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Investors across Europe will continue to focus on sectors with strong structural tailwinds, such as living and logistics, according to a Knight Frank report. 

Indotek Group has announced the strategic acquisition of Galleria Porta Siena on LinkedIn. Galleria Porta Siena, a prime commercial property located in the heart of Siena, joins the group's growing portfolio of Italian retail assets.

Hilton has announced plans to open Italy’s first LXR Hotels & Resorts property, following a franchise agreement with Romanian group Pavăl Holding and Apex Alliance.

CPI Property Group (CPIPG) has announced updated information regarding the Group´s efforts in reducing and preserving cash, with a focus on disposals.

The Rome City Hall has not approved the plan to build a new stadium for the AS Roma football club on a brownfield site, which until recently was the favourite for this development and which is owned by the CPIPG group. According to the Italian media, the group wanted to invest €5 billion there. Its further Italian expansion is thus slowing down. Alongside the impact of the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, this is another blow to the group's business plans in Italy, writes E15.cz.

The group entered the market with the acquisition of Le Masserie shopping centre in southern Sicily and a portfolio of 13 supermarkets, located mainly in Northern Italy. 

Duna House Group has signed an agreement for the acquisition of 70% of the Italian HGroup with future put/call options that can increase its ownership to 100%.

Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has this quarter agreed to invest in two real estate portfolios in Europe on behalf of its clients, comprising eleven residential properties in Italy and eleven office assets in Poland. The properties have a gross asset value of €500 million and a combined leasable area of 170,000 sqm.

On 2 October 2020, CEE-based investor CPI Property Group submitted a binding offer to participate in a capital increase of Nova RE SIIQ S.p.A. The offer was approved by the board of Nova RE on 7 October 2020. CPIPG will subscribe for newly issued shares of Nova RE at a price of €2.36 per share, for a total consideration of about €26 million. Following the capital increase, CPIPG will own more than 50% of Nova RE and will launch a mandatory takeover offer for the remaining shares in Nova RE at €2.36 per share. The capital increase is subject to the approval of Nova RE’s financing bank (standard change of control provision) and will be funded with cash.

Retail is changing rapidly with e-commerce having already brought on the death of several shopping centres overseas. Europe is not exempt from this phenomenon, even though the market in general strongly differs from that of the U. S. An interview with Savino Natalicchio MRICS, Director of the Retail Business Unit at Duff & Phelps Real Estate Advisory Group’s Advisory and Valuation Department in Milan, who talked about the future of retail and changing shopping centre valuation practices.