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Cushman on 2020: four key messages for the disrupted retail sector

Retail is undergoing major disruption fuelled by a set of powerful technological, social, demographic, and economic forces, says Cushman & Wakefield. At the same time, many economies are addressing the challenges of urbanisation, polarisation and ageing populations.

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‘In this scenario Real Estate wins’

Brexit: receded uncertainty makes UK property looks competitively priced

Brexit: Tory landslide to unlock pent-up demand for UK property

‘Hybrid models are the future’

London tops rankings for global fintech hubs

Cushman on 2020: climate change will affect valuation, leasing and investment markets

‘The only way for Berlin is up’

Non-listed real estate total expense ratios diverse across Europe and Asia

Cushman on 2020: real estate not keeping pace with changing European demographics

‘ESG has become a hot topic’

Cushman on 2020: liquidity in offices continues to shift out of town

Asian investors set their sights on German debt investment market

‘Germany can be a victim of its own success’

Dutch residential investment volumes to reach €9.3 billion in 2019

Cushman on 2020: private equity could be the leading source of capital for high yield assets next year

‘It’s the best time to be an office developer’

Outflows in UK real estate funds accelerates in November to rise to £2.5 billion in last two years

Cushman on 2020: economics and politics will become increasingly intertwined

‘Buying real estate remains the priority’

Dutch retail sector heads towards multichannel to combat e-commerce and population aging

AEW: European real estate outlook positive despite worsening global economic growth and sentiment forecasts

‘More growth to come in CEE office and logistics’

Demand drivers across Europe’s largest healthcare markets underpinned by diverging trends

WeWork rescue a wake-up call for industry on systemic risk in heavy coworking concentration

‘Poland has a lot to look forward to’

Why Berlin is the hottest office market in Europe

US real estate risk premium increases as uncertainty weighs on sentiment

‘Investors like the CEE story’

INREV: Diversification benefits of real estate top priority in all markets except Germany

UBS: Europe’s residential sector’s meteoric rise as investors’ second favourite asset class

‘Wroclaw chosen for the first foreign university in Poland’

INREV: investors across Europe are enlarging the boundaries of what constitutes ‘real estate’

UBS: European volumes declining at snail’s pace while yields remain at record lows

‘Poland could have a REIT regime soon’

UBS: eurozone occupier office and logistics demand remains robust amid broader depressed economic sentiment

INREV: survey finds sentiment remains positive as multi-sector investors increase weightings

South Korea ‘the biggest investor in CEE’

UBS: coworking sector needs a shakeout to leave a few thriving profitable operators

INREV: insurance companies dominate investor universe across seven major European markets

‘Wroclaw chosen for the first foreign university in Poland’

UBS: global yields are broadly flat, volumes down and returns start to converge

Foreign capital into Sweden logistics market propels record investment volumes in 2019

‘A changing but buoyant market’

Fitch: prime UK shopping centre rents will continue to weaken driven by CVA-led discounts

PropTech: technology application must be aligned to the balance of landlord, tenant and investor building requirements

‘Historic buildings become mixed-use projects in Poland’

PropTech-led innovations remain mismatched with adoption trends within real estate sector

Cushman: e-commerce supply chain can account for 50% or more of total supply chain spend

‘Retirement living is an untapped market’

Fitch: UK retailers’ use of CVAs is accelerating adjustment to sector stress

PropTech: technology, climate crisis and tenant demands are changing real estate sector business models

‘Co-living is the next co-working’

PropTech innovations to overhaul healthcare sector

PropTech: real estate sector is slow to embrace digitalisation but the benefits are substantial

‘Renting is here to stay’

Cushman: London’s New Bond Street is most expensive shopping street in Europe

UBS: elevated Italian bond rates for a prolonged period would deteriorate real estate investor confidence

‘In European cities renting is the preferred option’

Cushman: Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay retains crown as the world’s most expensive shopping street

UBS: Italian market is an outlier among European peers

‘High demand for resi in Portugal’

Savills: fall in bond yields continues to drive European investment

UBS analyses Italian government bond rates and real estate relationship

‘Great opportunities for resi investors in France’

M3 Consulting: anticipated UK development and investment activity by overseas slumps has fallen

British Land: challenged UK retail market is encouraging opportunistic pricing amid sparse liquidity

‘Putting money into resi fits investors’ ESG agenda’

CIMA: professionals’ cognisance of automation risk to their job security increases

Global prime residential price softening gathers pace over 12 months to Q3

‘Interest in the rented resi sector is growing fast’

KPMG: larger real estate companies are embracing technology to greater effect than smaller counterparts

European sale-and-leasebacks account for 11% of total retail investment volumes to Q3 2019

‘Renting is a people business’

KPMG: efficiency and decision-making improvements trump revenue generation in tech adoption

Outflows from retail property funds extended to £2.6 billion over 13 months despite revived investor optimism

‘Impact Investing is a win/win’

Private equity investment into global retail sector tops £32 billion within the last two years

KPMG: real estate sector’s digital transformation is slow and hampered by insufficient tech talent

‘Student Housing comes of age’

Logistics take-up in South East already surpasses last year’s annual tally

RCA: end of Brexit saga could reverse fortunes for overseas capital flows into UK

‘Dutch Residential a solid market for years to come’

RCA: Paris edges ahead of London in YTD investment volumes

Rental growth and yield compression continue throughout Europe in Q3

The CEE Summit: ‘Poland not ready for beds & sheds’

PropTech: technology application must be aligned to the balance of landlord, tenant and investor building requirements

JLL: Europe’s coliving sector at a ‘tipping point’ as institutional interest soars

CBRE: moderation in European investment volume in Q3 to €69.5 billion but ample liquidity

The CEE Summit: ‘Safety in numbers’ in the Polish market

RCA: big-ticket deals drive in Warsaw offices drives CEE volumes Across CEE to 10-year high

Cushman: majority of CRE executives remain positive on coworking but digital security and privacy cited as top concern

The CEE Summit: ‘A great opportunity for real estate’

Cushman: coworking phenomenon climbs to 125 million square feet worldwide

Secured property debt market preferred by two-thirds of investors, survey shows

‘Retail in Europe is a model for the world’

Aviva: investors consider real assets as a safe haven in an uncertain world

Oxane: real estate debt market’s digital maturation will inevitably come in time

‘More foreign capital targeting Germany’

Brexit Watch: investors poised for six weeks of volatility as UK prepares to go to the polls

Aviva: real estate debt most popular investment among insurers

The CEE Summit 2019 – Day 2: ‘Poland welcomes future-proof investments’

Aviva: resilience in the face of uncertainty

The CEE Summit 2019 – Day 1

Knight Frank: super prime London resi investors spent £2bn in London

Aviva’s CIO discusses European city strategy

‘The UK’s loss is Europe’s gain’

Oxane Partners: real estate financing sector’s is technology transformation is slow but inevitable

Aviva: real assets appetite continues to grow amid turbulent backdrop

‘Lower for longer’ driving capital flows

Aviva: global allocations to real assets to increase over the coming 12 months

Healthcare, manufacturing and retail are industries set to benefit most from 5G, Huawei research suggests

‘Sustainability has come to the forefront’

Cass Lending Report: prime lending margins continued to come under pressure in H1

Colliers: UK industrial and logistics take-up on track to exceed the 10-year annual average

‘Moving to a digital business model’

Cass Lending Report: new UK property lending up 4% to £23.3 billion in H1

CBRE: UK prime CRE nudged up 0.4% in Q3, driven by industrials and offices

‘Now it’s the time to invest in Porto’

Preqin: investors displaying mix of increased caution and evidence they are nearing target allocation fulfilment

Cushman: Brexit considered a tactical issue with respect to timing and price rather than a structural hit to its appeal

‘We are incredibly positive on the London story’

Preqin: global real estate fundraising volumes rose to $121 billion YTD; on track for record annual haul

Solvency II review: EIOPA delays updating solvency capital requirements for real estate citing scarce necessary data

‘Student Housing is the n1 alternative asset class’

European shopping centre market development activity polarised by country and city

JLL: steady demand in Dublin office market

‘It is great to be in retail today’

Super prime residential sale volumes in London resilient amid wider slowdown in the capital

Savills: Germany set for another record years for investment volumes

Savills: City office take-up to exceed 6 million sq ft by year-end

Property developers increasingly to turn to platforms and challenger banks for finance

‘Logistics is still in growth mode’

Patrizia: unlevered European residential annual returns to average up to 6.5% over the next five years

Regional riches: Europe’s non-capital cities are drawing in ever-greater investment

Brexit ‘the cream on top’ for Germany

Savills: alternative investment volumes reflect almost 30% of YTD UK volumes

Oxane Partners: real estate finance sector is primed for digital transformation, survey reveals

Expo Real: ‘Capital is being re-focused on offices’

CBRE: UK investment returns at 1.9% over first three quarters

RCA: logistics sector and secondary markets favoured by South Korean within Europe

‘Food retail properties in Germany are a sure bet’

Savills outlines retailers’ blueprint to survive and thrive in age of digitalisation

RCA: South Korean cross-border investment to top $20 billion globally in 2019

‘Auf Wiedersehen to EXPO REAL’

FAP Group: office and resi remain top of the sector rankings for German mez lenders

FAP Group: German mezzanine finance providers expects one-third rise in lending next year

‘EXPO REAL closes its doors today’

Waterway Investments: investing in non-CBD Germany in a maturing cycle

Savills: institutional investment into global residential sector tops US$110 billion in H1 2019

‘A busy first day at EXPO REAL’

Calastone: retail investors withdraw £2.7 billion from UK property funds in last 12 months

EXPO 2019: South Korean investment across Europe surges to more than €11 billion YTD

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JLL: €3 billion of Irish deals traded in the first nine months

Catella: residential sector emerges as European second hottest sector in last 12 months

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UK shopping centre pricing to stabilise next year as CVA season runs its course

Catella: European housing rental yields lowest in 40 years

‘Rental growth driving the office market’

FCA issues new rules to protect against a future open-ended property fund liquidity crisis

UK retail sector sentiment to remain subdued but use of CVAs may have peaked

‘The Grand transformation of Paris’

Savills: Zurich and Geneva are forecast to see large in-migration inflows

Brexit watch: CBRE downgrades economic outlook for UK as Chancellor readies £17 billion no-deal response

‘France is South Korean investors’ favourite destination’

Savills: real estate impacts of changing global tourism attitudes

Effective workplace strategy to optimise productivity across Europe

‘France is bucking the trend and showing positive growth’

Macro matters: markets absorb contrasting news which drives fresh bond yield spike

Savills: lessons from the UK logistics market

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Bouwinvest: residential investment overtakes office sector in Netherlands for first time

Savills: European logistics investment volumes reached €12.2 billion in H1

‘The European market is becoming more liquid and more competitive’

Savills: record European logistics take-up in H1 fueled by ‘unprecedented’ demand

Bouwinvest: scarcity of supply the Netherlands is drawing attention to secondary cities

‘So much capital chasing healthcare in the UK’

UBS: weakened macro environment influences a mitigated property downgrade for five-year returns

INREV: €5.6 billion expected to come to market in 2021 from best-performing fund vintage

‘Germany and France the best markets for senior housing’

INREV: up to €13.2 billion worth of European real estate assets could come to market

UBS: interest rate environment boosts the outlook for returns

‘Senior living attracting record investment’

Savills: South Korean invest €6.2 billion across Europe in H1

Macro Matters: three factors behind market malaise

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DWS: European prime all property total return forecast at 4.0% per annum over five years

Portugal tops rankings of the most attractive retail environment within EU

‘Investors find safety and income’

DWS: European average property yields will compress further over next 12 months

DWS: investor demand and weak deal flow mismatch driven by lack of product and markets trading at capacity

Portugal ‘the California of Europe’

Knight Frank: UK hotel industry growth spurt continues

Savills: West End pre-lets drive take-up as supply remains restricted

‘Regulation is the fly in the ointment’

DWS: robust European occupier markets and return of negative bond yields fuelling core real estate demand

CMS: micro locations will surge in coming two decades, predicts younger generations

‘Residential is the sector to be in’

CMS: rental attitudes of younger generations sharply differ to baby boomers

DWS: UK investment returns will continue to decelerate but ‘no-deal’ Brexit still expected to be avoided

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Savills: Madrid office take-up climbs 25% in H1

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CMS: Berlin tops list of European cities for best residential rent control policies

UBS: Investment activity slumped by one-third in H1

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Savills: office take-up exceeds 1 million in the City of London in July

CBRE: cross-border capital flows to and from the US continues to slow

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REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

UBS: central London office rental growth forecast flipped back positive

RED: investment in Danish real estate forecast to reach €8bn in 2019

Multi-family matures into a global asset class

RSM and Nyenrode Business University launch European real estate tax guide

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RED: Danish investment volumes slip 54% in H1 while foreign capital still dominates

UBS: secondary UK shopping centres averaging 20% vacancy rates as polarised performance deepens

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

UBS: UK office demand resilient in the face political drama, while retail struggles

Preqin: growing proportion of global investors believe a market correction is imminent

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Pre-lets drive London leasing activity above 10-year average in July

CBRE: debt remains attractive during the late-cycle as significant new capital raised in H1

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UK investors get creative amid uncertainty in London’s office market

CBRE: European CMBS pipeline for H2 looks steady and in line with 2018

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

CBRE: slump in retail sector acting as a drag on UK balanced funds pulling universe into discounted NAVs

JLL: global hotel investment activity constrained by dearth of opportunities

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JLL: global office leasing volumes remain elevated but below exceptional levels of 2018

CBRE: REITs are trading at deep discounts to NAV across Europe, but this is failing to trigger M&A activity

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

CBRE: European volumes slip to €120 billion in H1 reflecting global investor confidence weakening

JLL: global investment volumes have slowed to $174 billion but fundamentals remain sound

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BNP Paribas: life science research boom bodes well for real estate demand

Small to mid-sized lending market dominated by operating asset financing as borrowers shift to defensive sectors, JCRA debt analysis shows

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Nuveen: nimble and informed equity can capitalise on structural-driven sectors in the late cycle

Multi-asset class investors must be vigilant of the probable degree of correlation with equities during late-cycle, warns bfinance

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

Cushman: new wave of foreign investors flock to UK investment market

Nuveen: UK retail asset demand has almost completely disappeared

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Cushman: UK alternatives sector growth defies Brexit gloom

Nuveen: labour market resilience buoys European city leasing outlook

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

Nuveen: investors refocus on fundamental differences between sectors

Alternatives now the largest sector in UK commercial real estate investment market as investor activity evolves

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Knight Frank: global prime residential prices continue to cool

Savills: bumper July for central London as Q3 gets off to a flyer

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Savills: strongest H1 new supply volumes for Polish warehouses in history

Colliers: London offices take-up edged back up in Q2

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

Brexit: review your investment portfolios and hedging arrangements in advance of no-deal possibility, warns Mercers

RCA: Paris Closing Investment Gap with London

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RCA: China and Hong Kong investors become net sellers in Europe in H1

Brexit: three scenarios reveal how politics could unravel from here

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

RCA: Brexit risk aversion triggers 31% fall in UK property investment in H1

Brexit: prepare for ‘no-deal’, Mercers warns global investors

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PGIM: UK could outperform if Brexit uncertainty fades

BNP Paribas RE: European real estate volumes reached €102bn in H1

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Falling pound will unlikely prompt major overseas buying spree, forecasts Capital Economics

PGIM RE: real estate pricing is multi-tiered across and between markets in Europe

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

PGIM RE: momentum is slowing, driven by weakening economic sentiment and country-specific factors

Cushman: Q2 yields compress further in European logistics while flat in offices and retail

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Institutional investors increasingly turn to long income European assets in diversified LDI strategy

PGIM RE: the rising appeal of real estate debt during the late-stage cycle

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

PGIM: an analysis of vintage risk in late cycle investing

Barcelona office leasing records record H1 take-up, according to Savills

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Healthcare sector: UK versus Continental Europe

MSCI: Hungary tops leader board for highest annual capital growth rate in the world in 2018

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MSCI: global real estate investment market size climbs to almost $9 trillion with top three markets unchanged

Investment activity in UK PRS sector slows markedly in Q1 to end H1 at £1.4 billion, still 20% higher year-on-year

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BNP Paribas RE: robust demand for London office space in H1 despite ‘lingering uncertainty’

Knight Frank: international retailer expansion into France moderating but crucial to market’s future

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

BNP Paribas RE: European yields will remain mostly stable across the remainder of 2019

Knight Frank: strong foreign capital investment set to continue into H2

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

Knight Frank: French retail investment volumes slump in H1 but H2 could be brighter

BNP Paribas RE: European investment market to fare better than the occupational market in H2

REAL ASSET INSIGHT launches new EXPO Real Guide

CBRE: central London investment volumes slump to eight-year H1 low