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Selling and leasing back is becoming an increasingly attractive option for value-add investors to source property in a European market where assets available for sale are rare, according to Savills. Approximately €1.1 billion retail properties have been sold and leased back (SLB) in Europe in the past 12 months. In the first ...

Kennedy Wilson has promoted Mary Ricks to President of the company and named Peter Collins President of Kennedy Wilson Europe. As new president, Ricks will oversee the company’s European operations as well as responsibility to help grow the investment portfolio. Additionally, she will have responsibility for raising global fe...

Investors should not confuse house-price corrections in Norway, Sweden and Switzerland with property bubbles bursting. They were caused by a building surge. Speculative construction is not widespread, and demographics still outweigh risks of over-supply.

The period to 2040 will bring profound and far-reaching changes to corporate real estate portfolios according to CBRE. The new report Portfolio 2040, published today, approaches the issue from a portfolio perspective, examining how business, buildings and perhaps even cities themselves, might look in 20 years’ time.

A lack of office supply in the face of consistent office demand will be the main driver of above-average rental growth in Edinburgh in the next two years, according to the European Office Rental Growth Hotspots 2018 report from JLL. The report identifies ten markets in Europe set to experience supply-led office rental growth ...

The overall transaction volume in the Nordic property market reached the second highest level ever in the first half of 2018, driven by large investments from international investors in the residential sector, according to new figures from Pangea Property Partners. Transaction volumes in the Nordic property market reached alm...

Five of the top twenty European cities ranked by Savills Investment Management’s 2018 Dynamic Cities are in the UK, the highest amount of any country. Germany and Switzerland tied for second place, with three cities each.

The governments in the CEE region have made strong strides over the past few years when it comes to lowering their public debt levels. The gross public debt-to-GDP ratio for the CEE region as a whole declined from 53.9% in 2013 to 48.3% in 2017 – well below the Euro Area average of nearly 90%. Debt reduction was helped by bot...

Canada and Germany have the greatest potential to receive additional global real estate investment, and could attract a further $4.5 billion (c. €3.9 billion) and $3.1 billion (c. €2.7 billion) of real estate capital per year respectively, according to new analysis from Knight Frank. The analysis, part of Knight Frank’s Acti...

The average assets under management (AUM) of property fund providers increased significantly in 2017, rising from €13.6 billion in 2016 to €16.7 billion at the end of 2017. This corresponds to an increase of around 22 percent. According to the “ANREV / INREV / NCREIF Fund Manager Survey 2018” published by INREV at the end of ...

Up to 70% of global public sector investors plan to increase their infrastructure investments over the next 12-24 months, according to a new survey from BNY Mellon and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF). The survey covered sovereign and public pension funds with combined assets under management exc...

Despite political turmoil in Italy and Iberia, and Brexit, political uncertainty didn't appear in the top three threats to the real estate investment market, cited by real estate experts who participated in a poll at a seminar hosted by Intertrust in May 2018. 41% of respondents instead voted rising interest rates as the bigg...

According to a recent Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report for Europe, analysts at Lodging Econometrics state that the Total Pipeline is climbing steadily with 1,366 Projects/214,792 Rooms, a 29% increase by projects Year-Over-Year (YOY). The pipeline in Europe has nearly doubled since the cyclical low of 687 Projects/116...

A lack of office supply will be the main driver of above-average rental growth in European hotspots including Amsterdam, Stuttgart and Prague in the next two years, according to a new report from JLL.

The rising demand for global Higher Education continues to attract institutional capital to invest in European student accommodation with transactions up 29% year-on-year to some €13.6 billion across the continent in 2017, according to a new investment guide from Cushman & Wakefield. The firm’s latest Student Accommodation Gu...

2018 started with a flurry of activity in the major European colocation markets of London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris. These four markets were responsible for 36MW of take-up, the highest figure for any Q1 period and a 35% increase on Q1 2017, according to new research from CBRE. This continued level of heightened take-up...

The European real estate market is still going strong, with cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt and Paris leading the way, according to RICS' quarterly Global Commercial Property Monitor. When it comes to international hubs such as New York, Dubai and Shanghai, most respondents to RICS’ survey believe business shows sign...

Rental growth in the European office market reached its highest point since the beginning of 2012 in the first quarter of the year, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s latest DNA of Real Estate report. The sector’s strong rental growth is supported by continued positive performance across German, Nordic and Semi-core markets*,...