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Retail 17/01/2023

Paris 8th district: Renaissance attracts luxury and art players

An iconic building in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, the former headquarters of Europe 1, which has been restructured by the value-added investor Ardian (...)

Office 17/01/2023

La Française REM increases its exposure to the UK

La Française REM, acting on behalf of the SCPIs LF Europimmo and Épargne Foncière, has acquired an office building in Manchester city center, located (...)

Office 17/01/2023

La Défense: a luxury house seduced by the Alto Tower

Alto Tower, owned by LaSalle Investment Management, is about to welcome a new occupant. According to our information, a French company belonging to the (...)

Hospitality 17/01/2023

The French hotel industry has demonstrated its strong resilience in 2022 (Extendam)

« We were all expecting a year of transition in 2022, but that was not the case at all, says Vianney Lautrous, head of (...)

Office 16/01/2023

In Lyon, the office rental market and CRE investment market on opposite trajectories

Laurent Vallas guarantees it : the Lyon office rental market « remains active » and take-up should be within the ten-year average of around 50,000 (...)

Logistics 16/01/2023

In first French acquisition, Penta Infra buys a data center campus near Paris

Penta Infra, a European data center services provider and subsidiary of Dutch group Photon Capital, is making its entry into France. According to our (...)

Career 16/01/2023

Floris Van Maanen takes over from Didier Unglik as CEO of Sienna Real Estate

Sienna Investment Managers, the alternative investment platform owned by Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), has appointed Floris Van Maanen as the new CEO of Sienna (...)

Retail 13/01/2023

The contours of the retail portfolio sold by Swiss Life Asset Managers France

Yesterday, Swiss Life Asset Managers France (Slam France) announced the sale of all the assets of its thematic fund targeting food retail and shopping (...)

Career 13/01/2023

Longevity Partners : a new CEO for France and a new division

Longevity Partners now has a new managing director for France in the person of Bernard d'Arche. At the same time, the global multidisciplinary ESG (...)

Finance 13/01/2023

"We expect a greater polarisation within real estate markets between the best and the worst assets"

BiTV Interview receives Mike Bessell, Managing Director - European Investment Strategist, at Invesco Real Estate. In a forward-looking note published last week by Invesco, he argued (...)

Office 12/01/2023

"The value proposition of the property manager is back in the real estate chain"

Business Immo: Since the health crisis, has there been a change in the way property management is viewed? Csongor Csukás: Yes, property management is receiving (...)

Listed 12/01/2023

SIICs' financial and extra-financial communication under the microscope (KPMG/FEI)

KPMG and investor association Fédération des entreprises immobilières (FEI) have just published their latest study on the financial communication of SIICs, France's listed REITs. (...)

Career 12/01/2023

Kamal Rhazali, General Secretary and General Counsel of Accor's Luxury & Lifestyle Division

Kamal Rhazali, 44, has been appointed Corporate Secretary and General Counsel of Accor's Luxury & Lifestyle division, effective February 1. He will also become (...)

Career 12/01/2023

Benoit de la Boulaye, new Global CIO of BNP Paribas REIM

BNP Paribas REIM, which has achieved €4bn of transactions by 2022, is reorganising after the departure of Sigrid Duhamel, revealed exclusively by Business Immo (...)

Career 11/01/2023

Guillaume Atten strengthens the Capital Markets department of Avison Young France

Guillaume Atten, former Director of Residential Capital Markets at Ikory, has recently joined the Capital Markets department of Avison Young France. He has been (...)

Retail 11/01/2023

France's specialised retail ends 2022 on a high note (Procos)

In its latest specialised retail report, Procos reports that activity in points of sale was rather "satisfactory" in December with a clear acceleration at (...)

Retail 11/01/2023

Tikehau Capital puts a portfolio of B&M shops back on the market

It was a deal that came close to being completed in mid-2022. Oxford Properties and its subsidiary M7 Real Estate were about to acquire (...)

Finance 11/01/2023

M&G raises €578m for new continental European residential property strategy

M&G has expanded its international real estate fund range with the launch of the M&G European Living Property Fund, which has launched with €578m of capital (...)

Finance 11/01/2023

Allianz Real Estate to be rebranded

Following the merger of Pimco and Allianz Real Estate, in October 2020, the group's full range of real estate capabilities will come under the (...)

Office 11/01/2023

A record €173m deal in Brussels for SCPI fund Corum Origin

Before turning the page to 2022 for good, the SCPI Corum Origin has struck hard. On December 28, according to our information, it signed (...)