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EXPO: capital flowing again in expectation of a positive 2026

Sentiment is improving despite geopolitical challenges and market momentum is picking up again, experts agreed at Real Asset Media´s European Real Estate Trends & Investment Outlook briefing, which took place this week at the International Investors’ Lounge at EXPO Real.
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European data centre boom drives £422bn funding need, led by London, Paris and Frankfurt

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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

CTP posts double-digit rental income and earnings growth in the first half

LIP Invest: German logistics transactions reach €2.6bn in first half of 2025

Savills: costs for global prime office space up 3.4% in H1 2025

XDS launches Gulf data centre rollout with the UAE’s first immersion-cooled AI facility

Sixth Street acquires 38% of Sorgenia in €4bn renewables platform deal

Isio: asset managers raise the bar on sustainable investing

Call for entries: Top Industrial & Logistics Projects

ActivumSG acquires €175m Fairmont La Hacienda luxury resort in Costa del Sol

Garbe Regeneration launched to develop brownfield sites

MAPFRE AM cements its position as Spain’s largest non-bank asset manager with €39.7bn in assets

New US tariffs redraw global trade landscape and rattle industrial real estate market

Arjun and Interogo take 30% stakes in Data4 data centre portfolio across Europe

Hydrogen push accelerates with £200m Thames Freeport investment

Aviva Investors adds to its office portfolio in the City of London

MSCI: European real estate stalls in first half amid trade and geopolitical uncertainty

Octopus Energy, Smart and Kensa join forces to accelerate the UK’s energy transition

SEGRO posts earnings and dividend growth as development and data centre momentum builds

Harrison Street acquires majority stake in RoundShield to scale European credit platform

QuadReal acquires UK PBSA portfolio for over £500m

Aedifica posts strong first-half 2025 results amid Cofinimmo merger plans

Audley and Elysian merge, creating the UK’s largest retirement village provider

Refinancing dominates €2.3tn European real estate debt market in subdued first half of 2025

Azora takes 50.1% stake in Donkey Hotels to launch Greek hospitality JV

Supermarket Income REIT debuts £250m bond to lower debt costs

Rockfield to develop two PBSA assets in Madrid with 300 beds

Valor and QuadReal expand Paris logistics footprint with 10,000 sq m sale-leaseback deal

Vision 2030 drives $324bn Saudi real estate boom

AXA IM Alts enters Japanese retail market with Tokyo buy

Berlin and Hamburg lead logistics recovery despite drop in new builds

Dubai residential deals pass 30,000 in second quarter as UAE market holds firm

BlackRock raises €1.2bn for sixth European value-add property fund

New Princes Group acquires Carrefour Italy in €1 billion deal

CTP secures €500m sustainability-linked loan for bond buyback

Avison Young: strong take-up in UK’s regional office markets

Spain’s Pontegadea acquires 49% stake in UK’s PD Ports from Brookfield

M7 buys logistics portfolio in France for Oxford/Australian JV

Kennedy Wilson and CPP scale UK housing venture with fresh £100m injection

Aware Super takes full control of European apartment-hotel brand The July from APG

Master developer sought to regenerate Royal Albert Dock

1BOX secures €110m to expand European self-storage portfolio

Clarion Partners acquires 125,000 sq m German logistics hub from Garbe joint venture

European data centre capacity surges past 24 GW as growth spreads beyond core hubs

Ardian & Rockfield buy Dutch PBSA portfolio from Nido

Oryx Real Estate raises over £100m for debut UK logistics development fund

European prime office yields compress as investors return to the market, says Savills

Mixed-use urban quarter approved for former industrial site in Munich

WAIPA launches ‘Decade of Investment for Good’, looks ahead to next World Investment Conference

European real estate finance stalls as lenders retreat and NPLs rise

Delin launches €200m Spanish logistics strategy with Madrid acquisitions

Arrow Capital buys Dutch logistics asset for its €3bn JV

ActivumSG acquires Centralis to scale €500m European serviced apartment platform

Elevation’s third fund to deploy £270m in UK senior housing

Centurion Accommodation REIT unveils $1.4bn seed portfolio ahead of IPO

Aware Super and Delancey deploy £500m in ‘vote of confidence’ in London office sector

CBRE IM recapitalises Vía Célere with €300m injection, valuing platform around €1bn

Scandi consortium acquires Dalata Hotels for €1.4bn

Australia’s IFM Investors to acquire Swiss data centre operator Green from InfraVia

Norway’s KLP acquires Stockholm office asset from Barings in €132.2m deal

Savills: European investment volumes up 11% in H1 this year

IMMOTISS launches third-party care asset manager for German market

Blackstone’s revised offer sways Warehouse REIT’s shareholders

Satair signs 20,400 sq m lease at CBRE IM’s Greve logistics hub in Denmark

Masdar and Iberdola co-invest in €5.2 bln offshore wind farm

Unite secures £400m refinancing from Rothesay for student housing portfolio

Patron Capital and Mindston acquire Nailloux Outlet Village to reposition French retail

Dils: H1 investments in Italian market up 50% to €5.2bn

Accolade acquires €100m Czech logistics park from Garbe

Proptech startup Huspy raises $59m to fuel European expansion

Green light for AXA IM Alts’ new City of London office tower

BlackRock to acquire $7.3bn net-lease real estate firm ElmTree Funds

Greykite and Brunswick launch Danish housing platform with 300-unit Aarhus acquisition

Catena acquires $133.2m Swedish logistics hub from Niam-managed fund

Savills: foreign capital boosts investment in French retail

Rents soar 29% in Munich logistics market as leasing hits 142,000 sq m

Skanska invests $146m in second phase of Solna Link office project in Stockholm

Gamuda and Singapore’s QIP invest £41.5m in London student housing scheme

Berkeley plans new mixed-use development in Oxford Street

Spring Hotels acquires Mare Nostrum Resort for €430m

Savills: 85% of capital invested in care homes is cross-border

The Crown Estate posts £1.15bn net profit and unveils £24bn development pipeline

Fusion secures £500m loan to fund five student housing projects

Numa acquires Brighton hotel, plans further expansion in UK

French asset manager LBP AM raises €235m for new private markets fund

King Street raises $950 million for European Real Estate fund

Feldberg Capital and US pension fund TRS launch €200m German logistics venture

Cushman & Wakefield: 82% of prime European real estate markets are underpriced

Swiss Life’s BEOS targets €600m for fifth German industrial property fund

Dalata teams up with Deka to operate its first hotel in Berlin

Noli Studios adds 398-unit scheme in Poland with launch of Gdańsk Old Town site

SHHA Summit: ‘silver tsunami’ calls for longevity real estate

Munich Re’s MEAG backs German proptech with €120m loan for green heating rollout

Royal London AM in-house move backs £1bn care home expansion

SHHA Summit: investment in healthcare to rise by 82% in Q2

Assura recommends £1.79bn takeover offer from Primary Health Properties

UK logistics REIT Warehouse backs £485m takeover by Tritax Big Box

SHHA Summit: ‘the imperative is promoting healthy ageing’

Singapore-listed trust makes €50m data centre play across Europe

Heimstaden Bostad issues €500m bond for low-carbon residential projects

SHHA Summit: public/private cooperation key to delivery of sustainable senior housing

Harrison Street launches £150m UK self-storage joint venture with Pacific Investments

L&G refinances industrial fund with £500m facility

Greykite’s multi-let industrial platform expands to Germany

International Campus buys PBSA project in Rotterdam

New harbourside quarter in Folkestone given green light

Nido Living buys Brookfield’s €1.2 bln Iberian PBSA portfolio

French property funds ramp up overseas investment as inflows rebound

MPT and Praemia REIM complete €702.5m refinancing for German hospital portfolio

ULI Europe: the future belongs to sustainable “nimble cities”

Central and Eastern Europe shows resilience amid global FDI challenges

Octopus Energy targets $250m in private capital for African clean energy

ULI Europe: real assets can benefit from global uncertainty

€1.07bn Neinor–Aedas merger to reshape Spanish residential market

BREEAM Outstanding rating for Derbion shopping centre

Hunter Point Capital takes minority stake in Equitix at £1.3bn valuation

Barings buys £145m UK urban logistics portfolio from Blackstone

London tops Savills’ global warehousing costs index

Eagle Hills and Coima deal to restore historic Venice hotel

South London’s Croydon to unveil £30m regeneration plan

Warehouse REIT posts solid growth as Blackstone launches £470m takeover bid

C Change for Housing launch at ULI Conference in London

CBRE Survey: lending activity in Europe to increase in 2025

Schroder REIT outperforms as industrial and retail assets fuel recovery

New solutions to tackle labour shortages in senior housing

First transaction in Rome for Coima’s new €500 million fund

Dubai property market soars to $18.2bn sales in May

Renewed investor interest in senior housing sector: SHHA

New trade corridors to reshape Eastern Europe’s logistics landscape

Foreign buyers boost early signs of UK commercial property market recovery

SHHA: finding new solutions to deal with demographic shifts

Real estate confronts the AI shift: hype versus reality

CEE real estate faces decarbonisation dilemma as pressure mounts on landlords

Lone Star buys £212m UK student housing portfolio from Unite

Location more important than ever when investing in logistics

Savills: PBSA the top priority for European real estate investors

Poland’s presidential election raises questions for country’s CRE prospects

Supply chain transformation drives logistics boom in Central and Eastern Europe

Geopolitics and capital constraints weigh on Central and Eastern Europe’s real estate outlook

Office vacancies cost German landlords €2bn a year

Defense push in Europe to drive demand for logistics

Brookfield to invest $10bn in Swedish AI data centre hub

CEE Summit in Warsaw at a crucial time for the region

Window of opportunity now as logistics demand “set to rise”

CBRE commits an additional €300m to European student housing

Aedifica and Cofinimmo create €12.1 billion healthcare REIT

Recovery ahead in industrial and office markets: Savills

Bain Capital & Stoneweg JV buys logistics portfolio in Italy

Living sector drives €10.1bn rebound in European real estate investment

Controversy over rollback of Biodiversity Net Gain in UK

Qair secures Brookfield loan for renewable projects in Poland

UAE developers post record backlogs amid warning signs of oversupply

Savills: logistics investment soars in Czechia and Hungary

Delancey and Aware Super acquire prime London office for £170m

Gresham House closes £375m UK forestry fund with institutional backing

Coima: Italy attracting more foreign institutional capital

UK office conversions surge as investors respond to post-pandemic demand shifts

Canadian apartment REIT InterRent to be taken private in US$2.88bn deal

Greystar invests in 836-bed PBSA scheme in Birmingham

Munich Re’s MEAG secures €1bn infrastructure debt mandate

Record take-up of data centre capacity in Europe in ’25: CBRE

Czech industrial market steadies as 1.6m sq m under construction

IULIUS and Atterbury secure record €400m Romanian real estate loan

Dutch real estate market adjusts to structural shifts as Eindhoven sees tech growth momentum

M&G Real Estate acquires €73.2m logistics hub in Germany’s Rhine-Main

Completions fall 14% as Germany misses housing target again

RAK Properties aligns real estate development with the emirate’s evolving needs

HUK-Coburg commits €50m anchor investment to European senior loan platform

British Land: return to office driving rents up in London

Brookfield and Lunate launch $1bn Middle East real estate joint venture

Savills: European office take-up volumes up by 5% this year

UK’s West Midlands unveils £19bn digital platform to lure real estate investors

Urban Partners and HIH Invest launch 37,000 sq m green logistics hub in Germany

US CBDs struggle with weak demand and falling prices

Hines: PBSA on the rise in Europe as demand grows

Schroders raises €2bn for European infrastructure debt strategy

L&G to acquire real estate private equity group Proprium

Prologis to build €6.4bn data centres in France in major logistics push

The Great North: UK mayors back £118bn growth vision

Gecina acquires €435m Paris office complex from Germany’s Deka Immobilien

ABP & CBRE IM launch Dutch affordable housing mandate

Lendlease strikes £144m UK joint venture with Crown Estate

Chelsea F.C. and DAMAC launch the world’s first football-branded residences in Dubai

HIH Invest enters Austrian resi market with Vienna acquisition

Aberdeen acquires Solihull retail park for £69.6m

Madison acquires 24.5% stake in UK lender Puma Property Finance

M&G acquires 296-unit resi development in The Hague

European property values post modest first quarter gains

Actis closes $1.7bn fund to expand emerging markets infrastructure play

Patron and Curation JV buys 418-bed PBSA asset in Durham

Second global tenant signs at Verdion’s Berlin logistics park

UK pension fund pledges £250m to data centre megaproject

ULI’s seven principles to avoid the risk of stranded assets

AMPERE raises €325m for French affordable housing fund

Cofinimmo rejects €3.1bn takeover bid from Aedifica

BlackChamber raises $2bn to expand hyperscale data centre platform

Northern Horizon expands healthcare portfolio in Finland

TPG Angelo Gordon raises $2.5bn for European property fund

LondonMetric worth £4.4 bln after acquiring Urban Logistics