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BNP Paribas Real Estate and Therus Investment have signed a strategic partnership for the Mediterraneo 44 project in Madrid, the future MEININGER Hotel.

Savills Investment Management has acquired a modern new logistics building in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Stoneweg has appointed Olivier Jollin as president of France, effective immediately.

Realterm has acquired Bessemer Road, a 36,392-square-foot final mile delivery hub situated on a 3.80-acre site in Irlam, a prime logistics submarket in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. This acquisition represents a significant addition to Realterm's growing European portfolio.

Jasper Petit has joined Bouwinvest as managing director international investments.

Amro Partners and Invesco Real Estate have significantly increased their exposure to the Iberian residential market, acquiring three new student housing projects across Spain with a total Gross Asset Value (GAV) in excess of €150 million ($174 million).

In third quarter 2025, the cost of prime office space* around the world rose 0.8 percent, taking the total average increase in costs over the past 12 months to 3.3 percent, according to Savills’ latest Prime Office Costs report.

Amid U.S.-E.U. trade tensions and tariff negotiations that have reshaped global sentiment, the European market is demonstrating a steadier economic base and more balanced fiscal outlook. In a recent interview with Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI), Gianluca Romano, head of capital raising, and Petra Blazkova, head of research and strategy, of Catella Group, discussed how investors — from Asia to North America — are turning their attention to European opportunities.

Stoneweg Group has completed the acquisition of a 16,300-square-meter (175,452-square-foot), modern logistics facility in Hørning, near Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city.

Hines has released its paper, “The Global Industrial Sector (R)evolution,” which explains how deep structural forces — ranging from shifting trade patterns and fiscal policy to the rise of ecommerce and data-driven convergence — are transforming industrial real estate from a steady, income-oriented sector into an innovation-driven, high-growth market where proximity and power availability are emerging as new sources of value.  

Pan-European industrial investment manager Boreal IM has extended the German logistics portfolio it manages on behalf of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to 370,000 square meters (3.98 million square feet), following the acquisition of a 76,000-square-meter (818,000-square-foot) newly constructed warehouse in the port of Bremerhaven.

M7 Real Estate, the pan-European investor and asset manager, has acquired of Raiffeisenstrasse 5–7, a high-quality last-mile urban logistics asset in Frankfurt, Germany.

NEPI Rockcastle, Europe’s third largest listed retail real estate company with a portfolio value of more than €8 billion ($9.2 billion), has decided to appoint Marek Noetzel as its designated CEO, effective April 1, 2026.

Axis, the last-mile logistics platform founded by Pictet and Stoneweg, has acquired two strategic properties at Steinfurtstraat 9 in Zwolle and Park Forum 1119-1121 in Eindhoven, two key logistics locations in the Netherlands. 

Year-to-date European retail investment volumes have now surpassed €24.6 billion.

With a significant increase in industry concerns around the impacts of deglobalization among real estate leaders in Europe, prospects for renewed investment activity continue to be tempered by geopolitical and economic uncertainty resulting in the overriding sentiment among leaders having shifted from last year’s cautious optimism to pragmatism, according to the latest Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2026 report by PwC and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). 

H.I.G. Capital has acquired four logistics and light industrial properties in Norway.

EDF Invest, the investment arm of global electricity leader Électricité de France (EDF SA), has entered into a joint venture with Savills Investment Management (Savills IM), the €26.2 billion ($30.1 billion) AUM international real estate investment manager.

According to Savills latest research, London, Berlin, Munich, Paris and Dublin rank as the most AI-resilient European cities for occupier demand, given established business clusters and sector-enabled talent. 

Azora, in a joint venture with Twentytwo Real Estate Fund III, has acquired the senior independent living business of Emeis Group (formerly known as the Orpea Group) in France.