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Looking ahead after dire Europe GDP data

EU funding package – good for real estate?

Guest Blog: Exploring the practicalities of converting from LIBOR to SONIA

Outlook for UK housing market

Guest Blog: Eyes on Where Beijing, Shanghai Office Prices Go Next

The impact of Covid-19 on Dubai occupiers

Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on European Hotels Market

Government publishes regulations enabling planning committees to be held remotely

Guest Blog: Price Recovery and Liquidity Parallels From the GFC

Industrial and Logistics industry witnesses spike in flexible requirements due to panic buying Brits

Guest Blog: In Europe, These Are 10 Deals That Did Close in March

Temp use powers to rise as property adapts to coronavirus challenge

Corona Crisis May be Turning Point for ‘Just in Time’ Supply Chain Era, as Inventory to Sales Ratios Head Higher after Decades of Contraction

Embracing digital transformation is more important than ever – so how do we get it right?

Podcast: COVID-19’s impact on the world’s real estate investment markets

Guest Blog: WiredScore’s guide to improving your internet when working from home

RAI Coronavirus Special Report: final call for contributions

Rebalancing work and life

Guest Blog: Eviction ban set to spread across Europe

Guest Blog: How the hotel sector across Europe could play a crucial role in managing the COVID-19 crisis

RAI Coronavirus Special Report: financing and restructuring

RAI Coronavirus Special Report: vulnerable sectors

Cross-Border Weighting of Europe’s Top Markets

Guest Blog: Is silence really golden? How some noise may actually help productivity

RAI Coronavirus Special Report: investment & leasing transactions, capital flows, asset allocation & performance

San Francisco tops VC investment in 2019 with $27.8 billion

RAI Coronavirus Special Report: calls for insights and views on the macro context

Call for guest Blog articles and volunteers for video conference discussions on your market insights and views

CBRE: US markets entered crisis with extremely strong fundamentals

US commercial real estate moves into uncharted territory

Raft of UK property funds gated as valuers’ claim ‘material valuation uncertainty’

Coronavirus: future lessons from APAC investors’ perspective

Capital Economics: 45% fall in US investment activity is base case for 2020

French flexible workspace market grows by 20%

Small and medium businesses missing out on property finance

Netherlands buildings likely will be affected by rising sea levels in decades to come

Investment into Spain and Portugal’s student accommodation sector heats up

Nuveen: real estate strategy through coronavirus volatility

AEW: European investors not yet pricing in climate risks

Global UHNWI population to grow by 27% over the next five years according to Knight Frank

Top 20 UK towns and cities with strongest demand drivers for BTR and multifamily over next decade

AEW: future returns across most asset classes will be lower for longer

The Big Apple replaces London as top city for ultra-high-net-worth investment

AEW 2020 Global Perspective: how political uncertainty, climate change and global population growth impacts asset allocation

Four in five UHNWIs to alter 2020 investing strategies amid global economic slowdown and political upheaval

AEW 2020 Global Perspective: five global asset allocation and investment style influences

Luxury worldwide residential price growth slowing

Macro matters: coronavirus forcing central banks’ hand as domestic demand shock climbs

Wealthy investors rank property above bonds and equities

Generation X need 10,000 more flexible UK offices by 2030 to absorb demand

UK real estate fund outflows slows further to £18m in January

Coronavirus: brick-and-mortar retailers will be second-hardest real estate sector hit

Coronavirus: identifying real and perceived risks to global economy

Coronavirus: impact on the global economy deteriorating

Coronavirus: Asia markets to feel brunt of real estate pain, while US to suffer tourism pinch

Paris becomes the top European market for foreign investors

PIA: best practice ESG principles for UK real estate industry

Knight Frank: prime central residential demand rising as supply shrinks

PIA launches best practice framework for a responsible real estate industry

ESG: one-third of global CO2 emissions is created by worldwide building stock

UK care home supply crisis to reach tipping point by 2029

Coronavirus: the macro context of the escalating crisis

ULI: incentives for public sector land release needed

ULI: best practice guidelines to support supply of ‘intermediate housing’ at scale

Rotterdam tops index as Europe’s most attractive port for logistics investment

UK hotel investment defied Brexit uncertainty in 2019 with investment reaching £6 billion

Funds and REIT’s invest £10.5 billion in UK real estate in Q4

Record-breaking year for European hotel investment

Central London investment activity up 140% year on year as confidence rebounds

CBRE: Middle Eastern investors flock to UK regions for yield pick-up

Coronavirus: the context for real estate markets

UK capital values edge down in January but Q4 momentum soon to show uptick

Asian REITs and investors lead the way with AI adoption in real estate

Global commercial real estate investment volumes reached US$800 billion in 2019

Real estate executives increasingly acknowledge the need for data governance frameworks

CRE firms’ data strategy is rising among corporate priorities

Structural demand drivers and technology reorder customer experience as top real estate priority

Six out of 10 global CRE executives now acknowledge PropTech’s disruptive impact

CBRE: Central London take-up in January slid 66% month-on-month

International investors spend €4.2 billion in Dutch residential market last year

Calastone: UK property fund redemptions slows to £78 million in 16th consecutive monthly outflows

35% of office deals in London involve operators of flexible workspace

Dutch housing shortage increases

RCA: iconic Grand Paris infrastructure project propelled France to record €42 billion in 2019 real estate investment

CBRE: Continental investment volumes up 2% to €248 billion in 2019

London landlords focus on evolving service expectations as occupiers’ transition to customers

RCA: German real estate investment transactions hits all-time peak at €76 billion in 2019

RCA: European investment activity finished 2019 strong to close €308 billion

Knight Frank: almost £50 billion of global capital to flock to London in 2018

Nuveen Real Assets: challenging macro backdrop supports defensive sector focus in 2020

Los Angeles pips London as economically strongest city for fourth consecutive year

Strong fundamentals to drive logistics to another high watermark year in 2020

Almost 80% of global flexible offices are profitable, new research suggests

Spanish office market hit decade-high investment haul in 2019

Record growth in student housing last year, 2020 predicted to be even stronger

Colliers: December 2019 was the third-best month ever for UK commercial property investment

Data centres: institutional capital chasing hypergrowth markets across the Continent

Brexit Begins: UK CRE investor sentiment buoyed by stable government and Brexit mispricing

Brexit Begins: UK’s symbolic exit from the EU sets stage for tough trade negotiations

Savills 2020: hunt for yield endures as alternatives break into mainstream

Data centres come of age after decade-long investment tops $100 billion globally

Real estate owners will look to technology to meet sustainability requirements

Savills 2020: less centralised business centres enter mainstream

Sustainability best practices increasingly accepted as new norm among investors

Proptech acceleration in 2020 will hasten industry’s digital transformation

JLL: office supply squeezes will drive rental growth in London and the Big Six

Evercore: €63 billion in European loan portfolios sold in 2019

Evercore: €26 billion of live European loan portfolios loan currently up for sale

Real estate owners will look to technology to meet sustainability requirements

UBS: WeWork fallout will unlikely impede office sector in 2020

JLL: UK investment returns will return to positive territory in 2020

IPF: Two-thirds of UK institutional investors to increase residential exposure in the coming year

JLL: UK investment volumes to rally to £55 billion in 2020

Investment Intentions 2020: €98 billion in fresh equity to be deployed in global real estate this year

UBS: liquidity to return to retail sector in 2020 but predominantly in higher quality segment

MSCI: all eyes on climate change, human capital and stakeholder capitalism

New high watermark for Swedish investment volumes as new entrants’ flock

Cushman: cities with high growth in both labour force growth and GDP are predictors of strong real estate demand

MSCI: five global real estate trends to watch this decade

Cushman: Demographic shifts will impact global workplace by 2030

CBRE 2020: Brexit and US elections twin political issues underpinning sentiment

CBRE 2020: mega trends are structural shifts influencing real estate trends

Contrarian view: opportunistic investors to bet heavy on UK retail in 2020

The contrarian view: uncertainty will underpin positive investment returns

CBRE 2020: offices, beds and sheds to outperform broader UK market

Schroders: what to expect in European real estate and private debt in 2020

CBRE 2020: UK market will rebound when Brexit withdrawal agreement is achieved

CBRE 2020: lower interest rates for longer while prime yields are nearing floors

German commercial investment volumes hit new €71 billion high watermark in 2019

Colliers: City of London sees rental growth of 5%

Savills: Investment into London hotels set for record 2020

Low interest rates will endure in 2020 in the face of economic slowdown

South Korean investment into Europe up 120% higher in 2019

Debt investment appetite to increase over the next two years

Savills: Nordics markets to continue to attract international capital over next two years

Ecommerce growth buoyant in Nordics market in 2019

Investment into Barcelona office markets to break records in 2019

London investment volumes rises 15% in Q4 to almost £2.8 billion

Preliminary Nordics investment volumes suggest €42 billion for 2019

Germany’s ‘develop and hold’ resi development sector to reach €40 billion in coming years

Savills: limited prime stock, late-cycle sentiment and diversification drive will be 2020 investment themes

How should property investors be positioned for an economic recession?

Savills: Space is adapting to technological change, dynamic business environments and economic uncertainty

Cushman on 2020: four key messages for the logistics sector

Savills: search for income-producing assets will be a key driver for 2020 investment activity

Nuveen identifies the risks and opportunities to a positive 2020 real estate outlook

Cushman on 2020: four key messages for the disrupted retail sector

Brexit: receded uncertainty makes UK property looks competitively priced

Brexit: Tory landslide to unlock pent-up demand for UK property

London tops rankings for global fintech hubs

Cushman on 2020: climate change will affect valuation, leasing and investment markets

Non-listed real estate total expense ratios diverse across Europe and Asia

Cushman on 2020: real estate not keeping pace with changing European demographics

Cushman on 2020: liquidity in offices continues to shift out of town

Asian investors set their sights on German debt investment market

Dutch residential investment volumes to reach €9.3 billion in 2019

Cushman on 2020: private equity could be the leading source of capital for high yield assets next year

Outflows in UK real estate funds accelerates in November to rise to £2.5 billion in last two years

Cushman on 2020: economics and politics will become increasingly intertwined

Dutch retail sector heads towards multichannel to combat e-commerce and population aging

AEW: European real estate outlook positive despite worsening global economic growth and sentiment forecasts

Demand drivers across Europe’s largest healthcare markets underpinned by diverging trends

WeWork rescue a wake-up call for industry on systemic risk in heavy coworking concentration

Why Berlin is the hottest office market in Europe

US real estate risk premium increases as uncertainty weighs on sentiment

INREV: Diversification benefits of real estate top priority in all markets except Germany

UBS: Europe’s residential sector’s meteoric rise as investors’ second favourite asset class

INREV: investors across Europe are enlarging the boundaries of what constitutes ‘real estate’

UBS: European volumes declining at snail’s pace while yields remain at record lows

UBS: eurozone occupier office and logistics demand remains robust amid broader depressed economic sentiment

INREV: survey finds sentiment remains positive as multi-sector investors increase weightings

UBS: coworking sector needs a shakeout to leave a few thriving profitable operators

INREV: insurance companies dominate investor universe across seven major European markets

UBS: global yields are broadly flat, volumes down and returns start to converge

Foreign capital into Sweden logistics market propels record investment volumes in 2019

Fitch: prime UK shopping centre rents will continue to weaken driven by CVA-led discounts

PropTech: technology application must be aligned to the balance of landlord, tenant and investor building requirements

PropTech-led innovations remain mismatched with adoption trends within real estate sector

Cushman: e-commerce supply chain can account for 50% or more of total supply chain spend

Fitch: UK retailers’ use of CVAs is accelerating adjustment to sector stress

PropTech: technology, climate crisis and tenant demands are changing real estate sector business models

PropTech innovations to overhaul healthcare sector

PropTech: real estate sector is slow to embrace digitalisation but the benefits are substantial

Cushman: London’s New Bond Street is most expensive shopping street in Europe

UBS: elevated Italian bond rates for a prolonged period would deteriorate real estate investor confidence

Cushman: Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay retains crown as the world’s most expensive shopping street

UBS: Italian market is an outlier among European peers

Savills: fall in bond yields continues to drive European investment

UBS analyses Italian government bond rates and real estate relationship

M3 Consulting: anticipated UK development and investment activity by overseas slumps has fallen

British Land: challenged UK retail market is encouraging opportunistic pricing amid sparse liquidity

CIMA: professionals’ cognisance of automation risk to their job security increases

Global prime residential price softening gathers pace over 12 months to Q3

KPMG: larger real estate companies are embracing technology to greater effect than smaller counterparts

European sale-and-leasebacks account for 11% of total retail investment volumes to Q3 2019

KPMG: efficiency and decision-making improvements trump revenue generation in tech adoption

Outflows from retail property funds extended to £2.6 billion over 13 months despite revived investor optimism

Private equity investment into global retail sector tops £32 billion within the last two years

KPMG: real estate sector’s digital transformation is slow and hampered by insufficient tech talent

Logistics take-up in South East already surpasses last year’s annual tally

RCA: end of Brexit saga could reverse fortunes for overseas capital flows into UK

RCA: Paris edges ahead of London in YTD investment volumes

Rental growth and yield compression continue throughout Europe in Q3

PropTech: technology application must be aligned to the balance of landlord, tenant and investor building requirements

JLL: Europe’s coliving sector at a ‘tipping point’ as institutional interest soars

CBRE: moderation in European investment volume in Q3 to €69.5 billion but ample liquidity

RCA: big-ticket deals drive in Warsaw offices drives CEE volumes Across CEE to 10-year high

Cushman: majority of CRE executives remain positive on coworking but digital security and privacy cited as top concern

Cushman: coworking phenomenon climbs to 125 million square feet worldwide

Secured property debt market preferred by two-thirds of investors, survey shows

Aviva: investors consider real assets as a safe haven in an uncertain world

Oxane: real estate debt market’s digital maturation will inevitably come in time

Brexit Watch: investors poised for six weeks of volatility as UK prepares to go to the polls

Aviva: real estate debt most popular investment among insurers

Aviva: resilience in the face of uncertainty

Knight Frank: super prime London resi investors spent £2bn in London

Aviva’s CIO discusses European city strategy

Oxane Partners: real estate financing sector’s is technology transformation is slow but inevitable

Aviva: real assets appetite continues to grow amid turbulent backdrop

Aviva: global allocations to real assets to increase over the coming 12 months

Healthcare, manufacturing and retail are industries set to benefit most from 5G, Huawei research suggests

Cass Lending Report: prime lending margins continued to come under pressure in H1

Colliers: UK industrial and logistics take-up on track to exceed the 10-year annual average

Cass Lending Report: new UK property lending up 4% to £23.3 billion in H1

CBRE: UK prime CRE nudged up 0.4% in Q3, driven by industrials and offices

Preqin: investors displaying mix of increased caution and evidence they are nearing target allocation fulfilment

Cushman: Brexit considered a tactical issue with respect to timing and price rather than a structural hit to its appeal

Preqin: global real estate fundraising volumes rose to $121 billion YTD; on track for record annual haul

Solvency II review: EIOPA delays updating solvency capital requirements for real estate citing scarce necessary data

European shopping centre market development activity polarised by country and city

JLL: steady demand in Dublin office market

Super prime residential sale volumes in London resilient amid wider slowdown in the capital

Savills: Germany set for another record years for investment volumes

Savills: City office take-up to exceed 6 million sq ft by year-end

Property developers increasingly to turn to platforms and challenger banks for finance

Patrizia: unlevered European residential annual returns to average up to 6.5% over the next five years

Regional riches: Europe’s non-capital cities are drawing in ever-greater investment

Savills: alternative investment volumes reflect almost 30% of YTD UK volumes

Oxane Partners: real estate finance sector is primed for digital transformation, survey reveals

CBRE: UK investment returns at 1.9% over first three quarters

RCA: logistics sector and secondary markets favoured by South Korean within Europe

Savills outlines retailers’ blueprint to survive and thrive in age of digitalisation

RCA: South Korean cross-border investment to top $20 billion globally in 2019

FAP Group: office and resi remain top of the sector rankings for German mez lenders

FAP Group: German mezzanine finance providers expects one-third rise in lending next year

Waterway Investments: investing in non-CBD Germany in a maturing cycle

Savills: institutional investment into global residential sector tops US$110 billion in H1 2019

Calastone: retail investors withdraw £2.7 billion from UK property funds in last 12 months

EXPO 2019: South Korean investment across Europe surges to more than €11 billion YTD

JLL: €3 billion of Irish deals traded in the first nine months

Catella: residential sector emerges as European second hottest sector in last 12 months

UK shopping centre pricing to stabilise next year as CVA season runs its course

Catella: European housing rental yields lowest in 40 years

UK retail sector sentiment to remain subdued but use of CVAs may have peaked

FCA issues new rules to protect against a future open-ended property fund liquidity crisis

Savills: Zurich and Geneva are forecast to see large in-migration inflows

Brexit watch: CBRE downgrades economic outlook for UK as Chancellor readies £17 billion no-deal response

Savills: real estate impacts of changing global tourism attitudes

Effective workplace strategy to optimise productivity across Europe

Macro matters: markets absorb contrasting news which drives fresh bond yield spike

Savills: lessons from the UK logistics market

Bouwinvest: residential investment overtakes office sector in Netherlands for first time

Savills: European logistics investment volumes reached €12.2 billion in H1

Savills: record European logistics take-up in H1 fueled by ‘unprecedented’ demand

Bouwinvest: scarcity of supply the Netherlands is drawing attention to secondary cities

UBS: weakened macro environment influences a mitigated property downgrade for five-year returns

INREV: €5.6 billion expected to come to market in 2021 from best-performing fund vintage

INREV: up to €13.2 billion worth of European real estate assets could come to market

UBS: interest rate environment boosts the outlook for returns

Savills: South Korean invest €6.2 billion across Europe in H1

Macro Matters: three factors behind market malaise

DWS: European prime all property total return forecast at 4.0% per annum over five years

Portugal tops rankings of the most attractive retail environment within EU

DWS: European average property yields will compress further over next 12 months

DWS: investor demand and weak deal flow mismatch driven by lack of product and markets trading at capacity

Knight Frank: UK hotel industry growth spurt continues

Savills: West End pre-lets drive take-up as supply remains restricted

DWS: robust European occupier markets and return of negative bond yields fuelling core real estate demand

CMS: micro locations will surge in coming two decades, predicts younger generations

CMS: rental attitudes of younger generations sharply differ to baby boomers

DWS: UK investment returns will continue to decelerate but ‘no-deal’ Brexit still expected to be avoided

Savills: Madrid office take-up climbs 25% in H1

CMS: Berlin tops list of European cities for best residential rent control policies

UBS: Investment activity slumped by one-third in H1

Savills: office take-up exceeds 1 million in the City of London in July

CBRE: cross-border capital flows to and from the US continues to slow

UBS: central London office rental growth forecast flipped back positive

RED: investment in Danish real estate forecast to reach €8bn in 2019

Multi-family matures into a global asset class

RSM and Nyenrode Business University launch European real estate tax guide

RED: Danish investment volumes slip 54% in H1 while foreign capital still dominates

UBS: secondary UK shopping centres averaging 20% vacancy rates as polarised performance deepens

UBS: UK office demand resilient in the face political drama, while retail struggles

Preqin: growing proportion of global investors believe a market correction is imminent

Pre-lets drive London leasing activity above 10-year average in July

CBRE: debt remains attractive during the late-cycle as significant new capital raised in H1

UK investors get creative amid uncertainty in London’s office market

CBRE: European CMBS pipeline for H2 looks steady and in line with 2018

CBRE: slump in retail sector acting as a drag on UK balanced funds pulling universe into discounted NAVs