With fewer opportunities for organic rental growth and further yield compression anticipated across Europe’s real estate landscape, the search for income producing assets will be a key driver for investment activity in 2020, according to international real estate advisor Savills.
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32,000 new beds entered the booming UK student accommodation market for the 2019/20 academic year, taking the total number up to 660,000, with transactions reaching £2.5 bn (€3 bn)by the end of October, according to new data from Cushman & Wakefield.
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New CMBS issuance in Europe will continue to be backed by moderately leveraged loans in 2020 as recessionary dangers and political risk restrain LTV ratios, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report published this week.
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Savills Investment Management (Savills IM), the international real estate investment manager, has said it prefers long-lease income streams instead of value-add and opportunistic strategies that depend on economic and strong employment prospects for 2020, as it sets out some key trends for the coming year.
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Take-up of industrial warehouse space in the UK is set to hit 3.06 million m2 by the end of 2019, a 33% increase on the long term average, according to new data from Savills.
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For the first three quarters of 2019, the CEE region has recorded an investment volume of ca. €9 bn, according to new data from Colliers.
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The adoption of technology is now an imperative for the future of real estate, according to a new report, Shaping our Cities, from Irish property company Iput.
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New Bond Street in London is the most expensive shopping street in Europe, a new report has found.
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A strong Q3 performance from Paris, which edged ahead of Brexit-battered London as Europe’s largest metropolitan real estate investment market for the first time, helped total European deal volume to dip only slightly into negative territory year-on-year after the marked slowdown in the first half of 2019, Real Capital Analytics’ Europe Capital Trends Q3 2019 report shows.
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Real estate businesses are continuing to make slow and steady progress in upping their digital game, but enterprise-wide digital strategies remain far from commonplace, according to the latest KPMG Global PropTech Survey.
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An investment fund managed by Universal-Investment on behalf of pension fund Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK) has made its debut in Swizerland, purchasing a portfolio of 14 retail assets.
