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The February 2016 edition of PropertyEU Magazine is out now and is also available to online for subscribers. The magazine - marking the beginning of PropertyEU's 10th anniversary celebrations - sports a fresh layout and new features that add more analysis and commentary to our coverage of the most important news and trends in European real estate.

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This edition includes:

OUTLOOK
Germany's strength shines through in The Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2016 report, produced jointly by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PwC. We review the key findings.

INTERVIEW
GENDER DIVERSITY CLIMBS THE AGENDA Prologis Europe has embarked on a wide-ranging campaign to encourage greater gender diversity within the company.

DEALS
DEAL OF THE MONTH Each month we will collect candidates for our Deal of the Year Awards and the nominations will be announced in the monthly magazine. In the course of this year we will also invite a special advisory committee to help us select candidates for our Deal of the Decade Award which readers will be able to vote on later in the year.

ANALYSIS Preliminary estimates suggest over €230 bn was invested in European commercial real estate in 2015, but there are signs investors are becoming more cautious.

REPATRIATING CAPITAL A number of Asian investors including Malaysian pension fund Kumpulan Wang Persaraan is trying to repatriate capital due to instability in Asian financial markets.

INVESTMENT
EUROPEAN FUNDRAISING Investors are looking to pump a total of €48 bn into global real estate in 2016, an increase of almost 13% on last year when value-added non-listed vehicles drove the market.

NERVY START In our first Private Equity Letter, columnist Robin Marriott comments on the state of
mind of private equity real estate teams operating in Europe.

SECTORS & MARKETS
TOP PICKS PropertyEU asked some leading experts what their choices would be if they were given €500 mln to invest in any sector in Europe. Student residential was tipped as a 'bullet-proof', high potential investment in Germany.

FOCUS ON EUROPE The investment cycle in the UK may be coming to an end, but the mood is generally upbeat about the prospects for continental Europe.