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    Premier Inn acquires hotel near London Olympic stadium

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Premier Inn has announced the acquisition of a new 267-bedroom budget hotel at Stratford, located adjacent to the Olympic Stadium in London, for £25 mln (EUR 29 mln). The hotel will also be the closest hotel to the new Stratford International station which opened in December 2009.

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    Klepierre boosts equity base

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    French property company Klepierre has boosted its shareholders' equity by nearly EUR 190 mln with the issuance of 7.6 million new shares at a price of EUR 24.69 each. The new issue represents 4.2% of its total share capital.

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    Global office market showing improvement: CBRE

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Increased demand, together with more relocation activity, is slowing rental declines in the majority of global office markets, with growth beginning to accelerate in three major markets, according to the latest Global Office Rental Cycle report from CB Richard Ellis Group. Overall, a tentative recovery of property markets is emerging, ...

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    Bouygues opens green retail park in Orange

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Bouygues Immobilier has opened its Orange les Vignes retail park in the town of Orange, around 30 km north of Avignon, in the south of France. The complex has a total surface of 32,000 m2, and features the largest photovoltaic facility in Europe, developed by Aerowatt.

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    Mirland sells Techagrocom-2 project in Moscow

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Mirland Development Corporation has entered into an agreement for the sale of Techagrocom-2 business park development in Moscow. The London-listed developer of residential and commercial property in Russia holds a 50% interest in the project located on a 22-hectare site located near Mamyri Village in the Leninsky District of Moscow.

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    Mike McCarrick joins Resolute

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Resolute Asset Management, the specialist advisory and asset management firm, has announced the appointment of Mike McCarrick as vice president Real Estate Asset Management. McCarrick will be responsible for providing technical support in the review, analysis and management of the real estate assets managed by Resolute, combined with direct responsibility ...

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    AXA Real Estate in running for Italian bank deal

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    French insurer AXA Real Estate is taking part in a consortium that is bidding for EUR 1.8 bn worth of property from Siena-based bank Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS). Under the sale-and-leaseback plan, the Italian bank would retain a 30% stake in the portfolio with the rest split ...

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    ING REIM favours retail and logistics for 2010-11

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    European retail and logistics property sectors look more appealing than most office markets over the 2010-2011 timeframe due to their proven defensive qualities -- notably the high and stable income component in investment returns -- during the economic crisis. That is one of the key conclusions of ING Real Estate ...

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    Transaction volume set to reach EUR 50b in H1

    2010-05-19T00:00:00Z

    The three largest global property advisers are forecasting a total European real estate transaction volume of between EUR 40-50 bn for the first half of the year, according to a survey conducted by PropertyEU. Cushman & Wakefield's forecast is at the top of the range at EUR 50 bn after ...

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    RICS slashes chief exec’s salary by almost 40%

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    RICS' chief executive in-waiting Sean Tompkins will be paid £255,000 a year, almost 40% less than former chief executive Louis Armstrong’s £406,000 a year, against a backdrop of salaries being frozen or slashed elsewhere.

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    British Land plans new investment on back of profit recovery

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    British Land indicated on Tuesday that it intends to become more active in the investment market after posting robust preliminary earning figures for the year to end-March. The UK REIT posted a pre-tax profit of £1.13 bn (EUR 1.3 bn) for the year, up from a £3.9 bn loss in ...

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    European investment set to exceed EUR 100b in 2010

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    European commercial real estate investment turnover is expected to reach more than EUR 100 bn in 2010, according to the latest CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) European Capital Markets report. That would mark a significant increase on the EUR 73 bn reported in 2009.

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    MIPIM 2011 launches Gateway Netherlands

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    The fair organisers of MIPIM have announced that the 2011 event will put the Dutch real estate sector in the spotlight with the introduction of Gateway Netherlands, a content, conference and networking exhibition zone dedicated to promoting the country’s property industry to the 18,000 MIPIM delegates expected in Cannes.

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    SEB acquires office complex from Caja Madrid for EUR 108m

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    SEB Asset Management has acquired an office building in a sale-and-leaseback transaction from Caja Madrid for EUR 108 mln. Caja Madrid, Spain's oldest savings bank, is renting the building back for 30 years. Housing the bank's IT centre, the six-storey building comprises total rental space of around 43,700 m[sup]2[/sup] and ...

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    C&W signals growing caution in UK secondary market

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Prime yields in the UK fell 8 basis points in April to an average of 5.79%, according to the latest capital markets business briefing on the UK from Cushman & Wakefield. This is the lowest level since May 2008, the adviser said, adding that yields are now reportedly stable in ...

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    Christie + Co to help market 5-star Hilton Hotel Valencia

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Christie + Co, the specialist property agent and adviser, has been appointed to participate in the marketing of the freehold of the 5-star, 304-bedroom Hilton Hotel Valencia in Spain's third largest city. The hotel was built in 2007 for a reported cost of EUR 110 mln, is the tallest building ...

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    London & Stamford completes Radial acquisition

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    AIM-listed London & Stamford Property announced on Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of Radial Distribution for £208.5 mln (EUR 242 mln) exclusing costs from Warner Estate Joint Ventures and Uberior Ventures. The deal was first announced last week.

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    C&W’s Yvonne Court awarded 2010 ICSC research award

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Yvonne Court, Partner and Head of Retail Research & Consultancy at Cushman & Wakefield, has been awarded the 2010 ICSC Research Award for Outstanding Service.

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    CBRE advises on EUR 17m Czech deal

    2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

    CB Richard Ellis has advised Hypo Real Invest on the acquisition of the controlling interest in the Andel City SO 16+17 office property in Prague for EUR 17.5 mln. The transaction involved the purchase of a 90% stake in the vehicle that owns the office building from a company owned ...

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    Oregon signs up to Vornado value-add club fund

    2010-05-17T17:00:00Z

    UNITED STATES – Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a $100m (€78.7m) commitment to the Vornado Capital Partners investment fund.