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September 2, 2025
Anticipating storms... at the risk of taking on water?
While adapting investment strategies to the vagaries of the weather is far from a new phenomenon for the real estate industry, the acceleration and increasing intensity of extreme weather events are forcing its protagonists to review their allocation and asset management strategies. While the damage is likely to be felt over the long term, the coming storm is sure to shake up real estate portfolios... at the risk of stranding certain assets.
August 4, 2025
What impact will the energy transition have on real estate yields?
Real estate investment and asset management consultancy AEW has published a study on climate transition risk and its impact on the European real estate sector. Covering 196 market segments in 20 countries and five sectors, the study examines the impact of expected costs associated with the energy transition on expected total returns from prime real estate .
March 19, 2025
How important are North American investors in France?
Newmark dedicates a study to North American investors and their key role in the French market. The study deciphers the evolution of their investment strategy, which has become increasingly diversified, and provides an insight into the reasons behind the attractiveness of the French market.
November 15, 2024
Founding developer of Europe's leading technology park speaks with Business Immo Global about development potential and legacy
The founder of one of Sophia Antipolis' leading developers looks back on his involvement in Europe's leading technology park, which covers 1.5 million square meters or more than 16 million square feet, and takes stock of an area with strong potential for redevelopment.
November 8, 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.
October 4, 2024
Patrizia begins her rise to power
" Patrizia will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2024," says Mahdi Mokrane, newly appointed Co-Head of Fund Management and Head of Real Estate Fund Management, who sees the period of multiple financial crises as a period of increasing separation of delegation between ownership and asset management, as well as the emergence of real asset classes in institutional portfolios.
March 31, 2023
Office Landlord Gets Retail Rents, Neighborhood Gets a New Gym
The creative adaptive reuse and redevelopment of an aging Fort Lauderdale, Florida, office building earned a 2023 CoStar Impact Award for the effect it had on the owner's bottom line and on the surrounding community.
January 12, 2023
Group of Engineering, Construction and Architecture Firms Backs Bladeless Wind Energy Startup
As buildings increasingly pitch and seek the use of renewable energy to lower their carbon footprint, a venture capital group made up of engineering, construction and architecture firms has invested in a startup behind a patented bladeless wind energy technology that can be installed on the edge of a building’s rooftop.
December 2, 2022
JLL Expands Sustainability Team, Pine Tree Promotes CIO, RDC Names Senior Principal
JLL Names David to DC Clean Energy, Infrastructure Practice
November 18, 2022
Cushman Expands V&A Living Sectors Group, Colliers Hires Healthcare Veteran, CBRE Names Southeast Acquisitions Manager
Cushman & Wakefield Taps Denver Valuation & Advisory Veterans
August 12, 2022
Ashforth Affiliate Fills New C-Suite Role, JLL Launches ESG Business, CBRE Expands Outer Boroughs Team
Connecticut Construction Company Hires COO
April 5, 2022
Transwestern Creates Environmental, Social and Governance Role as Industry Focuses on Issue
Transwestern has created a role to oversee its environmental, social and governance efforts as commercial real estate firms begin to embrace ways to conduct business in a more sustainable and socially aware manner and clients start to look for those changes.
January 28, 2022
Southern California Developer Gives ULI Its Single Biggest Gift Ever
A developer known across Southern California for his company's real estate projects and personal support of the arts, education and health initiatives has given the Urban Land Institute the largest single financial gift ULI has received in its 86-year history.
November 29, 2021
JLL Expands Valuation Advisory Group in Orlando
Javier Seda-Romero has joined JLL's environmental and property condition, or EPC, team as a project management director in the brokerage firm's Orlando, Florida, office.
November 17, 2021
Hines Fills Newly Created Position, VP of Carbon Strategy
Hines has established a new position, vice president of carbon strategy, and tapped Michael Izzo to fill the role in its New York City office.
October 20, 2021
JLL Valuation Grows New Environmental Assessment Team With Addition of a 30-Year Veteran
JLL Valuation Advisory has added a commercial finance risk and assessment expert as a senior vice president of premier client accounts to its quickly growing environmental and property condition, or EPC, team.
September 10, 2021
Global Investor Taurus Taps Green Power Expert To Lead Sustainability Initiatives
Global commercial property firm Taurus Investment Holdings sees plenty of opportunity to invest in green buildings and sustainable commercial properties, and it's tapped a clean energy expert to lead the firm's efforts to leverage it.
September 7, 2021
Hager Pacific Properties Acquires Two Industrial Buildings in Los Angeles
Hager Pacific Properties purchased two industrial buildings at 13255 S. Broadway and 360-366 W. 132nd St. in Los Angeles for $17.25 million, or about $118 per square foot, from Business Industrial Group
July 15, 2021
Kimco Taps Sustainability Expert From Prologis To Lead ESG Effort
Kimco Realty Corp., one of the largest public owners of U.S. grocery-anchored and mixed-use commercial properties, has turned to a sustainability expert who helped manage environment, social and governance, or ESG, at a global industrial real estate investment trust to lead Kimco's ESG effort.
June 3, 2021
Renovation of Obsolete Office Sparks Sustainable Solution
In an effort to ease energy expenditures, Washington state has mandated stark sustainability goals for its built environment. But when a government entity had to move its headquarters to meet efficiency targets, it didn’t break ground on a flashy, new “green-certified” office park, but instead turned to a landlord and design team bent on achieving those goals by renovating instead of razing.

Anticipating storms... at the risk of taking on water?

What impact will the energy transition have on real estate yields?

How important are North American investors in France?

Founding developer of Europe's leading technology park speaks with Business Immo Global about development potential and legacy

When it comes to AI, French real estate players get ready for action

Patrizia begins her rise to power

Office Landlord Gets Retail Rents, Neighborhood Gets a New Gym

Group of Engineering, Construction and Architecture Firms Backs Bladeless Wind Energy Startup

JLL Expands Sustainability Team, Pine Tree Promotes CIO, RDC Names Senior Principal

Cushman Expands V&A Living Sectors Group, Colliers Hires Healthcare Veteran, CBRE Names Southeast Acquisitions Manager

Ashforth Affiliate Fills New C-Suite Role, JLL Launches ESG Business, CBRE Expands Outer Boroughs Team

Transwestern Creates Environmental, Social and Governance Role as Industry Focuses on Issue

Southern California Developer Gives ULI Its Single Biggest Gift Ever

JLL Expands Valuation Advisory Group in Orlando

Hines Fills Newly Created Position, VP of Carbon Strategy

JLL Valuation Grows New Environmental Assessment Team With Addition of a 30-Year Veteran

Global Investor Taurus Taps Green Power Expert To Lead Sustainability Initiatives

Hager Pacific Properties Acquires Two Industrial Buildings in Los Angeles

Kimco Taps Sustainability Expert From Prologis To Lead ESG Effort

Renovation of Obsolete Office Sparks Sustainable Solution

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