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DIC Asset signs leasing deal in Regensburg city centre
Frankfurt-based DIC Asset has announced that a major US fashion merchant is to move into its property in Regensburg's pedestrianised area from January 2010, replacing the current tenant H&M. The unnamed US group will occupy four floors totalling 2,530 m[sup]2[/sup] retail space. The group has over 200 branches in Europe ...
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Barclays provides financing for major transactions in British Midlands
Barclays Bank has provided a funding package of £79 mln (EUR 88.6 mln) for one of the largest regional office investment transactions to take place in the British Midlands this year. The funding enabled a syndicate of investors arranged and managed by Tritax to acquire 7, 8 and 10 Brindley ...
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Vodafone remains at Vinice office building
International telecommunications company Vodafone has decided to extend the lease for nearly 20,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of office space and related areas in its current Czech headquarters at Vinohradska Vinice after several months of intensive negotiations.
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Risk management remains top priority for Europe's property firms: survey
Most European real estate companies remain focused on risk management despite signs of cautious recovery in select European markets, according to a report entitled 'The Business Enterprise in Europe' released on Wednesday by the Urban Land Institute in conjunction with executive search company Ferguson Partners Europe.
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XXI Century seals restructuring of $60m loan
AIM-listed XXI Century Investments announced on Wednesday that it has reached agreement on the restructuring of a debt facility after months of negotiations. In the larger of the two agreements, the company which develops and invests in Ukrainian real estate, formalised the restructuring of its $60 mln (EUR 41 mln) ...
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Fabege and Peab team up to buy Råsunda football stadium
Swedish real estate firm Fabege has teamed up with construction company Peab to acquire the Råsunda football stadium in Solna, just north of Stockholm, from the Swedish Football Association.
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Countries face hurdles implementing energy efficiency directive: RICS
The goal to create an energy-efficient building stock in Europe faces practical barriers despite the recent EU agreement to transform the building sector with the adoption of ambitious energy-efficient legislation, according to the latest RICS report.
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Aviva appoints Catriona Allen to multi-manager position
Aviva Investors has appointed Catriona Allen as fund manager, Real Estate Multi-Manager. Allen joins from Blackrock Investment Management, where she was portfolio manager of the Blackrock UK Property Fund of Funds which transferred from Blackrock to Aviva Investors in late November along with the Blackrock European Property Fund of Funds.
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New global head at ING Real Estate Select
ING Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) has appointed Jan Meulenbelt as global head of ING Real Estate Select. The appointment takes effect from January 2010 subject to approval from regulatory bodies FSA and AFM. ING Real Estate Select is ING Real Estate's dedicated multi-manager business.
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Magazine
Join the club
From next year property industry associations in Asia and Europe will begin recruiting pension fund members. But why should they join? Shayla Walmsley reports
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Terms and conditions apply
There are signs that life is returning to the lending market, but banks are imposing tough lending criteria and buyers will need to be in a strong cash position to succeed. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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MagazineSurvival skills for managers
Only those investment managers that succeed in regaining investor confidence will survive into the ‘next era’, says Ted Leary
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MagazineLeading and learning
Lisette van Doorn is moving on to new challenges after four and a half action packed years. She looks back with Martin Hurst on her substantial achievements at INREV
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Maintain focus
As investor clubs have become larger their original benefits of control and adaptability no longer hold true, says Julian Schiller
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Rising East
While Asia’s debt and equity markets are becoming more active, foreign investors are still focusing on domestic opportunities, says Chris Reilly
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MagazineThe gap is closing
Recent evidence on property prices and market liquidity along with developments in the broader capital market suggest prices are firming and buyer valuations are increasing, say Jim Clayton and Michael Gately
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Focus and discipline
IPE Real Estate asked real estate fund managers and fund of funds managers for their view of the most important lessons to come out of the credit crisis and the main challenges that lie ahead. Here are their responses
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Taking stock
During the crisis leverage, liquidity and asset allocation have provided key lessons for pension funds. The main challenges include transparency, asset management and portfolio reconfiguration. Richard Lowe spoke to six pension funds about their thoughts as the end of the decade approaches.
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MagazineChange of perception
For VBV’s Günther Schiendl the economic crisis has changed the real estate landscape. No longer can it be considered to be the stable, long-term source of liquidity it once was. In addition to greater liquidity risk comes the hard lesson that the reality can be more dramatic than the worst-case ...
