Europe

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

Europe Special Reports

  • Deglobalisation - Playing defence in Europe: Opportunities for real assets investors

  • Tech and the city: AI and growing urban competition for talent

  • Life science real estate evolves from labs to urban innovation clusters

  • Does an ageing Europe create opportunities for real assets investors?

  • 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

  • Urban Partners acquires Copenhagen mixed-use property from Hines

  • Europa sells Stockholm office building for Mitsubishi Estate

  • Komvi acquires 97 homes in Denmark from Casa Nord

  • Pictet and Viga acquire 96 apartments in Copenhagen residential deal

  • La Caisse and Prologis launch pan-European logistics joint venture

  • Geopolitical uncertainty drives decline in real estate investor sentiment

  • ​3i invests €300m to acquire majority stake in Norwegian data centre campus

  • Northern Horizon buys Swedish care home portfolio from Urban Partners

  • ​AP7 buys SEK5.6bn Swedish courts, prisons admin for new SEK25bn platform

  • Urban Partners offloads €1bn Nordic logistics assets

Artist impression Vonderpark Eindhoven_Credit CBRE IM

CBRE IM acquires 475 Dutch homes for pension fund ABP

Acquisition made as part of mandate targeting €1bn in residential assets within five years

Care home

Aedifica invests nearly €110m to expand European healthcare portfolio

The European healthcare REIT is forward funding three projects in Belgium and Ireland; acquiring three care homes in Germany and Holland 

Crew on a vessel

Infracapital takes stake in crew transfer vessel operator Farra Marine

M&G’s Infracapital to fund expansion of Farra Marine’s modern vessel fleet  

Digital Infrastructure Equity- Why Scale Isn’t Everything

CVC DIF in talks to acquire digital infrastructure operator Celeste

Infravia agrees exclusive talks to sell an 88% stake in Celeste

Affordable housing- The need for affordability preservation

Patrizia and Revive to convert Benelux offices to affordable housing

Joint venture to invest €75m in the repositioning of obsolete offices into sustainable housing

Floridsdorf asset_credit Catella Investment Management

Catella acquires Vienna residential building for separate account client

Manager acquires fully-let 7,407sqm residential building in Vienna’s Floridsdorf district

  • Ares acquires 284,000sqm Polish logistics portfolio from Savills IM

  • Airengy acquires Polish solar portfolio from INVL for €24m

  • French Pension Reserve Fund and EIF back RGreen’s €900m energy fund

  • ASLI rejects DL Invest’s call to freeze asset sales

  • Mitiska REIM sells 10,900sqm Czech retail park to Fio Real Estate Fund

  • Generali snaps up fully leased logistics asset in Czech Republic

  • ​Stoneweg Trust sell Slovakian industrial portfolio to focus on Western Europe

  • Ares Real Estate and Slate AM buy €300m Polish retail park portfolio

  • Principal’s Log In fund adds fifth European country with Polish deal

  • DRFG enters Hungarian property market with acquisition from CA Immo

Severo 246_Credit Bain

Bain Capital sells repositioned Severo 246 office building in Rome

Global investment firm sells 12,000sqm office building on Via Cristoforo Colombo

Spain surpasses UK as hotel hot spot

Mutuactivos launches its first real estate private equity fund

Mutuactivos will be supported by Stoneweg, a specialist alternative investment firm with €11bn of real assets AUM

Madrid

Can Spain’s proposed sovereign wealth fund crowd in institutional capital to housing?

Pirkko Juntunen talks to Diego Valero about what España Crece means for investors