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The number of active U.K. life sciences companies has risen by 22 percent from the end of 2019 to 15,436 at year-end 2025, according to Knight Frank, while a shifting balance between the supply and demand of high-quality lab space looks set to support the growth of new market entrants.

IPUT Real Estate has raised €175 million ($207 million) in new equity from CBRE Investment Management Indirect Strategies (CBRE IM) to continue to grow its prime Dublin office portfolio.

Bowery Europe, together with its capital partner King Street Capital Management, has completed the acquisition of two modern logistics facilities in Aalsmeer, Netherlands, totaling approximately 50,000 square meters (538,200 square feet).

Brendan O’Regan has left Irish Life Investment Managers to join Hines as head of investment in Ireland.

H.I.G. Capital has acquired a third asset for its Central London Living Platform. The Platform is being delivered through a joint venture with HUB, a U.K. residential developer.

AEW has acquired a fully leased data center asset in the heart of the Nuremberg metropolitan area, Germany.

Barings, on behalf of a core European real estate strategy, has sold the Berceo shopping center to Castellana Properties for €108 million ($118 million).

Carestone Group, a Germany-based senior care home developer, has appointed Daniel Ahrendt as CEO. Ahrendt had been serving as interim CFO and will remain in that role.

Nuveen has agreed to acquire Schroders in a board-recommended cash transaction valued at £9.9 billion ($13.5 billion).

A survey by Future Space found improving sentiment in the U.K. industrial and logistics sector.

International real estate advisor Savills reports that more than £12 billion ($16 billion) of capital was deployed into U.K. healthcare real estate in 2025, the highest annual total on record. The adviser states that investor demand extended across the full spectrum of healthcare last year, from curative care to care homes.

JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group has released its annual Global Hotel Investment Outlook, forecasting a continued robust increase in global hotel investment volumes for 2026. The report identifies that strong debt markets, record dry powder and reestablished confidence in the sector’s resilience are creating optimal conditions for accelerating investment activity in 2026.

ULI has appointed Simon Durkin as CEO Europe, ULI, succeeding Lisette van Doorn in early March.

Safanad has sold HC-One, one of United Kingdom’s largest care home provider, with nearly 300 homes and servicing around 15,000 residents, to an undisclosed healthcare REIT, at a sale price of more than $1.6 billion.

Investors are gradually becoming more sector agnostic and are more focused on the quality of assets to deliver solid income returns in their investment underwrites, according to Savills.

Oxford Properties Group, the global real estate investor, developer and manager owned by OMERS, on behalf of a joint venture with Hines, one of the world’s largest privately owned real estate investors, has secured approval from the City of London for the firm’s planned redevelopment of King Edward Court in Paternoster Square.

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership, the largest U.K. Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pool, has exchanged on the forward funding of 139 single-family rental homes at Springstead Village, Cambridge.

Newcore Capital, a U.K. investment manager specializing in social infrastructure, has achieved a second close for its £375 million ($513 million) core-plus income fund, bringing total commitments to more than £100 million ($137 million).

After several years of repricing, European real estate is no longer defined by historical benchmarks or headline cap rates, but by whether assets can sustain their capital structures and generate durable cash flow in a higher-rate, lower-growth environment. Price dispersion across sectors and markets is at or near record levels, creating a landscape where broad averages offer little insight and outcomes are increasingly determined at the asset level. In an IREI interview, Paul Brennan, a partner and co-head of Real Estate at King Street Capital Management, explains why today’s opportunity set lies in situations where high-quality assets face refinancing pressure despite resilient fundamentals, and how a focus on all-in basis, downside coverage, and structural seniority is shaping a more defensive, income-oriented approach to capturing asymmetric, risk-adjusted returns across European hospitality, student housing, and other supply-constrained sectors.

Tokoro Capital, together with their vertically integrated student management business, Homie, and GCM Grosvenor, have established a long-term strategic partnership targeting U.K. student housing assets.