Latest reports – Page 3058
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PropertyEU Archive
Alpha seeks to strengthen TK Maxx partnership
Cologne-based Alpha Industrial is working on enlarging its partnership with discount retailer TK Maxx through a second major distribution centre project in Continental Europe. In October Alpha handed over a 45,000-m[sup]2[/sup] distribution centre to TK Maxx in Bergheim, Germany.
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PropertyEU Archive
London's West End remains most expensive office market: CBRE
London's West End continues to be the world's most expensive office market, according to CB Richard Ellis' semi-annual Global Office Rents survey. The CBRE rankings track occupancy costs for prime office space in 175 cities around the globe. Hong Kong's Central Business District (CBD) continued in second place and also ...
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PropertyEU Archive
Reico's fund shops in Prague
The real estate investment arm of Czech bank Ceska Sporitelna has bought a mixed-use building on Prague's Wenceslas square for nearly one billion Czech koruna (EUR 41 mln). CS Real Estate Fund, which is managed by the bank's investment arm Reico, has purchased the building from an unnamed US-based private ...
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PropertyEU Archive
Nigel Roberts to leave JLL
Jones Lang LaSalle has confirmed that Nigel Roberts, director and chairman of EMEA Research, has decided to leave the firm after a career spanning nearly 30 years. Roberts intends to pursue client-side opportunities.
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Magazine
A case for individual attention
The real estate industry is currently ill equipped for the change from DB to DC and needs to begin considering structural changes to allow it to raise capital within the new regime. Simon Mallinson reports
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Magazine
Bow to the inevitable
Pension schemes shifting from DB to DC have three choices: pooled funds, bundled funds or REITs. Shayla Walmsley reports
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Magazine
The same – only different
As pensions move from DB to DC, property investment options should evolve too, to ensure a key role for the asset class in the future. Stephen Ryan examines some key issues
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MagazineUps and downs
Joint ventures are an increasingly popular investment route. But how well are they doing? Shayla Walmsley finds out
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MagazineReflect, reaffirm, refocus
Alignment, accountability and leverage are among the issues that the non-listed funds industry must address to ensure that it moves forward and attains its true potential, as Lonneke Löwik reports
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MagazineThe fair value temperature gauge
Hot, warm or cold? Government bond yields provide a meaningful benchmark against which to judge the relative pricing of property, say Tony McGough and Ben Burston
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MagazineReasons to be cheerful
Can a growing confidence in a wider economic recovery be read from the reasons funds give for termination in the most recent INREV study? Lonneke Löwik reports
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PropertyEU Archive
Helical Poland secures EUR 72m financing for Gliwice mall
Helical Bar's Polish arm has secured construction financing for Europa Centralna, its flagship retail project near Gliwice in Poland. The company was granted a loan of EUR 72 mln from Aareal Bank for the 67,000 m[sup]2[/sup] scheme which will open in late spring 2012.
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PropertyEU Archive
INREV sees increase fund support for reporting guidelines
No less than 98% of the 2009 annual reports surveyed by INREV in its third annual Review of Reporting Best Practice had adopted the majority of the INREV Reporting Guidelines. This marks a significant increase from 81% in 2008 and 72% in 2007.
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PropertyEU Archive
Pradera fund acquires three Polish malls for EUR 40m
Pradera Europe has agreed the purchase of three shopping centres in Poland from UK-listed Carpathian for a total of EUR 40.2 mln on behalf of its Pradera Open-Ended Retail Fund (POERF).
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PropertyEU Archive
Top 5 markets account for bulk of European retail deals: CBRE
European retail investment volume reached EUR 7.3 bn in the third quarter of 2010 and was heavily concentrated in only a small number of markets, according to the latest research from CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
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PropertyEU Archive
Portico buys six retail assets in Poland
CEE real estate investor and developer Portico Investments has acquired a portfolio of six retail properties in Poland from Szczecin-based Investa-Gruppe. The acquisition, which was made with 100% of equity, involves six Biedronka stores in the Polish cities of Morag, Kwidzyn, Mysliborz, Zlocieniec, Swidwin and Lidzbark. The financial details were ...
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PropertyEU Archive
Lisa Neubüser joins Invesco RE
Invesco Real Estate (IRE), the global cross-border property investment manager, has announced the appointment of Lisa Neubüser as an associate within its pan-European hotel fund management team.
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PropertyEU Archive
Tag to launch EUR 174m takeover bid for Colonia
Hamburg-based Tag Immobilien is launching a EUR 174 mln voluntary takeover offer for Cologne-based competitor Colonia Real Estate. In a statement last week, the company offered to pay EUR 5.5 for each Colonia share, representing a 30% premium on the company's average weighted market price for the past three months.
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PropertyEU Archive
AEW Europe/Tristan fund confirms logistics transaction
AEW Europe and Tristan Capital Partners have confirmed that a subsidiary of European Property Investors Special Opportunities (EPISO), an opportunistic property fund they co-advise, has sold five logistics assets located in Rugby and southwest London to London & Stamford Property Plc for £123 mln (EUR 144 mln).
