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Icade Sante considering H2 for IPO attempt part deux

At the end of last year, healthcare specialist REIT Icade Santé looked to fall victim to capital markets' apathy for European healthcare services, postponing its IPO. Could it be looking to try again in H2 2022 - or is it too soon to try?

Interview: Dagmar Dvorakova, CEO and Prof. Dr. Roland Staudinger, managing director, Aquilia Health Group

Smart reha, medical malls, how to best deploy new medtech, Fresenius Vamed veterans both, Dagmar and Roland are full of ideas on how to best build and run health care service models from acute hospitals to rehab and outpatient. Two and a half years ago they quit the mothership to set up Aquila which now employs 45 and runs projects in China, SE Asia, Austria, Germany and the Czech Rep.

What is behind Korian property deals?

Care group giant Korian has signed a second property deal with another big institutional investor, in this case, BAE Systems Pension Funds. This partnership leaves Korian in control of its property whilst giving the investor protection from the volatility of the stock market and guarantees on minimum returns.

Labs could be next on property block

Life science properties that incorporate some laboratories in one form or another could be the next property boom says Piers Scrimshaw-Wright, who has just joined Knight Frank as Life Science and Innovation partner. So has anything been sold in Europe so far?

French municipalities seek to privatise care homes

Municipality-owned French care homes are in crisis. Tired, old buildings, with low tariffs and now, following Covid, far lower occupancy rates are leading many to consider the unthinkable: privatisation.

Icade Sante adds first not-for-profit asset

Non-profits continue to open up to sale-and-leasebacks after Icade Sante bought its first property from the sector. HBI explores where else the big REITs have diversified away from for-profits. 

Investing in Health Care Property

Property investors have fled to health care over the pandemic and are now exploring opportunities far beyond “safe” North American and West European markets. How large are these opportunities and how far are West European countries developing into mature, secondary markets? Where, and how, is the immense public sector opening up to deals with investors? […]

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