1. Austria: Ski resort owner prepares to go public
Vienna-based ski hotel owner EPH Group AG plans to list its shares on the Vienna Stock Exchange, making moves to increase its investor capital ahead of that initial public offering.
The IPO action, projected to bring total equity capital to €2.8 million, comes even though the company has yet to open any hotels of its own, though it has acquired several properties during 2025 from their original developers. EPH Group recently announced three development projects, including a 300-room mountain resort in the Kitzbühel Alps in western Austria.
2. UK: Parliament mulls ban on upward-only rent reviews
As Parliament gave a second reading to a proposed ban on upward-only commercial rent reviews, some analysts said the bill is already holding back investment in United Kingdom real estate.
Provisions for upward-only rent revisions when leases come up for renewal are common in U.K. commercial leases, meaning rents can only increase or stay the same in most instances. The proposed ban would only apply to newly drawn lease agreements, though some lawmakers expressed concern over the measure’s larger effects on property valuations.
3. France: Severe weather shifts property investment
The frequency and increasing intensity of extreme weather events are forcing real estate professionals in France and throughout Europe to review their investment and management strategies, meaning some types of properties could get stranded amid portfolio shakeups.
“Around €580 billion of European real estate assets, or 37% of the global market, are located in the 10 cities most vulnerable to physical climate risks,” said Hala El Akl, vice president of sustainable investing and operations at Oxford Properties, citing a study by brokerage JLL. Against a backdrop of accelerating extreme weather events, these assets are exposed not only to construction risks, but also to financial and legal ones.
4. Germany: Banks expand real estate financing
Institutions affiliated with the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks issued real estate loans totaling €70.1 billion in the first half of 2025, according to the latest association data. That was 17% higher than the year-earlier period and 14.5% above the level for the second half of 2024.
Data showed multifamily housing posted the largest relative increase in financing, reaching €11.6 billion in the first half for an annual rise of 43.2%. Financing for single-family homes and condominiums also grew at double-digit rates, though the €11.8 billion loaned for offices marked a slimmer 1.7% increase from a year earlier while declining from the second half of 2024.
5. Canada: British Columbia looks to escalate residential construction
British Columbia officials said new minimum residential construction targets would add almost 39,000 units across 10 cities in the next five years, in a bid to address a growing housing shortage.
Burnaby, the province’s third-largest city by population after Vancouver and Surrey, aims to add 10,240 new homes by September 2030 under the new targets announced by the B.C. Housing Ministry, with the Vancouver suburb of Richmond targeting 6,753 new houses. The province previously mandated that a total of 40 cities create enough units to meet at least 75% of their estimated housing needs over the next half-decade.
6. US: CrowdStrike bulks up on Silicon Valley office space
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike’s deal to take over roughly half of a recently completed office building in the nation’s most powerful technology hub is the latest sign that big deals are back in Silicon Valley.
CrowdStrike finalized a lease for about 150,000 square feet to anchor 250 W. Washington Ave. at CityLine in Sunnyvale, California, according to people with knowledge of the agreement. The deal is the latest 100,000-square-foot-plus lease in Silicon Valley, as the tech-concentrated market gradually rebounds back to pre-pandemic levels of demand and activity.
This report was compiled from CoStar’s news publications in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France and Germany.