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Round Hill’s €200m PBSA buy is Portugal’s largest so far in ’22

Round Hill Capital, has closed a €200 million M&A deal to acquire nine student housing and co-living assets, by buying PBSA developer and operator Smart Studios in what is the largest deal in the sector in Portugal so far this year.
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Site buys bring Nuveen Iberia BTR unit up to 3,000 homes

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AXA IM Alts to build a £1 billion net-zero office tower in the City

SBB raises c€130 million from sale of Swedish nursing homes

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JLL bets on Italian resi sector in partnership with Abitare Co

Panattoni starts giant project in Poland’s Lower Silesia region

Former Madison execs launch new PE firm in Germany & US

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Garbe core-plus logistics fund raises €400m at first close

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Weston Smith appointed Chair of ULI Europe Young Leaders

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Aviva buys an Art Deco office building in Neuilly-sur-Seine

Colliers: Iberian peninsula the new digital hub of Europe

Greenman OPEN invests more in roof mounted solar panels

INREV & ULI: European real estate more diverse and inclusive

ULI: Social impact will become best practice in real estate

Palace Capital sells industrial assets to focus on ESG & offices

Clarion Partners increases logistics capacity by €1.8 billion

Prologis starts development of life science building in UK

Panattoni realises €160m from five-asset Polish portfolio sale

UK construction industry increases R&D expenditure

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Canadian Solar buys six PV parks in Italy from Innovo

Trammell Crow underway with first European logistics build

€300 million investment to open Rome’s first six star hotel

Hines CEO Lars Huber named new Europe Chairman of ULI

CMS report: a third of urban real estate being repurposed

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UK build-to-rent investment volumes up 11% in H1: CBRE

Bond rates indicate turning point for logistics yields: AEW

Jury out on office and retail as economic uncertainty persists

M&G increases exposure to defensive French food sector

European office vacancy rates stabilise above 7%: Savills

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Silvertip Capital hires Corestate’s Lambros Reppas

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Blantyre launches Belstay, a new 4* hotel brand in Italy

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Belgian REITs clear the way to obtain Spain’s SOCIMI status

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ICG and Atlantic target €500m assets with last-mile platform

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Putting carbon before capex brings economic dividends

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ECE to cut CO2 and bills with plan for PV panels on centres

Progress in ESG upgrades still slow despite tighter regulation

GIC increases PBSA exposure with stake in The Student Hotel

Dettenheim deal kicks off Kingstone’s €400m care fund

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CBRE buys French ESG firm to increase its European coverage

Hyatt Centric hotel destined for M&G’s Edinburgh Haymarket

The Crown Estate allocates £1 billion to reach net zero goal

KKR and Mirastar sell Dutch logistics portfolio to Prologis

Scotland sets the standard on emissions in public buildings

CBRE IM combines logistics funds, sets new €5bn target

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Provada: data disclosure a key component of ESG strategy

Berlin-Hyp backs Paris PBSA-coliving project with €71m loan

Union lets €500m Amsterdam congress hotel on 50-year lease

URW moves toward disposal target with €155m NL mall sale

Provada: tenant engagement essential to reach ESG goals

Lone Star and Cavatina agree deal on Polish office buildings

Logistics investors cautious as rising costs impact returns

Genomics firm boosts Canary Wharf’s life science ambition

PwC launches English version of ESG real estate handbook

Savills: working in the office is more energy efficient in winter

John Lewis diversifies from retail into BTR projects in UK

Panattoni builds new logistics distribution centre in Limburg

Online retail is still driving demand for logistics space

Buildings’ energy efficiency to be monitored by Satellite Vu

KGAL to build three more large-scale solar parks in Italy

Record Q1 figures show that Logistics’ run is set to continue

Panattoni buys seven sites in record €300m Swedish debut

BlackRock commits £200m to UK-wide green energy storage

Logistics operators take a fresh look at last mile location: CBRE

Real IS buys converted Berlin iceworks complex for BVK fund

PineBridge Benson Elliot JV buys into Berlin resi portfolio

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Mark converts former Yahoo Paris HQ to work-live landmark

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Commerz Real acquires trophy office asset in Washington DC

Ingka invests €190 million in renewable energy in Poland

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Orange Capital Partners snaps up NREP Danish resi portfolio

Berlin Hyp lends Aviva €78m for Amsterdam office purchase

Hines’s third European value fund 60% of target at first close

Impact CEO interview: Fenk’s ESG focus at Primonial REIM

La Francaise picks Dublin for non-French healthcare debut

iQ spaces: new life sciences platform launched in Germany

M&G pays Ardian €271m for central Paris office asset

Kennedy Wilson pays c£228m for UK last mile logistics assets

Xior Student Housing buys 11-asset portfolio for €939 million

Nuveen pan-European debt strategy first close at €150m

Cadillac Fairview/Boreal JV makes £250m logistics debut

Kryalos and Euryale team up to create Italian healthcare fund

European offices need price correction: Oxford Economics

UK homes-for-homeless REIT’s £263m placing oversubscribed

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Eurazeo infrastructure fund sets up plastics sorting plant JV

Skanska makes the Europe Climate Leaders 2022 list

‘Innovative’ ESSEC team wins ULI Hines Student competition

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Aviva meets £1 billion target in sustainable transition RE debt

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Hydda tie-up heralds growth at proptech company Spaceflow

Lack of supply in Paris market drives investors away from core

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Cheyne lends LaSalle £187m for acquisition of Wembley project

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CBRE IM buys 94-unit serviced apartment building in Antwerp

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Choice and quality of flexible office space increases: Colliers

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Allianz buys ‘Golden Triangle’ asset after Mark’s €20m refurb

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International Campus targets NL student housing shortage

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Greenman fund’s €95.5m green food foray on track

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Conren plans €50m project at former Braun Barcelona HQ

DWS begins development in new Berlin residential quarter

Local capital emergent in CEE but seeks ‘Ukraine discount’

Atenor develops Polish office using only renewable power

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Skanska sells Poznan office to Sweden’s Eastnine for €121m

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Cromwell splashes €126m on European industrial/logistics

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Catella fund taps into Spain’s burgeoning PRS market

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Tishman Speyer buys former Hamburg department store

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New report shows DACH cities’ wide diversification potential

NREP pays €161m for Sweden’s first 15-min suburban centre

Aus-bound Tyrrell tells UK government to help West End

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LaSalle and Numa partner for €500m value-add hotels drive

Off-market deals hit €80m pa and counting in DACH region

German Carestone sells nine senior facilities for €168m

Moorfield acquires 64% more efficient Essex PBSA project

GIC pays £694m for 75% stake in BL’s Paddington Central

Aviva increases Amsterdam exposure with portfolio buy

Israeli funds back Fu-Gen for €320m renewables expansion

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Goldman Sachs raises $3.5 billion to invest in real estate

Cromwell buys three logistics assets in Italy and Germany

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LaSalle pays Nuveen £600m for two UK designer outlet centres

Swedish Heimstaden forward funds Edinburgh BTR project

Capital raised for non-listed real estate is back to pre-Covid high

Axa IM Alts pays £391m for 1.9m sq ft UK logistics portfolio

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Blackstone sells Axa 740-bed Madrid resi portfolio for €285m

UK institutions press regulators for ‘fit-for-purpose’ ESG metrics

Coima logistics fund buys €300m development portfolio

Happy Easter

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Cheyne lends £219 in record UK over-65s housing debt deal

CBRE IM buys Leipzig airport logistics asset from Invesco

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KKR’s Mirastar pays TPG JV £160m for UK logistics assets

Catella resi fund raises €280m as investors take ESG to heart

Ukraine invasion and inflation force investors to change tack

KGAL JV to develop Munich’s €300m climate-neutral arena

Multi-generational German housing project starts on site

Patrizia gets go-ahead for own ‘workplace of future’ in London

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Berlin Hyp’s Sustainable Finance Framework published

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Hines and PGGM to build 1,400 new rental apartments in Milan

Tristan fund buys into budget hospitality group Point A

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Belgian Aedifica buys €126m Ireland, Jersey, IOM care homes

Student housing market becoming more competitive

Hines and Blue Noble to develop €80m Milan PBSA

Mayfair and Swiss Life make £74m UK resi debut in Salford

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CEE’s post-covid investment trajectory in doubt: Colliers

Commerz Real’s renewables equivalent to 110m trees in 2021

Changing face of logistics as creativity solves demand issue

Canary Wharf to host Europe’s largest commercial laboratory

AnaCap and Freo plan office-to-student switch in Paris

Senior housing and healthcare sector ticks all three ESG boxes

Nuveen’s new UK affordable housing JV targets seniors

Barings to develop major mixed-use scheme in Bristol

Back to the future for Glasgow as it bets on Manufacturing 4.0

AXA and CAA breeze in with £3bn for 50% windfarm stake

Oxford uses M7 in £200m+ logistics portfolio acquisition

Advanced Manufacturing seen as a long-term growth sector

Coima to pay €300m for portfolio of eleven assets

Patrizia raising £75m to up Hanover PUT’s ESG game

Advanced Manufacturing hub drives innovation in Glasgow

Munich sale reinforces Europa’s faith in well located offices

New funding round will hasten ParkBee’s European growth

Resi in demand in every market, mature or emerging

New pension rules will unleash investment in listed sector

Moorfield fund acquires UK self storage portfolio with JV

Technological solutions make ESG goals more achievable

Kennedy Wilson European last-mile drive increased to $2.5m

New Care funding follows Octopus’ net zero pledge

MIPIM: Berlin tops growth table but don’t forget B-cities

Investcorp spends €128m in Rome in second Italian foray

Hines and Kajima JV to provide for Poland’s rented resi market

MIPIM: Back to the office, but work/life balance becomes key

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MIPIM: now ESG-compliant buildings are the new core

MIPIM: Senior Housing market more competitive post-Covid

MIPIM: Logistics & Industrial sector resilient to all shocks

MIPIM: Germany’s safe-haven status maintains demand level

MIPIM: challenge for real estate as ESG bar is set ever higher

MIPIM: supply/demand gap widens in Student Housing

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MIPIM: geopolitical risks up, but real estate a safe haven

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MIPIM: Winning cities have regained their momentum

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Colliers promotes Kevin Turpin to head of Capital Markets CEE

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Frankfurt’s Marienturm goes to DWS – €830m price reported

New facility for food-focused Greenman’s €1bn Open fund

Proptech backer Pi Labs’ $90m fund raise 40% oversubscribed

Allianz and partners to develop €1.3bn of offices in Germany

Cadillac & Stanhope in JV for £700m Oxford science scheme

Barings pays £70m for value-add City of London office asset

Blackstone and KSL lend hospitality firm Edyn £300m

Heitman invests £70m in UK student housing sector

DFI pays €116m for 5-star Berlin hotel and plans enhancement

Immobel buys half share in £110m green office campus

Russia sanctions will depress prices says leading academic