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    RREEF Germany acquires EUR 1.8 bn of property in 2010

    2011-01-17T00:00:00Z

    RREEF acquired properties worldwide totalling EUR 1.8 bn for its German real estate mutual funds and real estate special funds in 2010.

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    CBRE Hotels clinches Europe's largest single-asset hotel deal ever

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    CBRE Hotels has announced the sale of the five-star Grosvenor House Hotel, Mayfair, London for £470 mln (EUR 563 mln) to Indian conglomerate Sahara India Pariwar. The 494-bedroom, Park Lane property operated by JW Marriott represents the largest ever single asset hotel transaction by sale price in Europe, CBRE Hotels ...

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    LaSalle IM gets approval for German KAG vehicle

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    LaSalle Investment Management has received approval from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) for the formation of a capital investment company for specialist investment funds in Germany. Following the granting of the licence, the already existing LaSalle Vermögensverwaltungs will henceforth operate as LaSalle Investment Management Kapitalanlagegesellschaft (LaSalle KAG).

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    Multi's Marcel Kokkeel appointed CEO of Citycon

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Marcel Kokkeel is leaving Multi Corporation to become CEO of Nordic shopping centre investor Citycon. Kokkeel served on the executive committee of Multi, the European unlisted mall developer, and was responsible for Multi Mall Management and Western European Development.

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    Deka buys Hamburg's Metropolis-Haus for EUR 93m

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Germany's Deka Immobilien has acquired the Metropolis-Haus development project in Hamburg for EUR 93 mln, well-informed market sources told PropertyEU. The mixed-use property has been acquired from a development consortium of Hochtief Projektentwicklung, Norddeutsche Grundvermogen and Frank Beteiligungsgesellschaft.

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    Investment volume up 30% in Czech Republic in 2010

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Total investment turnover in the Czech real estate investment market reached EUR 417 mln in H2 2010 and EUR 646 mln in 2010 as a whole, according to the latest report by CB Richard Ellis.

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    JV acquires 2 hotels at Westfield Stratford City

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    A joint venture between Cycas Hotel Partners and Patron Capital is to acquire the long-term leasehold rights for two hotels at the Westfield Stratford City scheme next to the 2012 Olympic stadium in Greater London.

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    Aviva fund bags £114m of deals at year-end

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    In the last two weeks of December Aviva Investors’ Lime Property Fund completed four investment transactions totalling £114 mln EUR 136 mln), the company announced in a press release.

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    Eurocommercial shops in Spain

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Dutch retail investor Eurocommercial Properties has denied it is buying the Sant Cugat shopping centre in Barcelona, but does not rule out making acquisitions in Northern Spain 'should interesting opportunities arise there in the future'.

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    Corestate buys in Hanover

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Corestate Group, a specialist private equity real estate investor based in Zug/Switzerland, has announced the acquisition of Rund Carré in Hanover from HSBC Trinkaus Real Estate for EUR 25.5 mln. The purchase price of the recently developed office and retail asset reflects an initial yield of 7.9%. A German bank ...

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    Grosvenor fund secures £385m refinancing for Liverpool One

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    UK fund manager Grosvenor has secured a £385 mln (EUR 461 mln) refinancing for its 1.6 million sq ft (150,000 m2) Liverpool One mixed-use scheme. The refinancing agreement was signed with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Eurohypo, Dekabank and Credit Agricole banks.

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    FPF acquires Paris office portfolio for EUR 160m

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Foncière Paris France (FPF) has bought a 47,000 m[sup]2[/sup] office portfolio worth EUR 160 mln in Paris. The portfolio includes Paris Biopark, a 29,300-m[sup]2[/sup] office and laboratory scheme at 13 rue Jean Antoine Baïf, in the heart of Paris' Rive Gauche district.

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    German roundup: AXA IM, infrastructure, Fleischhauer, Hoyer & Partner

    2011-01-13T16:15:00Z

    GERMANY – Out of Germany's 156 institutional investors, Pensionskassen were the only ones to identify direct real estate holdings as more risky than indirect investments in a survey commissioned by AXA Investment Managers.

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    Thursday people roundup

    2011-01-13T15:00:00Z

    GLOBAL – Bouwfonds Real Estate Investment Management, Patrizia Immobilien, Savills, Knight Frank Investors

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    SPMS awards Aviva Investors €350m property mandate

    2011-01-13T14:45:00Z

    GLOBAL – The €5.5bn occupation pension fund for Dutch medical consultants (SPMS) has appointed UK firm Aviva Investors as manager of its unlisted property.

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    PE fundraisers 'optimistic' for 2011 after a tough 12 months

    2011-01-13T14:30:00Z

    GLOBAL – The private equity-style real estate funds sector continues to struggle to raise capital from investors, as the latest study from Preqin shows that only 89 funds reached a close in 2010, raising $35.8bn (€27.2bn) in the process.

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    Arbuthnot UK real estate team enters JV with AEW Europe

    2011-01-13T13:45:00Z

    UK – The UK real estate team of Arbuthnot Real Estate Investment Management (ArbreIM) has left the company to form a new joint venture business with AEW Europe.

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    Harrison Street expands into the REIT management business

    2011-01-13T13:00:00Z

    GLOBAL – Harrison Street Real Estate Capital has moved into the REIT management business with the acquisition of Transwestern Securities Management, the REIT subsidiary of the real estate investment firm Transwestern Investment.

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    CalSTRS enters $1bn industrial joint venture with Panattoni

    2011-01-13T13:00:00Z

    GLOBAL – The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has entered into a joint venture with the Panattoni Development Company to invest $1.15bn (€874m) in industrial and commercial real estate in the US and Canada.

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    AREA buys nine-property apartment portfolio in Texas

    2011-01-13T12:45:00Z

    GLOBAL – AREA Property Partners has acquired a multi-family portfolio in Texas totaling nine properties and 2,589 units for an undisclosed sum.