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Santander finances student housing project in London
Wood Lane Studios, a new specialist housing project for postgraduate students in London, has received a £65 mln (EUR 82 mln) development and investment funding package from Santander Corporate Banking.
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London & Stamford tables merger offer to Metric shareholders
London & Stamford has tabled an offer to acquire the shares in Metric after the two UK REITS reached a final agreement on a merger. Under the deal, Metric shareholders will receive 0.94 ordinary shares in London & Stamford for every Metric share. This will result in Metric shareholders owning ...
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Corio writes down EUR 140m on portfolio in first 9 months
Listed shopping centre owner Corio reported total devaluations of EUR 140 mln, or 2%, of its operational portfolio over the first nine months of 2012.
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Haskoll to masterplan Norway's largest retail and leisure area
Norwegian Property, one of Norway's biggest property companies, has appointed international architects Haskoll to draw up a retail design overview of Aker Brygge, the country's most important retail and leisure area which attracts over 12 million visitors a year.
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Acron enters Austria with EUR 88m mixed-use buy
Zurich-based investor Acron has entered the Austrian market through the acquisition of the multifunctional Wien Westbahnhof A3 commercial property in Vienna for EUR 88 mln. The vendor was the infrastructure arm of the country's national rail company ÖBB.
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IGD SIIQ secures EUR 18m loan
Italian listed property company Immobiliare Grande Distribuzione (IGD) SIIQ has secured an EUR 18 mln loan from Mediocredito Italiano, part of the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.
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Ecommerce fuels Turkish logistics sector
The further expansion of international retail brands and ecommerce in Turkey are helping fuel demand for logistics developments, according to Anthony Labadie, managing director for Turkey at CBRE. ‘Logistics will be a major market in the future for Turkey,’ he predicted. ‘The infrastructure was not there in the past, ...
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Heitman teams up with Grainger in EUR 230m German resi JV
Global real estate investment firm Heitman has teamed up with Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential owner, in a joint venture that will invest in a 3,000-unit German rented residential portfolio currently wholly owned by Grainger.
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Encore raises $200m for residential distress fund
NORTH AMERICA – The 'messier the project, the better', says chief operating officer.
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Australian supers opting for social infrastructure despite inexperience
AUSTRALIA – Asset class 'is maturing rather than mature', Folkestone chief executive says.
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Student housing goes global with focus on development — JLL
GLOBAL – Report shows Asian demand driving outperformance in English-speaking countries.
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Germany government moves to save open-ended real estate funds
GERMANY – Agrees to change draft for implementation of Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.
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Banks are 25% through deleveraging process: Morgan Stanley
European banks have completed 20-25% of the commercial real estate deleveraging process, a faster pace than expected, according to a new research report published by Morgan Stanley.
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Blackstone joins forces with Canadians to buy Gecina's debt
US-based Blackstone Group has teamed up with Canadian investor Ivanhoe Cambridge to buy loans backed by a 12% stake in Paris office landlord Gecina. Financial details were not disclosed.
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Highstreet puts Berlin’s KaDeWe store on sale
KaDeWe, Berlin's iconic luxury department store and the largest in Continental Europe, has been put up for sale for some EUR 500 mln, well-informed market sources confirmed to PropertyEU.
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Cultural and legal issues challenge maturing Turkish property market
Turkey’s lenient planning laws can still thwart foreign developers and investors keen to build up a position in this emerging country on the fringe of Europe, Barlas Balcioglu, partner, head of Istanbul real estate at Salans, told the PropertyEU Turkey Investment Briefing hosted on Thursday by Aberdeen Asset Management at ...
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PropertyEU Magazine November 2012
The November edition of PropertyEU Magazine features a special report on the European retail sector with rankings of the top retail investors and developers and the top cross-border retail investment deals.
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Starwood to launch IPO for European debt investment platform
Starwood Capital is planning an IPO in the fourth quarter for its European debt investment platform, Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SEREF). The vehicle will seek to raise some £300 mln (EUR 376 mln) in the initial capital raising.
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Colliers adds six to Russian retail team
Colliers International Russia has hired six new retail experts for its existing 20-strong retail team. The announcement follows hard on the heels of a series of personnel changes at the leading brokerage firms in Moscow and the loss of Colliers' team to rival Jones Lang LaSalle.
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Foreign investors advised to head for secondary cities in Turkey
International investors interested in entering the Turkish real estate market would be well advised to look at secondary cities outside the big three – Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. That was one of the key messages that emerged at the PropertyEU Investment Briefing on Turkey held on Thursday at the London ...
