Institutional Real Estate Europe
Institutional Real Estate Europe provides readers with the news, information and insights necessary to stay abreast of the dynamic and diverse property markets throughout Europe. Leading industry executives and thought leaders share their insights on market trends and investment opportunities. The magazine also features the latest information on capital flows, new investment products, investment strategies and activity by the region’s most active investors.
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Issues from 2020
December
- Side by side: Changing priorities and limited cash have taught consumers the virtues of sharing everything from taxi rides to office space. Living space may be next — unless COVID-19 derails the co-living trend
- Finding the right maps: Charting out the future of real estate and the role of technology
- Redesigning the office: How proptech could shape the future of work
- Assessing the tech revolution: Proptech has helped landlords and tenants through the crisis. But how will it shape the real estate landscape of the future? Nine experts offer their thoughts
- The space to offer services: When it comes to operational real estate, investors are almost spoilt for choice
- Flexible working to create new blended-use ecosystem
- Propco directors predict valuation drops of 10% or more
- Three megafunds close with more than €1 billion
- Race to secure last-mile logistics spots intensifies
- What a year: Reflecting on 2020
November
- UK and German investors need €39bn to plug debt gap
- Waterborne: Are floating real estate developments and even cities an idea whose time has come?
- The future office: Identifying the key trends that will impact the office sector in the coming years
- Sustaining new standards: Rapid progress in green building could soon see the UK become a leader in sustainable development in Europe
- Two managers launch megafunds, another closes
- Crisis to speed up ecommerce growth by a year
- Flexible office market could be shifting to suburbs
- Rent collection woes increase for funds in Q2
- A compelling case: Making the argument for global real estate allocations in DC pension funds
- Then and now: Lessons from years ago
- An enduring love affair: Cities will overcome the COVID-19 crisis
October
- Slowing down: Japanese-style stagnation may be something that Europe has to live with for longer than was ever expected
- Out of the office: Should investors reassess their strategies in light of the remote working revolution?
- Shifting sands: The parameters around core real estate have always been stretched at the end of cycles, but fundamental changes could now be altering its very definition
- The limitations of home working: Don’t write off the office just yet
- Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies raises €754m
- €515m invested into European senior housing in H1
- UK grocery market to grow by 10% in three years
- Liquidity concerns arise over lack of mid-size deals
- COVID-19 crisis advances impact investing
- A polarised city
- Responding to a crisis
September
- In my opinion: Differing views on real estate’s prospects are making it hard to form concrete investment plans
- At a crossroads: Is German real estate returning to past values or heading off to new shores?
- Behind the figures: Enhanced performance attribution analysis could chip away at idiosyncratic risk
- The quest for certainty: Setting up defensive strategies and identifying robust megatrends in uncertain times
- Mixed views: How are managers responding to the challenge of pandemic cycle investing?
- Companies may shift towards core-and-flex office models
- Spanish hospitality sector set for solid recovery
- Megafunds dominate summer activity
- The changing face of manufacturing: The COVID-19 crisis is spurring supply chains towards reshoring and automation
- Reading the stats: How demographics will drive real estate investment after COVID-19
July
- Escalating change: The coronavirus shutdown may have sped up the inevitable transformation of Europe’s out-of-town shopping centres
- Smart thinking: Concerns over personal and business data breaches need to be overcome in order to unlock the benefits of smart buildings
- Build back better: The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an opportunity to introduce widespread sustainable property investment
- Viva la logística: Spain’s logistics market is storing up stable returns and continues to attract cross-border capital
- Star performers: Identifying the hotel sector’s winners and losers post COVID-19
- Style drift and COVID-19: Will core investors pay a price for additional risk?
- In tech we trust: By working together, real estate investors and proptech innovators can reduce the risk of long-lasting changes to our planet’s ecosystems
- Returning to normal: As we begin to ease our way out of lockdown, there are plenty of questions that need answering
June
- Held back: The UK’s high streets will struggle to regenerate post-coronavirus if the country’s business rates system is not radically reformed
- Three to watch: New lifestyles require new real estate products
- Finding stability amid uncertainty: How we can look back at lessons from history to help us plot a way forward
- To the rescue: Private capital can play a key role in alleviating Europe’s glaring affordable housing gap
- Going back to the office: Predictions of a large drop in demand for office space may be wide of the mark
- €9.8b Blackstone REP VI becomes largest European fund
- UK hotel market to rebound strongly post-pandemic
- COVID-19 crisis stalls 2019’s positive market trends
- France set for first energy-positive residential towers
- Pandemic shows way forward on climate change mitigation
- Searching for security: The role of secure income for pension funds in extraordinary times
- It’s not just the economy, stupid: Why we must take great care to avoid an irreparable mistake
May
- Survey says: Planned commitments to real estate shift downward in late-cycle environment
- Cashing in: Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, UK retail parks were beginning to look attractive as a value play. When the crisis subsides, it may be time to start shopping around
- What now: Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 on real estate
- Driving allocations: Real estate investors respond to coronavirus realities and waves of government intervention
- RoundShield raises £670m for special opportunities fund
- Europe could bounce back with V-shaped recovery
- Places are for people: Examining the social impact of real estate investment
- Coronavirus the trigger for full restructuring of retail
- Co-working model put to the test by social distancing
- Building a new environment : The long-term financial sense of sustainable, climate-proofed buildings is becoming increasingly apparent
- Accelerating trends: Businesses are facing growing pressure to adapt in the COVID-19 era
April
- Beating the odds: Emerging tools are helping investors estimate, manage and price climate risk
- Coronavirus may lead to further sheltering in core
- Different directions: The all-powerful investment consultancy industry is reinventing itself, but are investors benefitting?
- Looking back: Best practices in Italian hotel investment can be found in the niche sector’s history
- Mapping out new ways of thinking: Without new perspectives we risk falling into dangerous traps
- Still divided: Reunification between eastern and western German shopping centres is still some way off
- No sign of a forthcoming German office downturn
- Last-mile and senior living to fill shopping centres
- Pictet closes first real estate fund with €700m
- ESG delivers promising returns: GPR’s ESG-focused index series returns 28.3% in 2019
March
- Green means growth: Investors and managers have learnt to love sustainability benchmarks
- The co-working conundrum: With the rise of the modern flexible-office sector, has co-working gone from hero to villain to antihero?
- The problems with the euro — part III: Ignoring euro-zone risk can be dangerous to your wealth
- Easy does it: Real estate debt has arguably never looked more attractive, but Europe’s investors remain cautious
- PATRIZIA raises €634m for largest fund in value-add series
- €28bn invested into European student housing since 2015
- UK offices accused of continuing to waste energy
- Cross-border inflows into Europe bounced back in 2019
- Retail is not dead: Regionally dominant shopping centres still offer an attractive value play
- The weight of red tape: How increasing political regulation is changing the German real estate market
- Separating reality and perception: One manager’s attempts to challenge broker data analysis
February
- New city planning: Berlin is Germany’s perfect mixed-use development case study
- Taking the long view: In an era of low interest rates and rising maintenance costs, the benefits of long-income assets within UK real estate portfolios are hard to ignore
- Thinking smart: Smart city systems can solve key urban challenges by promoting certain types of behaviour
- An educated guess: Investors are betting on the continued success of the UK’s purpose built student accommodation market
- Investment into France is “beyond all expectations”
- Ares and Harrison Street both launch third in series funds
- Europeans are US net sellers for first time in seven years
- Following Japan: Germany will soon have a population profile that closely mirrors that found in Japan, leading to profound implications for real estate
- Visions, Insights & Perspectives
January
- Ramping up climate risk analysis: Understanding the financial impact of climate change
- Reawakening retail: Office and logistics concepts are giving old shopping centres a new lease of life in Germany
- The problems with the euro: part II
- Reframing the question: Taking another look at the open- versus closed-end fund debate
- Shining lights: Innovation serves to future-proof dynamic European cities
- Looking back (and ahead): By reflecting on the past, we can be better prepared for the future
- Coming out on top: Who will triumph in London’s 2020 flexspace market?
- Global perspectives: Editors share insights and discuss highlights from 2019’s Editorial Advisory Board meetings
- 2019 ends with several new funds entering the market
- Urgent need for construction sector to digitise
- Brexit deal to trigger new inflow of capital into UK