Video from REFI breakfast briefing on European real estate market in 2020.

Student accommodation, logistics properties, and the Dutch market feature high on investors’ agenda for 2020, according to panellists at REFI Europe‘s latest breakfast briefing.

Held at the Arena Berlin, Germany, the annual event hosted by think tank The Class of 2020 welcomed a record delegation of more than 800 investors, operators, government officials and institutions for the one-day conference.

Student accommodation investors with large amounts of capital are targeting “super-sized” cities with vast numbers of international students.

After its peak in 2014, confirmation comes that the global English language travel sector has entered maturity. From a destination perspective, the times of double-digit year-on-year increases are long gone and the international arena effectively constitutes a zero-sum game – destinations are growing at each other’s expense.