catella Residential Partners has sold, on behalf of a private owner, a mixed block building (housing, retail and offices) with a total surface area (...)

Retail 18/06/2020

Post-lockdown, rents raise fears of bankruptcies among France's SMEs - CPME

According to a survey carried out on 27 May by France’s Confédération des petites et moyennes entreprises (CPME) - Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized (...)

Retail 18/06/2020

"This crisis was primarily an accelerator of underlying trends"

For its 27th edition, the barometer carried out by MSCI in partnership with Crédit Foncier Immobilier questioned, in the unprecedented context Covid-19 pandemic, 20 investment (...)

Retail 17/06/2020

“Why CIIAM is becoming Colliers Global Investors”

Eight months after taking over as head of Colliers International Investment & Asset Management (CIIAM), Arnaud Broussou, its chairman, and Grégoire Deramecourt, its managing (...)

Retail 16/06/2020

"Pan-European real estate funds are caught in a vicious circle"

Faced with the economic and social changes brought about by the Covid-19 epidemic, pan-European real estate funds have to deal with many uncertainties, particularly (...)