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June 11, 2026
Defence spending to fuel Romanian real estate, Voichita Lefter, AREI
Increased defence spending across Europe could create new opportunities for Romania's real estate sector, according to Voichita Lefter, secretary general of the Association of Real Estate Investors in Romania (AREI). Speaking to Real Asset Media's Richard Betts at Mipim 2026, Lefter said Romania remained an attractive destination for international capital, with opportunities across logistics, industrial, residential and retail real estate. "Our first aim here as a country pavilion is actually to tell our story to the international arena," Lefter said. "We want international investors to approach Romania." She said the country wanted to showcase opportunities to investors and highlight the track record of both domestic and international companies already active in the market. "Retail is picking up again very well, so I think there are a lot of opportunities that need to be approached, but somebody has to know us," she said. Lefter said Romania's presence alongside government representatives gave investors an opportunity to better understand the country's regulatory environment and public-private partnership opportunities. "The Romanian state is also interested more and more in public-private partnerships, which are also a route to take, especially in the real estate industry, where a lot of infrastructure can be done together with investors," she said. Lefter said Romania still had significant untapped potential. "Romania still has opportunities. A lot of land is out there. The government is willing to discuss opportunities, is willing to take part into these new business arenas," she said. She also pointed to opportunities linked to increased European defence spending. "We have also a lot of money coming from the European defence systems right now — with wars that are happening in the region — and I think we can also build on the defence industry some new streams of revenue for the real estate industry," she said. She added that investors should consider the opportunities available in a country located on the border with Ukraine. "I think we should look with all the lenses, with all the proper lenses, to the opportunities that Romania has, being on the border of Ukraine," she said. Lefter said investors should also look beyond Romania's largest cities. "Cluj, Bucharest, Timișoara, Iași are already filled up with a lot of developments, but I think there are also other secondary cities that are building up their presence," she said. She added local partners in these cities increasingly understood the benefits that investment could bring to communities and economic development. " [They understand] what investors can bring to the community, and how the communities can benefit from this investment, and what they can do together," she said. www.realFDI.com www.realassetinsight.com
May 25, 2026
European logistics enters new growth cycle, Ingo Steves, Swiss Life AM
Swiss Life Asset Managers is positioning itself for what it sees as the beginning of a new growth cycle in European logistics, supported by rising occupier demand, strengthening rents and continued investor appetite across key markets. “We are very optimistic about the beginning of the next cycle for logistics,” Ingo Steves, managing partner, logistics, at Swiss Life Asset Managers, told Real Asset Media. “The demand for logistics space is increasing. Investors' appetite is on a very high level.” Swiss Life Asset Managers, a Switzerland-based real estate and infrastructure investment manager, is actively expanding across European logistics markets including Germany, the Netherlands and France, while also targeting opportunities in Spain, Italy and the UK. “We are very active as a developer investor for Swiss Life Asset Management,” Steves said. “We are covering now, European-wide, submarkets like Germany, like Netherlands, like France. We would like to be in Spain and in Italy. And we are looking at some sites even in the UK.” The group is increasingly prepared to pursue speculative development in stronger logistics locations as supply conditions tighten and occupier competition increases. “The better the location is we are looking at it, the more we are convinced to go speculative,” he said. Steves said landlords are regaining pricing power in several European logistics markets, with incentives falling and net operating income improving. “In strong submarkets, we see an increase of headline rents,” he said. “The effective rents are more or less equivalent to the headline rents. That means not that much incentive needs to be paid by the landlord and the developer. “It comes from occupier market to landlord market again. And the NOI grows all over the place,” he added. “That is a strong sign that occupiers need to know to secure space as soon as possible.” Swiss Life Asset Managers is targeting both large-scale distribution centres and urban logistics assets, with activity spanning major German logistics markets including Frankfurt, Bavaria and Karlsruhe. “The demand is for big box logistics as well for last mile or infill markets. We have both,” Steves said. “For example, in Frankfurt, we are in the Bavarian regions for big box developments. We are in Karlsruhe for last mile or infill markets.” He added that developer-investor platforms increasingly need to cater for multiple logistics formats as occupier requirements evolve. “As a developer-investor platform, you need to deliver both,” he said. “Smaller boxes in infill markets, last mile logistic boxes and big boxes like e-fulfilment centres.” www.realassetinsight.com
May 13, 2026
Deal trends, data sovereignty and AI: Alexandre Grellier, Drooms
Alexandre Grellier, chief executive and co-founder of Drooms, said real estate transactions are taking longer to complete as financing requirements become more demanding and investors request increasingly detailed documentation. He added that concerns around digital sovereignty are reshaping how firms deploy AI tools in Europe. Speaking to Real Asset Media’s Richard Betts, Grellier said Drooms’ research showed average deal durations had risen to around 368 days by the end of 2025, reflecting prolonged due diligence processes and tighter lending scrutiny. “We did research at the end of last year, which is interesting that the duration of the deals have been increasingly taking more time, and so we are at a high point of more than a year,” he said. He said some market participants initially viewed stabilising transaction timelines at the end of last year as a potential turning point for European real estate markets, with more deals entering preparation phases during the first quarter of 2026. However, many transactions still struggled to complete. “What we have seen since is that we had more activity, we had more deals which were in preparation, which were trying to get over the line, but this hasn’t materialised yet,” Grellier said. He linked the slowdown partly to the growing complexity of financing processes, with banks demanding significantly more information before committing capital. “Banks are requiring far more information,” he said. “What we hear from customers is that they get through multiple request rounds with regards to more information, more information, more information, so that globally deals are taking much longer.” Grellier added that data room volumes were increasing as investors and lenders requested deeper and more specialised documentation throughout the transaction process. “What I hear from the market is that the bid-ask gap is not yet closed,” he said. Alongside transaction trends, Grellier said digital sovereignty had become a major issue for European companies adopting AI technologies, particularly those handling sensitive customer data. “Digital sovereignty has become a major topic,” he said. “The question that you’re asking yourself is — where is my data going?” He said the issue extended beyond the physical location of servers and centred increasingly on ownership and control of the underlying platforms and AI models. “Digital sovereignty doesn’t just mean, where does the data lie? It’s really — who does the data belong to?” he said. “Because independently where you have your data, it’s like if the company who is holding your data is not a EU-based company, a EU-owned company, it’s pretty difficult to comply with GDPR.” Grellier said the rapid adoption of publicly available AI systems — including tools such as Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT — created additional compliance challenges because many companies lacked control over how underlying models processed and retained information. “And now if you turn it into AI, and this is where we are all really working hard on and getting really good solutions for our customers, it’s like, who is owning the models you are then using to analyse data, to analyse content?” he said. Drooms has therefore opted to run its own large language model infrastructure internally to maintain regulatory compliance and greater control over customer information. “We decided to have a large language model which is running on our servers, which is really compliant with all kinds of laws that you would need to be able to use these tools,” Grellier said. Despite growing adoption, he cautioned that AI still required careful oversight and could not yet replace human judgement in critical business decisions. “The impact of AI is undeniable,” he said. “Is AI reliable to a point where you would just base everything on AI? Definitely not. At least not yet.” He added that businesses still needed robust safeguards to minimise inaccurate or misleading outputs from AI systems. “You
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