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    European Hotel Sector: Short-term distress and strong long-term fundamentals create value opportunity

    2023-09-30T09:54:00Z

    For a subset of the European hotel sector, weaknesses exacerbated by the COVID-19 travel shutdown are now being made worse by high inflation and rising interest rates, creating distress. There is a window of opportunity to acquire these hotels at discounted pricing.

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    Europe Real Estate Sector Report - March 2023

    2023-03-31T12:19:00Z

    The end of a decade-long loose monetary policy, leading to a sharp repricing of debt, has put a strain on commercial property values across all sectors, including office. Since the initial rate hikes by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BoE) in 2022, office yields have softened by 70bps on average across Europe, leading capital values to drop by up to a fifth in some markets.

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    Europe Real Estate sector report

    2022-09-01T16:39:00Z

    The prospects for long-term office demand remain unclear and strongly debated amongst investors. Despite record low unemployment levels across Europe, daily office occupancy is stall well below pre-pandemic levels in most markets.

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    The Decisive Eye: A strategic bulletin on issues and opportunities in European real assets

    2022-07-01T16:36:00Z

    The world economy is experiencing a level of inflation not seen since the oil price shock of the early 1980s with policymakers dusting off old playbooks to ensure price increases do not become deeply entrenched.

  • Europe a hot spot in the fast-moving world of data centres

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    Europe: a hot spot in the fast-moving world of data centres

    2022-05-02T10:08:00Z

    When it comes to data centres, the speed of evolution of the market might be best demonstrated by considering the incredible increase in data used in our everyday lives. Today, more data is created in an hour than was produced in an entire year two decades ago. By 2025, the sum of generated data will eclipse 175 Zettabytes (ZB), up from only 18ZB in 2015.

  • The Decisive Eye – Non-traditional property types are no longer niche. Are they the future of commercial real estate?

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    The Decisive Eye – Non-traditional property types are no longer niche. Are they the future of commercial real estate?

    2021-10-06T14:47:00Z

    Europe stands on the cusp of significant changes to its private real estate investment universe. DIGITAL and structural trends, catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic, are expanding and enhancing the real estate investment universe.

  • Real Estate Sector Report - September 2021

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    Real Estate Sector Report - September 2021

    2021-10-01T16:38:00Z

    The second edition of our bi-annual real estate sector report includes insights from investment professionals across all four real estate quadrants. It provides current conditions and outlooks for all of the core real estate sectors, as well as non-traditional sectors such as data centers and life sciences.

  • No great migration but a catalyst to existing trends

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    COVID-19 Flight: No great migration but a catalyst to existing trends

    2021-07-27T19:29:00Z

    The COVID-19 pandemic has uniquely affected workers as it forced millions into remote roles for the first time. Yet, despite the rise of telecommuting and advancements in digital communication over the past two decades, migration trends across the nation have actually been in decline after peaking in the 1980’s. We wonder: Has the COVID-19 pandemic reversed this secular trend or will it be a temporary black swan event?

  • Data Centres - Unlocking value in Existing Assets

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    Data Centres: Unlocking value in Existing Assets

    2021-06-30T13:56:00Z

    It’s no secret that our lives have become increasingly dependent on data, whether we use it to be entertained, communicate with coworkers, or send messages to friends and family.

  • Principal - Data Centres special bulletins

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    Data Centres | Special bulletins

    2021-06-29T14:42:00Z

    Once seen as a niche sector within real estate, data centres have come to the forefront as real estate investors recognise how the surging need for data storage and processing is creating demand for high quality data centre real estate. As businesses, consumers, and new technologies use ever-increasing amounts of data, these facilities have become the cornerstone of the information economy.

  • Non-traditional property types are no longer niche – they are the future of commercial real estate

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    Non-traditional property types are no longer niche – they are the future of commercial real estate

    2021-05-21T13:56:00Z

    REITs have spearheaded the growth of real estate investors into non-traditional property types. The U.S. institutional private real estate market is also rapidly expanding into these property types and we anticipate a material allocation to non-traditional properties in the future.

  • Data Centres - A Focus on the Tenants

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    Data Centres: A Focus on the Tenants

    2021-05-19T15:46:00Z

    As data centres become an increasingly attractive investment opportunity, it’s important for investors to understand the types of organisations that are driving demand for these facilities.