Fashion outlet centre owner and operator Via Outlets has expanded into the Italian market by acquiring Scalo Milano Outlet & More. 

Swiss Life Asset Managers has expanded its European industrial and logistics portfolio by acquiring a modern warehouse in Avonmouth, marking its first UK asset. 

Savills IM has expanded its asset management portfolio in Portugal to over €200 mln with the addition of two connected palaces in Lisbon's central Chiado neighbourhood. 

Principal Asset Management has signed a sale-and-leaseback agreement in Seville for its European logistics and industrial fund, Log In, managed by Theoreim.

Commerz Real has sold its Pallars student residential complex in Barcelona, previously part of its Commerz Real Institutional Smart Living Europe Fund.

ECE Work & Live and Conren Tramway (CT) have formed a joint venture called CT ECE Living to invest €400 mln in Spanish residential real estate.

Both tenants and property sector decision-makers in Germany agree on major challenges facing the German rental market, according to the Aareal Trend barometer for 2025.

Global real estate investor AEW has appointed Anthony Butler for the newly created role of head of Industrial & Logistics Europe

European real estate lender Pluto Finance has activated its £2 bn (€2.34 bn) strategic partnership with Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies (BREDS) by deploying its initial loan.

Italian asset manager Kryalos SGR has sold a property complex in the historic centre of Rome, situated between via del Tritone and via dei Due Macelli. 

Puma Property Finance has provided its largest loan yet, £74 mln (€86.3 mln), to a joint venture formed by Mactaggart Family & Partners and Kinrise.

Stoneweg, acting on behalf of its €200 mln partnership with Danish pension fund PenSam, has acquired two logistics warehouses totalling 39,000 m2 near Copenhagen, Denmark.

A new survey by Savills reveals that most major European hotel investors (73%) plan to buy more hotels than they sell in 2026 and beyond. 

European logistics and industrial real estate owner, developer, and manager CTP has appointed Rob Jones as its new head of Investor Relations and PR. 

European investment firm Peakside Capital Advisors has appointed Steven Davis as its new managing director for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). 

Mapfre Inmuebles, Mapfre Group's alternative asset investment division, has purchased the prominent Ombú Building in Méndez Álvaro, Madrid. 

Deka Immobilien has announced the sale of the luxurious Jumeirah Port Sóller Hotel & Spa in Mallorca. 

QuadReal Property Group has significantly expanded its UK lending activities, completing two new loan transactions totalling £86.4 mln (€101.1 mln). 

The Bouwinvest Residential Fund has made the largest new-build residential acquisition in the Dutch market.

Deutsche Hypo – NORD/LB Real Estate Finance is providing a €25 mln financing package to a private investor for the Zilveren Toren office tower in Amsterdam. 

Carlyle and ESR Europe have partnered to acquire a 20,531 m² logistics facility known as Enterprise House in Stoke-on-Trent. 

Balder, Next Step Group, and Bockasjö have formed a joint venture to develop Link40, a major logistics hub near Gothenburg, Sweden. 

European logistics warehouse specialist Delin Property has hired Richard Zevenhoven as their new development manager in Amsterdam. 

European real estate manager Redevco has appointed Lara Young as head of Sustainable Operations.

Savills Germany has announced that Sebastian Stein has joined its Capital Markets team as director, Investment, effective immediately. 

Union Investment has sold its Sisjö Entré retail park in Gothenburg, which it had owned since 2008, to Swedish real estate company Bygg-Göta, for an undisclosed price.

Real estate developer Scannell Properties has sold a 22,852 m2 renovated facility in Lillers (Pas-de-Calais), France, to Minth Electricity Technology. 

Orion Capital Managers has formed a joint venture with Corinthia, through which Orion will acquire a 72% stake in the iconic five-star Corinthia Hotel Lisbon.

P3 Logistic Parks has expanded its Dutch portfolio with a new 38,000 m2 logistics facility in Lelystad, completed in January 2026. 

Arkéa REIM's SCPI fund, Transitions Europe, has made its first Belgian acquisition: an office building in Brussels. 

Storebrand Nordic Real Estate Fund II (SNRE II) completed its second closing in December 2025, raising its target size closer to its €500 mln hard cap. 

The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) is providing a 10-year loan of SEK 1 bn (€91 mln) to Vasakronan for the construction of Kaj 16 in Gothenburg. 

Valor and QuadReal are partnering to develop a 10,000 m2 cross-dock logistics centre in Fleury-Mérogis, south of Paris.

Cushman & Wakefield's EMEA Debt Advisory team is expanding further after a year of significant growth, announcing two strategic new hires.

Skanska is investing approximately SEK 1.3 bn (€115 mln) to acquire land in central Stockholm for a new mixed-use project in Sweden. 

A survey by GRESB and MIPIM indicates that real estate investors and managers still prioritise sustainability, even as some firms distance themselves from "ESG" terminology.