Institutional Real Estate Europe

September 1, 2018: Vol. 12, Number 8

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Europe

Optical illusion: Has Italy undergone a real estate renaissance or is it all just a mirage?

When you buy a car in Italy, the first thing you have to do is legally register it. This slight inconvenience is made more bearable by the fact that you don’t have to look very far to find someone who can rubber-stamp your purchase for you. With the highest percentage of notaries per inhabitant of all the OECD member countries, there’s one on almost every Italian street corner.

Europe

Cui bono: It would be dangerous to take the New Silk Road at face value

Last summer, Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese human rights and democracy campaigner, died from liver cancer. He had been serving an 11-year prison term. When he had been told that his cancer was terminal, he had asked for permission to travel abroad for treatment, but his request had been turned down by the authorities. It was […]

Europe

Canada and Germany are most underweight markets

Canada and Germany are the world’s most underweight real estate markets, according to Knight Frank. The consultancy has determined that Canada could receive an additional $4.5 billion (€3.9 billion) of real estate capital annually, while Germany could attract $3.1 billion (€2.7 billion) more into its market.

Europe

Letting the light in

Seven European countries have been classified as “highly transparent” by JLL in the company’s 2018 Global Real Estate Transparency Index.

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