Theresa May's triggering on 29 March of Article 50, the official notice of divorce proceedings between the UK and the European Union, was one of the most momentous happenings in recent European history. Yet, UK real estate seems to be taking it largely in its stride - so far.
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Last week I promised that the editorial team would try to get a grip on the potential repercussions of Blockchain and other challenges that lie ahead for the industry now that we are out of the Mipim bubble. Here’s a roundup of this week's insights.
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Some would say the bathers on the beach at Mipim this year were crazy to entertain the notion of diving into the cold water, even if the sunshine was glorious and the temperatures relatively high for the time of year.
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We couldn’t have planned it better, but it is actually a happy coincidence that the Mipim issues of PropertyEU and our Dutch sister publication PropertyNL both carry an interview with a senior executive at ING Real Estate Finance.
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After an exuberant round of trading in 2015, European real estate investment volume in 2016 is a tale of two regions: a deflated UK on one side, and a mostly buoyant rest of the Continent on the other.
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Last week I wrote in this column that student housing has made the grade as a new asset class in institutional investors. But the story is actually much bigger.
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The strong growth of international students in Europe is turning student housing into one of the most attractive niches of the alternative real estate asset classes.
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One of the questions from the audience at the annual ULI conference in Paris this week was whether there will be a third world war.
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With the newly inaugurated US president Donald Trump continuing to dominate the headlines and growing concerns that the European Union may no longer be able to count on the world’s largest and most powerful democracy as an ally, it is comforting to know that business continues as usual in some corners of the European real estate sector.
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Despite the geopolitical uncertainties looming in the year ahead, the outlook for European real estate remains positive with a broadly supportive economic backdrop and bullish market sentiment. Even Spain, one of the hardest hit European countries during the 2008 financial crisis, has come back strongly and is now seen as one of the stable investment bets in the region.
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Sustainable community market initiative Mercato Metropolitano has inked its first deal outside the UK, with an agreement to become an anchor tenant of Potsdamer Platz Arkaden in Berlin.
