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The Asset Class Europe Buried in 2020 Is Now Projected to Out-Return the Rest. Retail Is Back, for One Reason
Five years ago, European retail real estate was written off. E-commerce was going to empty the shopping centres, the pandemic had shut them, and retail’s share of European pr...
Europe's Rearmament Is a Real Estate Story. Just Not the One Investors Think
Europe is spending on defence at a pace unseen since the Cold War. EU member states spent €343 billion in 2024, 1.9% of GDP, and were expected to reach around €381 billion in 2025,...
Europe's Logistics Problem Isn't Land. It's Power. Madrid Shows Why
Madrid has a logistics paradox that explains where European logistics is heading. In the first quarter of 2026, Spain leased more than 751,000 square metres of logistics space, up ...
Europe's Wealth Map Is Being Redrawn by Tax Codes. Spain Is Winning the Summers and Losing the Tax Residents
Two shocks in eighteen months have loosened the two biggest anchors of private wealth near Europe. In April 2025, the United Kingdom abolished its non-dom regime. In the twelve mon...
Spain's Senior Living Money Has Arrived. The Operators Haven't.
In the first half of 2026, investors put €485 million into Spanish senior living, up from €69 million in the same period a year earlier. Around fifteen developers have announced ro...
SOCIMI Reform Keeps Failing. That's Exactly Why It Still Prices Spanish Real Estate.
Spain has now run the SOCIMI reform experiment twice, and both results are on the record. In late 2021, a special 15% levy on undistributed profits entered into force — a real, ena...
Spain's Rental Market Just Traded Its First Billion-Euro Portfolio. The Real Story Is What's Being Built Behind It.
In July, Brookfield agreed to buy Fidere — the 5,000-home rental portfolio Blackstone built out of privatised Madrid social housing back in 2013 — for close to €1 billion. Blacksto...
Spain's Hospitality M&A Wave Isn't Consolidation. HIP's IPO Is About to Prove It
Blackstone is preparing to float Hotel Investment Partners on the Spanish stock exchange at a valuation north of €6 billion, in a listing targeted for late October, with roughly €7...
ESG in European Real Estate Became an Underwriting Variable — Even as the Rulebook Keeps Moving
For most of the last decade, ESG in commercial real estate was a marketing layer. Landlords published sustainability reports. Consultancies scored buildings on frameworks with limi...
Spain Just Became Europe's #1 Real Estate Market
For the first time in its history, Spain is the most attractive real estate market in Europe. Not the second, not “one to watch” — first. CBRE’s European Investor...
Europe's Housing Crisis Is a Supply Problem Disguised as a Price Problem. The Policy Response Is Getting It Backwards.
Barcelona banned tourist apartments. Berlin extended its rent cap. Dublin tightened short-term letting. Amsterdam restricted investor purchases. Lisbon killed its golden visa. Madr...
Data Centres Are the New Logistics. Europe's Real Estate Industry Isn't Ready
Every major European real estate consultancy now runs a data centre practice. Three years ago, none of them did. That speed of institutional adoption tells you exactly where this a...
The Social and Safety Deficit: Gentrification, Health Costs, and Emergency Response Delays (Part 3)
The Social and Safety Deficit: Gentrification, Health Costs, and Emergency Response Delays In the final installment of this three-part series, we examine the profound public healt...
Supply Chain Asphyxiation: The Hidden Logistical and Fiscal Costs of Road Diets (Part 2)
Supply Chain Asphyxiation: The Hidden Logistical and Fiscal Costs of Road Diets The vitality of a modern urban economy depends inexorably on its capacity to move goods, raw materi...
The Economic Illusion of Active Transit: How Cycling Infrastructure Fractures Local Retail (Part 1)
Over the last few decades, global urban planning has experienced a radical paradigm shift toward promoting sustainable mobility, prioritizing active transport through the massive i...
The Ecosystem of Capital, Deep Tech, and the Battle for Habitability in 22@
If architecture and availability rates are the body of the 22@ district, capital and talent are its blood. The first quarter of 2026 has confirmed a tectonic shift in the corporate...
The Scarcity Paradox and the Flight to Quality: The Architectural Awakening of 22@ in 2026
The real estate market is, at its core, a reflection of human psychology and the broader economic cycle. In the first quarter of 2026, the city of Barcelona has not only survived t...
NEOM and Vision 2030: From Spectacle to Strategy
The desert remembers everything. And Saudi Arabia ambitious bet on the future Vision 2030 has been a masterclass in rewriting its own story. What began as a 500 billion dollar spec...
Geopolitical Fractures and the Global Property Perimeter
The intersection of geopolitical instability and global real estate markets has reached a critical inflection point in 2026. What began as regional tensions in the Middle East has ...
The Seven Emirates: Similitudes & Differences
# The Seven Emirates: Similitudes & Differences An analytical deep-dive into the seven evident similitudes uniting the UAE, and the seven non-evident differences that define their...