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PwC launches new ESG handbook for real estate

Advisory firm PwC has published a 600 page handbook of ESG standards and guidelines for the real estate industry.
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More competition in France as investors go up the risk curve

KGAL’s renewable energy fund hits first close at 50% of target

Senior housing: sale/rent divide between the UK and Europe

Baby boomers set to transform the senior housing market

Elevator data details changing city usage in and out of covid

Mark transforms derelict Milan centre into mixed-use asset

Huge opportunities in UK senior housing with care

Nuveen buys second Swedish self-storage outfit for SEK 2.1bn

Garbe forward funds logistics asset near Amsterdam airport

Shift in location of logistics assets to be closer to workforce

Axa IM Alts pays €40m for its first Italian PBSA asset

Proptech gathers pace in race to bridge ‘performance gaps’

It’s green tech transition time in the infrastructure sector

BIG deal: M&G buys Nordic park from CBRE IM-Portus JV

Nordics’ Newsec plans to expand its European presence

Transport infrastructure assets back in demand by investors

Life Science REIT pays £77m for newly-built London lab space

Primonial REPM wins Values’ €200m daycare fund mandate

Corestate extends reach of Youniq micro-living concept

Catella mixes affordable and senior housing in NL project

Heitman buys German self-storage ahead of institutions

MAPIC: Retail alive and kicking – see Living Retail magazine

Azora acquires Italy’s No2 in resort hotels – Bluserena

Savills boosts North American retail reach with SRS tie up

NPLs return to Germany as banks sell off some assets

AEW launches new €400m last-mile logistics fund

TPG-Urbania venture acquires trio of PBSA assets in Spain

Food-anchored developments to signal the return of retail

Alternative financing for RE to complement bank lending

Real IS acquires south Dublin BTR from Bain Capital

Private real estate debt volume in Europe grows to €80 billion

Offices and retail back on track in 2022 survey finds: Savills IM

Yields fall and rents rise as CEE logistics demand grows

Post-pandemic CEE sees return of foreign investors

Data centre operator Supernap expands its capacity in Milan

BNP provides €140m finance to expand Uxco’s Paris PBSA

Prime shopping centres set to outshine following repricing

Apollo buys €300m stake in CEE’s CPI Property Group

Property investors join ULI mission to hasten net zero

KKR and Apache allocate £610m to UK multi family

Rent premium for sustainable buildings as high as 29%: CBRE

Macquarie buys €63m Polish last-mile logistics portfolio

L’Etoile ready to mend assets for new ‘broken core’ fund

Nuveen jumps into European self-storage space with Green

Primevest Capital Partners acquires Saarbrücken resi

Generali Real Estate to invest more in London offices

Patrizia JV is targeting London last-mile logistics with €750m

Apcoa and UPS collaborate in sustainable delivery project

Life Science REIT completes its IPO, raising £350 million

M&G invests €65 million to expand retail park near Rome

Trammell Crow to develop Milton Keynes logistics site

Nuveen JV buys site for 700-home Dublin BTR project

Co-living boosted by urban nomads’ need for flexibility

Axa’s European logistics fund issues €800m green bond

Focus on resi has helped the growth of alternative lenders

Delin spreads its wings with new platform and fund

New developments needed as demand for PBSA increases

COP26: Glasgow well placed for investor focus on repurposing

Union Investment forward funds pre-let Munich asset

Shifting consumer attitudes to housing create opportunities

Milan launches Sustainable Urban Regeneration Lab

High demand opens up market for alternative lenders

Beyond COP-26: Glasgow’s plans for a sustainable future

CBRE: bricks and mortar retail could stage a big comeback

Vertical farming in urban areas to help reduce food miles

Patrizia bets on logistics with a new acquisition in Spain

Henderson Park pays £54m for UK tri-modal logistics project

We have the technology… but better data needed for net zero

Primevest CP pays €17m for Danish PRS housing project

Varde sells flexible workspace operator to Sirius for £380m

Commerz Real impact fund debuts on French power scene

Massive industrial project planned in UK Midlands

How to win the war for young talent in the real estate sector

Oxford to give Berlin’s Sony Center a €200m makeover

C&W: more stores are set to become micro delivery hubs

New £500m Asian-backed vehicle buys first London asset

Resi in demand in the Dutch market but tax issues loom

Trei’s €140m JV with Patron accelerates Polish expansion

Grass roots initiatives could lead in climate change campaign

More investors from Asia-Pac targeting the Netherlands

Hong Kong insurer mandates Patrizia to lend US$50m

Sector’s confidence highest since 2014: Emerging Trends

SIOR: similar trends visible across European markets

NREP to pay €106m for food-anchored Helsinki centre

CPP returns to PBSA in €1bn+ JV with Round Hill Capital

Portugal: logistics in demand as spec developments return

Property impact investors boost homeless women’s fund

Nordic developer challenges peers with 2028 carbon target

Italian retail in recovery mode as 10 new malls are planned

COP26 host Glasgow shows cities the route to zero carbon

Towering cost of greening property a likely €7tn: Colliers

Residential ‘most resilient sector’ with 5% total return

Aviva provides £200m green loan for healthcare REIT PHP

Ikea parent to pay £378m for former Top Shop flagship

All change as offices undergo a radical transformation

UK budget gets muted welcome from real estate

Real estate at forefront of Italy’s national recovery plan: Coima

Lisbon office sector to be more decentralised as some go ‘dual’

CTP enters German logistics with €800m takeover of DIR

Alternative sectors attracting more investors to Portugal

Goldman grows UK resi-for-rent stake in Urban & Civic deal

Europa fund launches €150m Dutch distribution platform

Peabody to build 3,502 new homes in Dagenham Green

Last mile boost as ecommerce to take 30% of UK retail by 2025

ESG-minded investors don’t have to settle for lower returns

Hines bets on London with £1 billion-plus mixed-use scheme

Barings pays Skanska €211m for Swedish logistics porfolio

GetLiving forward funds Hub’s £155m UK residential project

More ‘stick’ and less ‘carrot’ to achieve ESG progress in future

Crossbay ventures into Poland with €95m double purchase

Shift to higher quality in senior housing and healthcare sector

No let-up in demand for senior housing across Europe

Samsung joins Primonial and EDF in major Paris purchase

The S for social impact in ESG is getting more attention

Step change in UK consumers’ online spending habits: Colliers

Alantra’s inaugural RE debt fund closing on €140m cap

PwC presents its new Real Estate Digital Ecosystem

US property experts think office market shift here to stay

Expo Real: Berlin Hyp survey shows rising status of ESG

Spain’s Azora ventures across the Atlantic in Exan tie-up

Expo Real: Logistics developers have to make hard choices

Expo Real: Inclusive companies find it easier to attract talent

Platform deals boost Q3 totals as Europe heads for recovery

Expo Real: sustainable offices are a competitive advantage

Expo Real: More diversity in real estate, but still lonely at the top

Expo Real: PwC Survey shows ESG is shaping the agenda

Expo Real: panic has passed and the office is here to stay

Expo Real: Industry will add to covid boost for data centres

Axa IM Alts boosts Japan resi portfolio with €82m purchase

Expo Real: winning cities are 24-hour diverse living spaces

Expo Real: Logistics must be sustainable ‘inside and out’

Henderson Park grabs UK and Irish Hilton hotels portfolio

How Skanska is faring in race to net zero: Real Asset Impact

Deregulation must be priority for new German government

Corestate’s Stam Europe unit boosts urban logistics strategy

Frank Pörschke reveals plans for P3 in RAI October edition

Amazon chooses UK for its first general store outside the US

Heimstaden financing falls into place after €9.1bn Akelius deal

Expo Real special – download the latest edition of Real Asset Insight

Kajima £150m JV targets solar power and battery storage

Patrizia relocates London HQ to create ‘office of the future’

Carlos Moreno’s 15-minute city concept wins 2021 Obel Award

P3 Logistic Parks buys €108m big-box portfolio in Spain

Prelios and Luzzatti launch ‘UTP’ fund for smaller banks

AHTO aims £1 bn institutional funds at UK housing crisis

New Patron partnership plans €250m Milan resi portfolio

People: Panattoni Netherlands boosts business development

Investcorp pays €70m for Kering’s Italian headquarters

CBRE IM sale and leaseback buys into Ghent logistics

Aedifica expansion continues with €66m care home spend

London’s West End bounces back with £5 billion investment

M7 to list warehouse REIT on IPSX’s wholesale market

Hines PBSA unit makes Milan debut, heralds Europe growth

Catella fund’s new ‘dark green’ status attracts Norwegian KLP

Final close sees Azora hotels fund with €1.8bn to spend

Carlyle, Montano partner to buy €500m of German sheds

Blackstone closing in on €1.1bn portfolio acquisition in Italy

Domicil buys 2,300-home Swiss Life German resi portfolio

Hines acquires UK property manager for European roll out

Heimstaden Bostad pays €9.1bn for residential portfolio

CTP’s bond issue raises €1bn for pipeline and debt reduction

Henderson Park pays £60m for London office building

Cities will be more polycentric in post-pandemic Europe

Stop demolishing buildings, UK engineers tell the industry

Record first half for senior real estate investment: Savills

Future of office and prospects for city centres are interlinked

Mark to launch €500m Paris green regeneration platform

Open door policy in senior housing ‘brings the outside in’

ULI: ten steps to creating more resilient post-pandemic cities

Corestate pays €160m for Stuttgart office campus project

Popularity of mixed-use assets making land more valuable

Dutch retail has proved it’s more resilient than most

Segro backs food campus project billed as new asset class

CEE healthcare market offers opportunities to investors

Lifestyle retirement becoming ´big business´ in Europe

German housing giants sell Berlin state €2.46bn portfolio

Xior clinches Zaragosa city centre development sites

Digital infrastructure backers see boom in end user demand

Brookfield company addresses France’s student housing crisis

Nuveen raises more capital to target European logistics

Covid underlined investor opportunities in data comms

Dutch market is slower as investors focus on core assets

Technology helps in healthcare but people always come first

Flexibility is key in evolving senior housing market

Real assets ‘winning bet’ for post-Covid era: Preqin

British Land provides modular space for new London college

Residential provides best opportunity in Dutch market

Mark-Credit Suisse JV to build €1bn ‘granular’ resi portfolio

´No bubble in logistics´ as sector´s rise set to continue

Patrizia pays initial €67m for infrastructure firm Whitehelm

Showing the value of Logistics ´the sector´s biggest challenge´

Alchemy backs Tri7’s £250m plan for UK’s stricken centres

Savills: 2021 will be another record year for Logistics

Post-covid Europe needs more planning flexibility: ULI/IREBS

Tritax and Verdion team up for €30m German logistics project

European Logistics Census : lack of supply the main issue

Prelios fund sells 1 sq km Turin site for car battery factory

Lab space at a premium as life-science boom lifts Cambridge

Associations back property business diversity survey

CA Immo to develop €300m Berlin bank headquarters

MNK fund makes Hungarian debut with university buy

€1bn student housing venture makes debut with Paris project

Savills IM counsels caution as Big box logistics yields fall

Former Prologis exec to head Panattoni’s new French unit

BREDS and KSL lend €227m to back Edyn’s Europe roll-out

Garbe spends €70m on Dutch shed and tracks new markets

McCarthy Stone to deliver 1,500 affordable retirement homes

Google to invest €1 billion in two data centres in Germany

European retail investment declines by 39%, says Savills

Patrizia invests in build to rent development in Barcelona

Green offices achieve higher rents, Knight Frank study finds

Union Investment buys period office building in Paris CBD

LaSalle IM and Deka invest in two logistics hubs near Berlin

Milestone for Hines as Israeli investors buy into flagship fund

Lincoln and Enern buy office development site in Warsaw

Trammell Crow makes its European debut in the UK

Home REIT launches open offer to increase capacity

Responsible Housing to list on the LSE to raise £250 million

New €500 million platform to invest in senior living in Europe

Schroders and Civitas close impact investing Fund

Student housing market in Italy sees first fall in rents

Europa Capital and Cromwell launch German Logistics JV

Corestate adds Vienna tower to European micro living portfolio

£230 million UK acquisition pipeline for Target Healthcare

Italy Special: Hope and optimism for real asset markets again

Brookfield makes big move for renewables

DWS hires Njagulj to head global property ESG initiative

Bouwfonds to develop major housing project in Kiel

Real Asset Day is taking a summer break

Central London lettings surge but available space up 73% YoY

KanAm buys Axa IM Alts’ 5-building Barcelona portfolio

Oxford gets WELL Health-Safety awards across 47 offices

Germany’s KGAL launches impact fund for renewables

Heimstaden boosts Danish assets with €343m portfolio

€52m logistics buy boosts Savills IM Iberian portfolio

€1.5bn Capital Bay fund responds to fall in bank lending

Varde-Flynn hotels buy to benefit from leisure recovery

Leeds retail park fetches £25m following demand ‘uptick’

Kadans gives Madison access to European science sector

Office investment pace picks up in UK’s South East region

Berlin retail sale intensifies Stenprop’s industrial focus

Apollo buys €842m portfolio from Italian pension fund

HQ sale & leaseback puts URW nearer deleveraging target

Hines pays FAP €75m for three more logistics assets in Italy

German acquisitions swell Catella residential fund AUM

NewRiver’s car park hubs will make trips multi purpose

Barings buys mixed-use asset in Cologne’s MediaPark

L&G/NatWest pension fund JV to boost senior living villages

German public may be happier with high street than assumed

Lights, camera…Blackstone in £700m UK film studio venture

Overheating risk for office-to-resi conversions, says Zurich UK

Europa plans to revamp newly acquired Stuttgart asset

New €800m BMO resi fund targets population growth

Listed Brazilian education firm contracts 5,000 student beds

Office refurb gives AEW a foothold in Barcelona’s 22@

Strong H1 performance from offices in Poland’s regions

New investment platform created for Seimilano project

Hines and Henderson Park start timber Barcelona office

Swiss Life AM takes stake in two German life science parks

€96m Barcelona hotel sale draws over 20 potential buyers

Round Hill, Mubadala and Ivanhoé partner on Dutch resi

Extra €500m heralds further growth for AEW’s Logistis fund

DEAS Group’s new CEO Rikke Lykke planning digital future

Redo chosen for new urban regeneration project in Milan

Barings looks to CBDs – pays £130m for City of London office

Axa IM Alts boosts life science strategy with additional €1.9bn

Spain’s Azora sells energy generation assets to Italy’s Eni

FREO hotels platform aims €400m at Spanish hospitality

Henderson Park and Hines JV finances Barcelona schemes

UK retail investment up 80% in H1 – full year £6bn in prospect

Deka pays €257m for office building in London’s St James’s

International investors make headway with French logistics

KGAL underlines ESG and refocuses on energy transition

GLP to undertake massive UK spec-development campaign

RE to start London mixed-use scheme now plans approved

Azora readies for boom with €148m Algarve hotels deal

ULI survey finds 15% of property firms have no proptech plans

La Française and Vinci join forces to find 1,000 homes

Axa to develop timber office building in central Munich

Heimstaden gains Finnish foothold with PRS purchase

Winning project chosen for Milan’s Olympic Village

Berlin Hyp finances residential portfolio in The Netherlands

Catella fund buys Europa-Keystone Danish resi for €85m

Axa buys Segro Italian last-mile logistics portfolio

Pandemic accentuates landlords’ management role

UK industrial property take up at record levels in Q2: Colliers

Korean fund adds €200m to CBRE GI mandate, widens brief

Property to track ‘exceptional’ corporate spend on life science

International Campus ups target to 25,000 beds by ’25

LGIM boosts build-to-rent programme with £265m loan

Bridge follows UK debut with more London shed schemes

Kennedy Wilson aims $700m debt platform at UK & Europe

Hines sells in Milan, rebalances HECF fund’s sector exposure

Flexibility key as M7 buys Budapest offices for CEREF II

Pandemic rent rises confirm strength of logistics sector

Cromwell-Dasos JV to create €1bn wooden building fund

UK power stations up for grabs as infrastructure in spotlight

Griffin and Madison JV to build Amazon centres in Germany

Oxford and LCP plan massive logistics hub in UK’s West Mids