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JMK Group to develop Belfast hotel with £28m NIIF loan

The Northern Ireland Investment Fund (NIIF) is providing a development finance loan for the development of the Hamilton Dock Hotel site, within Belfast’s Titanic Quarter. Construction has now started.
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Owners and occupiers need to talk about decarbonisation: ULI

€119m sale-and-leaseback deal heralds Hines’s Nordic debut

AEW raises healthcare exposure with Lyon clinic buy

Boom time for data centres in Italy: 83 hubs, €15 bn invested

Abrdn PIT agrees merger with Custodian PI, creates £1bn REIT

Aviva and Tri7 add to PBSA assets in UK university towns

90% of companies offer hybrid work, less space needed: CBRE

Rhize Capital lends €100m for two PBSA projects in Milan

Another 10m sq m of UK I&L space needed in five years: KF

Property allocation dip flags up investor difficulties: INREV

CRE survey: 96% of firms have diversity & inclusion strategies

Decathlon signs 30-year lease at Europa Dublin development

Panattoni and Accolade deliver ‘the greenest industrial asset’

Axa’s first venture into UK TV & film studios: BBC Elstree buy

Demand for Spanish hotels surged to €4.25bn in 2023

New Zenzic/Torsion JV to deliver student housing in UK

Abu Dhabi’s PureHealth buys UK private hospital operator

All Finnish Antilooppi’s assets leap sustainability hurdles

€450m Brexit bill for the EU as London office stands empty

State of Andalusia buys back office portfolio from WP Carey

Northern Horizon fund fully invested with care home buy

LondonMetric-LXi merger to create UK’s 4th largest REIT

Clarion’s UK focused core-plus fund final close secures £427m

Sights set on 2025 as tepid deals environment stifles ’24

Germany ‘neglects’ massive rooftop PV power potential

Ireland’s hotel transactions down in ’23, pick-up seen in ’24

Savills IM establishes US debt platform with Quadrant JV

BNP Paribas: German property market set for rebound in 2024

Columbia Threadneedle buys Parkgate Shopping Park in UK

Mercan Group invests €450 million in hotels in Portugal

Berlin Hyp survey: recovery in Germany depends on rate cuts

UK hotel transactions top £2 billion, volumes down by 37%

Panattoni starts development of green logistics project in UK

KF: lack of lab space hindering life sciences’ growth in London

Skanska invests €180 million in new green office in Stockholm

Aedifica invests in two child day-care centres in Finland

Happy holidays!

CBRE to manage sale of Hotel Milano Scala in January 2024

Axa expands multifamily portfolio with US acquisition

Outlook 2024: Logistics and data centres are investors’ pick

Polish hotels recover as leisure and business demand rises

Middle East buyers target London office and residential

Outlook 2024: difficult year ahead for German office sector

Neinver/Nuveen JV refinances €480m debt in Spain and Italy

Axa IM Alts completes first US solar project in JV with Cabot

Outlook 2024: Germany in survival mode, recovery elusive

Subdued picture revealed by new INREV diffusion index

ULI recognises contribution of ‘visionary’ Paris mayor Hidalgo

Outlook 2024: smaller deals will be the norm in German market

Hines and Prelios win tender to redevelop Scalo Farini in Milan

Klépierre obtains €260m green loan in Dutch mall refinancing

Outlook 2024: transition time for the French office market

BNP Paribas launches €750m climate mitigation fund

European debt funding gap could reach €176bn: CBRE

Outlook 2024: Logistics and Retail to rebound in France

Long Harbour-Rosethorn PBSA JV to target UK university hubs

Business and leisure demand boost UK hotel performance

Outlook 2024: no ‘big crisis’ ahead in the French market

COP28: more action-oriented focus on innovative solutions

Green light for LaSalle IM’s ‘revolutionary’ Paris offices

Outlook 2024: less pain ahead, repricing will trigger a rebound

Blackstone and Digital Realty form $7bn data centre JV

Germany’s investment surge does not herald rally: Savills

SHHA briefing: affordability challenge for senior housing

Debt is ‘significant opportunity’ – £90m UK retail refinancing

Panattoni pushes forward with UK and Polish spec projects

SHHA briefing: US shows that seniors need more options

German funds grow as market enters consolidation phase

Union Investment agrees sale of Stockholm office to Niam

UK should focus on I&L space to become ‘superpower’: Segro

P3 Logistic to expand in Italy, plans projects for 240,000 sq m

CA Immo obtains 4% green refinancing on Munich office

Northern Horizon buys prime healthcare portfolio in Finland

M&G European fund bags its first Netherlands BTR deal

CA Immo exceeds book value in sale of ZigZag office in Mainz

BLand’s London urban logistics gets boost from Essex project

Life Science REIT sells Lumen House, hails UK opportunities

Sportscheck insolvency – Frasers pulls acquisition

Empira launches its Transition to Green fund for German resi

Savills IM sells Swedish logistics assets to Niam Nordic strategy

Hines fund’s €1.6 bn final close defies headwinds, tops target

Italian real estate’s €2 trillion challenge to be ESG-compliant

Real estate research extends cautious welcome to 2024

CapMan resi fund invests €166m in Danish build-to-rent

Debt gap in refinancing ‘to be expected’ in German market

Market shifts demand change in investor mindset: M&G

Patrizia JV with Man GPM aims £100m at UK housing shortage

Aussie pensions giant Aware Super to invest £5.25bn in UK

A ‘wave of restructurings’ likely to hit Germany in early 2024

New senior care guest house concept opened in Amsterdam

A ‘perfect storm’ as German market faces liquidity gap

Amro to develop 447-unit BTR scheme on Croydon hotel site

Maldives: CPG launches first resi investment opportunity

Ocorian survey: ESG more of a focus for Asian family offices

Germany’s office market crisis continues in Q3: pbb Index

Global ageing phenomenon a universal property opportunity

Coima’s new €500m fund to decarbonise Italian real estate

M7’s 30 Dutch disposals return €190m for discretionary funds

Catella resi fund buys Cologne affordable housing project

Coima Forum: Italy is a buyer’s market as volumes drop 60%

Tritax EuroBox’s Preston joins new Panattoni enterprise

Garbe’s GRR acquisition means exposure to food retail sector

Public infrastructure and clean mobility: how Paris turns green

More specialist space needed if UK to grasp life science chance

Tunley launches biodiversity services to comply with BNG

Axa IM Alts kicks off residential scheme in Milan’s San Siro area

Seville Port speeds ahead with urban regeneration project

AI could push data centre supply/demand out of whack

PwC roundtable: being green involves the entire supply chain

Moorfield targets UK city Lincoln for PBSA joint project

Bouwinvest to steer €400m Dutch social housing initiative

Lobby groups employing novel strategies to draw young talent

Funding gap stimulates move to alternative lenders: INREV

Azora bags Madrid leisure centre for multi strategy fund

Growing ESG focus highlights need for entrepreneurship

CTP allocates €4.25 billion to deliver green business parks

London’s overseas visitors back but some wallets stay in pockets

Nuveen and Value One deliver new PBSA complex in Wroclaw

Ingka buys Brighton’s Churchill Square to open Ikea City Store

MSCI: activity falls, but CRE prices decline at slower rate

Office to resi switch planned in City of London’s Aldgate fringe

Affordability dwindles as housing markets diverge

Evora: the ESG skills gap in the real estate sector is a problem

Gresham House infrastructure fund’s final close hits £450m

Cambridge to get new life sciences hub to south of city

Real estate ‘on the brink’: PwC/ULI’s Emerging Trends

Italy’s hotel sector attracts €1 billion in investments in Q1-Q3

PGIM backs Get Living with £150m loan on London project

Coima and Redo take over the development of MilanoSesto

Investors increase focus on ‘living’ for next five years

Axa IM Alts to acquire six-asset French logistics portfolio

Generator hotel group seals deal on €750m refinancing

Galliard completes The Stage, £750m resi tower in London

RE Capital’s €110m Lisbon resi project targets younger cohort

Second CBRE IM/Vonovia deal in ’23 brings spend to €920m

Max Brown to open its first hotel in Italy in Milan in 2024

Office-to-medical switch after sale in Dublin’s Clerys Quarter

Crossbay and Kryalos make first acquisition for new fund

CEE investment hits 10-year low but fundamentals ‘robust’

UK pay-as-you-go industrial space a blueprint for more

Boost for southern Spain as VIA extension draws fresh retailers

Primevest raises sustainability bar for car parking funds

Tristan/Queensway JV acquires second Edinburgh hotel site

Seville bids for status as Spain’s new ‘metropolis of the south’

Retail and alternative asset classes back in demand in CEE

Cheyne loans €80m on Hines/ Peterson mid-Dublin project

Logistics & Industrial the most resilient asset class in CEE

‘Super-prime’ West End rents to hit £300 per sq ft: BNP PRE

Japanese investors step up global exposure to real estate

Market stalemate in CEE as re-pricing of assets takes place

€88m Vonovia sale boosts Dresden public housing stock

Alternatives experts focus on efficiencies to offset low scale

Cities urged to tap building data best practices to develop communal ESG standards

KGAL to manage new fund to grow green hydrogen projects

BentallGreenOak to develop major Leipzig logistics unit

CEE, domestic investors step in as investment volumes fall 61%

Cheyne and Bain back Milan resi projects with €250m loan

Fidelity buys City offices from WeWork for impact fund

London docks data centre go-ahead after planning victory

Macquarie UK BTR arm closes fund with £550m available

Savills IM bags French logistics asset in sale and leaseback

Azora secures €640 million to grow affordable resi platform

US Strategic Value to acquire car parks specialist APCOA

The Interlace in Singapore wins 10 Year Award for sustainability

Rate rises bringing increased interest in sale and leaseback

‘Exemplary’ retirement home wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2023

Landlords need freedom to do office-to-resi conversion: CBRE

Alternative lenders gear up to bridge green debt finance gap

Sonae Sierra accelerates ESG compliance with SBTi approval

Stockholm acquisition boosts CBRE IM’s Nordic resi assets

Battersea Power Station draws 11 million visitors in first year

UK’s Frasers Group to acquire 34-store German sports chain

Panattoni funds project in Poland’s Gdansk region

ULI’s Awards for Excellence celebrate boundary pushing

Nuveen Apache funding JV kicks off with Cambridge plan

Azora and CBRE Spain launch climate solutions competition

Disneyland Paris presses ahead with real estate development

£73m Cohort loan refinances Qatari-owned London hotel

Porter’s Dot Group acquires CRM Students from Corestate

Get Real: go social!

URW realises €272m from sale of Riviera shopping centre

Trei addresses student housing need with Wiesbaden scheme

Liveability will determine the winning cities of the future

Energy-focused resi renovation firm wins ULI proptech award

INREV: residential sector still at the top of investors’ wish list

Logistics market sees recovery in Q3 as foreign capital returns

Survey: German sentiment dives but picture nuanced

Eindhoven looks at new PPPs to solve the housing shortage

“Now it’s a good time to invest in Europe’s residential market”

Round Hill targets €89m at seven Berlin multifamily assets

Focus on long-term value in the current “hangover phase”

On ESG Europe is past the why and into the how and when

KGAL invests in Arcadia’s green hydrogen-based fuel plant

Heitman expands Norwegian student housing platform

EXPO Real: Experts play down chances of Q4 rebound

EXPO Real: Clarion sees chance to increase logistics stake

EXPO Real: Investors turn attention to social value

EXPO Real: Cain homes in on student housing with £500m

EXPO Real: Logistics occupiers want more green buildings

EXPO Real: APCOA ramps up its services with last mile help

EXPO Real: Germany begins to see return of private equity

EXPO Real: Bayern opens Dutch property-only bank

EXPO Real: Lack of product overshadows logistics sector

Turnstiles open in Munich as crowds gather for EXPO Real

Verdion Danish acquisition to be first asset for VELF2 fund

Sirius sells in Kassel, buys in Barnsley as assets recycled

Aviva and Socius to develop a £1 billion London Cancer Hub

Weerts and SFRE to develop three logistics parks in Italy

Moorfield launches £500m REIT to target UK resi-for-rent

Bayes: 2023 toughest year for financing real estate in Europe

AEW costs climate premium for keeping assets unstranded

UK Proptech Association merger with BPF approved

London and Paris head cities index – climate to blight Rome

Patrizia acquires new logistics hub in Piacenza, northern Italy

Birchgrove forward funds senior community with £36m

PineBridge’s £300m facility will enable single family housing

Commerz Real and Bosch present new data platform

New JV targeting Greece with €100m for sustainable logistics

The Green Finance Institute extends to Denmark and Spain

Axa’s Paris letting to Suez reaffirms conviction to offices

P3 adds trio of logistics assets to its portfolio in Germany

Coima to redevelop Milan asset into a sustainable office project

Property holds its own against other asset classes: Savills

Trammel Crow expands scope of Berlin area logistics park

New definition of ‘the office’ required says Germany’s ZIA

Breakthrough to develop new biotech facility in Amsterdam

Covivio sells refurbed 1930s Paris office to luxury goods firm

WP Carey to shed office assets through sales and new REIT

Helaba launches its first Infrastructure Debt Fund

Debt still compelling although equity performance is on its tail

Experience in timber makes difference for new advisory firm

Asset selection centre stage as the slow correction continues

Three LaSalle office buildings Platinum WiredScore certified

Repriced Dutch retail property sector poised for rebound

Prologis Park Eindhoven, the world’s greenest warehouse

EIB backs CTP’s solar panel roll out with €200m finance deal

Looming regulations scare off resi investors in Dutch market

Axa starts development of Munich hybrid timber offices

Investors seek poor performers for sustainability upgrades: KF

Investors seek new price equilibrium in Dutch market

Logistics investors target Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia

Redos and Shell add charging infrastructure to retail parks

Economic outperformance attracts investors to CE3

Threestones Capital acquires German retirement homes

Cromwell’s Janki shopping centre gets €66m green loan

BTR sector has ‘huge potential’ in Poland and Czech Republic

Logistics: ESG a priority for investors but not occupiers

Quintain’s Wembley refinance one of largest UK deals of 2023

Supply chain improvements driving logistic sector forward

Greystar acquires Veld/Freo office-to-resi Paris project

Union Investment makes third investment in Irish resi market

Savills Logistics RE Census 2023 a ‘surprise on the upside’

Logistics market broadens out to new locations in Germany

UK’s EPIC resolves to sell entire portfolio of retail warehouses

Logistics has become ‘the queen of real estate’ in Italy

Orion buys Nexity Portugal resi arm: projected worth €450m

Multi Corporation plans hi-spec office and resi in Amsterdam

Garbe: now it’s the right time to invest in European logistics

KKR and Ikea retailer give grid-scale battery backup a boost

Serbian supermarket chain signs half of CTP Belgrade park

Goldman Sachs: investors are switching to sustainable funds

Capital & Regional REIT buys Edinburgh mall for £40m

BGO provides €115m debt to refinance Dutch retail portfolio

Praxis/Veld JV pays £125m for Birmingham’s Brindleyplace

First phase of Thames City mixed-use project completed

P3 expands French portfolio into Lyon and Rhône markets

Principal manage-to-core fund pays €10m for two data centres

Commerz Real buys solar and wind power plants in Spain

P3 Logistics boosts Germany portfolio with Bavarian assets

Rising costs taking the shine off London’s hotel resurgence

Union sentiment survey reveals European CRE mood sombre

CPI Property Group arranges new €635m bridge facility

Europe’s debt funding gap reaches 20-year record high

Urban Partners fund raising increases Nrep fund to €1.85bn

Logistics asset prices could stabilise by Q3 or Q4: Garbe

Verdion starts spec phase of €100m Berlin logistics project

New LondonMetric PV arrays cut tenants’ grid power needs

Bank rate takes toll on UK property investment totals

Surplus renewables to cut gas use in Vonovia apartments

First acquisition for Orchard Street’s new Impact fund

Patrizia’s Nordic JV buys Swedish urban logistics assets

Aermont Capital to invest €200 million in luxury hotels in Italy

New survey: ESG now a priority in RE investment strategies

Morgan Stanley and Crowley JV to support US offshore wind

Summer break

M&G taps into Spain’s demand with €98m Bilbao BTR project

Future-proofed Dublin project awarded WiredScore accolade

Nordic Nrep acquires majority stake in Polish logistics firm 7R

Patrizia refinances Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Tower: 55% LTV

Slate AM to acquire X-Bricks’ €1bn food retail portfolio

Hines planning 2 million sq ft office-led London project

Coima/QIA Milan sale marks Union’s Italian office debut

More science space needed for UK’s depleted ‘golden triangle’

ULI Europe selects six finalists for the Awards for Excellence

PGIM Real Estate enters JV focused on Italian residential

Price and valuation divergence stand out in Sweden and NL

More pressure on UK market after 14th rate increase by BoE

Singapore REIT buys London’s Cavendish and bets on hotels

Aviva Investors to finance offshore wind farm in UK