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  • PropertyEU Archive

    Great Portland expands City holdings

    2010-05-20T00:00:00Z

    London-listed Great Portland Estates has expanded its holdings in the City of London business district through two transactions totalling £111 mln (EUR 128 mln).

  • PropertyEU Archive

    UBS Sima completes EUR 374m capital hike

    2010-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Swiss property fund manager UBS said it has raised CHF 530 mln (EUR 374 mln) for its flagship Sima real estate fund to finance the acquisition of new development projects. 'This constitutes a record sum raised for any existing Swiss listed real estate fund thus far,' the company said ...

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Land Securities re-opens London pipeline

    2010-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Land Securities, the largest UK REIT, has re-activated its development pipeline to cater for the impending upturn in demand for prime office space in Central London. British Land and Great Portland Estates, two other REITS, have also unveiled development projects for the UK capital.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Swedbank grants largest retail refinancing in Baltics

    2010-05-20T00:00:00Z

    CEE real estate developer Hauser-Oberschneider and its joint venture partner Satnam Europe have reached an agreement with Swedbank for a new EUR 50 mln facility for its Estonian property portfolio. It is the largest retail refinancing in the Baltic region to date.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    JP Morgan buys EUR 375m Metrovacesa loan at 40% discount

    2010-05-20T00:00:00Z

    JP Morgan has acquired a EUR 375 mln tranche of a credit facility granted to Metrovacesa by German lender Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, well-informed market sources have told PropertyEU. The loan was reportedly divested at a discount of 40-50%.

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    AXA RE selects C&W for Spanish logistics mandate

    2010-05-20T00:00:00Z

    French investment manager AXA Real Estate has mandated Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) to market a portfolio of logistics properties on behalf of its clients. The portfolio provides 60,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of space over two facilities in Constantí (43,000 m2) and Mas Blau, near Barcelona (17,000 m2).

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    KGAL buys Munich office building for EUR 33m

    2010-05-20T00:00:00Z

    German fund manager KGAL said on Thursday that it has acquired the Eisbach Offices complex in Munich-Schwabing from NB Project Development for around EUR 33 mln. The building is earmarked for KGAL's new closed-end real estate fund, Property Class Germany 12, which will be marketed to investors in the third ...

  • Magazine

    Rental rules

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    Depreciation substantially affects achieved investor returns; and the subject is more complex than you might imagine, says Malcolm Frodsham

  • Focus long term... ...focus on recovery
    Magazine

    Focus long term... ...focus on recovery

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    Correlations rise and fall but the likely pattern of recovery across Europe suggests that international diversification will continue to deliver superior long-term returns for the risk taken than a purely domestic-based strategy. Mark Callender reports

  • Role reversal
    Magazine

    Role reversal

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    Spain’s fall from grace has been even more spectacular than Poland’s rise. What does their future hold? Martin Erbe reports

  • The art of performing
    Magazine

    The art of performing

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    Financing and currency risk must be managed to protect pooled fund returns, says Cameron McVean

  • Rocky fundamentals
    Magazine

    Rocky fundamentals

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    Prospects for recovery are improving but US real estate markets are sending mixed signals to investors, according to speakers at this year’s PREA spring conference in Boston. Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports

  • Moving up the curve
    Magazine

    Moving up the curve

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    As the US property market bottoms out, Dave Esrig looks at opportunities and discusses possible investor concerns

  • Skinning the ‘Fat Cat’
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    Skinning the ‘Fat Cat’

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    The new Foreign Account Tax Compliance provisions increase the regulatory burden on foreign investment into the US. Bart Kruijssen and James Guiry report

  • Bringing it all back home
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    Bringing it all back home

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    Asian investors are looking to neighbouring markets to plug the regional gap left by overseas capital. Shayla Walmsley reports

  • Office lights shining
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    Office lights shining

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    Office markets in Singapore, Sydney and Shanghai offer particularly good prospects for investors, says Charlie Huang

  • Urban realities
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    Urban realities

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    The world’s fastest changing residential real estate markets are in Asia, as Tim Bellman and Shane Taylor report

  • Magazine

    Home comfort?

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    Will European housing markets see signs of stabilisation or is there a squeeze ahead? Monika Bukowska reports

  • Spring clean in progress
    Magazine

    Spring clean in progress

    May 2010 (Magazine)

    Excess supply of housing is working through the system as the sector begins to recover. Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports on another lively session at PREA’s spring event

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Karstadt sale looks set to be derailed

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    German-Swedish financial investor Triton will pull out of its conditional bid for insolvent German retailer Karstadt unless Germany’s largest union Verdi agrees to make some changes to the insolvency agreement, Triton spokesman Max Hohenberg told PropertyEU.