"Savills plc, the international real estate advisory firm, is pleased to announce that its proprietary investment subsidiary, Grosvenor Hill Ventures, has acquired a minority stake in YOPA."

"Savills has teamed-up with renowned Irish gardener, Andrew Christopher Dunne to create ‘The Savills Garden – Face to Face’ at Bloom – Ireland’s largest gardening festival – which takes place in the Phoenix Park, Dublin this weekend."

"Rabo Real Estate Group has sold the building ‘De Rotterdam’ in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to a consortium of Korean Investors, led by AMUNDI Real Estate. The iconic building was designed by OMA/Rem Koolhaas. The sale comprises approximately 75,000 sq m of office space, the nhow hotel with 278 rooms and approximately 2,000 sq m of conference and event spaces, approximately 3,000 sq m of commercial units and the 5-storey car park with 670 places. This makes it the largest single asset transaction of recent times. The apartments in De Rotterdam are owned by Amvest."

"Savills has successfully closed the sale of De Rotterdam, the largest single asset deal in the Netherlands."

"During the first quarter of 2016 almost 60% of Madrid’s office take up and more than 50% of deals took place outside the M-30 ring-road. According to international real estate advisor Savills, this is due to the shortage of supply of quality office space in the urban area of Madrid, which has diverted the bulk of demand to the city’s periphery for the first time since 2009."

"A new report from Savills has revealed that take-up of industrial space in Dublin totalled over 66,000 sq.m. in Q1 2016."

"CSO figures released today show that house price inflation has not gone away. Average prices in Dublin increased by 1.6% in April and are now 4.6% higher than they were 12 months ago. "

"CSO figures released today show a pick-up in the pace of employment growth with an additional 47,000 people finding jobs in the last year."

"Following a lacklustre 2015, international real estate advisor Savills has observed that the Paris office market has shown signs of normalisation in Q1 this year, with a total take-up of 492,000m recorded. This represented a yoy increase of 19%, however take-up levels for Q1 2016 do still remain slightly below the five-year average (502,109 sq m)."

"Over €40.7 billion was invested in residential accommodation across Europe in 2015"