Publications

Cover story – What makes a successful innovation zone?

This special report features interviews and case studies of the top innovation zones across Europe to explore where these hubs of science and research are being established and what ingredients make them successful and attractive to investors.

Where are the top CEE investable projects in 2026?

A showcase of projects highlighting some of the most compelling opportunities currently available across the CEE region.

Country focus – Seychelles

A shift to a digital economy is at the centre of the island’s drive for more resilient and diversified growth.

Country focus – Iceland

Reykjavik’s Keldur offers significant openings for international investors.

Cover story

How Pembroke transformed a 200-year-old building next to the Bank of England into Addleshaw Goddard’s state-of-the-art London HQ.

Impact interview: ING

ING has been proactive in helping its clients transition to low-carbon buildings and is mobilising £150 billion a year for sustainability finance. Impact spoke to Sylvia Brandsma, global head of real estate and infrastructure, and Alexander Piur, lead of the sustainable solutions group, global sector, real estate and infrastructure, about their assessment of the market, their sustainability strategy and their future plans.

Interviews

• Dragos Avram – the founder and CEO of Dutch proptech startup Sustainix AI, explains how he devised an actionable sustainability roadmap.
• Philippa Gill, Meike Borchers and Robbie Epsom, co-founders of Karteria Partners, on adaptive intelligence, AI, the value of flexibility, planning for longevity and navigating uncertainty.
• Ryu Konishi, fund manager of Lp3F at LaSalle Investment Management, talks to Impact about the new Property Planet Protection Fund.
• Redevco’s Lara Young and Leonie Haakshorst explain how the company is building on its track record in sustainability and moving from goal setting to implementation.

Sustainable construction

Automated Architecture’s portable robotic microfactories can produce the full timber structure of a house in just 12 hours. Its founders tell Impact more.

Case studies

• Drees & Sommer turned its own Stuttgart headquarters into a laboratory for the future of construction – and the building next door is about to push the experiment even further.
• Tech Zity in Vilnius is an example of how conversions can bring urban and environmental benefits over new buildings.

Expert views

• Amid shifting attitudes to ESG, we need to be clearer about the business case, says ULI CEO Simon Durkin.
• Andrea Palmer on the CRREM Foundation’s newly launched CRREM Library.
• Differences in hotel occupancy can impact per-square-metre intensity. Now a whitepaper proposes a new way of assessing transition risk. Dr Jens Hirsch and Annalise Tyrie investigate.
• Decision-useful metrics and deeper integration of data into the investment process stand out as priorities for real estate, says CBRE IM’s Helen Gurfel.
• Sustainability has not lost relevance, but it is quietly migrating into the language of finance, writes Elena Corredor Tamurejo.

Regulations

• The Delegated Act will not change sustainability reporting for listed real estate, but it will give voluntary disclosure a formal address in EU law, reports Lourdes Calderon.
• New rules on greenwashing mean that ESG claims will no longer be defined by ambition, but by evidence. Sebastian Kreutel reports.

Cover story – Top investable innovation zones

A round-up of the most compelling strategic ecosystems that are delivering long-term value through technology, collaboration and industrial transformation

CEE logistics special

• CEE logistics enters more disciplined, supply-driven phase
  The CEE’s logistics sector remains a compelling long-term investment proposition, although dynamics are changing across the region
• CTP targets supply gaps in logistics and light industrial
  CTP’s Maarten Otte discusses the company’s rapid expansion,
  including its entry into Italy, and its broader European growth strategy
• Capital, know-how and timing are key to building logistics
  With a new market cycle emerging in logistics, a shortage of space offers a window of opportunity – and integrated platforms can take advantage, says Ingo Steves
• Europe’s logistics market hits bottom of current cycle
  The sector is emerging from a period of pricing correction and rising vacancy
• ‘Automotive will continue to be a major part of the German economy’
  StoneVest partner Dr Wulf Meinel talks about the evolving opportunities in light industrial markets across Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Interviews

Fabrice Coquio, Digital Realty

The senior vice-president and managing director for France at Digital Realty, and head of its Mediterranean sub-region, speaks to Jason Mitchell about how AI is reshaping Europe’s data centre investment landscape

Veronica Gallo-Alvarez, Redevco

Jason Mitchell talks to the head of investment management at Redevco, as the business sharpens its focus on income-driven strategies and sector specialisation across European real estate

Klaas Bosma, Planon Real Estate

Richard Betts talks to the chief revenue officer at Planon Real Estate about its plans to bring its real estate management software to the UK

Real FDI

• Seychelles aligns digital growth with sustainable investment goals
• Reykjavik’s Keldur offers significant opportunities for international investors

Insight

• Germany
• Data centres
• Capital & investment
• European living
• Netherlands

UKREiiF 2026 preview

Senior housing and healthcare

Cover story – Data centres and logistics

• Logistics – The medium-term supply-demand outlook suggests performance will depend on asset quality and market selection rather than rapid sector growth, reports Jason Mitchell.
• Garbe Pyramid – Logistics appear resilient, but rent growth is likely to slow down.
• The outlook for 2026 is based on stable financing conditions, discipline in spreads and sustainable earnings growth, say Garbe’s Tobias Kassner and Tom Herrschaft
• VerusSol believes the barriers to logistics rooftop PV are structural, not technical, and treating it as building improvement delivers benefits from day one
• Why Europe’s next generation of core assets will be created through transformation, not greenfield expansion, write Drees & Sommer’s Pascal Metschel and Mustafa Kösebay.
• Data centres – Project feasibility depends on infrastructure considerations such as grid connections and long-term power agreements, not land or tenant demand, finds Jason Mitchell
• The data centre sector is undergoing structural change rather than cyclical growth, and future-proofing now requires deep technical understanding, reports Courtney Fingar.

Interview: Israel Casanova, Redevco

Redevco’s investment director and country head for Spain and Portugal explains how the company aims to capitalise on increased appetite for physical retail with the launch of a new fund. Interview by Richard Betts

Region focus – The Nordics

• Danish residential sector attracts strong investor interest
• Nordics gears up for demographic change

Country focus – Germany

• German logistics to benefit as overseas capital turns to Europe
• Institutional capital is shifting away from traditional sectors and into new asset classes.

Cover story – Top 10 life sciences projects

Continuing Real FDI’s series spotlighting the top investable projects, in this edition, we focus on global life sciences opportunities.

FDI Outlook 2026

Leaders in the foreign direct investment sector discuss their views on where global investment is at this year, their biggest fears and hopes for the future.

Region focus – North-East Romania

The region is gaining relevance as investors reassess geographic risk, logistics routes and costs.

City focus – Turku

The Finnish city offers a combination of growth potential with economic density, making it attractive to overseas and domestic investors alike.

City focus – Reykjavik

The Icelandic capital has prioritised development and densification along a corridor of brownfield sites.

Country focus – Seychelles

Seychelles has set out an ambitious energy transition pathway with policies and incentives designed to attract investment into its renewables market.

Sustainability Leaders Outlook 2026

The first Sustainability Survey commissioned by Impact shows a widespread belief that more progress will be made in 2026. Read what our 29 leaders think about the future and what strategy their business will adopt in fast-changing global markets.

Research

• A new report by CDP and Oliver Wyman shows that companies globally are still prioritising sustainability – and gaining commercially from it.
• A new GRESB and Mipim survey finds that it remains a core priority for real estate investors despite ESG pushback.
• Data centres – The EDHEC Climate Institute’s ClimaTech research project provides investors with a wealth of data to assess
  the climate risks to this sector and the wider global infrastructure universe.

Case studies

• The UK’s largest all-timber frame, net-zero carbon office building is being ‘grown’ in Clerkenwell, London.
• LaSalle Investment Management is using innovative techniques to future-proof its Bergère historic office building in Paris.
• Visionary research has transformed a historic Hungarian village into a blueprint for the future of senior living and social infrastructure.

Expert views

• The CRREM Pathways are designed to inform decision-making, risk assessment and asset transition planning. Andrea Palmer explains.
• The electricity bottleneck is where sustainability and FDI converge, writes Courtney Fingar.
• There can be no silver bullet solutions for the energy transition as
  long as the market maintains its business-as-usual approach, says Kelly Harrison.
• Better environmental performance also means better financial performance, says this edition’s Green Leader Katerina Kaimakamis.

Plus

• Transition planning.
• Energy efficiency.

INSIGHT presents the fifth edition of its annual CEO Outlook survey.

This year’s edition comes after another year dominated by global geopolitics and economic uncertainties, but the view from many of the real estate leaders in our survey is one of positivity. Interest rates have stabilised, lenders are loosening the purse strings and geopolitical events are largely priced in.

A total of 40 leaders from all real estate sectors and industry associations offer their views on where markets are headed this year and how their strategies are positioned for success.

Download your pdf now to benefit from valuable insights from industry leaders!

Cover story – The Living sector

Maturing operating platforms and favourable demographics mean living assets are now seen as a core allocation by institutional investors.

Interviews

Per Erikson

Swiss Life Asset Managers group CIO explains why the asset manager is backing the living, light industrial. logistics and life sciences sectors to deliver growth.

Rikke Lykke

After 18 months as Catella CEO, Rikke Lykke tells Insight about the new direction the Swedish asset manager is taking under her leadership.

Rik Eertink

The investment manager of CBRE Investment Management is moving into new sectors, including living, and believes EMEA will outperform APAC and the US.

Central and Eastern Europe

Retail renaissance across Poland and other CEE countries has brought some cheer to real estate markets hit by global turbulence.

European debt finance & investment

Increasing numbers of debt funds want to deploy capital in Europe, but deals are hard to find, experts find at a briefing in Frankfurt

EXPO Real reports

• Student housing.
• European living investment
• Tech, data, innovation and AI
• Evolution of logistics
• Germany investment
• European trends
• US CRE lending market

Plus

• Foreign direct investment – Romania, Seychelles, Moldova
• Why real estate needs a common data model to make the digital transition
• How listed real estate can deliver sustainability at scale

The Impact Interview

Guy Grainger, JLL
The global head of sustainability and ESG at JLL says decarbonisation makes business sense, but the pace is far too slow, and that Europe can learn from the can-do attitude of the US.

Features

• 2026 Winter Olympics Athletes’ Village – Coima’s Olympic project is an example of how to combine sustainable placemaking with a legacy project.
• Interview: Stefano Corbella, Coima – The challenges of delivering a dual-use, future-oriented project.
• Circular construction – Germany’s Concular uses a digital platform and physical urban mining hubs for circular development.
• Data centres – MSCI research looks at balancing investment in energy-intensive assets and sustainable goals.
• Offices and wellbeing – From Lego to Alice in Wonderland, how one firm is doing things differently to bring some fun to the office.
• Social value – IPUT Real Estate is using its Wilton Park development in Dublin as a five-year study of social impacts.

Interviews

• Chris Fleetwood, Redevco – Sustainable placemaking remains a key focus.
• Anna Tsartsari, BE Design – If you think sustainability commitments are waning, think again.

Expert views

• PwC’s Sebastian Kreutel unpicks the new Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.
• Katie Whipp on how technology can reduce the gap between climate ambition and operational delivery.
• Courtney Fingar: how special economic zones are set to shape the next wave of sustainable urban growth.

Plus

• Residential.
• EPRA Sustainability Summit.
• EXPO Real highlights.
• Affordable housing
• Data management.

CEE Special – Industrial & logistics projects

Continuing Real FDI’s series spotlighting the top investable projects across Europe, in this edition we focus on industrial & logistics.

Infrastructure: London Gatwick

A new Airport Economic Zone has been launched with the UK’s second-largest airport at its centre.

City focus – Warsaw

Warsaw New Centre aims to attract talent and business through projects that include sustainable transport and a focus on pedestrians.

Country focus – Iceland

The Keldur development on the eastern edge of Reykjavik will provide
a sustainable urban quarter to alleviate the city’s housing shortage.

Country focus – Seychelles

The country has taken fiscal and regulatory actions to encourage inward investment and signal that its financial services meet global standards.

Cover story – Data centres and digital infrastructure

The arrival of institutional capital and big private investors signals the growing importance of data centres and digital infrastructure to investors and the real estate sector.

Interviews

Philip La Pierre

The CEO for Europe at LaSalle Investment Management reflects where Europe’s real estate markets are at after a period of geopolitical and economic turmoil.

Ben Bannatyne

The president of Prologis Europe says the company is well placed to take advantage of the upswing in logistics markets.

Joseph Vullo

How Columbia Threadneedle continues to find opportunities across Europe.

Logistics

• Garbe Industrial Real Estate unveils its annual Garbe Pyramid.
• 2025 European logistics census
• Swiss Life Asset Managers leverages Germany’s central location, infrastructure and political stability to drive expansion

Plus

• Investment – prime assets lead Europe’s slow recovery.
• Foreign direct investment – Top 10 logistics opportunities
• Redevco ready to scale up after Roebuck acquisition
• EXPO Real Preview

Plus

• Senior housing & healthcare
• People

The Impact Interview

Jens Boehnlein, Siemens Healthineers
The global head of real estate at Siemens Healthineers explains how climate resilience is embedded in the company’s ESG risk framework and its innovation strategy.

Features

• BREEAM V7 – Impact talks to Tom Wilson about the latest update to the industry environmental certification scheme.
• Case study: Tucherpark, Munich – The city’s first green neighbourhood saw the transformation of an office park into a multifunctional, mixed-use urban district.
• Case study: Bankside Yards, London – Combining offices, residential and retail, Native Land and PLP Architecture’s Bankside Yards is one of London’s first fossil fuel-free developments.
• Regeneration: Olympia London – The capital’s famous exhibition centre will be transformed into a cultural, music and theatre hub – and the usual ESG template has been ignored.
• Climate change engagement – Are we doing enough to tackle climate change? A recent survey suggests no.
• Affordable housing – Succeeding in the UK’s complex market; and how Europe’s listed real estate companies can bring innovation and capital to housing markets.

Expert views

• CRREM’s Andrea Palmer on a change of terminology.
• Courtney Fingar: Can sustainable tourism drive foreign direct investment?
• Green leader – Johanna Broll on carbon storage to keep CO2 out of the atmosphere.
• Amy O’Brien – A new book looks at the evolution of responsible investing.

Plus

• Heritage buildings and sustainability.
• Climate resilience roadmap.
• Country focus – Sweden’s city of wood.
• City focus – Seville
• Data management.

CEO interview – Isabelle Scemama

The global head at AXA IM Alts discusses what today’s evolving geopolitical events mean for Europe and its listed real estate sector.

Company profile – Evonite

Paul Hampton and José Pellicer explain how their young company is carving a niche in less popular real estate sectors across Europe.

Company profile – Fiera

Fiera Real Estate is scaling up its urban logistics, residential and debt businesses across the UK and Europe. Charles Allen reveals more to Insight.

The CEE Summit 2025

At this year’s event in Warsaw the topics included:

• Geopolitics and capital constraints weigh on CEE outlook
• Region set to benefit as companies regionalise production
• How Eastern Europe’s logistics landscape is being reshaped
• In pictures: Walking tour of Warsaw

Special section – Top UK and CEE investable projects

A showcase of top-tier investment opportunities from the UK and Central and Eastern Europe.

SHHA Summit

Highlights from this year’s event in Brussels include: Public/private cooperation key to sustainable senior housing; Healthcare investment to increase 82%; The focus on longevity.

Plus

• Branded residences
• EXPO Real Preview
• ULI conference report

Biodiversity special

• PwC Special report – Real Estate and Biodiversity: A Critical Nexus
  In a new global biodiversity thought leadership report, PwC brings insights into how real estate can respond to the biodiversity challenge – not only through risk management, but by unlocking opportunities to add long-term environmental, social, and economic value. The report presents strategic foundations, emerging standards, practical tools, and global perspectives that can support more informed and proactive approaches.

Plus

• Nature-positive projects – Four Redevco projects highlight how biodiversity can be incorporated into largescale real estate schemes.
• Rewilding – A five-year project supported by Aecom has monitored the restoration of 100 acres of ancient forest in Scotland. This is what they discovered.
• Embracing nature in real estate strategies – CBRE Investment Management’s Robbie Epsom explains how embedding nature into investment decisions will bring benefits.
• Biodiversity case study: Japan – PwC Japan’s Takuya Shirashi looks at the nature-related risks and opportunities stemming from one real estate company’s operational activities.

The IMPACT interview

• Susanne Eickermann-Riepe, chair of the RICS European World Regional Board, explains why real estate must do more to evaluate social and biodiversity impact and to develop scientifically meaningful metrics.

Interviews

• Christine Lemaitre, DGNB – The CEO of the German Sustainable Building Council explains her work getting real estate companies to take responsibility for biodiversity.
• Sonja Stuchtey – The founder of The Landbanking Group talks about the need to identify and attach value to nature – and how she set up a platform to do just that.
• Clemens Brenninkmeijer, Redevco – The head of sustainability at the urban regeneration specialist explains how its strategy is evolving to encompass more focus on nature and biodiversity.

Expert views

• Thierry Laquitaine: As extreme weather events threaten asset values, the urgency to act is overriding.
• Courtney Fingar: Sovereign wealth funds are growing in number – and they can set the tone for sustainable FDI.
• Green leader – Rozemarijn van der Knapp: We can speed up decarbonisation … if we can cut through the data spaghetti.

Plus

• Retrofitting – Buckley Gray Yeoman has converted a 200-year-old factory in London using circular economy principles and sustainable innovations.
• Sustainability reporting – A niche guidance tool has now grown into the only pan-European ESG disclosure standard for listed real estate.
• Circular construction – Delegates at this year’s Building Circularity Conference looked at how to best mitigate the impact on the planet of building construction.
• Profile: PLP Architecture – After designing some of the world’s greenest buildings, PLP has turned its attention to its own London office, with striking results.

CEE Special – Top CEE Investable Projects

Continuing Real FDI’s spotlight on global investor-ready projects, in this edition we feature schemes from across Central and Eastern Europe.

Interviews

• Elin Guðnadóttir – Programme director at Iceland developer Kadeco on the K64 project.
• Rudiger Dany – NEPI Rockcastle’s CEO explains how CEE’s largest operator of retail
  centres is not merely a landlord, but a community-focused placemaker.
• Rui Moreira – Porto’s mayor is committed to bringing international business to the city.

Country focus

• Seychelles – The country is aiming to attract FDI through its good natural resources,
  sustainability-led strategies and investor-friendly government policies.
• Saudi Arabia – A significant residential development opportunity exists in the kingdom.

Expert view

• FDI, not tariffs, is key to bringing manufacturing back to the US

UKREiiF Special – Top UK Investable Projects

Continuing Real FDI’s spotlight on global investor-ready projects, in this edition we feature schemes from across the UK.

Interviews

• Elin Guðnadóttir – Programme director at Iceland developer Kadeco on the K64 project.
• Rudiger Dany – NEPI Rockcastle’s CEO explains how CEE’s largest operator of retail
  centres is not merely a landlord, but a community-focused placemaker.
• Rui Moreira – Porto’s mayor is committed to bringing international business to the city.

Country focus

• Seychelles – The country is aiming to attract FDI through its good natural resources,
  sustainability-led strategies and investor-friendly government policies.
• Saudi Arabia – A significant residential development opportunity exists in the kingdom.

Expert view

• FDI, not tariffs, is key to bringing manufacturing back to the US

Logistics special

How will logistics navigate choppy waters amid tariffs? Insight spoke to logistics experts to gauge how they see the impact on the sector and how it can be mitigated.

Plus:

• Swiss Life Asset Managers looks at how robust financing and access to equity can unlock opportunities for investors in the logistics sector.
• Why Union Investment is backing the French logistics market.

CEO interview

NEPI Rockcastle CEO Rudiger Dany explains why the company is not just a manager of physical retail stores, but a long-term placemaker.

Briefing – Germany investment

Investors are waking up to the opportunities in the German market as the recovery takes hold amid renewed optimism.

Briefing – ESG

Real estate leaders must not be distracted by companies retreating from net-zero agendas; How proptech is optimising buildings for ESG.

Netherlands

The Netherlands market has been subdued, but plentiful capital continues to be attracted by its stable environment.

Plus

• Smart cities
• Artificial intelligence
• Greece
• Student housing

PLUS: Real FDI May-June preview

Industry Associations: CEO Outlook 2025

Leaders of industry associations offer their views on the markets, geopolitics and economics for their specific memberships.

Interviews

• Logistics veteran Ian Worboys is back with a new venture – European Green Logistics Space. He talks to Paul Strohm about his ambitious business and sustainability goals.
• Greystar’s Mark Allnutt discusses the firm’s unique ability to own, operate and acquire all types of rental residential assets

CEO Outlook Summit 2025

In a new initiative, Real Asset Media invited industry leaders involved in international markets to London to exchange views on the outlook for 2025.

Logistics

Garbe Pyramid’s research shows initial signs of yield compression and prospects for the asset class are positive.

Plus

• Greece
• Hotels
• Energy
• Artificial intelligence

Cover story

• Monaco’s Mareterra waterfront project is setting a benchmark for land reclamation and sustainable building.

The IMPACT interview

• Wopke Hoekstra, EU Commissioner for Climate Action, says the EU will continue on its decarbonisation path, despite global moves away from ESG measures.

Special focus – building in deserts

• COP16 last year discussed new strategies to build drought resilience, while Climate Neutral Real Estate believes net zero goals are within reach in countries such as UAE and Saudi Arabia.
• Alternative building methods: including timber and adding stories to existing buildings.
• Interview: Amanda Stevenson, CBRE – Cost of measuring and implementing ESG is biggest challenge for investors
• Biophilic housing design in South Korea

Expert views

• Marco Gollrich asks how we maintain climate protection momentum amid uncertainty and division.
• Heike Schmitz – New governments and a new EU Commission have implications for climate strategies.
• Jessica Pilz – Despite anti-ESG sentiment from many, it won’t be easy to row back on pledges.

Plus

• Senior living briefing
• Listed real estate and green transparency
• How Patrizia is delivering social impact
• Financing the transition
• Data and AI

Real FDI – March/April 2025

Cover story

REAL FDI has scanned the globe to find some of the hottest current opportunities for investors. From Scotland to Saudi Arabia, and points in between, we present 10 projects worthy of immediate investor attention.

CEO Outlook

In a rapidly changing world, four heads of investment organisations discuss what it all means for foreign direct investment.

City Focus

• Eindhoven moves to acquire Brainport campus amid ASML expansion plans.
• Riga eyes public-private partnerships.

Expert views

• Dr Martin Kaspar and Dr Douglas van den Berghe look at how governments should respond to global economic and political shifts.
• Dr Kaouthar Lbiati explains how blended finance can help African and Latin American nations develop healthcare systems.

CEO Outlook 2025

Real Asset Insight’s annual CEO Sentiment Survey has again has provided a fascinating insight into the previous year and the consequent approaches we are likely to see in the year ahead.

• What do Donald Trump’s tariffs mean for real estate?
• What is likely to happen to interest rates this year?
• What are the risks to be aware of? What sectors and countries are likely to outperform?

Outlook 2025 – Central and Eastern Europe

Positive year ahead for Poland and CEE as investors return, economic conditions and real estate fundamentals improve.

Outlook 2025 – Germany

After a difficult 2024 could the German market rebound in 2025? As buyer and seller expectations narrow, there is hope that the bottom has been reached and more transactions will happen.

Outlook 2025 – France

With minimal fallout from price adjustments in the last two years, French asset values are set to rise this year.

Debt finance

Despite interest rate cuts and the availability of alternative lending there is no magic bullet for German market recovery.

Plus

• FDI – Trade wars could impact foreign direct investment
• Senior Housing and Healthcare

And more…

Interview

• Arvi Luoma – Cain International’s head of European real estate equity investment tells Insight about the company’s attitude to competition and risk

REAL FDI

• What Donald Trump’s re-election means for FDI
• News
• Data centres
• Country focus – Saudi Arabia

EXPO Real briefings, including:

• Global trends
• Germany investment
• Debt finance
• News
• Technology, data and innovation
• Cities of the future
• Logistics

And more…

Cover story

• Brussels leads the way in urban mining – two pioneering projects show how this innovative approach can transform waste into useful resources.

The IMPACT interview

• Cath Webster, CEO of Thriving Investments, explains how the fund manager is driving change in housing affordability in the UK.

Special focus – sustainable logistics

• Research from Panattoni shows sustainability is still a challenge for the logistics sector
• Briefing: Supply chains and regulations push ESG agenda
• Interview – Bert Hesselink, CTP
• Interview – Natali Cooper, GLP

Expert views

• Marleen Bekkers from Patrizia on Impact investing
• Ortec’s Sophie Heald on stress testing for climate change
• CBRE IM EMEA head of sustainability on sustainable investing
• Michael Adjei from Savills on strategic management in the face of climate change

Plus

• ULI Global Awards for Excellence
• Carbon pricing
• Regulations
• Biodiversity
• Egypt
• Senior living in the Nordics

Interview

• Dr Pamela Hoerr, senior general manager at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, is creating a new investment arm at the bank. She tells Paul Strohm what’s behind the move

Features

• Swiss Life Asset Managers – Retail and e-commerce remain major drivers of demand for logistics space, but it is crucial to consider environmental solutions at an early stage
• Artificial intelligence – NTrust Infotech’s Sri Ramachandran dispels some of the myths around AI
• Union Investment – The German real estate market is showing the first signs of recovery

REAL FDI

• Sustainability now a key factor in site selection for investors
• City focus: Paris, Katowice, Newcastle, Eindhoven
• Country focus: Iceland

Plus

• European logistics
• Netherlands
• Senior Housing & Healthcare
• News
• People moves

Cover Story – BREEAM award winners

• The most innovative and sustainable building design on the journey to reach net-zero carbon has been recognised.
• PLUS: Interview with BRE chief executive Gillian Charlesworth

The IMPACT interview

• Cécile Dap – Director of the Low Carbon Building Initiative

Special report: Germany

• Interview: Academic Verena Rock explains why basic AI and ESG knowledge will be required for most real estate jobs in future
• ZAR Real Estate is on a mission to refurbish Germany’s residential portfolios
• Germany embraces geothermal energy

Expert views

• Bert Kramer of Ortec Finance on pricing in climate risk
• Helen Gurfel on building a sustainable legacy in real estate
• Aleksandra Trojanowska from Colliers highlights four ESG regulations you need to know about
• Ron van Bloois

Plus

• PropTech Innovation Challenge
• Bosco dello Sport
• Examining the meaning of ESG
• Senior living business models
• EU Deforestation Regulation
• Impact briefing
• Senior Housing and Healthcare briefing

Real FDI – October 2024

Cover story

• Sustainability comes to the fore in site selection
  An increasing corporate focus on being responsible tenants is changing companies’ location criteria

City focus

• Paris: Val d’Europe adds solar energy to sustainability mix
• Eindhoven: Deputy mayor Stijn Steenbakkers explains how the Brainport region is managing growth
• Newcastle: A former industrial site is to be transformed into a mixed-use development
• Katowice: Mayor Martin Krupa speaks to Real FDI about attracting investment and regeneration in the city

Country focus

• Iceland: The country has a series of developments underway to diversify its economy and capitalise on sustainability

Interview

• In a wide-ranging interview, Ben Bannatyne, president of logistics specialist Prologis, talks to Insight about the challenges and opportunities facing his company and the sector in general.

Features

• The rise of the alternative property sector
• Alternative investment – A new concept in car washes could be about to land in Europe

REAL FDI

• UN Trade & Development reports indicates improved 2024
• Interview: Khaled Abbas, chairman and chief executive of Egypt’s Administrative Capital for Urban Development, discusses the country’s new purpose-built administrative capital
• In depth: FDI fortunes mixed among regions and type

Roundtable

Meeting the future challenges of data – Real Asset Media brought together six tech experts to discuss data. They were unanimous that despite challenges, the importance of data to real estate cannot be ignored

Plus

• CEE Summit 2024
• Spain Real Estate Summit
• Debt finance and investment
• France
• Senior Housing & Healthcare Summit

Cover Story – Artificial intelligence and the green agenda

• New research by Pi Labs highlights the huge impact that innovation such as artificial intelligence will have on the built environment.

The IMPACT interview

• Jaap van der Bijl – Altera

Special report: Social impact

• Unlocking social value
• Defining social impact
• The architect’s view
• Affordable housing

Expert views

• Courtney Fingar
• Eleanor Jukes – Schroders Capital
• Sophie Heal – Ortec Finance
• Joost Leendertse – VerusSol
• Ron van Bloois

Plus

• Residential
• ESG strategy
• Asset valuation
• Sustainable materials
• Senior housing & healthcare

Real FDI – May/June 2024

Cover story

• 20 years on: what EU accession has done for us
  Six investment promotion leaders reflect on two decades of EU membership

Country focus

• Iceland: airport developments ready for take-off
• Netherlands: Defying the downturn; Eindhoven embraces collaboration
• UK: How FDI can help solve the housing crisis; Newcastle promotes innovation to attract investment

Logistics Special

• Logistics adjusts to new normal after tough 2023
• Garbe goes beyond warehouses
• Swiss Life Asset Managers – A strategic response to lack of space in urban centres
• ESG becomes biggest driver of change
• INTERVIEW – Where is logistics at? The investment manager’s view

Features

• Investing in existing property becomes the norm
• Digital infrastructure & data centres
• Germany Investment
• Student accommodation

Plus – REAL FDI

• EU accession countries on 20 years of EU membership
• Iceland – Interview with First Lady Eliza Reid
• Netherlands – Eindhoven embraces collaboration
• UK housing

Real FDI – March 2024

Cover story

• 2024’s hottest CRE sectors

City focus

• Paris Region goes for FDI gold
• Baku – hosting COP29 is a call to action
• Newcastle looks to social impact
• Eindhoven aims to solve housing puzzle

Country focus

• Iceland: a land of opportunity for investors

Plus news, statistics, World Investment Conference, Eurodisney

Cover Story – Asia’s lessons for the world

Asia has become an exemplar for sustainable building. In this cover feature we uncover some of the buildings and the people behind them.

• Singaporean block redefines residential living
• Interview: Singapore architect Leonard Ng
• A green skyscraper of the future
• Ronald Lu & Partners – a pioneer in green architecture

The IMPACT interview

• Simon Carter  – Chief executive, British Land

Comment and opinion

• Kelly Russell
• Courtney Fingar
• Joost Leendertse

Plus

• Interview: James Hooton from the Green Finance Institute
• COP28 takeaways
• Sustainable logistics
• Profile: Egypt’s Tatweer Misr
• Diversity, equality and inclusion
• Senior living

CEO Outlook 2024 – Industry Associations

• Following our last CEO outlook feature in February and this issue, Real Asset Insight sought the views on the market from the chief executives of the leading European associations in both real estate and infrastructure.

CEO Outlook 2024 – Part 2

• More insights from real estate leaders in the second part of our 2024 interviews.

Outlook 2024

• Central & Eastern Europe
• Key Trends & Opportunities

Plus

• European logistics
• Offices – WFH and the struggle for balance in post-covid offices
• Greece bounces back
• Disneyland Paris prepares for sequel
• New series – Data uncovered

CEO Outlook 2024

• Last year’s CEO survey was conducted as the markets fought headwinds that looked set to hinder progress. The list has changed little and, if anything, it has grown. Rising interest rates have become high interest rates. And high energy and construction costs, inflation, and national economies with low-to-no growth, remain.The war in Ukraine persists and the geopolitical threat of conflict in the Middle East, and its potential to disrupt supply chains, can be added to the list.Our annual survey of real estate chiefs reveals their thoughts on the previous year and what 2024 might hold for markets across Europe.

Plus

• Outlook 2024 – France
• Outlook 2024 – Germany
• Outlook 2024 – Italy
• Debt finance
• Foreign direct investment

A special edition circulated at the World Investment Conference – India, December 2023

Inside

• Joining up of FDI and real assets brings a multitude of opportunities
• Three FDI trends impacting real estate
• Scottish city opportunities
• FDI opportunities as sun shines again on global tourism
• Interviews: Focus on Ukraine and Eindhoven

Real FDI – December 2023

Feature

• FDI opportunities as sun shines again on global tourism

Plus

• Why FDI cannot ignore housing
• Global FDI hits $727bn in H1 2023

Interview

• Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Mayor of Eindhoven

Living Retail December 2023

News

• URW nets €272m in Riviera shopping centre deal
• UK Frasers Group to acquire 34-store German sports chain
• Boost for Seville as new tenants fill VIA extension

Proptech

• Four solutions for the future of shopping centre management

Strategy

• Ikea sister company Ingka Centres’ acquisition of Churchill Square puts a new spin on Brighton’s retail scene

Cover Story – Seville’s sustainability drive

• The Andalusian capital is bidding to become the ‘metropolis of the south’ with a series of development initiatives with sustainability at their heart
• In Pictures: Seville’s new urban port district
• One of Spain’s best retail centres shows how it can be green as well

The IMPACT interview

• Anders Danielsson – President and CEO of Skanska

Special feature – Senior Housing & Healthcare Summit

• Delivering social value
• How to avoid ‘social washing’
• Measuring ESG impact – the search for answers

Plus

• Wind farms
• Architecture prize-winning care home
• A blueprint for net-zero retirement
• Researching the definition of ESG
• Addressing the ESG investment skills gap
• Paris gears up for a greener city
• Impact briefings

CEO Interview

• Apcoa chief executive Philippe Op de Beeck explains how changing city trends and the drive to net zero are breathing new life into car parks

Features

• Central and Eastern Europe
• EXPO Real briefings: Germany; European logistics; Residential; Debt finance; Proptech; Alternative investment; Global capital flows
• RealFDI: FDI opportunities as tourism industry reignites
• Sustainable buildings

Plus – Living Retail

• Proptech: Four solutions for future shopping centre management
• Ingka Centres outlines its strategy after Brighton acquisition
• Seville’s new VIA extension

CEO Interview

• Sophie van Oosterom tells Paul Strohm how Schroders Capital has the experience and flexibility to overcome global risks and continue delivering for tenants and investors

Features

• European logistics
• CEE Summit
• Netherlands
• Virtual logistics
• EPRA conference

Plus – REAL FDI

• Three trends impacting FDI and real estate
• Holland Metropole
• Scottish cities
• Interview – Sergiy Tsivkach, UkraineInvest

Cover Story – Sustainable champions

• Berlin’s model district – new city quarter set to become one of the world’s most sustainable
• Five sustainability standard bearers

The IMPACT interview

• Christoph Schumacher, Manulife Investment Management

Special feature – Senior Housing & Healthcare

• European care strategy
• Savills research shows demand for care homes rising
• Investors betting on a social premium
• Investment in senior housing set to double
• LGBT+ living

Plus

• Climate scenario analysis
• CEE offices
• Biodiversity and regulation
• Vertical communities
• Sustainable finance

Cover Story – Three FDI trends impacting real estate

In a quickly evolving investment market, which current FDI trends are having the biggest impact on real estate requirements?

Features

• Holland Metropole: creating affordable cities
• Why Scottish cities are magnets for investment

Plus

• Courtney Fingar: why IPAs and real estate advisory teams must work together
• Interview: Sergiy Tsivkach, UkraineInvest
• Interview: Andreas Dressler, FDI Center

Listed Sector

• EPRA’s Lourdes Calderón Ruiz  assesses where we are at with global sustainability reporting
• Interview: Morgan Stanley’s Simon Robson Brown on REITs

Features

• How Birmingham is tackling its housing shortfall – and is it enough?
• Stranded assets: Real estate’s €1.5trn timb bomb
• Navigating complex ESG reporting landscape

Plus

• CEE Summit
• ULI Europe conference
• Iberia Summit
• Future trends: Logistics enters new phase
• Proptech – Tenant apps
• Country focus – France
• European Debt Finance & Investment
• Senior Housing and Healthcare Association Summit

Cover Story

• Changes in consumer behaviour and disruptions to
  supply chains have resulted in growth in nearshoring –
  and opportunities for foreign direct investment

Interviews

• Ismail Ersahin, chief executive and executive director of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA)
• Ihor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv

Plus

• Welcome from editor Courtney Fingar
• Key stats from the FDI sector

Cover Story – Impact in action

• Pieter Vandeginste, fund director of the ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund, discusses the developments and trends for the years ahead
• Legal & General delivers impact for communities and returns for investors
• How CBRE Capital Advisors supports economic growth in the areas it invests in

The IMPACT interview

• Mike Sales, Nuveen Real Estate

Plus

• Interview: Mark Rose – Avison Young
• Sustainability Master’s degree
• UK regulation
• Green leader – the hidden cost of air pollution
• Starting the net zero journey
• 2025 EPBD recast is a game changer
• Senior housing & healthcare

Logistics real estate special: Features

• Can logistics overcome PV challenge?
• Three markets buck the trend and drive long-term growth
• Engines of the global economy become beacons for cities and regions
• How logistics assets can evolve to meet our big challenges
• Future of logistics is sustainable hubs that support communities

Logistics real estate special: Interview

• Michael Hughes, Verdion

Special section: Real FDI

• Joining up of FDI and real assets brings opportunities
• Greenfield FDI fuels post-covid logistics surge
• Interview: Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv

Plus

• Debt finance
• Germany Outlook
• Residential

CEO Outlook 2023 – Industry Associations

• Following our last CEO outlook feature in February, Real Asset Insight sought the views on the market from the chief executives of the leading European associations in both real estate and infrastructure.

Interviews

• Rob Rackind, Credit Suisse
• Rainer Nonnengässer, Amro Partners

Special feature

• Europe and Asia: Capital, ESG and key trends

Plus

• Debt finance
• Global Outlook 2023
• France Outlook
• FDI Insight

Cover Story – Milan’s eco transformation

• The Porta Nuova scheme blends the built environment with nature and wellbeing, creating a neighbourhood with a sense of community
• Porta Romana set to leave sustainable legacy after Winter Olympics
• Carbon-negative living

The IMPACT interview

• Manfredi Catella, Coima

Plus

• Proptech focus
• Vertical farms
• Homes of the future
• Sustainable offices
• Infrastructure and the green transition
• Regulation turns focus on occupiers

CEO Outlook 2023

• Real estate chiefs give their views on business after a tumultuous 2022, how they see the market now and their goals in the face of new challenges
  

Executive Interview

• Erwin Buckers – How Chainels went from start-up to Europewide proptech

Plus

• France
• Italy
• Netherlands
• European logistics

Cover Story – Canary Wharf

• The Docklands estate makes headlines due to its tall buildings, but sustainability has been at its heart since the beginning.

Interviews

• Christiane Conrads deciphers the EU Taxonomy
• M&G Real Estate’s José Pellicer
• Skanska’s Katarzyna Zawodna-Bijoch

Plus

• Green assets risk ‘climate bubble’
• Impact investment
• Sustainable logistics
• Investing in cities
• Senior housing
• Environmental law

Living Retail December 2022

Retail Power

• Battersea Power Station opens as UK’s newest shopping centre

Retail Attractiveness Index

• Sentiment is gloomy, but what’s the reality?

Interview

• ‘Retail is not declining, it is changing’ says CBRE Investment Management’s Eric Decouvelaere

EXPO Real Review

CEO Interview

• LaSalle Investment Management European CEO Philip La Pierre discusses how data and skills will be critical to making the right investment calls in a rapidly changing market

Thought Leader: Valérie Jonkers

• Long leases, stable dividends and ESG make the healthcare sector attractive, says Care Property Invest’s COO and executive director

Plus

• Central and Eastern Europe
• European logistics
• Netherlands
• Residential
• Student accommodation
• Future of office

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT – LIVING RETAIL

• Battersea Power Station
• Interview: CBRE Investment Management’s Eric Decouvelaere
• Retail Attractiveness Index

EXPO Real 2022 edition

Global outlook

• Despite multiple global challenges, allocations to real estate continue to increase as European assets are seen as cheap by US investors

Executive Interviews

• Sonja Warntges, chief executive Europe of DIC Asset, discusses the challenges facing offices and logistics and how she is tackling diversity and ESG

Plus

• European logistics
• Netherlands
• Residential
• Student accommodation
• Life sciences

Conservation profile

• Think those lawns and trees are ticking the ESG box? Not according to David Hunter of The Habitat People

Interviews

• Annette Kroeger, Allianz Real Estate
• Nadir Settles, Nuveen
• Dirk Bartsch, Berlin Hyp

Plus

• Repurposing buildings
• How to avoid greenwashing
• COP26 legacy
• Logistics and sustainability
• Sustainable funds

News, analysis and events guide in Real Asset Media’s daily magazine

Listed Sector Focus

• Public companies show their resilience having learned the hard lessons of the 2008-09 GFC

Executive Interviews

• Shobi Khan, Canary Wharf Group
• Tom Maher, PATRIZIA
• Brian Klinksiek, LaSalle Investment Management

Plus

• Lifecycle Project Delivery
• European Outlook
• Logistics
• Expo Real Preview
• France
• Insights from Provada

Timber Special

• Building with timber
• The architect’s view
• Cromwell’s Pertti Vanhanen on timber’s role in delivering ESG goals

Interviews

• Primonial REIM’s Juergen Fenk
• Rikke Lykke, Deas

Plus

• Proptech & ESG
• CEE Summit
• Four-step guide to carbon reduction
• Senior housing

Logistics Focus

• Sector remains resilient: Demand contributes to record rental growth, which compensates for rising costs
• Buildings key to sustainable logistics
• Global events highlight need to rethink supply chains

Executive Interviews

• Henning Koch, Commerz Real
• Edward Bates, STAM Europe

Plus

• European Debt Finance
• CEE Summit
• Global Capital Flows
• Residential
• Germany
• Future of the Office

• Vertical farming’s green boost to retail
• CEO Interview: Dick Gort, a.s.r real estate
• Green Building Councils: UK, the Netherlands, Italy
• Insight & Strategy: Regulations drive Europe’s ESG strategy
• Life sciences level up the UK’s north
• Rethinking climate risk

Plus

• Urban sustainability, Greening residential in the Netherlands, Making solar work in logistics, CEE, Global Trends… and much more!

CEO Outlook 2022 – Industry Associations

• Following our last CEO outlook feature in February, we have now sought the views on the market from the CEOs of the leading European associations in both real estate and infrastructure

Executive Interviews

• Ben Bannatyne, Prologis
• Alex Jeffrey, Savills Investment Management

Profile

• German investment and asset manager KGAL

Plus

• Logistics
• Global Trends
• CEE
• The Netherlands
• Germany
• Assets in CEE

CEO Outlook 2022

• Real estate chiefs give their views on business in the pandemic, how they see the market now, and their goals in the new normal
  

Executive Interview

• Cromwell Property Group’s Pertti Vanhanen

Plus

• France
• UK Senior Housing
• Transport Infrastructure
• Debt Finance
• Assets in CEE

• INTERVIEW: McArthurGlen co-CEO Joan Jove
• INVESTMENT: How physical retail con co-exist with e-commerce
• FOOD & BEVERAGE: Fast Food goes vegan: Consumer behaviour revolution
• INSIGHT: 5 Trends shaping the post-pandemic future
• TRENDS & BRANDS: ECE’s digital assistance

CEO Interviews

• Cofinimmo’s Sébastien Berden
• McArthurGlen’s Joan Jove

Retail Special

• Clicks-to-bricks: offsetting business risk;
• McArthurGlen: ‘A lot of retail will thrive in this new era’
• European retail turns a corner
• Five trends shaping retail’s post-pandemic future

Plus

• Glasgow and COP26; Germany & Netherlands
• Student Housing; Residential
• Data Centres; Logistics

• Glasgow leads at COP26
• CEO Interview: Sarah Gordon, Impact Investing Institution
• CEO Interview: Clemens Brenninkmeijer, Redevco
• Insight & Strategy: Sustainable Logistics
• Insight & Strategy: Diversity and Real Estate
• Regulations: The case for international standards

• Real Asset IMPACT
• CEO Interview: Peter Epping, Hines
• CEO Interview: Katarzyna Zawodna-Bijoch, Skanska
• Insight & Strategy: Repurposing city centres
• Insight & Strategy: Investing in Senior living
• Impact funds

• Special Report: Germany
• Insight & Strategy: Netherlands
• Insight & Strategy: European Logistics
• Insight & Strategy: Regenerating Cities
• CEO Interviews: Hines, Corestate, P3
• Thought Leader interviews
• People moves

• Preview: Real Asset IMPACT
• A step-by-step guide to Impact Investing
• Brookfield makes big move for renewables
• Clean energy infrastructure
• Regulatory changes drive push green investments
• People moves

• Preview: IMPACT
• Senior Housing & Healthcare
• Hotels & Leisure
• Investing in Cities
• Listed Sector
• Expo Real Preview
• Investing in Italy
• Thought Leader interviews
• People moves

• Infrastructure special
• Olivia Business Centre
• Thought Leader interviews
• Senior Housing & Healthcare
• Resilient Retail
• Affordable Cities
• The Future of Logistics
• Debt Financing
• Student Housing
• Investing in France
• People moves

• Logistics Investment
• Senior Housing & Healthcare
• Global Capital Flows
• Investing beyond the crisis
• NEW: People moves

• Impact Investment
• Healthy Cities / Thinking Cities
• Italy’s hospitality returns
• Outlook 2021 CEE, UK, NL, F, Iberia
• NEW: People moves

• Editorial calendar Real Asset INSIGHT
• Editorial Calendar Real Asset IMPACT
• Editorial calendar Living Retail

• The rise and rise of CEE
• Tech unlocks office return
• Top 100 PropTech firms
• Germany Outlook 2021

• INTERVIEW: Architect Ibrahim on how to reposition retail
• European Council of Shopping Places launched
• RESEARCH: Consumer behaviour revolution
• BRAND PROFILE: AREA15

• A new direction for Real Estate
• Gauging sentiment in post-Covid world
• Edinburgh BioQuarter’s 1bn GBP opportunity
• Insight & Strategy

• INTERVIEW: Redevco’s CEO Andrew Vaughan
• SES opens shopping centre in Ljubljana/Slovenia
• Mixed-Use Opportunity – Built assets repositioned
• Brand Profile: Orsay International

• E-commerce comes of age
• Covid-19 pandemic: Preparing for the fallout
• Italy Special
• Debt Finance & Investment

• To the power of five (5G Networks)
• Coronavirus hits Real Estate
• Pricing climate change in CRE
• A decade of record investment

• Conservatives win UK election
• Co-working Dicken’s of a year
• Germany’s matchmakers
• Pro-business Porto reaps rewards

• Investors gear up for a shopping spree
• Tech as a retail solution
• The rise of Outlets
• Edinburgh’s new twist

• Germany’s hidden champions
• South Korea’s investment wave
• Frankfurt’s high aspirations
• Plus ca change?

• Institutional interest grows for beds to rent
• Investors craft late cycle strategies
• Interview – Swiss Life AM
• The rise of logistics

• Interview Josip Kardun
• Solving the retail puzzle
• The essence of in-store success
• London top for luxury

• Five big themes for 2019
• Logistics – Property’s disruption winner
• Marker Momentum Remains