Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) on European private equity real estate (PERE) industry. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws upon a set of 12 semi-structured interviews with European PERE fund...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relationship between the use of public debt and investment activity of European listed real estate companies. Design/methodology/approach: Using a hand-collected sample of debt structures of 102 European public real estate companies, and using European...

This paper investigates the operation of outsourced property management delivery. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews with senior professionals responsible for property management outsourcing in Finland, Netherlands and the UK, it is found that the perceived advantages and disadvantages of...

Next to deposits, European banks have, unlike their US counterparties which heavily rely on securitization to fund mortgages, historically largely used bank obligations such as covered bonds and senior unsecured bonds. We assess the decision of 402 European banks between 2006 and 2014 to issue...