Europe

Analysis and in-depth reporting of European real estate developments, plus the all latest news

Europe Special Reports

  • Can institutional investment in affordable housing keep up with demand?

  • European offices: Move with the changes

  • European logistics: E-commerce passes the baton to nearshoring

  • Demographics: Invest down the generations in Europe

  • Virtual realty: Tokenisation, blockchain, metaverse and digital twins

  • Europe’s living real estate sector comes of age

  • Housing affordability: Social impact funds to solve the UK puzzle?

  • HighBrook sells A-House building in Denmark to Nrep

  • Octopus Energy invests in Nordic Generation Fuels

  • Slättö raises initial SEK2.5bn for third value-add real estate fund

  • Nordika takes majority stake in retail property platform Vendus

  • M7, Centerbridge add Danish asset to industrial outdoor storage venture

  • Nordic property group Citycon sells Kristiine keskus mall for €129m

  • Slättö snaps up industrial assets for newly established Value Add III fund

  • Revelop acquires Stockholm industrial asset for value-add strategy

  • CapMan Infra snaps up majority stake in Nordic heat-as-a-service operator ProPellet

  • Matter, GCM Grosvenor partner for €500m residential real estate push

Life Science REIT

ASR Dutch Science Park Fund acquires headquarters asset at Leiden Bio Science Park

The building serves as the European headquarters of Avery Dennison

Germany

Time to target DACH region for distressed real estate debt?

Oliver Platt explains how financing gaps in Germany, Austria and Switzerland mean it could be time for global opportunistic investors to step in

Finance Tower

Valesco secures €600m refinancing for Brussels Finance Tower

Refinancing of office skyscraper secured on behalf of JR Global REIT

REInvest acquires Bronze Gate office property in Luxembourg for €65m

Nextensa and Promobe sell Bronze Gate office property to REInvest’s DEREIF SICAV-FIS fund

  • Blackstone buys Central Europe logistics portfolio from TPG, Contera

  • Invesco acquires Polish hotel on behalf of German mandate

  • Nepi Rockcastle buys €373m Polish shopping mall from Union Investment

  • Greykite seeds new €300m European logistics venture with Polish assets

  • Nala Renewables expands CEE footprint with third deal

  • Invesco debuts mezzanine loan in Central Europe as fund strategy expands

  • Nala Renewables expands into Romania via solar project deal with Monsson

  • Globalworth sells Romanian industrial portfolio and 30ha landbank to CTP

  • Cromwell’s Polish retail property fund sells six malls to Star Capital for €285m

  • Sona invests €250m in Polish property portfolio from CPIPG subsidiary

Energy infrastructure

SUSI Partners snaps up remaining stake in Italian energy firm Genera

Infrastructure fund manager buys remaining 25% stake in Genera to take full ownership

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Greystar acquires student housing asset in Dublin for €150m

Transaction marks Greystar’s first venture into the student accommodation market in Ireland

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Barings to buy €100m logistics park in Spain for separate account client

Manager to buy asset in Moncada, Valencia in a forward purchase agreement with Grupo Bertolín

ViE building

KGAL adds 14,100sqm Vienna office building to Austrian portfolio

Manager buys ViE office building from CA Immobilien Anlagen

Redevco enters hotel sector with €80m foray into Iberian market

Move marks strategy shift to capitalise on post-pandemic resurgence and growth in youth tourism and experience travel market