Latest reports – Page 3028
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Germany more attractive than UK, capital raising improves – INREV
Country overtakes UK as the preferred location for investment in non-listed real estate.
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Rockspring sets up Amsterdam base, targets Dutch retail
Appoints Laurien Van Wieringen to head up first operation in the Netherlands.
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JP Morgan launches opportunistic real estate firm
Builds business in the US and hires Investcorp's John Fraser to head the enterprise.
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Specialist funds outperform UK market in 2010 – IPD
Returned 18.8% in 2010, outperforming rest of the market by 400 basis points.
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British Land jv restarts construction of 'Cheesegrater'
British Land and Oxford Properties have recommenced construction of The Leadenhall Building, dubbed the Cheesegrater, in London's Square Mile. Contractors are back on site and pressing ahead with the laying of structural support for the 56,000-m[sup]2[/sup] building.
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Italy's Fimit closes merger with First Atlantic RE
Italian fund managers Fondi Immobiliari Italiani (Fimit) and First Atlantic Real Estate have reached an agreement for the merger of their real estate fund management businesses, creating a market leader in Italy with over EUR 8 bn of assets and 19 funds under management.
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Alstria acquires two properties in Hamburg for EUR 20m
Alstria Office-REIT has agreed to acquire two office buildings in inner city locations in Hamburg for a total transaction cost of around EUR 20 mln in an off-market transaction. The Hamburg-based investment company said that the properties offer significant value creation potential, as the vacancy rate of 24% provides ...
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Niam completes first close of 5th Nordic fund
Swedish private equity firm Niam has completed the first closing of its fifth opportunistic real estate fund Niam Nordic V, having raised EUR 125 mln of capital from mainly North American and European institutional investors. Niam Nordic V has a target fund size of EUR 600 mln, providing a total ...
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Modest rental growth in Europe's office markets: JLL
Modest growth persisted throughout quarter four (Q4) 2010 in Europe’s office markets with Jones Lang LaSalle's Office Rental Index rising 0.8% over the quarter and by 5.4% over the year. Jones Lang LaSalle’s European Office Clock also highlighted an increase in occupier activity over the quarter with take-up increasing 20% ...
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RICS receives EU grant for energy efficiency project
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has received a European Commission grant of EUR 260,000 to launch Trainrebuild, a two-year project which will advise residential property owners across Europe on how to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings.
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Edward Bates leaves as co-head of Doughty Hanson Real Estate
Edward Bates has left European private equity company Doughty Hanson after three years as co-head of Real Estate. Based in Paris and London, Bates had joined the company in 2007 to replace John Howard and lead its growth in continental Europe, supporting fellow co-head Julian Gabriel who is based in ...
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Wallenstam acquires 7 properties for EUR 135m in Goteborg
Swedish real estate company Wallenstam has announced the acquisition of a portfolio of seven properties in central Göteborg, Sweden's second-largest city, for SEK 1.2 bn (EUR 135 mln). The seller is northern European private equity firm Niam.
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Prologis and AMB in merger talks
Prologis, the New York-listed global industrial real estate specialist, and its US listed rival AMB Property Corporation have confirmed that they are in talks about a potential 'merger of equals'. Such a tie-up would create a globally active real estate investment trust with a combined market capitalisation of about EUR ...
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Beos plans EUR 350m worth of German acquisitions in 2011
Germany's Boes has unveiled plans to invest up to EUR 350 mln in commercial real estate this year after the launch in 2010 of its first spezialfonds with a spending capacity of EUR 400 mln.
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Mipim announces 21 award finalists
MIPIM has announced the names of the 21 finalists for the 2011 MIPIM Awards selected by a jury of international real estate professionals. The organisers of the international real estate fair in Cannes, France also the introduction of a new award category.
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GOEFs limitations now official, says EPRA
The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) has responded to the announcement of new restrictions imposed on German open-ended real estate funds (GOEF) by repeating its call for the expansion of the German listed property sector.
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CSC shareholders back EUR 1.8b Trafford Centre deal
London-listed Capital Shopping Centres has received overwhelming backing from its shareholders for its plan to acquire the Trafford Centre in Manchester in one of the largest single-asset deals in the UK. The deal is valued at £1.6 bn (EUR 1.8 bn).
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LaSalle, Curtis JV to acquire London industrial site
LaSalle Investment Management and Curtis Real Estate (CRE) have partnered to acquire a prime industrial site on White Hart Lane, Tottenham. The proposed scheme is believed to be one of the first major developments of industrial space in Greater London for several years.
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Rockspring buys Dutch mall for EUR 44m
Rockspring Property Investment Managers has bought a 40,000-m[sup]2[/sup] shopping centre located in the Dutch city of Den Bosch for over EUR 44 mln. The deal comes shortly after the opening by Rockspring of an office in the country to focus on asset management and sourcing acquisitions. The vendor was Unibail-Rodamco.
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BNP Paribas REIM buys and sells for EUR 562m in 2010
BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management said that it has completed over EUR 562 mln worth of transactions in 2010 on behalf of its funds. The figure represents a 45% increase on the total transactional volume reported in 2009.
