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    Union Investment buys Lisbon tower

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Union Investment has acquired the Torre Oriente in Lisbon for approximately EUR 70 mln from the consortium owner of the Colombo Towers project. The consortium comprises Caixa Geral de Depósitos Group, Iberdrola Inmobiliária, ING Real Estate and Sonae Sierra.

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    Intesa Sanpaolo buys 5% stake in Pirelli Real Estate

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Pirelli Real Estate has sold a further 5% stake in its property fund management business Pirelli & C. Real Estate Società di Gestione del Risparmio (SGR) to Intesa Sao Paolo for EUR 10 mln. The move will boost the bank's stake in Pirelli RE SGR to 10%.

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    Whitbread agrees EUR 40m sale-and-leaseback deal

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Whitbread, the UK's largest hotel and restaurant group, has announced that it has exchanged agreements with M&G Investments for the sale-and-leaseback divestment of five properties operating as Premier Inn and adjacent restaurants.

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    Fortis RE acquires Spanish car park firm for EUR 100m

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Interparking Group, a 90%-owned subsidiary of Fortis Real Estate, has acquired Spanish car park company Metropark from the Metrovacesa Group.

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    British Land Acquires Segro's 50% interest in retail projects

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    British Land has acquired Segro's 50% interest in a joint venture with Tesco in the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre in Rotherhithe, South East London and the Clifton Moor Retail Park in York. This is the fifth joint venture British Land has with Tesco.

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    Intershop sells Winterthur-Seen mall for EUR 37m

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Swiss listed real estate group Intershop has transferred ownership of its Winterthur-Seen shopping centre to Swiss investment and pension group Swisscanto on 31 December. The sale of Intershop's last classic shopping centre for CHF 55.5 mln (EUR 37 mln) was announced in mid-December.

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    HSBC sells Paris HQ for EUR 400m

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    HSBC France has sold its head office buildings on the Champs-Elysées and Rue Vernet in Paris in a EUR 400 mln sale-and-leaseback transaction with private investors represented by French Properties Management.

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    IVG's Development boss steps down

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Andreas Barth, head of the development division and a board member at IVG Immobilien, has stepped down from his position at the German company. He will remain available, however, in an advisory role until the end of 2010.

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    CEE investment continues slow increase: CBRE

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Commercial property investment activity in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) continued to increase slowly in October and November 2009, totalling a provisional EUR 432 million in 11 transactions, according to the December edition of CB Richard Ellis' CEE Property Investment MarketView. Year-to-date investment turnover for the region stands at just ...

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    LB Immo acquires apartments and nursing homes for EUR 30m

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    LB Immo Invest, the special funds subsidiary of HSH Real Estate, invested just over EUR 30 mln in early December to acquire two nursing homes and three apartment buildings in Germany.

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    SEB buys retail centre in Munster

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    SEB Asset Management has acquired a newly-built retail centre with hotel in the centre of Münster from Dortmund-based developer Harpen Immobilien Gesellschaft. The overall investment costs amount to about EUR 68 mln.

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    Bouygues Immobilier sells Delta Project in Belgium

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Bouygues Immobilier Belgium is selling the Delta Project property to a private Belgian investor. When completed the office building will comprise a total surface area of 5,200 m[sup]2[/sup] and 42 parking spaces on Avenue Jules Cockx in 1160 Brussels.

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    Hansainvest buys office building in Paris

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    German fund manager Hansainvest announced shortly before Christmas that it has acquired an office building in Paris for EUR 106 mln from GE Capital Real Estate France. The 12,380-m[sup]2[/sup] property is located at Place des Vins de France in the Bercy district of the French capital.

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    Sofia sees deal boom ahead of new law

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    The Bulgarian capital of Sofia saw the number of real estate deals in Sofia double in the final weeks of the year ahead of the introduction of a new law which takes effect from January 1 2010 and which will ban all real estate payments made in cash, Bulgarian-language Trud ...

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    CBRE sees investments hitting EUR 60b in 2009

    2010-01-03T00:00:00Z

    CB Richard Ellis expects investment activity in the European commercial real estate market to total some EUR 60 bn in 2009, around half of 2008’s total. In the first three quarters of 2009, the adviser registered around EUR 41 bn of investment deals with a steady increase in activity each ...

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    Colonia demands wind-up of fund with HSH Nordbank

    2009-12-24T00:00:00Z

    Germany's Colonia Real Estate has said it sees no basis for a continued working relationship with HSH Equity Partner due to the continuing negative news coverage of the HSH-Nordbank Group and the resulting severe impact on sales. This relates particularly to the closed-end real estate fund HGA/Colonia CareConcept I.

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    New mixed-use development launched in Wroclaw

    2009-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Centrum Metropol, a new mixed-use project located in the heart of the Polish city of Wroclaw, was officially launched in mid-December. The development will consist of a mid-scale business hotel under the Hilton Garden Inn brand together with modern office, retail and convenient residential facilities. McCarthy-Harte is the investor and ...

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    Invista Trust sells Portman House stake

    2009-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Invista Foundation Property Trust Limited has exchanged unconditional contracts to sell its 21.6% share in the joint venture that owns Portman Square House, London W1 for £23.11 mln. The deal is part of the disposal of the entire long leasehold property interest. Completion of the transaction is expected on 31 ...

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    Capman acquires city-centre property in Helsinki

    2009-12-23T00:00:00Z

    The Capman Hotels RE fund has signed an agreement to acquire the Vanhajämerä real estate company with a property located in central Helsinki from Helsinki-listed property company Sponda.

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    Unite sells student housing assets to fund for EUR 107m

    2009-12-23T00:00:00Z

    The Unite Group, a leading developer and manager of student accommodation in the UK, has sold a portfolio of five assets to the Unite UK Student Accommodation Fund for £95.4 mln (EUR 107 mln). The transaction followed the successful completion of the £167 mln capital raising, inclusive of Unite’s co-investment, ...