The French government has launched a plan to develop 60,000 student housing units by 2022, including a national steering committee and new Student Housing (...)
Vivenio, a Spanish REIT/SOCIMI structured and managed by Madrid group Renta and 95% funded by Netherlands pension manager APG, has invested €240m to acquire projects (...)
Global real estate manager AEW has completed a further close of its French housing fund Residys at €165m in institutional equity. It takes total commitments to (...)
Multi-family residential investment as a proportion of all CRE spend in Europe surged in the first half to 17%, almost €20.5bn and the highest (...)
US-based housing group Greystar is launching a platform in France to acquire and develop student and private rented residential, and is opening an office (...)
German building permits in the year to July climbed 1.9% to 203,300 from the same period last year, according to official statistics. The permits were (...)
Spain's Banco Santander has reached agreement to sell US-based opportunity fund Cerberus a portfolio of 35,700 residential properties for over €1.54bn, representing 55% of (...)
London-based investment manager Europa Capital, is pushing further into housing, signing an option for €22m on a 15th century palace in Palma, Majorca, that (...)
Spain's positive economy is providing its real estate market with an ongoing tailwind, and office, retail, hotel and logistics are on a growth trajectory (...)
US-based Blackstone has taken control of Spanish listed housing firm Testa less than two months after flotation, buying 50.01% in an offer for Merlin (...)
CBRE Global Investment Partners and Madison International Realty are jointly acquiring a 6,458-unit Spanish residential portfolio valued at €870m from Madrid's Azora group, which (...)
A record 56% of all French citizens feel that home mortgage loans are now easy to obtain so that bank lending continues to support (...)
Britain's Aberdeen Standard Investments, created last year in a merger of insurer Standard Life and the manager Aberdeen, has invested €120m in residential projects (...)
Second quarter price growth for existing housing in France slowed slightly to 2.8%yy from 2.9% in 1Q18 but the deceleration on a quarterly basis (...)
Berlin listed housing firm Deutsche Wohnen aims to exploit rental income potential from its 160,000 housing units, and sees this with more potential than (...)
Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate, part of the German cooperative banking system, has added 750 housing units to its UniImmo: Wohnen ZBI fund for (...)
Large and accelerating investment into alternative real estate segments will double the size of the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Europe real estate index to (...)
Publicly-quoted housing firms like Germany's giant Vonovia will boom in Europe as policymakers grapple with soaring demand, EPRA executives say. Markets in Netherlands and (...)
Spanish home sales could reach 0.5m this year after second quarter transactions surged 12.4% above 1Q17 levels to 134,196, according to the nation's College (...)
Europe's housing markets are staging a soft landing mainly since monetary conditions will stay favourable, says S&P Global Ratings. German and French prices will slow (...)