El Corte Inglés pushes Sfera past 547 stores as franchise-led expansion accelerates

Sfera, the fashion and accessories chain owned by El Corte Inglés, is proving that Spain's largest department store group can still move fast in fashion retail. In the financial year to 28 ...

KGAL Industries and fluvicon launch €100m platform to scale industrial water treatment as a service across Europe

Water is not often thought of as an institutional real estate or infrastructure story. It is about to be. KGAL Industries, the industrial scaling and commercialisation unit of the KGAL Group, and ...

Invesco Real Estate sells landmark Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht hotel to Singapore-listed First Sponsor consortium

Few luxury hotel markets in Europe are as structurally supply-constrained as Amsterdam's Canal District, and few assets within it carry the covenant weight of a long-term direct lease with one of the ...

FU.Life signs long-term lease for 217 serviced apartments at Boulevard Berlin as more than half of repositioned space is already let

One of Berlin's most recognisable high-street shopping destinations is reinventing itself in real time, and the deal just signed is the clearest indicator yet of how far that reinvention has ...

Odyssey Hotel Group takes over four Covivio hotels in Germany, scaling portfolio to more than 5,400 rooms

  When the institutional owners of Europe's largest hotel real estate portfolios start looking beyond their existing operators for the management of complex, premium assets, the operator they ...

Savills closes €964m Eastdil Secured deal to become the world's number two adviser for prime commercial real estate

  One transaction has just redrawn the map of global real estate advisory. Savills Plc has confirmed the completion of its acquisition of Eastdil Secured LLC for an enterprise value of ...

Happy Summer from Europe Real Estate

As the summer holiday season begins, our news service and newsletter will take a short break. We'll be back on 3 August, bringing you the latest commercial real estate news, transactions, ...

Aware Super bets over €1bn on Germany's undersupplied student housing market

Global institutional capital has just placed a decisive wager on one of Europe's most structurally undersupplied property sectors. Tribera and Aware Super have formed a new partnership to invest in a ...

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