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LondonMetric and Schroder REIT finalise £404m Picton takeover

LondonMetric Property and Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust have finalised the terms of a £404 million all-share offer for the entire ordinary share capital of Picton. The UK REIT has recommended the deal to its shareholders.
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MSCI: H1 investment volumes into Europe lowest since 2013

Prologis building GSK’s new R&D centre in Cambridge

CBRE IM and Moda Living seal first deal for £2bn housing platform

Savills: offices attract the most global cross-border investment

Argan-WDP merger creates €13bn European logistics giant

Knight Frank: future of tech and real estate now intertwined

Arada launches first phase of £2.5bn Thameside West regeneration project in London

Segro rejects new £13.5bn offer from Prologis but talks carry on

AEW: positive outlook for prime European offices as rents grow

Azora opens Milan office, plans to invest an extra €1.5bn in Italy

Italy’s Ryze enters Spanish market with Krata acquisition

Panattoni gets go-ahead for new I&L park in Southampton

Singapore group to buy Unite’s £200m London PBSA project

GTC sells Avenue Mall Zagreb to Croatian investment fund

HBD secures forward funding for Golden Valley development

Valor and GIC acquire Horizon Logistics Park near Dublin

Berlin Hyp: dual approach can tackle rising rents in Europe

SHHA Summit: Spain’s demographic ‘tsunami’ to drive nursing home demand

BNP Paribas and Coima invest in Milan’s Diamond Tower

SHHA Summit: investors favour sector with ‘huge momentum’

SHHA Summit: creating the living-care-cure continuum

SHHA Summit: integrating housing, healthcare and support systems for seniors

Planon RE: Selecting the right data is key to scenario planning

Planon RE: reliable data beats AI in helping real estate investors make good decisions

CBRE IM acquires portfolio of eight logistics assets in Italy

LEAP doubles office space at Battersea Power Station

Elkstone adds to its student housing portfolio in Ireland

Ingka Group acquires first two solar parks in Spain to add to its renewable energy portfolio

Man Group raises £362m for UK affordable housing fund

INREV: investor confidence at record lows despite positive market performance in Europe

Urban Partners launches €650m regeneration fund targeting Europe’s housing shortage

Invel enters Italy’s PBSA market financing 2 Stonehill projects

Prologis to develop Spain’s largest EV truck charging hub at Port of Valencia

Catella: CBD supply constraints support office market recovery

INREV: global real estate AUM up by 5.7% after 3-year squeeze

Berlin Hyp: Iran crisis affects German CRE financing decisions

Polish investors account for over 30% of CRE investment

Pluto Finance expands into Germany with €93m loan

M7 acquires 13 prime logistics assets in Spain for €181m

Greystar raises record €2.7bn for pan-European residential fund

Rome approves large-scale urban regeneration project

Retrofitting UK buildings is ‘urgent’ due to climate change

CEE Summit: more diversified investor base in Poland now

CEE Summit: infrastructure a strength of Polish logistics hub

CEE Summit: repurposing assets a key decarbonising tool

CEE Summit: Poland wakes up to senior housing opportunity

Strong Q1 results for Czech industrial & logistics market

CEE Summit: data centres boom to attract new investors

CEE Summit: Resilience is Poland’s biggest attraction

CEE Summit: Hungary is ready for a ‘great journey of growth’

CEE Summit: EU stability and governance attract global real estate capital

CEE Summit: region’s outlook positive if it stays the course

Colliers: 2026 set to be a record year for CRE investment in CEE

Savills: Global prime office costs rose by 5% in the last year

Blackstone acquires majority stake in Greece’s leading e-commerce platform Skroutz

Frankfurt’s dominance of data centre market in Germany threatened by power issues

German data centres, domestic capital too slow to get on board

Data centres in Europe: strong demand but supply constraints

SHHA: demand/supply gap in German care market widening

MSCI: European CRE investment almost halves in Q1 2026 from Q4 2025

PBSA in Europe a ‘clear winner’ in attracting foreign capital

Sustainability is the fil rouge that links 2026 Mipim Awards winners

Living sectors outperforming despite geopolitical turmoil and economic headwinds

Savills: cross border investors targeting European offices

Public/private cooperation the key to unlock UK living sector

Affordable homes, The Housing Finance Corporation makes £550 million funding pledge

Work starts on Panattoni’s spec development in the Midlands

Renewables, Blackstone invests €2bn in Eurowind Energy

L&G’s new strategy to unlock £9bn of additional investment in affordable housing in UK

Poland’s CRE market rebounds in Q1, office demand strong

CapitaLand wins S$2.4bn real estate investment mandate

Branded residences, The One Atelier launches lockchain platform The One Capital

Healthcare, Northern Horizon announces second fund raise

Q1 investment volumes up 12% in Italy, retail & hotels dominate

INREV/ANREV: Return of institutional investors a positive for non-listed real estate

Savills: Southern Europe on investors’ radar as economy outperforms

Sixth Street to invest over £1bn in partnership to deliver affordable housing in UK

MSCI: Data centres outperformed all asset types but future remains uncertain

A third of UK investors chooses sustainability over returns

Covivio buys a portfolio of four-star hotels in Milan for €217m

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield places €750m green bond

a&o Hostels to double portfolio following €874m refinancing

UK’s Unite speeds up disposals, targets £500 million in sales

Knight Frank: transition to EV an opportunity for CRE owners

JPMorgan Chase set to build Canary Wharf’s tallest tower

Orion completes acquisition of 5-star Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon

Savills: the built environment must act to reduce air pollution

Happy Easter to all our readers

Germany’s largest cooperative renovation project underway

Call for entries in ULI Europe’s PropTech Innovation Challenge

Tishman Speyer buys London office building at 50 Pall Mall

T & T report: cost of building skyscrapers in London up 40%

Defence spending ‘to drive real estate performance in Europe’

INREV: war causes sharp drop in investor sentiment in March

Garbe enters hospitality sector in partnership with B&B Hotels

L&G and Hyde Group create affordable housing JV in UK

The Crown Estate’s £125m tech hub in Oxford gets approved

UK’s first Land Use Framework aims to balance infrastructure, nature and housebuilding

Colliers: investor appetite back as EMEA retail sector improves

ING: sustainable finance fuels real estate recovery in Europe

Greystar acquires Native to expand its presence in Europe

11 sustainable projects named winners of 2026 Mipim Awards

Colliers: good news for retail as Gen Alpha prefers ‘real’ shops

Dalata in expansion mode set to open its 7th hotel in London

Savills to buy US-based Eastdil Secured in a $1.1 billion deal

Ingka to open 20 IKEA small stores across Europe and the US

Pocket Living’s new model to ease London’s rental crisis

Global volatility a ‘major test of nerve’ for investors: PwC & ULI

Mipim briefing: more foreign investors interested in German market

ESG reshaping Europe’s real estate industry: SIOR report

New capital takes Northern Horizon’s Fund over €1bn mark

Real Asset Media welcomes all participants to MIPIM 2026

INREV: policy uncertainty a brake to investment in resi

Energy efficiency key to avoid stranded assets, survey shows

Knight Frank: UK hotels show resilience despite challenges

Grupo Empresas Matutes in €300 million deal to acquire 75% stake in Azora hotel JV

Retailers welcome decision to pedestrianise Oxford Street

Catella: European prime office rents growing, market stable

Savills: European office take-up set to increase by 3% in 2026

Redevco adds three retail parks in Spain to its European Fund

Evolution invests £1.1 billion in two luxury hotels in London

Clarion Partners acquires asset to expand its German portfolio

Outlook 2026: logistics the most attractive sector in the Netherlands, retail rebounding

Outlook 2026: foreign investors looking at Dutch market but uncertainty holds them back

Sweden top country as LEED certification grows in Europe

New Framework for a Nature-Positive Built Environment

Cheyne Capital loan to fund resi development in SE London

BlueCastle Capital expands UK BTR pipeline beyond £1 billion

Macquarie-led consortium takes over Qube, Australia’s largest logistics group

ULI: decarbonisation the best way to manage transition risks

Savills: self-storage markets in UK and Europe set to expand

NatWest commits £10bn to fund UK social housing sector

BlackRock’s Simon Durkin named ULI Europe’s new CEO

New ULI guide to accelerate decarbonisation of buildings

Newcore Social Infrastructure Fund achieves second close

Coima sets new targets to tackle Italy’s housing challenge

Outlook 2026: investors drawn to senior living in the Nordics

Real estate management key to success in logistics: Garbe

Outlook 2026: foreign capital turns to EU & German logistics

Garbe Pyramid: logistics sector resilient, but rental growth slow

Outlook 2026: industrial sector will outperform across Europe

Outlook 2026: Denmark resi attracts strong investor interest

Valor appointed asset manager for Apollo’s logistics portfolio

BREEAM New Construction Version 7 marks shift to Whole Life Carbon assessments

EPRA Insight London 2026: positive outlook for UK market

New luxury hotel in Milan’s Central Station, a first for Italy

Mapfre buys the Ombú office building in Madrid’s tech hub

M&G Real Estate: Europe is back on global investors’ radar

Cheyne Capital provides loan to redevelop Lisbon luxury hotel

Kingstone RE acquires medical centre in Baden-Württemberg

CBRE IM exceeds target with $1.6 billion raised for REP2 fund

Crossbay expands its urban logistics portfolio in France

Hines reorganises its European platform into 3 regional centres

Berlin Hyp: stable interest rates fuel optimism on prospects for German real estate in 2026

PBSA, Unite launches £100m share buyback programme

Green loan completes Valesco’s €200m investment in Moncler’s new HQ in Milan

Karteria Partners launched to bridge ESG and climate risk gaps in real asset investment

Aedifica invests €110m in six care homes in Europe

Seasonal good wishes from all the team at Real Asset Insight

M7 Real Estate buys 31 logistics assets in the UK and France

Barings buys office in Milan’s CBD for value-add strategy

Colliers: Germany’s early cycle market will offer opportunities

M&G Real Estate buys Dutch logistics portfolio for €100 mln

Yard Reeas acquires VSA Property Group in France

Northern Horizon adds three assets to its Finnish portfolio

Bucharest to get a new €2.5bn international airport

Outlook 2026: tech innovation leading to reform in real estate

Outlook 2026: increasing real estate/infrastructure crossover

European Outlook 2026: real estate sector is ‘facing reality’

ARGO buys Beckton Trade Park for its brown-to-green strategy

Activum to buy resort in Spain with loan from Cheyne Capital

Visa to move its European HQ to Canary Wharf in another coup for financial district

LondonMetric launches £500 million senior green bond

Skanska sells office complex in Prague to local investor AFI

London rises to third place in Savills’ global Tech Cities index

Henderson Park and General Projects complete Metropolis

AUAR wins ULI’s PropTech Innovation Challenge 2025

Four projects win the 2025 ULI Europe Awards for Excellence

UK: Hallam Land sells 1,270 resi plots to Persimmon Homes

Coima: short window to exploit opportunities in Italian market

New tools from ULI Europe to decarbonise affordable houses

PIMCO inaugurates mixed-use redevelopment in Madrid

Carne Group: “Renaissance” in European private real estate

AEW Outlook: offices and retail to lead market recovery in 2026

Arada buys 80% stake in £2.5bn Thameside West project

New framework for low-carbon development finance proposed

Savills: ‘clear signs of recovery’ in Dutch real estate market

RICS: demand for sustainable buildings slows down globally

ARCO publishes new policy to develop senior housing in the UK

Savills: 16% yoy increase in retail investment volumes in Europe

EDF Invest and Savills IM enter €600m pan-European living JV

PwC & ULI 2026 report: more pragmatism, less optimism

Azora enters French market buying senior housing portfolio

Savills: big deals are returning to the European office market

MSCI: European CRE market slow but upside seen in Q4

“Debt lock” situations still haunt the German market

Increasing competition in debt market hoping for more deals

Retail renaissance in CEE offers new opportunies for investors

CEE markets more attractive but ‘a new narrative’ needed

Positive end to 2025 for Poland after a ‘disappointing’ year

Ingka invests €720m to buy forest land in Latvia and Estonia

L&G launches £2 billion impact UK regional investment drive

Senior housing complex wins best new building in UK prize

Empira: real estate debt an opportunity in Switzerland

Novarum Capital to focus on logistics real estate in Spain

Two major lease extensions for Newmark in Birmingham

H.I.G. Realty establishes new self-storage platform in Italy

Innovo UK to develop its first prime resi project in London

Blackstone sells UK logistics assets for £1bn to Tritax Big Box

World mental health day: why offices must be green and fun

EPRA: Europe’s glass half full, real estate professionals say

EXPO: capital flowing again in expectation of a positive 2026

EXPO: benchmarks crucial to implementing ESG strategies

EXPO: bright prospects for the US real estate market in 2026

EXPO Real: Logistics market more focused and localised

EXPO Real: 40,000 expected in Munich for real estate trade fair

Savills: 7% increase in European investment volumes in 2025

Eight finalists named for ULI’s PropTech Innovation Challenge

Brookfield raises over $4 billion for infrastructure debt fund

Nuveen provides €350m loan to Dutch logistics portfolio

Royal London AM launches £1 billion Healthcare REIT in UK

Coima delivers Athletes’ Village for Winter Olympics in Milan

Nuveen adds two assets to European logistics portfolio

Zenzic launches real estate credit opportunities fund

Savills: real estate remains the world’s largest store of wealth

Take-up and deals to increase in H2 in Dutch logistics market

The race for space intensifies in the Dutch logistics market

Trends 2025: ESG and height the winning factors in logistics

Netherlands Outlook: ESG a prerequisite to get financing

Trends 2025: the right time to invest in CEE logistics is now

Savills: CEE logistics markets poised for long-term growth

ABP/Greystar JV invests €526m in Dutch affordable housing

QuadReal commits £2.5 billion to expand debt platform to UK

Castleforge and Conversant JV to target London office assets

PRS REIT sells entire portfolio to Waypoint for £642 million

Stanhope and Cheyne acquire £450m London office project

SHHA: consolidation coming to German senior housing market

SHHA: great opportunities in German senior housing market

Widening demand/supply gap in senior housing in Germany

Resilience of power supplies a growing concern for logistics

Logistics Census: ESG and AI adoption the game-changers

Garbe: supply chain resilience makes CEE markets attractive

Logistics Census ’25: investors positive, occupiers cautious

Garbe Pyramid: defence sector and e-commerce strong demand drivers for logistics

Logistics market robust, rental growth weak: Garbe Pyramid

PenSam and Vengrove JV to invest in European logistics

Greystar adds to BTR portfolio with Barking Wharf acquisition

Northern Horizon’s new fund equity rises above €600 million

Blackstone wins bidding war to buy €700m Paris office block

Patrizia and Fabrix JV to deliver affordable housing in London

MSCI: Investment in European hotels set to reach record

Real Asset Insight takes a two-week summer break

Savills: European office take-up increased by 8% in H1 2025

‘RE investment managers are not tackling climate change’

Colliers: consumer caution hits retail, luxury slows down

EPRA study: the ‘index effect’ boosts returns for members

Canary Wharf in demand as HSBC signs new office lease

Savills: costs for global prime office space up 3.4% in H1 2025

Isio: asset managers raise the bar on sustainable investing

Garbe Regeneration launched to develop brownfield sites

Aviva Investors adds to its office portfolio in the City of London

Octopus Energy, Smart and Kensa join forces to accelerate the UK’s energy transition

QuadReal acquires UK PBSA portfolio for over £500m

Audley and Elysian merge, creating the UK’s largest retirement village provider

Rockfield to develop two PBSA assets in Madrid with 300 beds

AXA IM Alts enters Japanese retail market with Tokyo buy

New Princes Group acquires Carrefour Italy in €1 billion deal

Avison Young: strong take-up in UK’s regional office markets

M7 buys logistics portfolio in France for Oxford/Australian JV

Master developer sought to regenerate Royal Albert Dock

Ardian & Rockfield buy Dutch PBSA portfolio from Nido

Arrow Capital buys Dutch logistics asset for its €3bn JV

Elevation’s third fund to deploy £270m in UK senior housing

Scandi consortium acquires Dalata Hotels for €1.4bn

Savills: European investment volumes up 11% in H1 this year

Blackstone’s revised offer sways Warehouse REIT’s shareholders

Masdar and Iberdola co-invest in €5.2 bln offshore wind farm

Dils: H1 investments in Italian market up 50% to €5.2bn

Green light for AXA IM Alts’ new City of London office tower

Savills: foreign capital boosts investment in French retail

Berkeley plans new mixed-use development in Oxford Street

Savills: 85% of capital invested in care homes is cross-border

Numa acquires Brighton hotel, plans further expansion in UK

King Street raises $950 million for European Real Estate fund

Dalata teams up with Deka to operate its first hotel in Berlin

SHHA Summit: ‘silver tsunami’ calls for longevity real estate

SHHA Summit: investment in healthcare to rise by 82% in Q2

SHHA Summit: ‘the imperative is promoting healthy ageing’

SHHA Summit: public/private cooperation key to delivery of sustainable senior housing

Greykite’s multi-let industrial platform expands to Germany

International Campus buys PBSA project in Rotterdam

New harbourside quarter in Folkestone given green light

Nido Living buys Brookfield’s €1.2 bln Iberian PBSA portfolio

ULI Europe: the future belongs to sustainable “nimble cities”

ULI Europe: real assets can benefit from global uncertainty

BREEAM Outstanding rating for Derbion shopping centre

London tops Savills’ global warehousing costs index

Eagle Hills and Coima deal to restore historic Venice hotel

C Change for Housing launch at ULI Conference in London