Europe

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

Europe Special Reports

  • 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

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

  • KKR adds Stockholm project to Swedish residential portfolio

  • ​Nrep buys Danish residential asset from Nuveen real Estate

  • Danish pension PenSam adds 200 apartments to Copenhagen portfolio

  • ​Nrep and AG Gruppen acquire FLSmidth’s former HQ in Copenhagen

  • Savills IM’s Europe logistics fund expands to Sweden

  • ​Ontario Teachers enters Swedish residential market with Gordion partnership

  • Brookfield plans SEK95bn data centre investment in Sweden

  • AP Pension sells half of Copenhagen HQ to German pension fund

  • CapMan Special Situations invests in Finland residential care

  • City in focus: Copenhagen, the Nordic urban hub

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International Campus expands Dutch student housing portfolio

Groep Caenen Capital Fund, White House Development and ROM sell Project Fascinatio

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Stoneweg enters Swiss residential sector with acquisition of majority stake in Lausanne-based Fundim

Fundim is a real estate developer and fund manager overseeing more than CHF400m (€425m) in assets across multiple regulated investment vehicles

Distribution centre in Limburg

Nolmans Retail Support buys €42m Belgian distribution centre for ToyChamp

LCP sells 40,000sqm warehouse which will serve as new logistics hub for toy retailer ToyChamp

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

  • Panattoni sells two Warsaw warehouses to Octane Capital, Peakside Capital

  • Prologis acquires Warsaw logistics park

  • Clarion Partners expands Polish logistics portfolio with €59m purchase

  • Could investors be overlooking CEE’s real estate markets?

  • CTP to build €57m Czech plant for Hitachi Energy

  • Kamco-backed EGLS to develop 74,000sqm Czech logistics park

  • 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

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Ardian expands in Italy with purchase of solar plant portfolio

Ardian Clean Energy Evergreen Fund buys 116MW portfolio from E2E

Nexus Logistics Park

IPUT’s seeded logistics fund secures €115m from CBRE IM, ISIF

IPUT contributes to half of €230m fund through capital and landbank

Building contruction

Aviva Investors, Layetana Living team up for Spanish build-to-rent push

Aviva Investors to hold a non-controlling, minority stake in new company Propia

Apartments

​Germany’s BVK buys Lenau Terrassen residential tower in Austria

Universal Investments buys  15,500sqm asset from Erste for Germany’s largest pension scheme

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