Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is to give the opening keynote speech at MIPIM 2019, sharing his vision of the new (...)
Munich-based pension giant BVK has taken its holdings in Nordic housing to €820m with the acquisition, made on its behalf by Helsinki's CapMan Real Estate, of a (...)
With the UK's exit from the EU still expected on 29 March, the number of French housing ads consulted from Britain over the last (...)
Spain will need another 2m homes over the next 15 years to meet accelerating demand and to build them must attract around €300bn in (...)
Canadian alternative investment giant Brookfield has entered student housing in France, buying the 1,200-bed ECLA Paris complex at the University of Paris-Saclay from US specialist Harrison Street. Giving (...)
Over 350 private student housing projects with 105,000 beds are in the pipeline in Europe over the next two years worth €15bn, says specialist (...)
Legendary real estate investor Léon Bressler, who founded French retail giant Unibail, has entered German housing, taking a control of a developer via his (...)
The Opéra residential real estate fund, launched in last December and managed by French investment manager Stam France Investment Managers, has paid 110 M€ (...)
Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate investment arm of Quebec-based pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), signed last year the (...)
France's CDC Habitat, the housing firm of state financial institution Caisse des Dépôts, has initiated the implementation of its "Trajectoire 2022" transformation plan, resulting (...)
French Ampere Gestion, a CDC Habitat subsidiary, and Swiss Life Asset Managers announced that it had successfully secured funding of €650m to close the (...)
UK-based Europa Capital was a net seller from value-add funds in 2018, leveraging strong investor interest for stabilised office and residential assets in an (...)
French Ampère Gestion, part of French state financier CdC which led the first-ever takeover of a public sector housing portfolio last summer for €1.4bn, has raised (...)
German residential investment slipped by a modest 3%yy to €15.1bn last year, and was marked by the entry of several first-time buyers, says adviser (...)
Prices of Spanish new and resale homes were 5.8% higher in fourth quarter 2018 than in 4Q17, according to provisional data from valuation group (...)
European alternative real estate sectors such as student and other 'Living' sectors are poised, alongside logistics, to perform well in 2019 despite political noise (...)
New Spanish homebuilding permits rose in the first 10 months of 2018 to 83,882, up 23.2% from the same 2017 period, according to official (...)
Investment in German residential real estate rose 16%yy to €16.3bn in 2018 but, says adviser BNP Paribas Real Estate, even if demand is strong, (...)
French existing housing stock sales should in 2018 reach the prior year record, boosted by first-time buyers, and are likely to be strong this (...)
After reaching nearly 5% growth in volume in 2017, the expansion in French construction slowed to 2.3% in 2018, according to the FFB building (...)