Diminishing consumer confidence has clearly fed into retail activity across Europe and most of its retail markets have begun to show news signs of distress.

Office usage rates are improving, but conversely, desk usage statistics indi­ cate that a  return  to "old  normal" working practices remains a long way off.

Expectations around the availability of equity and debt have sunk to their lowest level in Europe since the global financial crisis (GFC) as the real estate industry prepares for a "tough" year ahead.

If I were given a grosz every time someone mentioned real estate debt opportunities to me over the past few months, I would be able to comfortably pay my energy bills this winter and have enough left over to plug the considerable gap that falling REITs have left in my retirement savings portfolio.

While the level of environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration into institutional real estate investment plat­forms has increased considerably during the past decade, the need – and appetite – for further evo­lution persists. At this juncture in the ESG lifecycle, the key to maintaining momentum is identifying and implementing standards to assess and manage prog­ress. […]

On 12 October 2022 more than 150 lead­ers from the European real estate industry met for the C Change Summit. The event was organised by the Urban Land Institute (UL!) to launch a consultation draft of proposed guidelines for the measurement, disclosure and reporting of climate-change transition risk at an asset level. In her opening […]

MARK is expanding its urban logis­tics platform Crossbay with a second investment  vehicle  targeting  more than €2 billion in gross asset value (GAV).