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Value slide slows in France but improvement patchy: MSCI

French commercial real estate delivered a 0.8% total return in 2024 according to the MSCI France Annual Property Index, indicating a slowing of the decrease in values and a recovery from the sharp decline in 2023.
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Fidelity’s sustainable logistics fund raises another €110m

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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’

Axa raises European student housing target to €1.3bn

Economic and political challenges hit property sector confidence

Mitsui Fudosan & Stanhope sign for £1.1bn library project

Amro student housing project in Salamanca certified ‘green’

Ikea to open its first West End store in London’s Oxford Circus

European hotel transactions reach five-year high: C&W

Redevco buys Dortmund retail park to grow German portfolio

LPA: Central London offices outperforming global rivals

Trinity Bank acquires Pankrác House office building in Prague

EPRA: renewed interest in European listed real estate

Sustainability the key feature of MIPIM 2025 Awards winners

Savills: Dublin office market set for significant recovery in 2025

Lendlease gets green light for BTR scheme in Birmigham

Knight Frank: households key demand driver for logistics

Azora to invest €2bn in data centre development in Aragon

RSM launches latest editions of European real estate tax guides

MIPIM: Student demand outpaces PBSA sector growth

US installed record-breaking 50GW of solar capacity in 2024

MIPIM: Media savvy cities increasingly turn to TikTok

ULI & PwC: uncertainty dims hope of new real estate cycle

Nrep in €400m push to tackle Finnish care home shortage

Dutch logistics specialist CTP places €1bn of green bonds

Eindhoven to buy Brainport campus as ASML expands

Europe’s property investment volumes to exceed €50bn in Q1

Round Hill Madrid deal boosts ERIF European living portfolio

Savills: investment volumes & confidence in office sector up

Investec loan to build first co-living scheme in Birmingham

ABG plans €250m revamp of historic Frankfurt landmark

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UK property claimed to be ‘overvalued’ due to maths error

Skanska to develop new office complex at Solna in Sweden

Report highlights FDI’s impact on US jobs

Nonnengaesser to head PGIM’s German micro-living platform

BNP Paribas REIM launches healthcare & hospitality division

Canada braces for repercussions as tariffs threaten key industries

Resi decarbonisation specialist Reneo hires Lambros Reppas

Ardian and Rockfield JV buys new PBSA asset in Bologna

Nrep to build €100m hybrid living development in Helsinki

Investors shift focus as Europe’s markets evolve amid uncertainty, say experts

Aedifica completes disposal of its entire portfolio in Sweden

Arlington Advisors to supervise London college’s PBSA refurb

ZBI boosts residential-for-rent fund with Hague acquisition

Landsec sells offices and pivots to resi to rebalance portfolio

Skanska to invest in new green office project in Hyllie, Malmö

Principal grabs Irish life science sector asset for Log In fund

Drooms: complexity adds to transaction times for RE deals

Deka Immobilien pays ESR €86m for Ruby Molly Dublin

Cells buys former Signa-owned department store in Hamburg

Retail begins its slow ascent and France leads the way: AEW

Investec Realis and Keir create £400m logistics JV in England

Dandara Living and Gamuda JV to deliver PBSA in Glasgow

BauMont and Picture AM buy Square d’Orléans in Paris

Dils expands to Spain, takes majority stake in Lucas Fox

Hilton opens first Spark hotel in Germany in Sindelfingen

Government keeping investors in dark on energy reforms: BPF

AXA IM Alts to build new office tower in the City of London

GLP Clean Energy to deliver 10 new solar projects in Germany

Coima: Italy & Southern Europe a magnet for foreign capital

Azora buys resi development land in Madrid’s Valdecarros

Forward buy in mid-Stockholm boosts KKR’s Nordic resi assets

Stoneweg buys MC Property, new group has €8bn in assets

Greystar makes first acquisition in Toulouse area of France

CapMan acquires Midstar in Nordics’ largest hotel deal

Outlook Summit: data sharing is the key to ESG compliance

Berlin Hyp backs green and social housing with €170m loan

Dutch office market set to lead property demand in ’25: Savills

IHG Group buys Ruby Hotels for €110.5m – plans expansion

Henderson Park acquires French hotels and repacks

Patrizia to back Philippines sustainable parking start up

Trevian completes acquisition of Finland’s main event venue

Hines acquires fully let logistics property near Frankfurt Airport

Dublin I&L take-up hits 10-year low but rents set to rise: Savills

Bain buys Apleona from PAI to aid focus on decarbonisation

VIA Outlets records 6.8% rise in sales and 5% increase in footfall

£125m HSBC loan hastens Helical/TfL City development

CEO Outlook 2025: Spain and UK ahead as market recovers

European property deals now take almost a year to conclude

Schroders Capital buys Milan CityLife hotel from Invesco RE

CEO Outlook 2025: value-add strategies to the fore in Europe

Round Hill invests €100m in Berlin resi with dry powder ready

Lemli switches from Savills to CBRE Germany to head capital markets

CEO Outlook Summit 2025: real estate is attractive again

Property prospects improve owing to ‘construction crunch’

First phase of London’s Tribeca life science campus completed

Knight Frank: £5 billion to be invested in London core offices

Kuwaiti-backed EGLS to make its project debut in Ostrava

Retail leads UK’s recovery in property performance: CBRE

Savills: Spanish office sector recovers, investments up 50%

Funders line up to lend as UK hospitality sector refinances

CEE real estate investment volume up 70% in 2024: Colliers

Garbe: Spain’s logistics market offers excellent opportunities

Global office costs inch up but steepest rises in Dubai and LA

New Invesco JV will focus on multi-let UK industrial property

Investment activity in logistics market set to increase: Garbe

€1bn of financing awaits as Castlelake partners Niam

New INREV focus group aims to make ESG more valuable

Garbe Pyramid: the era of steep rental rises in logistics is over

Data centre hotspots blur as AI raises space and power needs

Daily commute the clincher as office-v-home battle hots up

Savills survey: Spain the most popular country to invest in

More pension schemes join L&G affordable housing fund

Ghelamco UK starts building The HiLight tower in London

Politics could thwart German market improvement: IVD

Luxury retailer Kering makes €350m from Italian outlets sale

Investment needed to support continued growth of Uzbekistan’s high-flying tourism industry

MSCI: investment activity up in Q4 but market recovery patchy

Prologis chosen to develop East Midlands logistics park

Kennedy Wilson JV swoops in on 650 new houses in England

Finnish pension giant Keva and Taaleri in €300m PRS venture

AshbyCapital sells retail park portfolio in UK for £220 mln

New JV enables start of £260m Birmingham housing project

Real estate recovery underway, led by UK and Europe: M&G RE

Prologis buys seven German logistics assets from Union

Patrizia pays €55m for SAP HQ in Milan’s Porta Nuova district

Worboys returns to European logistics with new company

Mapletree buys first warehouse in UK and ten assets in Spain

Project finance plummets in 2024, greenfield FDI remains weak and M&A is stable: UNCTAD report

Q4 ’24 kept take-up low for Rhine-Main warehouses: NAI

abrdn sells three warehouses in Spain and the Netherlands

Hyatt to expand in EMEA after improvement in key metrics

AXA IM Alts raises over €4bn for its global CRE debt platform

Henderson and Stoke Park start revamp of Berlin’s Mosse

Hotels make largest leap as property looks up: CBRE

Norges Bank buys £305m stake in Grosvenor’s Mayfair portfolio

ADR unveils Europe’s largest solar plant at Fiumicino Airport

Savills: Five themes emerge as Europe’s RE recovery begins

Milan’s Vertical Forest: ten years as a green inspiration

Poland leads CEE’s GDP race but growth universal: Colliers

Bain sale extends Greystar’s Spanish co-living portfolio

CBRE survey: Living sector top target for European investors

Administrator to sell Demire’s four-asset Limes portfolio

TPG buys half of M&G logistics portfolio as the pair plan capex

Outlook ’25: move West to East as German investors prefer CEE

Car makers and defence drive UK industrial space demand

LBBW Immobilien redevelops listed central Frankfurt space

Outlook 2025: Poland set for a good year as investors return

Real estate second in sectoral ranking of corporate distress

Aviva redoubles commitment to energy infrastructure

Garbe Retail & ICG RE buy 22 Coop supermarkets in Italy

Leumi UK provides £56m debt for care home company

Invesco partners Simten to focus on London projects

German insolvencies up and real estate feeling the pain

Fiera completes refinancing of W.RE’s period asset in Clapham

LCBI & Afilog JV to measure carbon footprint of logistics

Savills: H1 2025 last chance to shop around for logistics assets

Local authorities help Heim UK resi fund to £375m first close

AustralianSuper JV with Oxford and M7 targets European I&L

Civitas to double UK pipeline and expand further in Europe

Modernised CEE cities feeling benefit of “greener” office stock

Barings sells logistics portfolio in Sweden for €122 million

Berlin Hyp chair calls for end to Germany’s ‘political gridlock’

Patrizia and Revive JV to build affordable housing in Benelux

Study shows solar motorways a viable solution for Germany

Property fund outflows rose to £1.16 billion in 2024: Calastone

Union sells Doppio Offices in Vienna to Austrian company

Catella acquires Instone resi project in Nuremberg area

CBRE setting up new Global Financial HQ in Manhattan

Wind energy the largest source of electricity in UK for first time

Norway’s SWF invests $1bn+ in US logistics JV with Goodman

URW sells stake in shopping centre in Paris for €235 million

Q4 ’24: German resi’s strongest since interest rate hikes began

Principal acquires Tuscany asset in sale-and-leaseback

Seasonal good wishes from all the team at Real Asset Insight

ASR Dutch Science Park fund expands presence to Leiden

Oaktree, Greycoat and Homes England launch £250m JV

Savills raises outlook on total returns for UK real estate in ’25

GSA and Nuveen partner to acquire Gecina PBSA portfolio

Living index finds investors now more at home in London

Landsec buys Liverpool One shopping centre for £490m

Sienna IM creates first private debt biodiversity impact fund

Boost for flex-offices as return to in-person work gathers pace

Valesco refinances Brussels office setting post-covid record

Too many barriers to retaining women in real estate sector

Multi to repurpose former Dutch department store

Hines: 2025 a ‘pivotal moment’ for global real estate markets

Segro sells three logistics assets in Germany to GCP

Supermarket Income REIT obtains second listing – on JSE

PGIM RE and Pithos Capital JV to invest in French self-storage

Skanska sells major Warsaw office building for €100m

Savills IM’s Iberian supermarket buy raises strategy to €470m

Offices to lead 2025’s ‘period of recovery and growth’: C&W

Swedish Brinova swaps €938m shares for K-Fast resi portfolio

Savills: indoor air quality is a problem for real estate industry

Knight Frank: UK’s healthcare sector continues to outperform

Redevco buys £518m UK retail park portfolio from Oxford

Planning victory a green light for Patrizia data centre site sale

Outlook 2025: competition for deals returns to French market

Invesco acquires new Motel One hotel in Poland’s TriCity

Fidelity kicks off LOGICs fund with Dutch and Spanish assets

Outlook ’25: bottom reached, French asset values set to rise

NEPI Rockcastle buys Katowice shopping centre for €405m

Backdrop to WAIPA World Investment Conference is possible FDI recovery

Outlook ’25: three reasons to be cheerful about French market

CBRE IM scoops up Italy’s second largest PBSA project

US Treasury moves to regulate outbound investments

€2bn Mareterra waterfront project launched in Monaco

Art-Invest buys Swedish resi and retail assets from Patrizia

pbb lends Trei RE €38m against Vendo Park assets

European I&L investment begins to recover: Savills

M&G’s 40 Leadenhall bets on amenities to lure workers back

New Greykite-Equilibria JV to convert Munich hotel to PBSA

Recovery in sight for office sector, London points the way

Second Crossbay fund hits final close with €1.5 billion to spend

Internal sale brings Skanska Investments Malmö office asset

€120bn of UK projects showcased at EXPO Real

‘Team glass half-full’ prevails on prospects for German market

Coima: market recovering in Italy, volumes up by 68%

Patron and Santander resi unit aim €365m at 16 sites in Spain

BNP Paribas: the worst is over for Europe’s real estate market

Valesco pays €200m for stake in Moncler’s global HQ in Milan

Erste refinances Vienna mixed-use asset in largest loan to date

Savills IM/Greystar JV acquires €150m rental asset in Madrid

CTP and Raben install Europe’s largest heat pump in Warsaw

Catella merges CREAG and CRIM to form €10m platform

Blackstone pays €235m for revamped Grand Hyatt Athens

LCBI and One Click LCA team up to decarbonise real estate

£102m Catella fund targets the hidden value in UK listed sector

Opportunities in all sectors in Germany but caution needed

DWS forward funds Park’s €97.5m Dublin PRS project

Sofidy bags asset in London’s jewellery quarter on 8% yield

The funding gap in German market is ‘yet to be bridged’

Q3 Global I&L spend up 4.3% – funds raise €69.5bn for more

Ontario Teachers/Boreal JV adds four assets to I&L portfolio

German market still in holding mode as uncertainty prevails

BNP Paribas AM launches fund to invest in sustainable forestry

£180m Tristan loan backs BGO’s Oxford life science project

C&W: world’s most expensive retail is in Via Montenapoleone

Bruntwood SciTech teams up with Imperial on new tech hub

Eurofund launches Luana, new senior living platform in Spain

Talent availability driving most Life Science location decisions

Clarion secures €240m green NAV loan from NatWest

Nordics’ Citycon sells Estonian shopping centre for €129m

Hines acquires French Onyx logistics portfolio from Segro

Royal London AM buys 50% of Milton Keynes shopping centre

Rooftop solar system installed at GLP’s Belfeld logistics centre

C&W: 70% of European offices at risk of becoming obsolete

Ikea lines up €1.5bn for energy improvements to retail units

Europe’s data centre vacancy rate in single figures by year end: CBRE

Europe still not keeping pace with demand for PBSA: CBRE

Entries are open for the 2025 ULI Hines Student Competition

Alecta buys pair of Gothenburg office projects for €190m

Market conditions favour sale and leaseback deals: Colliers

Royal London & Graftongate buy land to develop in Coventry

Stoneweg partners Lopesan Hotels to buy Madrid landmark

Panattoni report: sustainability still a challenge for logistics

Research indicates UK property lags European energy savings

Brookfield to sell rival Segro part of Tritax Eurobox portfolio

Garbe Industrial Real Estate establishes Romanian unit

Solivus’ solar installation for Farnborough Airport complete

Dunmoore snares RHP to fund 1st phase of west London PRS

Theatre signs 10-year lease on Westfield’s former Debenhams

Brookfield buys Atrato for £220 million in bet on rooftop solar

Homes England provides £124m boost for Barking

$10.5 trn global food market driving demand for real estate

King Street and Alea JV aims €375m at Portuguese PBSA

Eastnine set to pay Ghelamco €280m for Warsaw office tower

Amundi-Koramco partnership refinances NL’s The Atrium

UK property bodies discuss merger in face of ‘significant structural change’

Optimism with ‘strong caveats’ prevails in Europe: PwC/ULI

ING and Delancey team up to refinance Notting Hill Estate

Greykite and Gatehouse plan £750m SFR campaign in UK

PIC, Muse and Homes England join to target UK housing crisis

M&G acquires 65% stake in BauMont, aims for growth

Krakow’s Wesoła set to be hub for creativity and innovation

Helical realises £71.4m selling 50% share in City office block

Panattoni and GFH to invest $500m in I&L projects in Saudi

Amro/Invesco student housing JV kicks off with Madrid project

PGIM launches German logistics development platform

M&G ‘living’ property fund makes first French acquisition

L&G’s Managed Fund chalks up £370m in ’24 with Soho asset

Madrid leads European return to the office: Savills research

Funding gap fall reduces debt threat – legacy loans still at risk

Empowering investment promotion agencies: a critical step for global FDI recovery

Subdued FDI is another sign of ‘slowbalisation’: Research

Cheyne and Apollo back Castleforge with £115m loan

New software first step in giant ‘Sandcastle’s’ sustainability bid

Metrovacesa/Vita JV to develop flex-living building in Madrid

EXPO Real: ‘United front’ by UK cities as sentiment improves

Slower office fitout cost rises cut more slack for occupiers

ZIN project in Brussels to set new standard for sustainability

Aware Super and Delancey JV targets UK with £1bn platform

Auction plays to potential of Tuscany’s upscale hospitality market

Berlin Hyp: Germany’s CRE market seen as ‘less attractive’

CPP/Kennedy Wilson JV aims for 4,000 BTR units in the UK

Case for office retrofitting stronger as rent gap hits 35%

HNWIs lift luxury outlook as sector sees post-Covid bounce

France proves the exception to Europe’s recovery: La Francaise

Niam increases Swedish BTR portfolio with Stockholm buy

Oxford refinances Paris office with €182m Aareal green loan

UK’s Simply Affordable Homes fund makes first acquisition

Valor-Quadreal JV acquires €90m French last-mile assets