The logistic sector has undergone significant changes over the last few years. Whilst previously, the activity had been pushed out of city centres, making way for office and residential developments, the exponential rise in e-commerce has meant that demand for logistics has risen sharply and the need to bring back urban logistics structures into our cities has once again resurfaced.   Bringing back urban logistics into our cities affects the ecosystem of our metropolises. In this episode...

The world around us continues to change at a rapid pace, and the real estate sector is no exception. In this episode of Real Catch Up, Central London Investment Senior Director, Larry Young speaks to us about how opportunities in the real estate investment market have changed and the trends and opportunities available to investors.   A growing desire for sustainable investment products is changing market fundamentals as the importance of ESG (Environmental Social Governance) and...

The Covid crisis significantly changed our working lives. Whilst previously the home office took up little space within it, successive lockdowns allowed workers to see the benefit of flexible working and the ability to work from different locations.   The development of remote working has reinforced the need to change our working behaviours, giving way to a more flexible way of organising of time.   However, this organisation has now created a major challenge for companies. How to rethink...

The way in which a city is built and evolves is influenced by many different stakeholders.  More and more, investors are becoming involved in projects to revitalise metropolises from an early stage, having an influence on how real estate projects are built, in collaboration with the other actors.   In addition, investors are now expanding their investment choices and policies. They strive to diversify their portfolios, adding assets that are resilient, greener or respond to the new...

Urban life means travelling from A to B, via C, D and E. Depending on the weather, time of day or mood, people will opt for different means of getting to where they need to be. Combine this with a growing consciousness for the pollution generated by the choices that we make, and you’ll find that cities across Europe have seen an exponential rise in greener options including electric bikes, scooters and cars, fuelled in part by businesses offering these solutions to their employees....

Investing responsibly in real estate has become a growing area of interest for investors, as they align their own values with a world that is more conscious than ever before of the actions that affect our planet.   With an increasing drive for sustainable investment, its follows that buildings are more than ever able to demonstrate their ESG (Environmental Social Governance) commitments. Indeed, a growing area of focus is now for buildings that can be renovated, and as such improve their...

With more than two-thirds of the world's population due to live in cities by 2050, and faced with the potentially alarming consequences caused by global warming, the need to expand on biodiversity integration in cities is becoming crucial.  Private and public actors are as such including biodiversity in their sustainability strategies, both in terms of the design and construction of a building and also for the development policy of a city. But what exactly does biodiversity mean?   In...

The real estate sector, as a significant producer of waste, and as such the carbon footprint has in recent years been putting in place measures to reduce the use of natural resources, and in doing so favour a circular economy approach.   As Deputy Managing Director, Head of Business Development Europe, Grégoire Tripon works to change the way in which resources are consumed by occupiers in buildings and how waste is managed.  With the circular economy now establishing itself as a very...

Human nature at its core is fickle. People change, and their needs, ways of living, interacting and working constantly shift. How then can we construct buildings that bend and adapt to ever-evolving needs and changes that are not always easy to predict?   Reversibility in real estate is the ability to transform buildings in a way that doesn’t involve pulling down structures and starting from scratch. Instead, buildings can be built to shape shift over time.   Thinking of real estate...

Land scarcity and diminishing natural resources are pushing real estate developers to rethink how to build and revitalise our cities.   When it comes to emblematic and historical buildings, there is an increasing desire to preserve the past of these places, bringing them into the current time, in a way that modernises and allows for the new ways of using buildings to be accentuated.   METAL 57, demonstrator of BNP Paribas Real Estate’s know-how is an example of how an emblematic...

What will the real estate world of tomorrow look like? How will sustainability, changing relationships with buildings and green transportation effect how we live and work? Through inspiring interviews with actors from across the sector, discover what the biggest trends shaping our cities are, now and in the future.