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Germany has quietly resolved one longstanding source of transaction friction in its commercial real estate market. A law published on 2 July removes the risk of being charged real estate transfer tax twice on the same share deal — a problem that has added unnecessary cost and complexity to institutional real estate…
Frankfurt's office market has just produced two headlines that appear to describe different cities. Prime rents in the Central Business District reached €55 per square metre during the second quarter of 2026 — a new all-time high, surpassing even the peak of the dotcom boom. At the same time, office take-up during…
Germany's federal government has taken the unprecedented step of trying to remove one of the biggest sources of political uncertainty hanging over Germany's residential investment market. On 2 July, the CDU/CSU and SPD coalition committee agreed to introduce a federal law prohibiting Germany's states from using…
German commercial real estate is approaching the busiest refinancing year of the current cycle, with more than €40bn in loans maturing in 2026 — and most of that debt was priced when interest rates were a fraction of today's levels. The resulting financing gap could exceed €6bn this year alone, according to new…
Berlin's planning authorities are increasingly treating stays beyond six weeks as residential use rather than temporary accommodation, according to planning lawyer Mathias Hellriegel , speaking at Heuer Dialog 's Jahreskongress Temporäres Wohnen in Berlin. The distinction may appear technical. In practice, it…
For three years, German real estate has been waiting for a wave of non-performing loans to break. It hasn't happened — and not because the underlying distress isn't real. According to panellists at a recent PB3C webinar on how Germany's property market is dealing with financial distress, lenders, borrowers and fund…
A former Deutsche Börse headquarters in Frankfurt now accommodates 3,200 students under a 30-year lease to the City of Frankfurt . Completed in just two and a half years after its conversion from office use, the project offers perhaps the clearest demonstration yet of why educational real estate is beginning to…
Last month, REFIRE published a guest column by REM Capital 's CEO Jan Bewarder , setting out how generous Germany's 2026 subsidy environment had become for real estate investors and describing a rare window in which previously unviable projects could once again make financial sense. That assessment is holding up…
Germany's open-ended real estate funds ( GOEFs ) may finally be approaching the bottom of their crisis. Scope 's latest ratings round downgraded five funds, upgraded two and left twelve unchanged — a marked improvement on last year, when more than half the funds analysed were cut and none were upgraded at all. Yet…
The European Central Bank raised its deposit rate by 25 basis points to 2.25% on Thursday 11th June, marking the first interest rate hike in nearly three years. The decision was unanimous and widely anticipated. ECB President Christine Lagarde offered no commitment to future steps, reiterating that the central bank…
Germany has 2.9 million university students, one of Europe's most severe shortages of purpose-built accommodation, and the most sought-after operational real estate segment among institutional investors. And yet German PBSA transactions stagnated at around €70 million in both 2023 and 2024. That gap between desire…
Something unusual happened in the German real estate market in the first quarter of 2026. Healthcare properties — nursing homes, outpatient medical centres, Ärztehäuser — accounted for 12% of total transaction volume. The historical average is 2-4%. In absolute terms, the sector recorded over €1 billion in…
Germany's property finance market entered 2026 with a fragile optimism that has not survived contact with reality. The German Real Estate Financing Index — the Difi , compiled quarterly by JLL and the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) — fell by almost ten points in Q1 2026 to minus 9.1, slipping…
German banks are retreating more deeply from real estate lending than many investors yet appreciate. At last week's Rueckerconsult INVESTMENT Expo in Berlin, Frederik Bräkling of Pax-Bank described a market where development finance at 50% LTV has become standard, second prolongations are increasingly common, and…
Senior loan spreads in European commercial real estate have nearly tripled since the start of 2024, rising from 1.1% to 3.2% over EURIBOR. That is not a cyclical wobble. It is a structural repricing of debt — and new data published in mid-May suggests the shift is accelerating.
A notable milestone passed almost unnoticed in the German grocery retail investment market last year: for the first time, foreign capital outpaced domestic investment in the sector. It was one of the more striking data points to emerge from a panel discussion on European retail at the Rueckerconsult INVESTMENT Expo…
The day before this panel convened at the Rueckerconsult INVESTMENT Expo in Berlin last week, KanAm Grund signed a lease in the City of London at nearly £110 per square foot. Anthony Bull-Diamond , KanAm's chief executive, mentioned it almost in passing — as live confirmation of a rental trajectory that Philip La…
"Classic core is largely dead. This is the decade of value add." That was Ramin Rabeian 's provocation at last week's Rueckerconsult INVESTMENT Expo in Berlin. The more interesting conclusion, however, was that the distinction itself may no longer matter. What emerged was not a rotation from one strategy to…
August’s foreclosure auction blocks will be crowded with properties owned by multifamily syndicators, but two firms scored last-minute sales to avoid losing assets this week. Scott Everett’s Dallas-based S2 Capital offloaded Hathaway at Willow Bend Apartments in Plano to Granite Towers Equity Group, another North…
New York City’s office-to-residential boom has been operating under a microscope for the past month, and that’s simply because office buildings have become too valuable to get wrong. That notion was on display again this week when the Department of Buildings issued a partial stop-work order at SL Green’s conversion…
It was 50 years ago that the famed blind taste test of Napa and French wines known as the Judgement of Paris crowned the California valley’s vineyards victorious. Overnight, Napa became a global destination synonymous with the world’s best wine. Now, Napa appears poised for another transformative moment. Just an…
Wall Street's disparate reactions to data center spending plans from Amazon, Microsoft and Google show impatience for return on AI investments.
With new office construction at historic lows across the country, JVP Development’s spec building in Frisco isn’t the type of thing happening outside of DFW
The top deals of the week from the Denver area.
Also this week, a downtown D.C. office building sells for $26M, new leasing activity at 1800 M, Prince George's County Planning Board has a new head, and more.
Property management companies are already integrating AI into workflows. That’s offering a window into how AI may reshape labor demand.
This week in Houston real estate news, Avison Young has a new market leader, an Orlando firm expands its Downtown Houston office holdings, and more.
Lululemon expanded in Center City after Jordan World of Flight entered the neighborhood. Madis Coffee and Core Power Yoga picked Second Street for new sites.
This is the first bid on the headquarters since it was scheduled for auction in June.
The region has a large industrial market and available power, but high land prices and community pushback have kept data center development relatively muted.
The completion of Chubb's build-to-suit project means Philly now has no new office underway, and the trend of converting offices to other uses has also slowed.
Grabbing the reins hasn’t kept Shai Wolkowicki in the saddle. When the Boca Raton, Florida-based investor ousted former partner Chikoo Patel in early 2025 and took control of their troubled apartments portfolio through his firm Ruby Development Group, he inherited an operational mess. Now, the bill for that…
Hongkong Land is expanding into Orchard Road with a deal to buy Wheelock Place in Singapore from Wharf REIC for S$1.1 billion ($863 million) on behalf of its private fund focused on the city. The real estate unit of Hong... Read More>> The post Hongkong Land Fund Buying Singapore’s Wheelock Place From Wharf REIC…
Asia Pacific’s data centre development pipeline has reached 25.5 gigawatts, exceeding the region’s 16.1GW of operational capacity as developers race to keep pace with demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing, according to Savills. The pipeline includes 3.6GW under construction... Read More>> The post…
Blue Owl’s Stack Infrastructure leads today’s real estate headlines from around Asia Pacific as it seeks a $5.9 billion loan to fund its third Melbourne data centre. Also in the news are Australia’s Mirvac circling $441 million in Sydney and... Read More>> The post Stack Seeks $5.9B Loan for Melbourne Data Centre…
Australia’s industrial markets turned in a stronger-than-expected second quarter as occupier demand rebounded, with 1.3 million square metres (14 million square feet) of space changing hands through leasing deals nationwide and vacancy declining in four of the country’s five major... Read More>> The post Australia…
Vantage Data Centers leads today’s headlines as the DigitalBridge-backed operator weighs a sale of its $2 billion Malaysia data centre assets. Southeast Asia data centres are also a target for GIC, Sixth Street and SK Telecom as companies bid for... Read More>> The post Vantage Weighs $2B Sale of Malaysia Data…
Creditors have seized a set of three Kowloon commercial floors from Schroders Real Estate, marking the third time that banks’ have taken assets from the UK fund manager in just over a year. Colliers and Savills were appointed joint agents... Read More>> The post Schroders Loses Third Hong Kong Asset to Creditors in…
Hongkong Land’s net profit jumped 470 percent to $1.26 billion in the first half of the year, driven by a $725 million gain in property values as Hong Kong’s recovering office market raised the fortunes of its Central district portfolio. ... Read More>> The post Hongkong Land Profit Jumps 470% as Central Office…
Singapore’s Mapletree Investments leads today’s headlines with the launch of its first mainland onshore logistics fund with China Life Capital, holding $221.6 million in assets under management. Meta and BlackRock also make the news with plans for a $14 billion... Read More>> The post Mapletree Launches $222M…
A Hong Kong investor whose property portfolio was once estimated to be worth HK$15 billion ($1.9 billion) is disposing of a building in Kowloon’s Mong Kok area at a 43 percent discount, the latest in a string of recent disposals... Read More>> The post Troubled Hong Kong Investor Lai Wing-to Sells Kowloon Building…
South Korea’s Igis Asset Management leads today’s real estate headlines from aroun Asia Pacific with a $612 million acquisition of Seoul’s Doosan Tower. Also in the news are Singapore’s ESR-REIT divesting an Ang Mo Kio industrial property for S$33.3 million... Read More>> The post Igis Completes $612M Buy of…
Knight Frank analysis of UK investment market conditions and industrial & logistics sector activity during a period of market volatility.
American Healthcare REIT’s $102.75 million purchase of San Jose’s Avella at Almaden marks the REIT’s latest bet on Bay Area senior housing, a sector where occupancy is climbing toward record highs even as new construction grinds to a near halt. An Irvine-based real estate investment trust focused on healthcare…
Downtown Miami’s largest landowner Moishe Mana just made his portfolio even bigger, adding $33 million worth of properties within 10 days. Mana’s firm, Mana Common, paid $20.3 million for the 35,550-square-foot Historic U.S. Post Office Building at 100 Northeast First Avenue and the adjacent 15,000-square-foot…
Lee & Associates NYC announced that Treeswift Inc., an AI-powered infrastructure technology company helping electric utilities modernize field operations, has relocated its New York headquarters to 256 W. 38th St. after signing a four-year, full-floor lease for 7,487 square feet. The Philadelphia-based tenant is…
Marcus & Millichap closed the sale of 7203 Rubio Ave., a 30-unit multifamily property in the Lake Balboa neighborhood of Van Nuys. The property sold for $9.5 million or $316,667 per unit. Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation (MMCC), a subsidiary of Marcus & Millichap, secured $6,223,000 in acquisition financing.…
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas announced that the first project under the Housing Acceleration Fund launched last year has closed on construction financing. North White Plains, a $178-million mixed-use transit-oriented development in Westchester County and located…
Marcus & Millichap closed the sale of 235-237 Kent Ave., two mixed-use buildings in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, for $16.4 million. “We are happy to successfully complete a round trip for our seller, whom we previously sold the property for $12.3 million in 2021 during the pandemic,” said Shaun Riney of…
Cushman & Wakefield, along with locally based buyers DMJ Capital Partners, LLC and StoneSteps Real Estate, LLC, announced the acquisition of a multi-tenant office property, located at 169 Saxony Rd. in Encinitas, for $13.5 million. The property was previously held in a family trust, having been owned and operated…
Sterling Bay and a JP Morgan Asset Management fund scored a three-year, $213 million refinancing loan from Barings for the high-rise building at 360 North Green Street. The building in Fulton Market boasts 500,000 square feet of office space across its 24 stories, a 5,000-square-foot roofdeck on the fourth floor, a…
R.W. Holmes Commercial Real Estate has been retained as leasing agent for 846 University Ave., a Class A office property in Norwood, MA. Previously the headquarters of National Amusements and Showcase Cinemas, the property is now being marketed for lease for the first time since 2006. “Today’s tenants are looking…
Colliers completed the sale of The Ridge Apartments, located at 1718 West 55th Avenue in Merrillville, Indiana. Morgan Properties acquired the community. The sale was led by the Colliers team of Bryce Wetzel, Tyler Hague, Lauren Stoliar and Ryan Roegner, who represented the owner, Parkmont Group, a real estate…
Northmarq’s San Diego Debt + Equity team led by Conor Freeman and Aaron Beck arranged a $34-million refinance of Northwoods Apartments, a 324-unit garden-style multifamily community located at 1662 W. Arrow Hwy. in Upland. Northmarq arranged the permanent-fixed financing on behalf of the borrower through the firm’s…
JLL has closed the sale of Twelve 501 Apartments, a 336-unit multifamily community in Burnsville, Minnesota. JLL represented the seller, FPA Multifamily and secured the buyer, Osso Capital, marking their first-ever investment in Minnesota. The JLL Capital Markets team was led by Managing Director Josh Talberg,…
The redevelopment plan for a nearly 7-acre shopping complex in a North Shore suburb by contract purchaser and developer Pulte Group courted heated public debate ahead of its development application review with the Village of Northbrook. The proposal — demolishing Meadow Plaza shopping center at 1901 Cherry Lane and…
Avison Young’s cash flow issues are catching up to its UK companies.
BNP Paribas REIM publishes its latest Lighthouse report presenting market outlook and investment strategies for European real estate in the second half of 2024.
Hollywood is poised to relax some of its development rules to allow oceanfront towers in the area where BH Group and Related group have a historic hotel under contract. The city is considering an overhaul that could bring up to 340-foot projects under restrictive regulations near the historic Hollywood Beach…
Lee & Associates of Illinois has closed a pair of lease renewal transactions totaling 73,513 square feet in Itasca, Illinois. Jeff Galante, SIOR, principal at Lee & Associates’ Illinois office, represented the tenant, Richards Building Supply, a national building exterior material supplier, in a 58,513-square-foot…