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Hotels & Leisure

Bidder edges ahead for jewels in €1bn Una hotel collection

Trio of heavyweight investors fighting it out for Italian assets

Finance

UniCredit lends €145m for hospitality specialist’s Italian schemes

Firm’s Rome debut includes four-star hotel

Hotels & Leisure

Hungarian group in exclusivity to acquire €120m Budapest hotel

Part of property is Unesco World Heritage Site
Corporate

Q+A: NBIM’s dynamic duo on Covent Garden, €660m student debut and swelling its $60bn portfolio

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund’s real estate heads for Continental Europe and UK discuss the $1.7tr investor’s dramatic return to the fray
Logistics

P3’s chief investment officer to depart

Search under way to replace industry titan at GIC-backed developer
Logistics

German fund manager snaps up new Coca-Cola warehouse

Company continues to grow €7bn European logistics portfolio with deal valued close to €40m
Investment

Europa Capital managing partners to leave

Changes at the top for Mitsubishi Estates-owned fund manager
Student Accommodation

Nuveen seeks operator for €300m Italian student collection

US investment manager has one of largest portfolios in in-demand market

Spotlight

Opinion

The headhunter’s guide: top investors must master the art of storytelling

Business leaders need to be compelling and engaging to attract capital
Investment

Q+A: CBRE IM – “Core capital has definitely returned”

Paul Gibson, EMEA CIO, and Jan-Willem Bastijn, head of EMEA transactions, discuss fundraising, political and macroeconomic risks and debt

More from Europe

People

JLL poaches CBRE director to lead Italy hotel deals

New hire was head of living investment at competitor
Corporate

Starwood-led consortium lines up top team ahead of $7.1bn ESR takeover

Global ramifications with private equity firm’s European co-head moving over, possible sale of European businesses and Australia CEO in line for elevated position
Office

BlackRock offloads €50m Munich office

German investment and asset manager snaps up property in Berg am Laim district
Logistics

Patrizia snaps up €30m Tuscany assets

Properties bought on behalf of Logistik-Invest Europa fund series
Student Accommodation

European student platform with €500m pipeline launches

Venture backed by Andrew Thornton’s Enterprise Land and Dubai’s Capital Assured

CBRE Germany appoints new financing and restructuring head

Ralf Klann has almost 30 years of real estate and banking experience
Damac-owned Edgnex acquires Finnish data centre firm

Edgnex will invest in scaling Hyperco’s Nordic presence
Marriott to double Sheraton hotel portfolio across Europe

Company plans to reach more than 50 open properties over next two years
Amro promotes director to lead ESG strategy

Elisabetta Li Destri Nicosia takes managing director role
Beos fund acquires Meag business park in Düsseldorf

26,200 sq m complex will be redeveloped
GIC and APG secure €567m European hotel refinancing from Aareal

Loan backs seven-asset portfolio of joint investment vehicle Archer Hotel Capital
CA Immo sells Berlin hotel to Invesco

412-room Intercity at the main train station was valued €84m at the end of 2024
German billionaire throws Elbtower future into doubt

Klaus-Michael Kühne says 245m Hamburg high-rise is unlikely to be realised
CapMan closes €900m+ Midstar acquisition

Acquired firm owns a portfolio of 28 hotels across the Nordics
Icade names Klépierre veteran as chief financial officer

Bruno Valentin succeeds Christelle de Robillard

UK & Ireland

Student Accommodation

Brookfield lines up £150m student portfolio sale

Wealth of new investors targeting UK market
Hotels & Leisure

Kuwaiti investor lines up £100m+ sale of luxury West End hotel site

Real estate arm of the Kuwait Investment Authority has instructed two agents to manage process
Logistics

PLP secures double letting at Milton Keynes logistics park

3PL and manufacturer take two units at 2.2m sq ft site
Residential

Go-ahead given for Brentford office-to-residential scheme

Around 178 homes will be created
Finance

Redevco backs City office acquisition with £47m green loan

Investment manager completes its first loan investment from its recently launched real estate debt platform

Analysis

Investment

Fink tank: what does BlackRock CEO’s annual letter mean for real estate?

Five takeaways from Larry Fink’s yearly missive to investors
Logistics

Higher defence spending could be “game changer” for logistics

Surge in demand forecast but some markets will benefit more than others
Retail

Retail property in a VUCA world: “We cannot sit this one out”

Geopolitical uncertainty is one of the main talking points at German retail real estate congress Handelsimmobilienkongress
Corporate

Sicore’s Paul Muno on firm’s new third-party business

Recently rebranded Hansainvest Real Assets offers logistics, housing and social property strategies
Residential

Aam2core on the return of international capital to German housing

Asset manager expects more private equity firms and global institutions to enter sector this year

Opinion

ESG backlash hasn’t changed the facts – but “data spaghetti” needs to be untangled

Climate risk remains a material concern for institutional investors
Is it a good idea to sponsor a dog show?

If you don’t have a defined proposition, it is a struggle for property firms’ brands to have an impact
The built environment and sustainability – what’s changed in 30 years?

And what will the next 30 hold as we push towards net zero?
Why German and UK landlords have different attitudes to flex space

German landlords could find inspiration in UK flex playbooks
Why data centre finance is diversifying

More lenders are looking to deploy capital as developers seek competitive finance

People

Garbe promotes Peter Bartholomäus to chief investment officer

Nicolai Soltau, who is joining from Patrizia, will succeed him as head of porfolio management
Goldman Sachs managing director departs

Firm veteran spent more than two decades at the bank
Worboys’ new firm EGLS makes Polish hire

Marta Gorońska-Wiercioch joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate
Arrow Capital Partners names new head of Germany

Appointment follows the departure of Danilo Hunker
Former Ivanhoé Cambridge head of investment joins Greycoat

Arnaud Malbos named senior real estate partner as firm plans to open Paris office
Blue Owl hires MD to strengthen European net lease strategy

Robert Campkin joins from Colliers

Investment

Q+A: Montano Real Estate – “We see light at the end of the tunnel”

Samson Weldemarian and Sebastian Schöberl discuss their strategy for the evolving German landscape
Office

Five questions for HB Reavis’ Germany CEO

Václav Matoušek on looking beyond offices and new German skyscraper destinations
Residential

Five questions for Bayerische Hausbau Development’s CEO

Gordon Gorski discusses a €1.5bn development pipeline and Germany’s residential market