Europe

Last year saw a record $1.75trn in real estate investment, reports global brokerage Cushman and Wakefield. The firm predicts appetite for the asset class will remain strong in 2019.

The real estate services firm has hired two new directors from Lazard and Shelter Rock for its senior leadership team in the Americas.

Karsten Kallevig, head of unlisted real estate at Norges Bank and PERE’s latest lifetime achievement award winner, has built a career on taking unexpected turns.

Karen Brennan has been named the next chief executive for LaSalle Investment Management’s European business. A 20-year veteran at the Chicago-based investment firm, Brennan will succeed Simon Marrison, who has helmed LaSalle’s European operation for the past 12 years. Starting June 30, she will oversee 233 employees in London, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Prague, Madrid, Luxembourg […]

Executive search firm Sousou Partners has exclusively shared with Real Estate Capital a comprehensive pay scale of the commercial property debt industry.

Robert Karnes, who previously led the real estate debt group, has taken over management of the new real assets group.

Retail property values in Europe are falling, forcing lenders to question their exposure to the sector. PERE’s sister title Real Estate Capital investigates.

At PERE’s European roundtable, a discussion of Europe held in the UK inevitably turns to debate over the UK in Europe. Brexit dominates political and economic discourse in Britain ahead of the putative March 29 deadline for the country to leave the EU. So when the five participants meet in London in February it is […]