Office

JLL has revealed that leasing activity over the summer remained resilient as 2.2m sq ft of office space in Central London was transacted within the third quarter of 2023. This represents a 10% increase on the previous three-months and the highest quarter of the year to date. However, these figures also highlight a 19% drop on...

M7 Real Estate has sold 30 properties across the Netherlands, via 26 individual transactions, for a total of €109.1 million so far this year to a mix of institutional and local investors. The assets, totalling 117,300 sq m, comprise 16 offices, 11 retail warehouses, two retail assets and one industrial warehouse.

Montano Real Estate has acquired an office and commercial building for a German professional pension fund. The „Haus am Staatstheater“ in Wiesbaden's city center has around 6,000 sqm of rentable space and 34 parking spaces. The main tenant is the State of Hesse. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

Coima has launched Coima Opportunity Fund III with a target of raising €500m by 2024 to decarbonize real estate across major Italian cities.

Peakside Capital Advisors AG has started renovation works at a 6,800 m² office property in Hoofddorp, south of Amsterdam. The so-called Garden House will be transformed as part of Peakside’s transition-to-green strategy to attain modern, ESG-compliant spaces with state-of-the art technology and sustainability credentials.

Aroundtown has signed two long-term leases with Bergman Clinics for 1,500 sqm and Mentaalbeter B.V. for 700 sqm.

Frankfurt's Trianon in Mainzer Landstrasse has been awarded the Platinum Standard and thus the highest certification from the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) in the course of the initial DGNB certification in accordance with the DGNB system for buildings in use (2020 version).

British Land and Savills have launched a new report, Accelerating Innovation: A five-point plan to boost life sciences real estate, which outlines a series of far-reaching recommendations designed to accelerate the delivery of life sciences growth across the UK.

Chesterford Research Park, owned by Aviva Investors and Uttlesford District Council, has begun construction of an additional 60,000 sq ft of facilities at its new Sidney Sussex Building.

Altera Vastgoed has taken delivery of 24 rental apartments belonging to the final block (building seven) of The Mayor from the construction combination UBA/De Nijs Amstelveen v.o.f and is welcoming the first residents. This means The Mayor is now fully let.

Smart usage of technology in office buildings, accompanied by market indicators such as modern office supply per capita and low vacancy rates, continue to impact positively on the current condition of the office sector in Central and Eastern Europe. However, post pandemic effects, high inflation, increased energy costs and ge...

Knight Frank has strengthened its UK-wide occupier advisory offer with a series of senior promotions and new appointments within the integrated UK Occupier Strategy & Solutions team.

Boston Properties has sold a stake in two new Kendall Square lab projects to Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the world‘s largest sovereign wealth fund, signaling continued investor interest in the life sciences sector despite the market‘s slowdown this year.

Skanska’s latest investment will contribute 26,600 sqm of office space to the Capital’s market in Poland. The building is scheduled to be commissioned in 2025.

Law firms leased over 380,000 sq ft of office space in London in Q3, according to Knight Frank, with US firms accounting for 90% of legal sector activity as they expand their presence in the UK capital.

CBRE Investment Management has announced a comprehensive repositioning of 10 Gresham Street, London following planning consent from The City of London Corporation.

DWS today announced it has started to roll-out a digital leasing management solution for 39 million square feet across more than 150 properties in its pan-European commercial asset portfolio. The company is the first global asset manager headquartered in Germany to roll out VTS across its commercial pan-European real estate i...

Sirius Real Estate has notarised the disposal of an industrial park in Maintal, in Germany's southwest Hesse region, for €40.1 million, representing a net initial yield („NIY“) of 5.7%. Furthermore, the FTSE 250 company completed the acquisition of a £33.5m portfolio comprising three assets in north London.