Latest reports – Page 2834
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PropertyEU Archive
RICS revises best practices for due diligence to reduce investor risk
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has released a new best practice and guidance note for technical due diligence aimed at increasing transparency and reducing investor risk.
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PropertyEU Archive
Deka offloads retail building in Vienna, buys in Nuremberg
Deka Immobilien has sold a retail property on Vienna's main shopping street to Warburg-Henderson KAG's Austian Fund II. The financial details were not disclosed.
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PropertyEU Archive
Union raises EUR 1b for new institutional funds
Union Investment has obtained binding capital commitments from institutional investors totalling some EUR 1 bn for new, diversified real estate funds in the past six months.
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Henderson raises further EUR 90m for German retail fund
UK asset manager Henderson Global Investors has raised EUR 90 mln following the second closing of its Henderson German Retail Income Fund (HGRIF).
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Sweden's Cityhold clinches first London deal
Cityhold Property group, the European property joint venture of the First and Second Swedish National Pension Funds, has acquired an office building in Paddington, London, for £230 mln (EUR 278.3 mln) from a joint venture between Aviva Investors and Union Investment Real Estate. The transaction reflects a net initial yield ...
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PropertyEU Archive
Union forward funds Boulogne spec office project
Union Investment Real Estate has returned to the French office property market for the first time in over two years with the EUR 128 mln acquisition of a speculative project in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris.
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PropertyEU Archive
MetLife provides new £85m loan to West End office fund
Schroder Property's Welput fund has secured a new £85 mln (EUR 102 mln) credit facility from US insurance company Metlife. The West End of London Property Unit Trust (Welput), which is managed by Schroder and advised by Grafton Advisors, was granted a six-year loan with a fixed rate of 3.64% ...
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Austria's CA Immo delivers EUR 450m Frankfurt tower
Austrian listed property firm CA Immo has delivered its landmark office tower in Frankfurt's Europaviertel district. In a statement this week, the Vienna-based group said Tower 185 was completed 'on time and within budget', representing an investment of some EUR 450 mln.
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PropertyEU Archive
UBS bids for full control of French REIT Docks Lyonnais
The wealth management division of Swiss bank UBS has launched a takeover offer for the 6% stake in French REIT Les Docks Lyonnais that it does not already own.
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PropertyEU Archive
Malaysian fund closes in on Kanam assets in London
A Malaysian government vehicle is poised to acquire three office assets in London from German open-ended fund manager Kanam for about £750 mln (EUR 895 mln).
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Wednesday people roundup
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, First Capital, USAA, Cityhold, Grosvenor, Patrizia, Savills
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UK Treasury should use PFIs 'only if best value for money'
Treasury select committee says government waffling aims to disguise 'true nature' of PFI funding.
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German roundup: Union, Patrizia, Henderson, FoFs
Union to use themed funds, asset pooling to attract more institutional real estate business.
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'Stalled' Irish real estate market set to recover in 2012, says CBRE
End of uncertainty over upward-only lease bans will aid recovery, but only for prime assets.
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Dutch pension fund BpfBOUW makes first foray into Australian real estate
Investment in trio of core funds part of scheme's strategy to diversify property portfolio.
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PropertyEU Archive
Tour Eiffel leases 11,000 m[sup]2[/sup] in Vélizy tower
French REIT Société de la Tour Eiffel has completed the leasing of its latest development project - the Topaz tower in Vélizy, near Paris.
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PropertyEU Archive
Plaza sells 47 US malls to Blackstone JV
Retail property developer Plaza Centers is selling 47 of its 49 shopping malls in the US for US$1.42 bn (EUR 1.12 bn). The buyer is BRE DDR Retail Holdings, a joint venture between a real estate fund managed by US private equity giant Blackstone and Ohio-based shopping centre group DDR ...
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CEE property investment tops EUR 6b in 2011
Real estate investment activity in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania more than doubled in 2011 to EUR 6.1 bn from EUR 2.9 bn the previous year, according to global property adviser Cushman & Wakefield.
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JLL sees 2012 deal volume matching 2011
International property adviser Jones Lang LaSalle expects global investment into commercial real estate in 2012 will match last year's volume which totalled US$400 bn (EUR 315 bn).
