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Knight Frank: offices return to favour as global investors plan $144bn CRE capital allocation

Offices are back in favour with global real estate investors in 2026, as institutions prepare to deploy around $144bn into commercial property.
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Mapfre buys the Ombú office building in Madrid’s tech hub

CTP issues €500m green bond and buys back €216m of debt
Data centres have moved decisively beyond their origins as a niche real estate play and are now being reshaped as critical infrastructure assets, deeply intertwined with energy systems, geopolitics and national economic strategy. 

PwC: Data centres are”permanent critical infrastructure”, not just a short-term boom

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

Swedish groups form $435m logistics JV

GARBE: UK leads European logistics as broad market recovery stalls

Harbert and DeA Capital buy 73,000 sq m French business park portfolio

Cheyne Capital provides loan to redevelop Lisbon luxury hotel

INREV: 38% of global investors plan to increase real estate allocations in 2026

Sagax raises €500m through five-year green bond at 3.49%

Praemia REIM takes full ownership of CAREIT’s asset and property management activities

Oaktree secures €1.9bn financing to expand European data centre platform

German hotel investment rises up to 50% in 2025

AIP raises €2bn first close for fifth energy infrastructure fund

€1.6bn Balkany portfolio tests appetite for large-scale Spanish retail

Aware Super takes 31% stake in €2.6bn European outlet mall platform

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

VGP raises €600m from a six-year senior unsecured green bond

French logistics take-up falls 4% in 2025 as vacancy tightens to 6.3%

Fiera Real Estate and USS launch £500m UK urban industrial JV

M&G adds 1,000 units to Spanish living portfolio with €239m commitment

PBSA, Unite launches £100m share buyback programme

Covivio forms €500m office JV with Blue Owl in Paris

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

I Squared Capital buys Ramudden Global in €2.5bn infrastructure services deal

Dubai property sales top $17.4bn in November as primary activity accelerates

Hamburg office rents hit record highs as prime reaches €37 per sq m

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

Global REITs up 11% in 2025 as Europe and Asia rebound but the US drags returns

Lendlease and Mirvac win $2.7bn Sydney metro mixed-use project

Aedifica invests €110m in six care homes in Europe

Welcome back to our readers: an exciting year ahead

Greykite launches €500m German residential platform with 1,600-unit portfolio

Drax submits plans for data centre at North Yorkshire power station

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

Prologis: Power constraints to help push European logistics vacancy below 5% in 2026

Capreon clinches €120m prime Dutch office acquisition

Northern Horizon adds three assets to its Finnish portfolio

Royal London AM Property acquires £197m UK logistics asset

Bucharest to get a new €2.5bn international airport

Spire Capital Partners takes minority stake in BONARD

Savills: global real estate investment to top $1trn in 2026

Aroundtown issues €500m floating-rate bond

Saudi Arabia opens commercial property nationwide to foreign ownership from January

Outlook 2026: tech innovation leading to reform in real estate

Aareal Bank provides €250m loan for InterGlobe’s pan-European lifestyle hotel portfolio

Greystar breaks ground on 1,068-home residential scheme in Utrecht

Outlook 2026: increasing real estate/infrastructure crossover

BNP Paribas REIM acquires €173m Italian healthcare stake from Icade

AustralianSuper acquires 1,616-bed UK student housing portfolio

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

Northern LGPS and LPPI acquire £1.1bn UK rental-housing portfolio

Brookfield and Qatar reveal $20bn plan to build global AI infrastructure

Arcus hits €3bn hard cap for fourth European infrastructure fund

ING: Dutch real estate investment to stay weak in 2026 as investors shift to prime assets

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

Eurazeo: Europe’s OpRE market tops €1.2trn as investors rotate into operational assets

Investors pull €6.2bn from German open-ended real estate funds between January and October

Activum to buy resort in Spain with loan from Cheyne Capital

€1.8bn data-centre pipeline advances in Finland and Germany

Igneo raises €5.3bn for European mid-market infrastructure strategy

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

LondonMetric launches £500 million senior green bond

Aviva provides £175m loan for major London office-to-residential conversion

Call for Entries: Top Investable Life Sciences Projects 2026

Verdion plans €1bn Danish logistics hub linked to new Fehmarnbelt Tunnel

DFI and Evervest launch €500m Danish single-family rental platform

Skanska sells office complex in Prague to local investor AFI

M&G and Asian pension fund commit £600m equity to UK housing venture

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

Brookfield acquires 33-asset Swedish light-industrial portfolio from EQT

Henderson Park and General Projects complete Metropolis

CTP commits €1bn to Italian logistics platform after €241m VLD acquisition

CBRE: Poland warehouse leasing jumps 44% in Q3 as speculative development rises

LaSalle: Europe breaks from global real estate cycle as occupier demand strengthens

AUAR wins ULI’s PropTech Innovation Challenge 2025

P3 buys €200m Dutch logistics portfolio from Blackstone

Leaders at London Gatwick Economic Summit call for collaboration to unlock regional prosperity

Four projects win the 2025 ULI Europe Awards for Excellence

AXA IM Alts raises €500m from oversubscribed logistics green bond

Cain secures £350m KKR refinancing for 297,000 sq m UK logistics portfolio

EY-Parthenon: Banks grow pessimistic on German real estate recovery

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

Swiss Life AM lifts stake in Spanish toll-road operator Itínere to 37.6%

Stoneweg and BGO create €500m living joint venture in Spain

Greystar buys €120m Spanish student housing portfolio from Merkel

Coima: short window to exploit opportunities in Italian market

Arrow Global closes €1.5bn debut real estate lending fund

EPRA: Solvency II reform could unlock €100 billion for listed real estate

Moldova’s tech leap: How a small country is opening big opportunities for EU companies
Moldova’s new state aid scheme is making the country a competitive destination for industrial investment.

Moldova’s state aid scheme signals a more compelling proposition for strategic capital

JLL: Dubai office squeeze intensifies as vacancy drops to 0.3%

New tools from ULI Europe to decarbonise affordable houses

Moldova’s tech leap: How a small country is opening big opportunities for EU companies

Invesco launches €1bn sale of Paris’s Capital 8 office complex

PIMCO inaugurates mixed-use redevelopment in Madrid

Realterm acquires 3,380 sq m final-mile hub in Greater Manchester

Aareal Bank leads €358m green refinancing of Helsinki’s Mall of Tripla

Carne Group: “Renaissance” in European private real estate

Connecticut sets $1bn–$1.2bn real estate commitment programme for 2026

London-listed infrastructure trusts HICL and TRIG unveil £5.3bn merger plan

Breakthrough Properties secures $430m first close for second life science fund

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

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

Global Infrastructure Partners and ACS agree €2bn data centre joint venture

EY–ULI: Europe’s business districts lose ground to Gulf and Asian rivals

CTP signs 80,000 sq m build-to-suit lease at Budapest–Érd industrial and logistics park

France’s new build market could face its worst year in three decades

New framework for low-carbon development finance proposed

Amro and Invesco expand Spanish PBSA joint venture with €150m in new projects

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

Google commits €5.5bn to German data centres through 2029

Microsoft to invest €8.6bn in data centre campus in Portugal’s Sines region

Reforms and resources put the Democratic Republic of Congo on investors’ radar

Savills: Rents push global prime office costs 0.8% higher in Q3

RICS: demand for sustainable buildings slows down globally

REAP Awards to recognise global innovation in real estate and proptech

Indotek opens Vienna office to deploy up to €1bn across Western Europe

Savills: AI accelerates data centre growth across Europe and the Gulf

PRS REIT sells £629m housing portfolio to UK pension fund consortium

VICI Properties buys seven US casinos in $1.16bn sale-leaseback deal

VGP eyes €500m Saga joint venture closing before year-end amid strong rental growth

ARCO publishes new policy to develop senior housing in the UK

Tritax Big Box prices £300m seven-year bond to strengthen balance sheet

Vonovia raises €2.25bn in three-tranche bond issue as outlook improves

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

Invesco: Europe set to outperform as income and structural demand drive recovery

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

Newmark: UK logistics availability falls for the first time in three years
The World Investment Conference underscored the growing expectation that investment must balance competitiveness with social and environmental impact.

Global investors call for smarter, sustainable growth at World Investment Conference in Sharjah

Landsec undertakes £5bn ‘Big Shift’ from London offices to retail and residential

PwC & ULI 2026 report: more pragmatism, less optimism

REINO and Caisson launch €260 million Polish logistics platform

JLL: Infrastructure and supply gaps set to fuel Dubai real estate growth

Azora enters French market buying senior housing portfolio

Virtuo and TPG launch €200m French logistics platform

Goldman Sachs to acquire Urban Campus in France and Spain co-living strategy

Savills: big deals are returning to the European office market

Storebrand acquires €107m Danish residential portfolio from PBU

Welltower buys Barchester Healthcare in £5.2bn UK care homes deal

MSCI: European CRE market slow but upside seen in Q4

Aberdeen to take full control of Tritax by 2029 in UK logistics push

“Debt lock” situations still haunt the German market

Ares and Slate agree on €300m deal for Polish retail park portfolio

Knight Frank: record £12bn in UK healthcare property deals during 2025

Increasing competition in debt market hoping for more deals

Royal London acquires prime office in London’s West End for £250m

Hodes Weill: global investors cut real estate targets for first time since 2013

Retail renaissance in CEE offers new opportunies for investors

AEW: back-leverage narrows Europe’s real-estate debt gap by 18%

Partners Group launches £300m sale of prime City of London office asset

CEE markets more attractive but ‘a new narrative’ needed

Fidelity raises €355m for pan-European logistics climate-impact fund

Bayes: debt fund defaults hit 20.3% amid UK commercial real estate lending surge

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

Aviva and Amro launch €500m German student housing platform

Redevco provides €67m green loan for German logistics projects

Colliers: Spain leads European real estate as investment hits €12.9bn

Invesco and LCP launch £250m London urban logistics park

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

Sirius’s acquisitions top €340m in 2025 with Munich business park deal

Avison Young: Poland’s commercial property investment reaches €2.6bn in first nine months of 2025

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

AustralianSuper launches £500m UK living platform to scale rental housing

Greater Paris industrial take-up plunges 28% amid historic slowdown

Senior housing complex wins best new building in UK prize

Ardian raises $20bn for platform targeting energy, transport and digital

Savills: UK office and industrial investment to exceed £20.7bn in 2025

PIMCO Prime eyes student housing in Spain amid structural undersupply

BNP Paribas Real Estate names Mark England UK chief executive

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

DFI launches £500m industrial-tech platform in the UK

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

Delancey secures £200m loan to refinance creative campus in London

Where are the best opportunities in industrial and logistics?

Blackstone considers bid for Big Yellow as UK self-storage attracts investors

Innovo UK to develop its first prime resi project in London

VGP acquires 280,000 sq m site in Hagen for first North Rhine-Westphalia project

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

Brookfield seeks €1.9bn for its European student housing platform

Storebrand raises €200m at first close of €300m Nordic real estate fund

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

M7 to acquire €375m logistics portfolio from Blackstone

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

Threestones holds first close on €500m European healthcare real estate fund

EXPO: capital flowing again in expectation of a positive 2026

European data centre boom drives £422bn funding need, led by London, Paris and Frankfurt

EXPO: benchmarks crucial to implementing ESG strategies

Invesco targets low-rise rental schemes to bypass UK construction hurdles

Manchester lands £500m R&D investment as science parks attract global capital

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

Swiss Life backs industrial Europe despite German automotive issues

Barings expands UK build-to-rent strategy beyond London amid institutional shift

EXPO Real: Logistics market more focused and localised

German office vacancy hits 8.7% as take-up stays below average

Savills: Logistics outsourcing surges as warehouse demand rises globally

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

TSC secures €100m from German insurer for healthcare real estate fund

Blackstone acquires €2bn French logistics platform from Proudreed

Blackstone and Pluto Finance unveil £2bn European real estate debt platform

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

RoundShield and CEG launch £200m regional office repositioning venture

The race for space intensifies in the Dutch logistics market

Trends 2025: ESG and height the winning factors in logistics

Aroundtown issues €850m bond at 3.25% to cut funding costs

Netherlands Outlook: ESG a prerequisite to get financing

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

Royal London acquires £340m East Midlands site for its biggest UK logistics project

Savills: CEE logistics markets poised for long-term growth

Schroders Capital launches £100m UK self-storage platform

Swiss Life enters Spanish outdoor hospitality with Alannia resorts acquisition

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

CBRE IM acquires 38,000 sq m last-mile logistics asset in Amsterdam

UAE developer Arada enters the UK with £500m Regal acquisition

QuadReal commits £2.5 billion to expand debt platform to UK

HBD plans to develop £162m aviation tech campus close to Cambridge University

Spanish house prices near 2008 peak as values rise more than 10% year on year

German commercial property NPLs top €10bn amid falling values and refinancing pressure

European real estate sentiment improves as INREV index rises to 56.4

Castleforge and Conversant JV to target London office assets

PRS REIT sells entire portfolio to Waypoint for £642 million

URW sells landmark Paris hotel to Bain Capital consortium for over €300m

QuadReal acquires Realstar’s UK residential platform and UNCLE brand

Stanhope and Cheyne acquire £450m London office project

Redevco acquires Roebuck to launch pan-European logistics platform

Global data centre boom meets growing resistance across the US, the UK and Europe

Global capital drives €5bn data centre boom across the UK and Germany

SHHA: consolidation coming to German senior housing market

ICG raises €3.15bn for second European infrastructure fund

SHHA: great opportunities in German senior housing market

DWS acquires 1,763 affordable homes in Madrid under the Plan Vive framework

Xior opens first student residence in Warsaw after €38.5m investment

Widening demand/supply gap in senior housing in Germany

Real Asset Media partners with Africa Sustainable Investment Summit

Resilience of power supplies a growing concern for logistics

Logistics Census: ESG and AI adoption the game-changers
International tourism demonstrated strong resilience in the first half of 2025, according to the latest UN Tourism Barometer.

Global tourism surges in H1 2025, bringing new opportunities for FDI in travel and hospitality

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

Apollo backs new €2bn European mid-market CRE lending platform

Logistics market robust, rental growth weak: Garbe Pyramid

CBRE: Transaction market for modern living in Germany rebounds to €165m in first half of 2025

Permira and Blackstone invest $525m in Dubai property portal Property Finder

Macquarie acquires 40% stake in Portuguese healthcare provider for €310m

PenSam and Vengrove JV to invest in European logistics

Oregon pension fund commits €100m to Hines European property fund

Greystar adds to BTR portfolio with Barking Wharf acquisition

Swedish developer Titania secures SEK1.665bn loan to refinance property debt

Realterm closes $350m US logistics credit fund targeting industrial lending

Savills: Firms turn to global capability centres to cut office costs by up to 75%

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

Invesco Real Estate and Fokus Nordic launch Finnish residential partnership

ActivumSG launches £500m UK student housing platform with The Mansion Group

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

KKR increases investment in pan-European logistics platform Mirastar

LAMDA signs €450m land deal to launch global innovation campus in Athens

Patrizia and Fabrix JV to deliver affordable housing in London

Berlin Hyp and Delancey back £241m refinancing of prime central London office project

MSCI: Investment in European hotels set to reach record

Ho Bee Land wins planning consent to transform landmark City of London office

Savills: €1bn flows into factory outlets amid retail recovery

We’re back – and the autumn calendar is packed

British Land and GIC secure £450m green loan for 1 Broadgate, City of London

Lands Improvement acquires 223 ha site in SE England for 3,700-home garden village

Real Asset Insight takes a two-week summer break

Ethiopian Airlines clinches $10bn financing for Addis Ababa hub airport

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

Digital Realty takes delivery of Greece’s largest data centre

‘RE investment managers are not tackling climate change’

Smartown Group sells historic Bucharest office building at 8.2% yield

Newmark: rental growth, investor demand keep UK multi-let industrial market resilient

Colliers: consumer caution hits retail, luxury slows down

BGY completes sustainable transformation of Canary Wharf’s 30 South Colonnade, now YY London

Singaporean REIT makes £203m move into UK logistics with East Midlands projects

Cushman & Wakefield: Spain’s real estate sector draws €6.7bn in H1

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

Aareal Bank makes €160m debut in data centres with Goodman deal

Canary Wharf in demand as HSBC signs new office lease