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?

  • Pictet and Brunswick divest Lindu Ejendomme industrial portfolio in Copenhagen

  • European student housing: Markets divided by rent control

  • Barings buys 39,000sqm Finnish asset for European logistics venture

  • CBRE IM adds 16,974sqm Danish asset to European residential portfolio

  • Barings expands Swedish residential portfolio with 264-home project

  • Slättö fund adds 325 Swedish apartments to portfolio

  • Europa and NCAP sell 13,316sqm office property to Swedish pension fund KPA

  • ​Swiss Life acquires SEK20bn Nordics real estate manager Wilfast

  • Hines makes debut in Sweden with SEK1.4bn sale and leaseback deal

  • ​DWS pan-European core fund snaps up residential block in Copenhagen

port of rotterdam

Fidelity International acquires newly built 34,000sqm logistics property in the Netherlands

Acquisition ”fits perfectly with the strategy to acquire high-performing properties with an excellent ESG profile with strong tenants that provide stable long-term cash flow”

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

Bronze Gate

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

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

  • Stokado acquires smaller Polish self storage firm Top Box

  • Polish logistics developer 7R welcomes Nrep as majority shareholder

  • AB Tewox expands Polish portfolio with five retail parks

  • Neinver and Nuveen secure €170m debt financing for Polish mall portfolio

  • Logistics operator CTP plans to invest €600m in Germany and Poland

  • Plan B Investments snaps up Trei’s €250m Czech and Slovakia portfolio

  • Paref Gestion expands Polish property portfolio with Bolero 2 acquisition

  • Greenman expands into Poland with the acquisition of Newbridge

  • Blackstone sells Forum Gdańsk mall to NEPI for €250m

Coima Porta Romana

CDP and Coima to co-invest in transformation of Milan’s Winter Olympic Village

CDP Real Asset commits €50m as Coima ups fundraising target for impact fund to €2bn

Patrizia invested €70m in student housing in Turin, Italy

European student housing: Markets divided by rent control

Investment opportunities across Europe are enormous, but Christopher Walker finds a market divided by levels of rent control 

Amro Estudiantes Alicante

Fiera Real Estate makes Spanish lending debut with student housing loan

Amro Partners and Falco Capital secured the €17.5m loan for Amro Estudiantes Alicante

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

Bilbao

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