Europe’s construction & real estate industry saw a drop of 35.48% in cross border deal activity during July 2022, when compared with the last 12-month average, led by Spirax-Sarco Engineering’s $272.84m acquisition of Vulcanic, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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A total of 20 construction & real estate industry cross border deals worth $312.7m were announced for the region in July 2022, against the 12-month average of 31 deals.
Of all the deal types, M&A saw most activity in July 2022 with 16 transactions, representing an 80% share for the region.
In second place was venture financing with three deals, followed by private equity deals with one transactions, respectively capturing a 15% and 5% share of the overall cross border deal activity for the month.

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By GlobalDataIn terms of value of cross border deals, M&A was the leading category in Europe’s construction & real estate industry with $278.95m, followed by venture financing deals totalled $33.71m.
Europe construction & real estate industry cross border deals in July 2022: Top deals
The top five construction & real estate cross border deals accounted for 100% of the overall value during July 2022.
The combined value of the top five construction & real estate cross border deals stood at $312.66m, against the overall value of $312.7m recorded for the month.
The top five construction & real estate industry cross border deals of July 2022 tracked by GlobalData were:
1) Spirax-Sarco Engineering $272.84m acquisition deal with Vulcanic
2) The $25.45m venture financing of 011h by A/O Proptech,AldeA Ventures,Breega Capital,Foundamental,Giuseppe Zocco,Redalpine Venture Partners and Seaya Andromeda
3) Ertan Wittwer,Migros Digital Solutions and Serpentine Ventures $6.26m venture financing deal with Properti
4) The $6.11m acquisition of RKC Construction by Fasadgruppen Sverige
5) Genesis Ventures,Lars Rasmussen,Neogen Capital and SeedBlink $2.01m venture financing deal with Protio