Allianz Real Estate, on behalf of several Allianz group companies, has acquired a special purpose vehicle (SPV) owning a newly built, last-mile logistics facility in southern Vienna for EUR72 million.
By Nick Edwards, COO, Audley Group – A couple of weeks ago global advisory company, Willis Towers Watson, published research into the size of the global pensions market. One of the lead findings being that the UK pensions market has been overtaken by Japan, pushing the UK into third place, with both sitting behind the United States which holds a significant share of the market – 62 per cent of worldwide pension assets.
Edinburgh’s growing status as a hub of innovation and the quality of life it has to offer place the city among the world’s most aspirational future urban hotspots, according to Knight Frank’s latest Wealth Report.
Crypto Asset Rating is to launch a new platform that will allow real estate agents, brokers, realtors, and property owners to tokenise commercial or residential properties.
BPIE – Buildings Performance Institute Europe – has released a new report highlighting that despite industry efforts to decarbonise building portfolios, retail real estate asset managers and owners lack a sector-specific trajectory towards achieving climate-neutrality.
A new partnership has been formed to help housing providers and companies across the built environment deliver on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda.
Regeneration specialist U+I, in joint venture with the founders of Scape and Gravis, has completed the sale of four new residential buildings at Circus Street in Brighton to M&G Real Estate. The city centre homes, comprising 114 one- and two-bedroom apartments for private rent will be retained and operated by M&G.
Demand for UK supermarket property assets has boomed in the face of the soaring sales volumes experienced by UK grocery operators during the pandemic. The trend has been further driven by the challenges facing other commercial property asset types and investors looking for a source of stable rental income.
Plans have been unanimously approved for a new state-of-the-art national storage and distribution centre in Staffordshire on behalf of the UK’s leading pet care business, Pets at Home.
Atrium European Real Estate Limited has priced a EUR300 million inaugural green bond offering due 5 September 2027 under its EMTN Programme (the New Green Notes).
Barings completed cEUR2 billion of real estate transactions in Europe in 2020, across equity and debt, and is targeting EUR3 billion of investments across debt and equity in 2021 as it looks to deploy the capital it raised for its core and value-add strategies last year, as well as its separate account and co-investment ventures.
