Skanska's commercial development division has launched a concerted outreach initiative to Canadian and Asian capital sources to support an ambitious sales programme for its office projects in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Former Bilfinger unit Apleona is seeking to expand in Europe following its acquisition last year by Swedish private equity firm EQT.
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Katharina von Schacky, recently appointed head of retail real estate markets at German fund manager Commerz Real, learned early on in her career that the retail business is all about the customer. She talks to PropertyEU about the priorities in her new role and the outlook for the European shopping centre market.
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Allianz Real Estate, which invested €50 bn last year on behalf of the parent group’s insurance companies, is becoming decidedly more adventurous in its choices, CEO Francois Trausch told PropertyEU in an interview at Mipim in March.
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Nico Mercker-Sague recently joined property investment company Avignon Capital as senior asset manager in its new Berlin office. He previously worked in CBRE's advisory and transactin team. Here he talks to PropertyEU about the priorities in his new role.
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Belgium’s largest listed real estate company Cofinimmo has set its sights on the relatively new niche asset class of medical office buildings, CEO Jean-Edouard Carbonnelle has told PropertyEU in an interview.
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German insurance giant Allianz plans to boost its investments in alternative sectors, including real estate, by €40 bn over the next few years, global CIO Andreas Gruber has told PropertyEU CapitalWatch.
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ING Real Estate Finance is the only unit of former ING RE that survived the crisis and maintained its independence. It is now rebuilding its lending portfolio, the company’s global head Annerie Vreugdenhil told PropertyEU in an interview.
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AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets will continue to diversify its global platform and increase its focus on infrastructure and healthcare in the coming years, the company’s new CEO Isabelle Scemama told PropertyEU in an interview.
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As the search for yield becomes ever more desperate, there's a growing risk that real estate investors will allocate more capital to development which could, as a result, lead to the creation of the next real estate bubble, Thomas Wels, global head of real estate at UBS Asset Management, has warned in an interview with PropertyEU.
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Central London's Grade A office market has seen a 4% increase in take-up volume compared to the five-year quarterly average before the pandemic, according to new data from Cushman & Wakefield.
