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AEW debt strategy supports €2bn Dunkirk gigafactory

AEW has provided battery manufacturer Verkor with a €42 million loan to finance the €2 billion development of France’s first Gigafactory which will be located in Dunkirk.
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Coima: investments in Italian real estate market up 50% in H1

Shortage of space could limit scope of UK’s biotech boom

Romano Senior buy lifts Azora’s senior care stake to €500m

Hines tops €1 billion of equity commitments for HEPP fund

New Barings JV targets Spain for €100m-plus resi mandate

Savills: positive growth outlook for European grocery sector

ADIA invests in Arrow Global’s European RE lending strategy

ECE/Strabag JV sells Cologne office to the city for €270m

Stoneweg and Bain Capital sell the Casa Lit hotel in Barcelona

Hammerson sells its stake in Value Retail for £1.5 billion

Berlin Hyp first German bank to issue a bond on a blockchain

Cheyne backs Fattal Hotel Group with £525m refinancing

ASR Real Estate launches €400 million renewable energy fund

Macquarie to spin off part of management business to staff

HSBC tower in Canary Wharf to become multi-use green asset

Multi wins mandate for port regeneration project in Genoa

Frankfurt office demand weak in H1 but sentiment improves

Böhnlein to leave Commerz Real – for ‘new challenge’

Delivery the key as UK aims to ‘get Britain building again’

Dutch office occupiers tend to prioritise energy efficient space

PGIM Real Estate sells portfolio of ‘institutional’ campsites

BPF & Savills: record delivery for the UK’s Build-to-Rent sector

‘New vision’ to regenerate Liverpool’s historic waterfront

Garbe’s new recruit to sift retail portfolio for more PV potential

CTP logistics ‘clubhaus’ most sustainable non-resi building

European real estate sector still topping distress chart: WEDI

Patron/Investire JV targets €150m of Rome resi projects

Savills: real estate investment volumes +18% in Europe in Q2

Swiss Life AM buys Vergia to finance green energy transition

Germany’s largest retail-to-mixed-use switch takes shape

PBSA: W5 channels €140m German family cash into USA

Eiffel launches first impact debt fund dedicated to SMEs

New funds for LifeSpot to grow presence in Polish PRS market

Paris best city in Europe for last-mile logistics investment

Brookfield to partner Empira on Cologne multi-family project

GRESB launches Transition Analytics to help reach net zero

BNP Paribas REIM: European real estate in recovery mode

Numa buys Native Places to expand UK hospitality portfolio

Bouwinvest sells 48 homes in Haarlem to TBM real estate

Sovereign investors up their game in terms of best practice

British Land & Kings’s College partners on new tech campus

Panattoni starts building its first warehouse park in India

UK’s property sector highlights needs as Labour takes the reins

Nrep acquires 524-unit resi portfolio in central Stockholm

Niam makes a strategic entry into Finland’s healthcare sector

Nuveen makes first logistics acquisition in Denmark

Anne Kavanagh appointed as the new Chair of ULI Europe

Invesco Manchester PBSA joins sector’s rising investment tide

Plans for the City of London’s tallest skyscraper put on hold

Invesco-backed Kryalos debt fund signs up first facility

Aviva buys Reading retail park following ‘sharp repricing’

Germany’s residential market showing signs of recovery in Q2

Brookfield and Garbe JV to invest in logistics development

Europe’s green leaning deters North American investors

AEW first in line to adopt the FCA Sustainability Impact label

PGIM finances Hines/APG’s Cherrywood BTR in Dublin

CBRE: AI driving investment in data centres across Europe

Cinven buys EQT’s 70% stake in Idealista in a €2.9 billion deal

Microsoft pays £106m for Leeds datacentre development site

Trianon sells residual stake in Malmo centre to Hemmaplan

Segro invests €222m to grow its Dutch logistics portfolio

Fundamentals will reverse UK’s drop in healthcare investment

CTP completes largest PV project in Czech Republic

Development finance badly hit by lending crisis in Germany

Sweden’s Diös thins out portfolio to focus on offices

SINDI, a new digital platform to measure social sustainability

European funding gap €99bn – Germany’s is largest share

Blackstone pays Nrep €135m for Finnish logistics portfolio

Sonae and Axa joint venture to build Lisbon office building

Debt briefing: no light at the end of the tunnel until 2025

Aareal exits property software firm and stake realises €2.1bn

Axa to start work on nature-rich City of London offices

Offices to deliver best returns, time to invest again: AEW

Covivio and AccorInvest in €393m opco/propco swap

Rockstone’s iQ Spaces to build Berlin’s gene therapy centre

Ada to develop 201 MW data centre campus in East London

Svenska pays CBRE IM c€105m for Stockholm retail park

Recovery in sight for non-listed assets at least: INREV research

Stranded assets are a “ticking time bomb” for European CRE

Citywave in Milan’s CityLife to be completed by end of 2025

Gothenburg buy maintains Verdion’s Swedish expansion

Germany’s recovery unlikely before 2026: Ulrich Höller

PGIM acquires UK senior housing group Signature

‘Don’t rewrite planning’ BPF implores next UK government
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Tourism’s post-pandemic recovery nearly complete

Storebrand buys Norwegian office asset for c€96m

Invesco acquires ‘Golden Triangle’ logistics project

NREP forward buys €98m Danish PRS scheme from Skanska

Deutsche Hypo lends Format €31m for Gdansk office asset

Harworth gets green light for rail-linked logistics in Leeds

Infranity’s AUM in sustainable infrastructure go over €10 bn

Leonardo Hotels buys portfolio of 12 assets in the Netherlands

Nuveen to sell 25% share of St James Quarter in Edinburgh

Amazon adds €1.4 billion to its affordable housing fund in US

WeWork appoints former Cushman director as CEO

Catella fund taps Leipzig PBSA market with €23m acquisition

10% office rent rise needed to lift viability as supply slows?

NREP to build greenest timber resi block in Copenhagen

Schöberl elected president of German property federation ZIA

Public-private partnership to create 300 senior flats in Rome

Reading: New tenants cite rail service as key to leasing choice

Two hotels in Brussels added to Azora’s hospitality portfolio

Lenders compete to refinance Bishopsgate office tower

Urban regeneration: Bratislava to create a new ‘urban oasis’

PHM gains Swiss foothold with Investis property services buy

BGO raises stake in Norwegian data centre firm to €640m

Milan’s urban regeneration continues with Artown project

Paternoster sale to ‘optimise’ CR’s Hausinvest portfolio

Feldberg to shine life sciences light on Berlin’s Osram-Höfe

Kryalos buys two last-mile logistics assets near Rome

Bluerock buys four-asset resi portfolio in ‘challenging’ Berlin

Greenstone acquires majority stake in Gdansk office

LaSalle IM lends Brookfield €150m to refinance logistics

Catella fund sells historic Copenhagen building

Which way for logistics? 2024 Tritax-Savills census launched

EY report: European FDI recovery stalls

Arrow Global boosts Germany footprint with Interboden buy

AXA IM Alts completes office complex in La Défense, Paris

Empira: German residential market resilient to all crises

Catena in sale and leaseback with DSV’s Swedish operation

Nuveen acquires €42m single family portfolio in Helsinki

Savills: by 2033 Asian cities will offer the best opportunities

Kajima to develop German BTS warehouse for Mercedes Benz

Catella fund buys Finnish ‘golden triangle’ resi assets

Scale and track record to the fore as global AUM declines

Catella: rents to rise as demand for resi stays strong in Europe

Castlelake backs Nordic social infrastructure firm with €489m

Blackstone buys $1 billion loan portfolio from Germany’s PBB

Branicks new renewables fund shows the way the wind blows

ActivumSG turns Spanish retail assets around, sells for €140m

Trei Real Estate set to develop mixed-use building in Berlin

Croydon project takes Prologis’ London investment over £2.1bn

Arrow-Cerberus JV planning logistics project in northern UK

WeWork ends portfolio review, keeps 4 out of 5 assets in Milan

Heitman continues Nordic resi crusade with Oslo acquisition

Amundi infrastructure unit flicks switch on new wind farm

CEE Summit: REITS legislation to transform the Polish market

Stoneweg acquires Cromwell’s European platform for €280m

UKREIIF: Nottingham readies urban quarter for investors

CEE Summit: optimism on the rise as foreign investors return

UK Crown’s £1.5bn life science JV takes on former Oxford retail

UKREIIF: Logistics in focus as freeports launch green corridor

Next decade the focus as 10th CEE Summit opens in Warsaw

Planning regulation changes set to revitalise Paris market

‘Living’ sector front and centre as UKREIIF opens in Leeds

French resi and logistics easy to finance as demand stays high

Brunel hired as Coima gears up with people-based plan

Henderson pays Blackstone $705m for Arizona resort

Resilient France expects pick-up in H2 and rebound in 2025

Building boom underway in 2nd tier data centre cities

Amro plans 1,000 homes on site of south London retail park

Property leaders line up for Iberian property summit

Coima: repricing will drive investment activity in Italy

Star Capital pays Cromwell €285m for Polish retail assets

Data Uncovered: consistency and privacy the two key issues

Danish Deas sells services arm to focus on fund management

M7 to create Ireland’s greenest refurbished logistics building

Data uncovered: step change needed in real estate sector

Park Royal mixed use a ‘first’ as Asda revisits property holdings

Malmö spec build expands Verdion’s Nordic portfolio

Tishman Speyer targets data centres and acquires first site

Patron Capital’s seventh fund closed after raising €860m

PGIM acquires UK PBSA portfolio from Unite Group

Industry bodies join forces for new carbon pricing taskforce

Deka Immobilien pays c€37m for central Dublin office asset

Arrow targets Trossingen in Germany for JV with Cerberus

London to be ‘Manhattan on Thames’ as 583 towers planned

Ares buys LandSec hotel portfolio for £400m and restructures leases

Sama unveils plans for new PBSA scheme in Birmingham

Empira: resi rents to increase in Germany as prices decline

Munich BMW office makes way for mixed eco-neighbourhood

Azora launches Madrid campus devised to aid tenant retention

Coima acquires €200m office portfolio in the heart of Rome

€155m PBB and Helaba loan refinances 11 ELI logistics assets

Yield shifts leave some office markets over-priced: Savills

Tunley: the 3 key factors driving companies to cut emissions

Space race: VGP builds Munich HQ for satellite launch firm Isar

Energy transition fund, Eiffel on track to reach €1 billion target

Property and hotel potential with Iceland airport growth

Pace of investment picks up in Riga as Baltics prep for future

Belfast adds EU proximity to its list of investment attractions

Blackbrook’s merger with Cain creates combined $17bn AUM

Barings enters Italian PBSA market, acquires site in Rome

Arminius buys Volkswagen office building from Signa

ESG is “the biggest driver of change in the Logistics sector”

Government-led €880m deal to recast Brussels’ EU quarter

ULI Europe develops free tool to build net zero into appraisals

Activity in European logistics markets set to pick up ‘soon’

Hines gets go-ahead for central London office and resi project

Tristan backs French hotelier with €165m expansion loan

Azora buys two urban hostels to grow its hospitality portfolio

Foundation and Deer Capital buy UK care group for £100m

PGIM buys Munich data centre site as demand rises by 30% pa

Intesa Sanpaolo sells €500m prime office portfolio to Coima

Slovakia’s JTRE goes for a mix of uses in Berlin’s Europacity

AEW to give Bristol’s former Debenhams the resi treatment

Outlook for offices improves with emphasis on ‘prime’: AEW

Knight Frank: take-up in life sciences Golden Triangle +25%

KKR banks on student success with $1.64bn Blackstone deal

Rise in demand for operational sectors in German market

Tina Reuter officially takes on role as head of C&W Germany

Savills: global shift to quality offices continues into 2024

Panattoni enters Saudi Arabian market, seeks Middle East role

Defaults inevitable in Germany but banking system is healthy

‘Opportunities everywhere’ in digital infrastructure in Europe

In Germany ‘do more in 2024’ rather than ‘survive until 2025’

Northern Horizon’s evergreen social infrastructure fund starts

Energy efficiency crucial to digital infrastructure growth

JLL: private investors stepping up in subdued German market

Digital infrastructure now a staple in investors’ portfolios

Prime Amsterdam retail sale raises €100m for Vastned

PwC: assessing the impact of ongoing digital transformation

Ares buys French logistics portfolio from Blackstone

Clarion picks up Rhine-Rhur logistic asset from Panattoni

REmaap: data aggregation in four steps is a big time saver

Resi rents rise in Berlin but institutional interest collapses

Niam makes logistics debut in Norway close to Oslo airport

‘Massive efficiency gains’ from harnessing data’s full potential

Obayashi-Sellar JV tests water for new City of London tower

Green light for Amro Partners’ second Valencia PBSA scheme

Hines’ first step in Newcastle backs big multi-family project

New Redevco unit to target higher risk opportunities

Aedifica signs off on 10 care projects after €74m Q1 spend

Mapletree’s £1bn PBSA buy expands European network

House of Fraser’s Oxford Street store becomes mixed-use asset

CBE Capital gets Piraeus Bank backing for €150m Greek hotel

ULI & LaSalle offer new tool to assess physical climate risk

Frankfurt office JV to start now €200m debt package in place

Barings’ Nordic logistics letting campaign ends in c€54m sale

Q1 2024 transaction volumes in Italian market up 98% on Q1 ’23

ECE’s Work & Live unit takes on Danish office-to-hotel switch

Multi back in UK after buying stake in retail expert Realm

European hotel markets set for three-year resurgence: Savills

NREP buys 260-room hotel in Oslo city centre from CBRE IM

Swiss Life AM enters JV to invest in UK co-living sector

Milano Santa Giulia’s €3.5 bn regeneration plan to go ahead

Savills: office occupancy rates are increasing across Europe

German resi portfolio market hits 14-year low in Q1 2024

Green light for redevelopment of Fenwick store in London

Patrizia buys stake in ‘circular’ Italian waste processing firm

Europe’s private rented sector a possible €7.2 trn opportunity

Blackstone sells Milan asset to Kering in record €1.3bn deal

First close for Savills IM’s UK Simply Affordable Homes Fund

Vonovia issues €850 million bond to finance social projects

Alrik plans to cut emissions in Europe’s construction logistics

Morgan Stanley fund buys two Vita Student assets in Spain

Aviva backs development of Welsh cancer treatment centre

AEW: ‘Solid fundamentals’ for Europe’s prime resi markets

Canadian pension fund CPP buys Round Hill PBSA interests

CBRE buys and develops 522 affordable rental homes in UK

VTS: London falls behind New York in office space demand

British Land sells low-cover London site to value-add fund

CBRE IM closes third green eurobond raising €750m

First deal for new Investec strategy with £150m pipeline

Berlin Hyp ahead on green targets in challenging market

Deas reworks Copenhagen asset, puts flexibility to the fore

ICG lends developer Salboy £100m for Manchester resi

ULI Europe launches the 2024 PropTech Innovation Challenge

Tirana office project’s BREEAM win blazes ESG trail in Albania

NatWest to provide £5 billion lending to UK social housing

Azora vehicles pick up Spanish logistic portfolio for €91m

Ares seeks more value assets as pays Helical £43.5m in London

ZIA offers glimmer of hope for Germany’s real estate market

Rothesay refinances Get Living Salford scheme in £110m deal

Panattoni in Poland goes from BTS logistics to animal shelters

Pre-election inertia stymies English senior housing sector

Solar parks in Southern Europe attracting investors’ interest

LIP’s fifth logistics fund is to target assets worth €350m

UKSIF: three ways to keep green investors in the UK

Redevco finds JV partner for €300m Iberian hotel chain

Netherlands performs best in INREV Q4 ’23 asset level index

CBRE: energy efficient assets deliver stronger performance

Capman fund sells low-yielding resi property in Copenhagen

WFH clouding prospects in German office markets

British Land & Royal London JV to create London science hub

M&G’s stake in sustainable housebuilder rises to £45m

Landfair EDO to invest €400m where traditional sources won’t

UK cities must respond to call of the wild to remain attractive

Savills: new boost needed for the Dutch life sciences sector

KKR and Mirastar acquire logistics park in UK’s NW

Swiss Prime Site buy creates country’s largest property AM

Catella launches €500m European logistics fund

Amro Partners & Falco finance green PBSA project in Spain

AI could halve real estate’s carbon footprint by 2030

ECB to take 38,000 sq m in landmark Frankfurt tower

Schroders targets UK hotels as gets taste for operational RE

MSCI: 2023 a year of decline for CRE – office sector is worst hit

‘Living’ is first choice for Europe investors with €63bn allocated

ULI global report: raised hopes of property market turnaround

Proposals revealed for $1.3 bn revitalisation of Omani capital

Climate finance strategies a must for resi investors: Catella

RSM launches collection of latest European tax guides

European logistics real estate markets set to stabilise this year

Italy’s SWF invests in Coima’s plan for Milan’s Olympic Village

BNP Paribas: certified green assets on the rise in Germany

Hines acquires new student housing building in Bristol

Cambodia tops watchlist of standout FDI locations

‘Conduit’ countries mask steep decline in FDI inflows for 2023, reveals report

London’s GLA starts search for new Albert Dock developer