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?

  • 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

  • PenSam partners with Cromwell to target logistics in Denmark and Sweden

  • Kinnerton links with Avenue to lend €200m to Nordic RE developers

  • Slättö fund sells SEK618m residential property to Willhem

Cyclists in London

Should London emulate Amsterdam and embrace doughnut economics?

Real estate veteran Chris Brown is leading something of a citizens’ crusade to get London to adopt Amsterdam’s commitment to doughnut economics. Christopher Walker reports

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

The City Center building in Brussels

MEAG buys City Center in Brussels from AG Real Estate

Munich Re’s asset management arm invests undisclosed sum to buy 31,000sqm office building

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

  • 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

  • ​Signal Capital, Griffin and Echo launch Polish student housing venture

  • Stokado acquires smaller Polish self storage firm Top Box

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Valesco buys majority stake in €200m Milan building for Moncler HQ

The deal is Italy’s largest office transaction in over two years 

Hayfield apartment project in Killiney, Dublin

DWS buys Irish apartments for German institutional real estate funds

Manager invests €98m to acquire 207-unit Hayfield apartment project in Dublin

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EQT Exeter sells Spanish student housing platform to Azora

Azora re-enters the student housing market with the acquisition of 12 assets

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