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Global trade reaches $35trn but rising fragility weighs on developing economies

Global trade expanded strongly in 2025, but mounting geopolitical and structural risks are clouding the outlook.
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Hungary election signals policy shift and potential reset for investors

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

Colliers: German logistics take-up rises 19% to 1.5m sq m in strongest quarter since 2022

ActivumSG exits VanWonen to Dutch investor consortium

BONARD: Student housing investment rises 76% as supply meets just 29% of demand

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

INREV: AI and geopolitics force rethink of real estate investment strategies

Poland investment volumes rise 43% to €1bn in strongest first quarter in four years

A third of UK investors chooses sustainability over returns

INREV: Capital rotates towards Europe as real estate competes with private credit and infrastructure

Savills: Data centre expansion to drive 786,130 sq m of new logistics demand across Europe

Amazon to invest more than €250m in 189,000 sq m France logistics hub

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

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield places €750m green bond

JLL: Berlin office market posts strongest Q1 since 2022 with 43% leasing jump

Colliers: Iberian data centre developers shift to speculative builds as AI demand surges

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

French SCPIs face liquidity strain as redemptions rise and pricing gaps widen

Pradera tests market for €700m Ikea-anchored retail park portfolio

Interpipe expands into EU with Romanian acquisition as nearshoring momentum builds

La Caisse and Prologis launch €1bn pan-European logistics venture

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

Commerz Real acquires student housing complex in Seville

Jefferies: Norway tops Europe’s data centre map as power constraints stall growth in core markets

France CRE investment falls 48% as Paris office values near cycle lows

Knight Frank: transition to EV an opportunity for CRE owners

JPMorgan Chase set to build Canary Wharf’s tallest tower

Verdion secures full letting at €120m Berlin logistics park

Schoeller and pension fund partner to acquire Hamburg’s Alsterhaus in €150m deal

Talent strategies are becoming central to investment and place development

Saudi Arabia sees surge in foreign investment as inflows jump in late 2025

Global trade shifts under geopolitical pressure as growth continues: McKinsey report

UK housebuilders halt land buying and cut activity as demand weakens

Savills: Dutch logistics vacancy climbs to 6.3% as decade of expansion feeds through

Orion completes acquisition of 5-star Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon

French court backs CyrusOne data centre in phased development ruling

Kering sells 80% stake in Milan luxury retail building for €1.16bn

Savills: the built environment must act to reduce air pollution

Infrastructure investment vital to Africa’s economic growth but financing gaps remain

Happy Easter to all our readers

Covivio and Blue Owl complete €503m R&D campus JV in Paris

Derwent sells London Burberry HQ for £131.8m as disposal programme accelerates

Sun Life takes full control of $90bn real estate platform with European operations

ICG Real Estate raises €1.4bn for European opportunistic strategy

Germany’s largest cooperative renovation project underway

Europe’s data centre pipeline grows with €6bn Denmark campus and Mistral’s Paris AI cluster

Cushman & Wakefield: UK tops fit-out costs and delivery speed as Europe’s pricing gap widens

Call for entries in ULI Europe’s PropTech Innovation Challenge

Greystar adds 1,600 beds in Spain PBSA deal

Tishman Speyer buys London office building at 50 Pall Mall

Colonial SFL prices €500m green bond at 3.875% as refinancing costs rise

Call for entries: High-potential innovation zones seeking investment

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

Defence spending ‘to drive real estate performance in Europe’

Dates and location for WAIPA’s 30th World Investment Conference announced at Mipim 2026

JLL: Madrid and Barcelona require €5.8bn to upgrade prime office stock

German real estate lending rebounds in 2025 as residential demand leads recovery

FDI in the US shrinks in the fourth quarter but holds steady for the full-year total in 2025

Trade rule reform key to unlocking FDI and real asset investment

INREV: war causes sharp drop in investor sentiment in March

MSCI: French CRE returns reach 3.3% in 2025 as recovery continues

Patron explores €400m sale of Spanish co-living platform Vandor

Garbe enters hospitality sector in partnership with B&B Hotels

Savills IM reaches full occupancy at Malaga urban logistics scheme

GXO launches logistics hub for Benelux data centre supply chains

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

German residential sentiment weakens as office outlook improves in Q1

QuadReal expands UK self storage platform with £280 million portfolio deal

Cushman & Wakefield: 86% of investors back hotel investment in 2026

SCOR pushes ahead with €260m close for European value-add debt strategy

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

Aureon and Caisson iO launch £300m UK multi-let industrial platform

Spanish urban hospitality platform enters London in €330m-€420m expansion

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

JD.com prepares UK Joybuy launch, driving logistics demand

Colliers: investor appetite back as EMEA retail sector improves

Bain Capital and Stoneweg near completion of 45,000 sq m Tuscany logistics project

War in the Gulf sharpens focus on real estate refinancing risks

ING: sustainable finance fuels real estate recovery in Europe

SEGRO advances UK data centre projects in Slough and London

Greystar acquires Native to expand its presence in Europe

Mipim 2026 signals return of capital — but investors turn more selective

Berlin housing law raises uncertainty for listed landlords

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

Mipim: supply shortages and demographics underpin living sector investment outlook

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

Mipim: European logistics market reaches bottom of cycle as demand returns

Mipim: income growth and selective opportunities to drive European real estate recovery

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

Mipim: Power constraints reshape Europe’s data centre investment landscape

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

Ambassadori Island Batumi brings Black Sea smart city vision to MIPIM

Real Asset Media welcomes all participants to MIPIM 2026

INREV: policy uncertainty a brake to investment in resi

Iași showcases investment potential at MIPIM

Knight Frank: London law firm office leasing rises 13% as US firms expand presence

Urban Partners sells six Swedish care homes to Northern Horizon

Energy efficiency key to avoid stranded assets, survey shows

US foreign investment rebounds in third quarter as equity flows surge

Redevco: €100bn of European offices require EPC upgrade by 2030

Prologis sells 84,450 sq m UK logistics portfolio to EQT Real Estate

Knight Frank: UK hotels show resilience despite challenges

Family offices double down on direct real estate investments: Kingstone Real Estate report

Amazon to invest €33.7bn in Spanish data centres through 2035

Kennedy Wilson and CPP commit further £300m to UK single-family rental platform

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

CPP Investments and Equinix to acquire Nordic data centre platform for $4bn

Poland leads new wave of European data centre investment

Retailers welcome decision to pedestrianise Oxford Street

Catella: European prime office rents growing, market stable

Octopus Capital: Spain needs 230,000 additional care beds by 2033

Starwood closes in on €500m pan-European logistics portfolio

Pension JV acquires London hospital site for £350m BTR neighbourhood

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

PGIM lends €325m against 85-asset German grocery retail portfolio

Altarea and Vantage agree 400 MW Bordeaux hyperscale campus

MEAG and Culmia launch €400m Spanish affordable housing platform targeting 2,500 homes

Redevco adds three retail parks in Spain to its European Fund

Walter Herz: supply crunch drives Polish office investment revival

Savills: £3bn UK shopping centre sales pipeline as investment activity rises

Evolution invests £1.1 billion in two luxury hotels in London

Kojamo wins regulatory approval for €900m Finnish apartment portfolio deal

Castellum sells $618m Swedish public-sector portfolio to pension fund

Clarion Partners acquires asset to expand its German portfolio

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

Knight Frank: UK life sciences firms jump 22% as lab property market enters new cycle

Catena buys $970m Nordic logistics portfolio and enters Finland

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

IPUT raises €175m from CBRE IM to launch €500m Dublin office expansion

Sweden top country as LEED certification grows in Europe

Drooms: European real estate transaction times stabilise at 363 days

New Framework for a Nature-Positive Built Environment

Cheyne Capital loan to fund resi development in SE London

Atland to acquire Sienna Real Estate to create €10bn pan-European platform

BlueCastle Capital expands UK BTR pipeline beyond £1 billion

Antin in talks to buy French holiday club operator from Caravelle

Sonae Sierra launches €500m Iberian student housing joint venture

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

H.I.G. acquires City of London asset as living platform exceeds £1bn

Allianz Global Investors reaches €1bn third close for infrastructure credit fund

GIC weighs €1bn sale of 80% stake in European data centre JV

Space Industrial acquires £100m UK multi-let industrial portfolio from Blackstone

Sovereign investors start 2026 with strategic restructurings despite slower deal activity

Nuveen agrees £9.9bn takeover of Schroders to create $2.5tn asset manager

Finnish pension fund sells €900m housing portfolio in cash-and-shares deal

ULI: decarbonisation the best way to manage transition risks

Brookfield in talks to buy Blackstone’s Spanish residential platform for €1bn

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

Verdion secures €95m Cologne site for urban logistics hub

NatWest commits £10bn to fund UK social housing sector

Border to Coast invests £70m in Cambridge rental housing scheme

Industrial portfolio in the UK’s Midlands secures £63.1m refinancing

Real Asset INSIGHT’s CEO Outlook 2026: Investor confidence strengthens as firms prepare to buy

Savills: Dutch investment volumes jump 19% to €14.5bn as capital leads recovery

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

Real Asset INSIGHT’s CEO Outlook 2026: European investors shift from caution to capital deployment as pricing stabilises

Savills: Global prime office costs rise 5.1% in 2025 as London’s West End retains world lead

New ULI guide to accelerate decarbonisation of buildings

Black Swan secures €400m financing for landmark Champs-Élysées redevelopment

CBRE IM backs €300m German industrial outdoor storage joint venture

Newcore Social Infrastructure Fund achieves second close

Neura Robotics and Drees & Sommer partner on robotics-ready buildings

Newmark: UK logistics availability falls to 7.6% as occupier demand strengthens

University Pension Plan Ontario takes stake in Schroders Capital’s Dutch logistics portfolio

Coima sets new targets to tackle Italy’s housing challenge

MSCI: Private credit displaces real estate as institutions cut property allocations for first time in 13 years

Castellana buys Berceo shopping centre in Spain for €108m

Outlook 2026: investors drawn to senior living in the Nordics

Aviva: Real estate loses momentum as infrastructure and credit capture institutional capital

AEW: Spain and Germany lead European real estate value rankings for 2026-2030

Real estate management key to success in logistics: Garbe

BONARD: Student housing investors target higher allocations in 2026 as European transactions reach €10.5bn

Apollo provides €900m refinancing for Cerberus–Arrow European logistics platform

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

Briefing: AI is redefining Europe’s data centre investment case and risk calculations

Outlook 2026: Denmark resi attracts strong investor interest

CBRE: Living sector cements position as Europe’s largest real estate investment class

ABP lifts Dutch rental housing mandate to €900m

UNCTAD: Land markets split as data centres hit $270bn and industrial investment weakens

Valor appointed asset manager for Apollo’s logistics portfolio

Northwest Healthcare enters exclusivity with TPG for €400m European portfolio sale

Colliers: German logistics investment falls 19% to €6bn in 2025

Ardian and Rockfield enter French student housing with 1,500-bed European expansion

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

INREV: European core real estate funds post first capital growth since 2021

Aroundtown issues $203m seven-year bond at 1.82% coupon

M7 acquires 16,260 sq m west London urban logistics asset

EPRA Insight London 2026: positive outlook for UK market

ECE Work & Live and Conren Tramway launch €400m Spanish residential platform

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

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

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