The growing number of insurers interested in financing real estate in the French market is a welcome development, according to Philippe Duvergne, head of real estate finance in France for German lender pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank. ‘It is good that there is more competition and that we are seeing more debt funds,’ he told PropertyEU's France Investment Briefing in London last week.
Private real estate holding Global Holdings Group has acquired mixed-use asset 10 Great Pulteney Street from fashion retailer Boohoo.
