Barcelona’s office sector could be hit if Catalonia’s push for secession continues.

The current influx of overseas capital targeting German real estate assets will continue in 2018, fueled in part by demand from Japanese investors, according to a panel at EXPO Real.

Germany surpassed the UK as Europe’s most active market for investment in commercial real estate in the first half of 2017, according to a report by property services firm Colliers International.

HB Reavis has raised PLN 220 million (€51.9 million; $60.3 million) from the issue of a new tranche of its PLN 500 million Polish bond programme.

German real estate lender pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a €64 million refinancing of a Polish shopping centre bought by London-based property investor Resolution Real Estate Advisers.

Blackstone’s €12.25bn sale of Logicor to CIC could be the latest example of IPOs being used to drum up business for a sale. By Jamie Henderson.

Helaba, the German Pfandbrief bank, has hired Christian Schmid from Aareal Bank to take over from Jurgen Fenk as its board member for real estate.

Brookfield Property Partners has put part of its logistics platform IDI Gazeley up for sale, alongside efforts to refinance the business.

Kildare Partners, the London-based private equity real estate firm, has closed its second Europe-focused opportunistic property fund after raising $1.95 billion.

German bank pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided an investment facility of SEK 985 million (€101 million) to Bråviken Logistik, the Stockholm-based logistics investor.