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    Strathclyde to increase focus on RI in property review

    2010-03-22T12:24:00Z

    UK – Strathclyde Pension Fund's current review of its property portfolio will include 'further consideration' of the application of its responsible investment (RI) strategy.

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    Natixis buys two German malls for over EUR 100m

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Natixis Capital Partners has purchased two shopping centres in Flensburg and Saarbrücken from German retail giant Metro. The transaction was concluded on a sale-and-leaseback basis with Natixis' Captiva Capital Partners III ELP fund. The transaction price is said to be in the low three-digit million range. Helaba will provide financing ...

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    Schroders acquires Swiss shopping centre

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Schroder Property has announced the purchase of the Via XXV Aprile4 shopping mall in Winterthur, Switzerland on behalf of its EUR 800 mln listed property fund Schroders ImmoPlus. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

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    Colonial outlines new strategy

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Spain's Inmobiliaria Colonial has announced plans to focus on its rental income portfolio after completing its debt restructuring process later this year. The Madrid-listed company, which reached an agreement to restructure EUR 4.9 bn of debt in February, said it intends to proceed with its plan to hive off its ...

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    Hatfield Philips introduces quarterly investor meetings

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Hatfield Philips International has introduced quarterly investor meetings to supplement the official reporting rounds that only occur once a quarter around interest payment dates,.

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    Corio acquires Sardinian mall for EUR 103m in second deal in Italy

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    European retail property specialist Corio has acquired Le Vele shopping gallery and Millennium Entertainment centre in Cagliari on Sardinia for EUR 103.3 mln. The investment volume reflects a net yield of 7%.

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    Metrovacesa mulls capital increase

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Spanish property firm Metrovacesa has said it is considering a capital increase as part of a debt refinancing agreement being negotiated with its creditor banks. 'The company confirms it is in talks with its creditor banks about various options, one of which is a possible capital hike,' the Madrid-based company ...

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    BNP Paribas REIM launches EUR 500m OPCI fund

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management is creating a new OPCI investment vehicle, SPF1, which will seek to invest around EUR 500 mln in the French retail property sector over the next three years. The vehicle has already completed its first acquisition with the purchase last month of a EUR ...

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    Invesco launches 4th US property fund in Europe

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Invesco Real Estate (IRE) has announced the first closing of its US IV fund, the fourth in a series of tactical funds investing European institutional capital into the US real estate markets.

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    Morgan Stanley raises EUR 275m for 'Phoenix' fund-of-funds

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Morgan Stanley announced on Monday that its Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) division raised $370 mln (EUR 275 mln) in commitments for a fund dedicated to acquiring secondary interests in opportunistic and value-added private equity real estate funds.

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    BayernLB provides EUR 40m loan for new E.ON office

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    German regional bank BayernLB said it is providing a loan of around EUR 40 mln to finance the construction of a new office building for energy company E.ON in Regensburg. The funding will be issued to a closed-end fund managed by Real I.S., a subsidiary of BayernLB, which will undertake ...

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    Law firm leases space at Alte Post in Hamburg

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Alstria Office REIT and Quantum Immobilien announced on Friday that international law firm Graf von Westphalen is leasing 3,500 m[sup]2[/sup] at Alte Post in Hamburg.

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    Beni Stabili to convert to REIT status by end-2010

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    French property group Foncière des Régions plans to reduce its 68% stake in Beni Stabili to just 52% this year, allowing its Italian property arm to convert to the tax-efficient SIIQ status by the end of 2010, Christophe Kullmann, Chief Executive of Fonciere des Regions, told PropertyEU in an interview.

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    Savills names new head of office agency in Germany

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Robert Kellershohn has been appointed head of office agency for Savills Germany with immediate effect. Based in Savills' Dusseldorf office, Kellershohn has been responsible for the office letting activities of Savills in Dusseldorf and the Ruhr area since May 2008. In his new role as head of office agency, he ...

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    Helaba-led syndicate provides EUR 250m financing for Munich deal

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    German lender Helaba has announced it is acting as syndicate leader in the provision of EUR 250 mln financing for the purchase of a Munich business park.

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    Sonae Sierra sees losses narrow to EUR 160 mln in 2009

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    Portuguese developer Sonae Sierra booked a net consolidated loss of EUR 159.9 mln in 2009 compared with a negative consolidated result of EUR 185.5 mln a year ago. The company attributed the losses to further writedowns of its assets. However, it added that the pace of devaluation started to slow ...

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    AEW, HSBC vie with Amundi for Genepierre's management mandate

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    AEW Europe and HSBC REIM are vying with Amundi Immobilier, the new EUR 5.2 bn investment management firm created from the merger of CAAM RE and Societe Generale AM, to receive the management mandate for the SCPI investment vehicle, Genepierre. Genepierre has so far been managed by Societe Generale and ...

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    Eurohypo sees new business growing in 2010

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    German financier Eurohypo expects new business to grow further in 2010, board chairman Frank Pörschke told PropertyEU in an interview at Mipim last week. 'I expect we will see a higher single-digit billion-euro figure representing new business this year.'

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    Brussels scoops four Mipim Awards

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    The Marco Polo Tower in Hamburg, Germany is the winner of this year's Mipim Awards for residential developments. Designed by Behnisch Architekten, the tower was developed by DC Residential & Co. and Hochtief Projektentwicklung. The winner In the category hotels & tourism resorts was Kameha Grand Bonn in Bonn, developed ...

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    Schroders re-opens Nordic fund for new investments

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    UK asset manager Schroders has re-opened its Nordic property fund for new investments in efforts to take advantage from advantageous conditions across the Scandinavian property markets. Ubbe Strihagen, director of Schroders' business in Scandinavia, told PropertyEU in an interview that the re-opening follows requests by existing German investors to increase ...