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29 October 2025
Welltower buys UK's Barchester in world's largest care home transaction
Welltower, the U.S. healthcare real estate giant, has completed what is thought to be the world's largest care home transaction, buying the real estate portfolio of Barchester in a deal valued at £5.2 billion.
16 September 2025
Iroko Zen launches international, opportunistic SCPI
Iroko Atlas. This is the name of the new SCPI launched by Iroko, the French collective investment vehicle. Created five years after the launch of Iroko Zen, this vehicle is intended to be international and opportunistic.
9 September 2025
Howard de Walden swings back into profit on rise in rental income
Howard de Walden Estate, the landed estate that owns and manages a portfolio of mixed-use property across Marylebone in London's West End, has recorded a rise in rental income in all sectors leading to a 2.5% increase in the overall value of its investment properties.
29 August 2025
French Prime Minister's call for vote of confidence creates real estate market uncertainty
The new year is always a tense time, but this one promises to be tumultuous. Between calls for the country to freeze on September 10 and Prime Minister François Bayrou's gamble in seeking the confidence of the National Assembly on September 8, France is moving forward like a headless duck in a rapidly changing international context.
19 August 2025
Assura chair steps down
Assura's Ed Smith is resigning as a director and non-executive chair with immediate effect.
19 August 2025
Turner & Townsend adds senior trio to UK real estate team
Global professional services firm Turner & Townsend has added three senior recruits to its UK real estate business. The trio joins its project management consultancy team.
18 August 2025
Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, United States, Portugal... Corum is open to them all
Corum' s biggest transaction of the first half 2025 was in Ireland. In Dublin, to be precise. On behalf of its SCPI Corum Origin, whose capitalization stood at €3.51 billion on June 30, the management company chaired by Frédéric Puzin acquired the Infinity Building, in the heart of the judicial district, for €45.5 million, representing a yield of 8.6%.
23 July 2025
These signs show recovery may be ahead for US biotech real estate
The nation's biotech real estate industry remains subdued, but landlords and brokers point to several signs the worst may be over.
16 July 2025
CBRE France's Verdillon and Boudot optimistic about life science sector
Established as an asset class in its own right in the U.S. and, albeit to a lesser extent, in the UK, life sciences real estate remains a niche sector on the French market. As a new cluster begins to emerge around the Institut Gustave-Roussy, within the ZAC Campus Grand Parc in Villejuif, Nicolas Verdillon, CBRE's director of investments for France, and his colleague Pierre-Édouard Boudot, senior director of the studies and research department, talk to Business Immo Global about this still-nascent asset class and the promise it holds for real estate investors in France.
23 June 2025
Franklin Real Asset Advisors buys portfolio of 32 UK care homes
Franklin Real Asset Advisors, the US-based asset investment manager, has bought a portfolio of 32 UK care homes.
16 June 2025
American buyers drive UK healthcare investment as deals hit £3.2 billion
Healthcare real estate transactions in the UK reached £3.2 billion in 2024, the highest figure since 2020, according to Knight Frank.
20 May 2025
What is driving the growth in US investment in the UK elderly care market?
Last year was a major year for UK elderly care investment, with volumes breaking the £3 billion threshold. We have observed that over the past three years the UK care market has attracted growing interest and investment from US investors.
29 April 2025
French health fund Pierval Santé sells €191 million porfolio of nursing homes
French SCPI fund Pierval Santé, whose capitalisation stands at €3.3 billion, continued its targeted disposals in the first quarter of 2025.
24 April 2025
What would be the potential impact of US tariffs on prime yields?
Europe's real estate recovery should remain on track, despite the uncertainties associated with US tariffs, according to AEW's Research team, which has unveiled its Mid-Year Outlook 2025 study.
26 March 2025
Charity Over The Wall finds permanent home at former Ockbrook School
The former Ockbrook School, which has been vacant since it ran into financial issues in 2021, was given a new lease of life from children’s charity, Over The Wall, which agreed to take the promises on a 40-year lease.
7 March 2025
French real estate industry leaders hesitant to expect market rebound in 2025
The cut in key interest rates after two years of sharp and sustained rises was expected to bring greater clarity to the French real estate market in 2024, but new political and economic tensions have prevented the fog from lifting.
6 December 2024
Which asset categories to bet on in 2025 according to Business Immo Global
Rebound or not, opportunities will continue to be present in the French real estate markets in 2025. The editors of Business Immo Global have taken stock to find out which assets will do best in 2025. All bets are off!
8 November 2024
When it comes to AI, French real estate players get ready for action
Some analysts call artificial intelligence the fifth industrial revolution, others classify it as a technological disruption on a par with the invention of the printing press. Made accessible to the greatest number with the emergence of platforms such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini, AI is advancing at breakneck speed and disrupting all sectors of the economy. To take advantage of its many promises, real estate players need to get in on the action today — or risk being left behind.
7 November 2024
Newcore splashes £50 million on primary healthcare properties
Newcore Capital, the UK-focused social infrastructure real estate investment manager, has bought 15 primary healthcare properties for £50 million as it looks to spend double that figure over the next 18 months.
5 November 2024
European real estate professionals cautiously optimistic for 2025
The 1,143 real estate professionals consulted by Urban Land Institute and PwC for their study 'Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2025' are cautiously optimistic, partly reassured by the interest-rate environment fostered by central banks. However, growing geopolitical uncertainty and weak economic growth remain major concerns.

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