Allianz Real Estate, International Campus and an unnamed investor represented by CBRE Global Investment Partners plan to fully invest their freshly launched €1 bn Fizz Student Housing Fund ‘within the next three-to-four years', Allianz’s CIO Olivier Téran has told PropertyEU.
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Risk and volatility will dog 2017 but ‘real estate should still have the wind at its back for the best assets and locations’, according to David Hutchings, head of investment strategy in the EMEA Capital Markets group at Cushman & Wakefield in London.
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German insurer Allianz and German lender Aareal Bank have teamed up to underwrite a €610 mln loan for a pan-European property portfolio, they announced today.
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Swiss Life KVG, the German investment management arm established recently by Swiss Life Asset Management, is gearing up to launch a private 'evergreen' European residential fund later this month, PropertyEU has learned.
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AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets will invest 'up to €2 bn over the next three years' via its recently launched Development Venture IV fund, the fund's manager, Denis Morel, told PropertyEU.
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Blackstone Real Estate Partners IV has agreed to acquire all shares in OfficeFirst Immobilien, the German office platform of Bonn-based real estate company IVG Immobilien, marking the biggest European property deal of the year.
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Hong Kong-based real estate private equity group Gaw Capital Partners and InvestUK have teamed up to launch an ‘Education Bond’, with the aim of raising up to £1 bn (€1.3 bn) of UK inward investment for affordable housing and other priority infrastructure.
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Berlin-based residential group Ado Properties plans to invest upwards of €1 bn in the German capital 'within the next three years', according to Rabin Savion, CEO of Ado Properties.
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China Investment Corporation (CIC) has reportedly established a strong presence in the thriving German residential rental market by backing Morgan Stanley's €1.2 bn acquisition of 16,000 units from Luxembourg-based BGP Holdings.
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CMBS in Europe ‘is not coming back’, according to Clarence Dixon, global head of loan servicing at CBRE.
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German-listed real estate company Branicks Group has sold a retail property in Bremen city centre to municipal urban developer Brestadt for €37.2 mln.
