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Housing 27/09/2018

France launches student housing plan targeting 60,000 units by 2022

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 (...)

Housing 26/09/2018

APG's Spanish resi REIT Vivenio adds 1,100 project units for €240m

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 (...)

Housing 24/09/2018

AEW completes new close of French Residys resi fund, for €165m

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 (...)

Housing 24/09/2018

1H European multi-family resi investment surges to 5yr record 17% - Savills

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 (...)

Housing 24/09/2018

US Greystar launches French student/PRS platform under new MD Kurata

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 (...)

Housing 20/09/2018

German building permits up 1.9% at 203,000 in year to July

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 (...)

Housing 19/09/2018

Spain’s Santander to sell 36k resi portfolio to Cerberus for €1.5bn

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 (...)

Housing 19/09/2018

Europa Capital options 15th century Majorcan palace for resi conversion

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 (...)

Housing 18/09/2018

Spain's commercial real estate to stay on growth course - Deutsche Hypo

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 (...)

Housing 17/09/2018

Blackstone takes control of Spain's Testa less than 2mths after flotation

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 (...)

Housing 11/09/2018

CBRE GIP, Madison invest €870m in 6.5k Spanish resi package

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 (...)

Housing 10/09/2018

French home buying supported by ease of access to mortgages - survey

A record 56% of all French citizens feel that home mortgage loans are now easy to obtain so that bank lending continues to support (...)

Housing 07/09/2018

UK’s Aberdeen Standard invests €120m in Paris, Vienna resi projects

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 (...)

Housing 06/09/2018

French 2Q housing price growth slows to 2.8%yy - notaries/Insee

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 (...)

Housing 06/09/2018

Deutsche Wohnen focuses on rent uplift rather than resi, care expansion

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 (...)

Housing 06/09/2018

Hamburg's Union pays €82m to add 750 German housing units to fund

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 (...)

Housing 05/09/2018

Alternatives to double European listed RE cap to €500bn in 5 yrs - Kempen

Large and accelerating investment into alternative real estate segments will double the size of the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Europe real estate index to (...)

Housing 05/09/2018

Listed housing firms such as Vonovia to boom in Europe – EPRA

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 (...)

Housing 04/09/2018

2018 Spanish home sales could reach 0.5m after strong 2Q - registrars

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 (...)

Housing 03/09/2018

Europe's housing markets stage a soft landing - S&P Global

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 (...)