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Axa IM Alts has made its first investment in the Japanese care home market with a €156 million portfolio acquisition. The company has acquired a portfolio of 15 nursing homes located in Tokyo, Osaka and Aichi, three of Japan’s four largest cities, with significant aging and affluent populations. Axa IM Alts paid €156 million (¥21.9 … Continue reading Axa IM Alts makes €156m first foray into Japanese care homes →

Demographic fundamentals underpin future demand but current market conditions have brought transactions to a standstill, experts agreed at Real Asset Media’s Senior Housing & Healthcare briefing, which took place yesterday at the International Investors Lounge at EXPO Real. “Investors are not able to pay the same prices, as rising interest rates are making financing more … Continue reading EXPO Real: Interest rate hikes halt Senior housing deals →

As part of our governance research, CMS, the SHHA member, did a deep dive into auditing institutions in key European markets. In the UK there are four jurisdictions with different regimes in place to regulate and monitor the safety and quality of healthcare and social care/care home services. Although the overarching aims and objectives are … Continue reading CMS overview of the auditing institutions at the senior housing and healthcare sector in Europe →

Interview with Raoul Thomassen, Chief Operating Officer, AEDIFICA Aedifica has had an intensive time in terms of its development in several European markets, while at the same time it has stepped up its sustainability ambitions by developing a new CSR framework. Can you tell us about the context of the new strategy? We have structured … Continue reading Meeting the demographically driven demand for healthcare real estate →

Belgian healthcare property specialist Aedifica is to invest €16 million in the development of two care properties in Finland. The firm’s Finnish arm, Hoivatilat, will develop a children’s day-care centre in Espoo. Espoo Ylismäenkuja will accommodate up to 42 children and has been designed and will be developed by Hoivatilat on the ground floor of … Continue reading Aedifica tops up pipeline with Finnish healthcare projects →

Spanish senior home REIT Adriano Care, which is managed by Azora, is investing €35 million in two new nursing home assets in Santander and Sant Cugat. The Santander asset, located in the central district of Puerto Chico, has 118 beds and is leased to Orpea. The home in Sant Cugat, which has 180 beds, is … Continue reading Adriano Care buys two assets and closes on €265m target →

Germany’s healthcare real estate market saw investment transactions worth a total of approximately €1 billion take place in the first half of this year according to Cushman & Wakefield. The figure was down on the same period last year when assets worth €1.14 billion changed hands, but it was still the second strongest first half … Continue reading German healthcare investment volumes hit €1bn in H1: C&W →

Munich-headquartered Kingstone Real Estate has acquired a 70-bed nursing home in Dettenheim, Baden- Württemberg, in an off market deal with GFS Bauträger und Immobilienvermittlungs. The asset has been bought as a seed investment for open ended healthcare fund Kingstone Living & Care I, which is targeting a volume of €400 million. Kingstone launched the open-ended … Continue reading Dettenheim deal kicks off Kingstone’s €400m care fund →

The S in ESG is gaining more and more traction. Companies are discovering that having a positive impact on their workers, their community and society as a whole is not just the right thing to do, but it is also what investors want, as Juergen Fenk, CEO, Primonial REIM explains in the CEO interview in … Continue reading Fenk’s ESG focus at Primonial REIM →

Kryalos, the Italian asset manager, has signed a deal with Euryale, the French senior living and nursing home specialist, for a €300 million healthcare fund that will target new builds, pre-constructed or refurbished assets in Italy. Italy has an acute shortage of healthcare facilities and nursing homes, yet it has one of the fastest-ageing populations … Continue reading Kryalos and Euryale team up to create Italian healthcare fund →