Virna Asara

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Journalist at IPE Real Assets

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Technology adoption in logistics buildings raises energy stakes, says Tritax

1 week ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

Logistics real estate occupiers are turning to technologies, such as automation, that raise the energy requirements for new buildings by up to five times, according to research by UK listed real estate investment trust (REIT) Tritax Big Box.
Weekly Data Sheet - 13 June 2025

2 weeks ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

A string of big-ticket financings closed this week, led by Vantage’s securitisation of four data centres in Germany. Vantage Data Centers, a global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, raised €640m in securitised term notes, marking the first-ever euro-based securitisation of data centre assets in continental Europe.
Weekly Data Sheet - 6 June 2025

3 weeks ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

Spain’s Grupo Lar and a Blackrock fund have secured a €306m loan for a major office-to-residential conversion project in Madrid, in what is believed to be the largest financing transaction signed in Spain in the past few years. Known as Torre Castelló, the €500m redevelopment aims to transform the former Treasury office complex at Madrid’s 50, María de Molina into a 20-storey residential tower and a student residence.
Analysis: Will global real estate investors reallocate from US to Europe?

3 weeks ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

Amid the uncertainty and volatility in the US, real estate fund managers are beginning to report a shift in global sentiment away from North America and early signs of capital reallocation to European real estate markets. A live poll at the IPE Real Estate Global Conference & Awards in Copenhagen revealed that more than three quarters of the audience would prefer to reduce their target allocation to the US and increase it to Europe.
Weekly Data Sheet - 30 May 2025

1 month ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

Romanian developer Iulius and investor Atterbury Europe have secured the largest financing ever granted to a real estate development in Romania, having received a €400m loan for the Rivus Cluj-Napoca mixed-use urban redevelopment project. The green financing was provided by a consortium of Erste Bank, Banca Comercială Română, the EBRD and BRD Groupe Société Générale. The Rivus project plans to redevelop 14ha of a former industrial site into retail, office, culture and entertainment space.
Weekly Data Sheet - 23 May 2025

1 month ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

Global real estate manager Hines has inked the sale of a mixed retail and office complex in Italy to the family office of Japanese billionaire Tadashi Yanai, founder and chief executive of Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing. The sale of the Cordusio 2.0 asset for more than €300m is said to represent a record low yield for Milan prime offices of 3.5%. The historic building is in Milan’s central Piazza Cordusio, where Uniqlo’s flagship store has been since 2019.
Weekly Data Sheet - 16 May 2025

1 month ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

The deal – Gecina’s first large office investment in several years – sees the landlord take control of 32,200sqm of largely vacant office space at 19-23, rue de Vienne and 38-46, rue du Rocher, also known as Le Solstys. The complex was put on the market in 2023 by its owner, the Deka Immobilien Europa open-ended fund, which in turn had bought it in 2011 for €330m from developer and former tenant Nexity.
European property market continues recovery with 0.8% growth in Q1

1 month ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

European property values rose 0.8% in the first three months of the year in the third consecutive quarter of growth following nearly two years of consistent value declines, new data from Altus Group shows. As central banks cautiously begin to lower interest rates, property yields — which had been rising for the past two and a half years— have started to decline.
Weekly Data Sheet - 9 May 2025

1 month ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

Advisor CBRE has been mandated to test market appetite for the sale of the Nestar build-to-rent platform in Spain. The Nestar portfolio, which includes over 9,500 homes largely located in the Madrid municipality, could fetch up to €1.8bn for its owners, CBRE IM, Madison International Realty, NN Group and Azora Capital. First launched in 2004 by Azora, the platform saw the entry of CBRE IM as a majority investor back in 2018 and announced a major expansion programme in 2022.
Weekly Data Sheet - 2 May 2025

1 month ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

Inmobiliaria Colonial is investing in Stoneshield Capital’s Deeplabs science & innovation platform known as Deeplabs, which owns three campuses in Madrid and Barcelona worth a total of €400m.