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Planning regulation changes set to revitalise Paris market

New legislation and changes to planning regulations could give the Paris market the boost it needs, experts agreed at Real Asset Media’s Trends 2024: France Investment Briefing, which took place recently at Taylor Wessing’s offices in London.
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‘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

Hines’ student housing arm plans 4,000 beds in France

KGAL renewable energy fund’s first asset connected to grid

Kryalos sells portfolio of seven commercial buildings in Milan

Greyhound Lines’ Miami facility expands Azora’s US portfolio

ARA buys last-mile asset in France’s logistics corridor

Northern Horizon invests €648m in 47 care homes

Panattoni starts £900m rework of former Honda UK car plant

HIH Invest Real Estate €750m fund buys German wind farm

Campari buys asset from BNP Paribas to move to Milan CBD

European logistics & industrial demand 9% up on pre-covid

French Clariane sells UK care homes to Elevation for £207m

Extra core capital needed to deliver more senior housing

Dutch buy boosts portfolio for Mark’s last-mile arm Crossbay

Bristol office building sold to bed-led regeneration specialist

Senior housing: why the UK should look at New Zealand

Schroders’ ITC portfolio gets €130m Berlin Hyp refinance     

Panattoni planning €100m project close to Cologne

Triple benefits of Integrated Retirement Communities

Opportunities emerge from Iceland’s development plans

Eyes on Spain as its real estate markets gear up for the future

ULI, Maastricht & MIT launch Real Estate Leaders course

Europe braced for greater level of foreign investment: Savills

First of a kind intergenerational living makes London debut

Outlook 2024: UK a harbinger of the future of real estate

Sales take a year+ to complete in UK, NL & Germany: Drooms

UK’s university pension fund backs PRS-focused Thriving

Outlook 2024: transition from brown to green is a key trend

Newcore begins £100m UK healthcare investment spend

Lone Star lined up to buy Hammerson’s Union Square

Outlook 2024: ‘3-D reset’ will revitalise real estate markets

KGAL article 9 fund buys Dublin residential portfolio

Deka invests €160m in Zalando fulfilment centre close to Paris

MCR buys BT Tower for £275 million to convert it into hotel

Barings buys in Stockholm as expands resi assets in Europe

New valuation database ‘raises bar for analytics’ in Europe

Outlook 2024: ESG compliance a bonus for investors in CEE

Patrizia to play key role in Germany’s hydrogen switch

IPUT to develop mega-green logistics park outside Dublin

Outlook 2024: now is the right time to buy offices in Poland

PIC increases investment in Northern Ireland housing stock

Sonae and Bankinter launch retail-focused German REIT

Outlook 2024: CEE on rebound could see start of a “gold rush”

Catella buys energy-positive PRS project in France for €29m

Data centre supply struggles to keep pace with demand: CBRE

Back-to-the-office orders likely to disrupt workforce: Survey

Garbe-subsidiary GRR acquires German supermarket portfolio

Nido partners with Utopi to reduce PBSA carbon footprint

Survey finds that London leads rival cities when FDI compared

Patron secures green loan to refinance office in outer Paris

London last-mile project has scope for water-borne freight

Scale the goal as UK logistics REITs consolidate for the future

Panattoni expands European operation with Belgium office

Fall in European office take-up due to shortage of prime space

Deka invests €62m to acquire hotel in London’s Notting Hill

London’s Canada Water is to have permanent cultural venue

Sirius deploys recently raised capital in €40m acquisitions

Nuveen loan to enable building of Amsterdam life science asset

Aldar partners Carlyle to spend €102m on European logistics

Bruntwood JV £480m loan facility boosts sci park plans

WP Carey buys €280 million industrial portfolio in Europe

Evans Randall gets green light to expand UK tech cluster

Patrizia’s lightbulb moment could tame Italian energy use

Green building movement becoming increasingly global

Azora and Core allocate €500m to Iberian data centre platform

P3 green bond issue supports growth plan raising €600m

Round Hill Manchester BTR wins £115m loan from Carlyle

New €200m HT Group fund aimed at refinancing assets

Aedifica buys out Korian to get 100% of Dutch homes portfolio

Garbe: solid fundamentals will see stability return to logistics

LaSalle-Swiss Life JV to grow German logistics portfolio

Cheyne backs third Riverstone London senior living project

Garbe: act now to pick up good deals in UK Logistics market

Property allocations affected as low interest rate era ends: MSCI

Europa and NCAP sell refurbed ’70s Stockholm office building

Garbe: the worst is over for European logistics markets

Council gives go-ahead for Birmingham BTR project

La Francaise buys office-to-medical asset in South Dublin

Outlook 2024: Logistics success story set to continue in Italy

UK multifamily values fell 2.2% in 2023 finds CBRE research

Go ahead for Tishman-Bellco JV’s UK life science project

Outlook 2024: student housing demand grows across Italy

Patrizia impact strategy to invest €500m in communities

Blackstone sells Clarion eight logistics properties for €270m

Outlook 2024: more Italian players needed to grow market

Offices are the main concern as Europe’s debt gap unequalled

Twelve Polish park sales raise €500m for Panattoni in 2023

Outlook 2024: Italy to attract more investments in 2024

Swiss Life AM’s Swedish acquisition increases Nordic presence

Moorfield goes ahead with Manchester multifamily BTR

Contractor named as new City office targets 2026 completion

Vonovia’s staffless convenience store trial will help resi tenants

La Française adds Lille project to senior housing portfolio

Ranking reveals top cities able to withstand climate change

Cain makes Spain debut with €74m loan to Vita/Metrovacesa

Ontario/Boreal JV raises French profile with 5-asset portfolio

Subletting the main trend as Italian banks cut office space

Abrdn European resi fund adds €100m and focuses on 2024

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

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