Office Analysis
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AnalysisMIPIM 2024: Infrastructure gate-crashes real estate party
Major institutional investors converge on Cannes to discuss challenges facing asset class
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AnalysisNashville: People and investors flock to the Sun Belt’s music city
Nashville is one of a number of Sun Belt markets to experience an influx of people – and real estate investors – in recent years. Vanessa Drucker explores what this really means for the city
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AnalysisAnalysis: The challenge of repurposing the UK’s office landscape
The conversion of BT Tower into hotel highlights need for innovation and planning flexibility
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AnalysisAnalysis: WeWork hands in its resignation
What does this week’s bankruptcy mean for landlords and flexible office competitors?
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AnalysisSan Franciso office market begins to unlock as sellers become ‘more realistic’
Blackstone’s discounted sale of North Park building reflects narrowing of bid-ask spread
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AnalysisIPE Real Assets May/June 2023: Investors sit out the market
Are institutional real estate investors on the sidelines? The latest numbers from MSCI Real Assets would suggest so. US commercial real estate transactions in the third quarter of this year fell by 56% relative to Q1 2022. Sales of office properties were the weakest since 2010.
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AnalysisUK real estate to see ‘across the board’ repricing and forced sales
Rapidly rising interest rates could push lenders to become ‘less forgiving’, experts warn
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AnalysisNet zero: How EBRD’s HQ went from core investment to value-add project
Ten years after PNB bought One Exchange Square, the 1980s building is being overhauled
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AnalysisWhy Coima RES founders want to take the Italian REIT private
Public markets will not be able to support planned growth phase, says Manfredi Catella
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AnalysisCan banks help improve energy efficiency of European commercial property?
Alternative lenders will be needed to play a part in the drive to net zero, says Dominic Smith
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AnalysisStockland: The A$11bn REIT planning a major push into capital partnerships
The ‘self-sufficient’ top-five A-REIT pivots to collaborate with global investors under new CEO
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AnalysisEditorial: A tale of many cities
One of the peculiarities of private real estate is its heterogeneity. Unlike many listed markets, it is not homogenous, with each individual asset coming with its own unique risks. You cannot ‘buy the market’ in the same way you can gain a passive beta exposure in listed equities.
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AnalysisViewpoint: Opportunity to capitalise on life-sciences growth
Research into the life-sciences sector by ULI Europe shows the obstacles and opportunities for real estate investors
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AnalysisAre Dutch pensions hesitant to absorb direct real estate write-offs?
Dutch metal schemes PMT and PME say they may adjust their 2020 returns
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AnalysisFuture of offices still uncertain as Townsend predicts 9-12% drop in demand
Consultancy that advises $134bn of institutional capital addresses implications for investment strategies
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AnalysisLife-sciences real estate: More than an experiment
The surge in investment in life-sciences property in 2020 was not all about COVID-19, writes Rachel Fixsen
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AnalysisAnalysis: Blackstone keeps life sciences real estate in perpetuity
Private equity giant active on both sides of $14.6bn BioMed trade
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AnalysisEditorial: An existential crisis?
The rise of online shopping fairly quickly had people asking themselves: do I really need to go to a store? Today, the effect that Amazon, et al has had on bricks-and-mortar retail is clear to see.
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AnalysisBlake O’Donnell: Are skyscrapers a thing of the past?
Will the forced experiment in home-working bring an end to demand for office? Blake O’Donnell explores the potential changes to real estate cause by COVID-19 lockdown
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AnalysisAnalysis: COVID-19, the great real estate catalyst
The coronavirus crisis will only accelerate current trends in the real estate investment industry
