Latest Europe News – Page 445
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ING REIM forecasts broad European rental recovery in 2011
EUROPE – Prime real estate rents in Europe are to see a broad-based recovery from 2011, despite doubts over the economic outlook, according to ING Real Estate Investment Management.
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UK commercial rally running out of steam, says IPD
UK – Investment Property Databank (IPD) has warned that the rally in the UK commercial real estate market is all but over, with the third quarter seeing the shallowest period of capital growth in 2010.
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Norway's Pension Fund Global Fund makes first foray into real estate
EUROPE – Norges Bank has made its first real estate investment for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, acquiring a 25% stake in The Crown Estate's Regent Street portfolio in London.
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Irish commercial real estate continues to slide, IPD says
IRELAND – The commercial real estate market in Ireland continued to see declines in capital values in the third quarter, meaning the market has been falling for more than three years, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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CPPIB, LaSalle join forces on German shopping centre
GLOBAL – DEGI Europa, the open-ended real estate fund in the process of liquidating its assets, has sold a shopping centre in Germany for €157.3m to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and LaSalle Investment Management.
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Goodman, Europa Capital to develop UK logistics
UK – Goodman and Europa Capital have entered into a joint venture to acquire land sites in the UK for the development of distribution and logistics properties.
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APG joins group aiming to take over ING's €850m industrial portfolio
GLOBAL – Algemene Pensioen Groep (APG) is one of a number major global investors – also believed to include Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and China Investment Corporation (CIC) – seeking to acquire a A$1.2bn (€846m) industrial portfolio from ING Real Estate Investment Management.
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Lack of European prime stock slows global transactional recovery
GLOBAL – The recovery in global real estate transactions has levelled off, driven by a constrained availability of prime properties in Europe, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
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Helical Bar, Thameling join central European development drive
EUROPE – Helical Bar and Thameling Group have joined forces to develop pre-let warehouse and distribution properties in central Europe.
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Investors back Sveafastigheter Nordic opportunity fund
SWEDEN – Sveafastigheter, the Stockholm-based private equity real estate fund manager, has made a second closing on its new Nordic opportunistic fund.
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OMERS, British Land team up to develop London's Cheesegrater
UK – Oxford Properties, the real estate division of Canadian pension fund OMERS, has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with British Land to develop the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, otherwise known as the Cheesegrater.
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Pacific Star Europe closes, Stürmer moves to Capital Dynamics
EUROPE – Pacific Star Europe, the start-up global fund of funds manager co-founded by the former head of real estate at E.ON Energie pension fund Matthias Stürmer, is to be dissolved.
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Real estate markets failing to recover in Italy, Japan
GLOBAL – The Italian commercial real estate market has continued its gradual decline in capital values in the first half of 2010, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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Former WP Carey colleagues launch global sale-and-leaseback venture
GLOBAL – Gordon DuGan and three other former W P Carey executives have launched a new investment company that will specialise in sale-and-leaseback real estate deals.
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Unilever Progress selects core Aberdeen product as it moves into funds
NETHERLANDS – Progress, the Dutch Unilever pension fund, has committed €35m to a core pan-European real estate fund managed by Aberdeen Property Investors.
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Pramerica targets Polish warehouse developments with Panattoni
EUROPE – Pramerica Real Estate Investors has entered into a joint venture with Panattoni Europe to develop a portfolio of as much as €100m of logistics warehouses in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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BP Pension Fund's Cubemaker joint venture buys ITV assets
UK – Cubemaker Partnership, the joint venture between the BP Pension Fund and Cube Real Estate, has acquired three commercial real estate assets from television company ITV for £11.3m (€12.9m).
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Rockspring enters student housing through counter-cyclical strategy
UK – Rockspring Property Investment Managers has entered the student accommodation market for the first time with the acquisition of 123 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, in a joint venture with Mansion Group.
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Capital flows to US real estate set to double, says DTZ
GLOBAL – Global investment capital targeting US real estate is set to double in 2011 as the outlook for the market completes a dramatic improvement over the past 12 months, according to DTZ.
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Poland back on the agenda for Germany's NAEV
EUROPE – German pension fund Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung (NAEV) is considering returning to the Polish real estate market after having divested and taken profits from the region in recent years.
