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Canary Wharf in demand as HSBC signs new office lease

HSBC is the latest group to sign up for space in Canary Wharf as the return to work trend is leading to a shortage of quality offices in the City of London. The bank has signed a new 15-year lease for 210,000 sq ft at 40 Bank Street, said the Canary Wharf Group, landlord and manager of the estate.
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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

Tristan acquires easyHotel for €242m

£1.3 billion mixed-use scheme in London gets the green light

Aroundtown issues €750m bond at 3.5%

Long Harbour to forward fund 105 homes in Essex

Asia-Pacific cross-border real estate investment surges 117% in Q1

Savills: ‘proximity premium’ for offices close to major stations

Barings exits £100m UK logistics portfolio in off-market deal

Dubai Holding to float $5.9bn residential REIT in landmark listing

Lysara expands fleet-charging infrastructure across Europe

German property market rebounds 12% in first quarter

UK BTR sector set for record £6 billion investment in 2025: LSH

Tokenised real estate tipped for $3tn growth by 2035

Aberdeen completes first commercial real estate loan in Europe

MSCI: recovery in European CRE market stalled in Q1 2025

Catella sells Kaktus Towers in Copenhagen to Quantum

Savills: property investment volumes in Ireland triple in Q1

Germany briefing: for investors residential is a ‘no brainer’

Bayes report: new lending for UK CRE up 11% in the last year

Ardian and Rockfield buy 596-bed PBSA asset in Amsterdam

Briefing: positive momentum as Germany turns the page

European real estate ‘resilient’ as Trump’s hard line bites: C&W

Blackstone backs Valor/Quadreal JV with £260m refinancing

Germany briefing: recovery is driven by domestic investors

Blackstone launches European logistics developer Proxity

M&G makes €82.5m German debut for living property fund

AXA IM Alts enters battery energy storage sector in the UK

BlueCastle buys former Brum M&S for 50+storey BTR project

Cheyne acquires 485-unit co-living scheme in south London

Tariffs won’t sway CRE recovery despite GDP hit: AEW research

C&W: office leasing deals, new record for the City of London

Segro adds to rail infrastructure in UK’s East Midlands region

Catella selects former DEAS CEO Rikke Lykke to lead group

KIA launches lawsuit against Axa IM Alts over ‘right to light’

Madrid and Paris offices: ‘most attractively priced’ markets

Colonial backs Deeplabs and launches €2.4bn science JV

Real estate groups join GREEN to align sustainability metrics

Barings makes Danish debut by buying Catella resi scheme

Yeldo mezzanine bond issue for luxury project in Sardinia

Aviva’s build-to-rent commitment over £500m after Beds deal

AEW last-mile purchase brings Netherlands AUM to €900m

Eight banks back Segro with renewed €1.6bn revolving loan

Kula launches new governance model for impact investments

Multi’s ‘going-concern’ office buy is future resi conversion

Logistics deals in Rouen and Paris underline draw of France

BL and Co-Laboratories partner on flexible London lab space

SevenAges & Blossem team up for new Dutch senior care fund

Berlin Hyp: Germany the most attractive RE market in Europe

Axa sells four-asset mixed Spanish portfolio for €300m

Investors to increase allocations to co-living as resi focus grows

Investment volumes in Italy up 128% to €2.8 billion in Q1: CBRE

Swedish assets seed Greykite MLI platform’s €1bn campaign

c€460m refinance for Kennedy Wilson-Axa JV Irish resi assets

Nobu Manchester to be the tallest tower outside of London

Owner-occupier forward buys City office block for £333m

Cambridge Uni team wins 6th ULI Hines Student Competition

Savills: global luxury retail sees rental growth & more openings

Dublin: M&G wins US AI firm in record post-covid office letting

Threestones’ Eurocare IV fund takes on assisted living sector

Survey on biodiversity in the real estate sector: have your say

Verdantix: more investment in decarbonisation is needed

Savills IM’s European Living Fund ventures into Germany

‘Miscommunication’ slows deal completions: Drooms, Statista

Patron Capital and Inbright to seek €100m Portuguese I&L

Schroders’ 5th acquisition for GMPF recycles £130m

Columbia Threadneedle bags £138m Nuveen fund for TPUT

Leumi UK refinances two London hotels for Splendid

Threestones fund buys five care homes in northern Germany

Skanska divests Romanian office building for €52m

Commitment to sustainability rewarded by €112m refinancing

Azora’s US resi venture with Advenir begins first projects

Data centre deal values rise 7.5% pa as demand escalates

UK healthcare investment to rise as aged dominate demand

Valor/QuadReal JV acquires first Amsterdam logistics plot

PGIM raises $2 billion at global data centre fund’s final close

Redevco debt fund kicks off with €56.8m City office loan

Insulation maker takes first steps in Ukraine rebuild effort

Egypt’s new capital advances as investment interest grows

Invesco buys InterCity hotel in central Berlin from CA Immo

Real estate is Europe’s second most distressed sector: WEDI

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 surpasses key milestones

US investors account for a third of capital deployed in UK CRE

SevenCapital plans London resi expansion with GDV of £1bn
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Saudi Arabia’s New Murabba project moves forward with groundwork and investor interest

Blackstone invests £235m to buy stake in three UK airports

New Segro JV plans £1bn data centre in London’s Park Royal

Knight Frank: more global investors opt for ESG strategies

Greystar targets Berlin and forms JV with Primus Immo

The Social Hub completes fourth hybrid hotel in Italy

ESG insight and optimisation for long-term value creation

IKEA pilots online fulfilment in revamped Hungary store

Germany’s Inbright to focus on brown-to-green in Portugal

CBRE: energy-efficient assets deliver better financial returns

Japan’s Nomura partners L&G to accelerate UK BTR provision

Value slide slows in France but improvement patchy: MSCI

Riga’s housing shortage creates opportunities for investors and developers

Dutch residential top of the list as investors turn to safe havens

Fidelity’s sustainable logistics fund raises another €110m

Make buildings adaptable to unlock real estate’s potential

British Land secures consent to redevelop London landmark

New study on how to leverage ESG shareholder engagement

‘Coalition of the willing’ needed to fight backlash against ESG

Europe’s growing refinancing gap a ‘lucrative opportunity’