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    Songbird acquires Commerzbank stake in Canary Wharf for EUR 125m

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    AIM-listed Songbird Estates is purchasing 54 million shares in Canary Wharf from Germany's Commerzbank for £112.5 mln (EUR 125 mln). The transaction increases Songbird's interest in the 650,000 m[sup]2[/sup] London office estate from 60.8% to 69.3%.

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    Blackstone takes 50% in British Land's Broadgate estate

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Private equity giant Blackstone is acquiring a 50% stake in British Land's Broadgate holdings. In return Blackstone is assuming £987 mln (EUR 1 bn) of debt on the City of London office estate and a cash payment of £77 mln (EUR 85 mln).

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    Multi's Les Arcades Rouge to open in November

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Multi Development has announced that New Yorker and Le Grand Récré have signed leases in Les Arcades Rougé, the new 20,000 m[sup]2[/sup] project to be opened in Cholet, France on 5 November.

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    Unite seeks to raise EUR 87m for acquisitions

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Unite Group, the UK student accommodation firm, has announced plans for a share issue to raise £77.8 mln (EUR 87 mln) net of expenses 'to take advantage of compelling acquisition opportunities in London'. The fundraising will involve the issue of 32.8 million shares through a firm placing and placing and ...

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    Redevco opens Gordion Shopping Centre in Ankara

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Retail property specialist Redevco opened the 50,000 m[sup]2[/sup] Gordion Shopping Centre in Ankara on Thursday. Gordion is Redevco's first completed project in Turkey, the firm's first green shopping centre and the first BREEAM-certified building in the Turkish capital.

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    PEPR obtains amendment to EUR 900m credit facility

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Prologis European Properties (PEPR) announced on Thursday that it has obtained an amendment to its EUR 900 mln senior unsecured credit facility.

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    Axa REIM appoints new global CIO

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    European real estate manager Axa Real Estate Investment Managers (Axa REIM) has announced the appointment of Dennis G. Lopez as Global Chief Investment Officer. Heading up all Axa Reim Fund Management activities, Lopez will be responsible for the quality and consistency of investment services as well as the performances delivered ...

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    Lloyd Fonds acquires Dutch office building for EUR 32m

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Lloyd Fonds has acquired an office building in the Dutch city of Eindhoven for EUR 32 mln. The property was purchased in a sale-and-leaseback transaction from UVIT, one of the largest health insurance providers in the Netherlands. UVIT has a 15-year lease.

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    Colonia wins workout mandate for Level One portfolio

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    A subsidiary of German real estate group Colonia has been awarded the contract to manage the commercial property portfolio amassed by the insolvent firm Level One.

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    NCC sells land and housing contract in Finland for EUR 58m

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    NCC Housing in Finland has signed an agreement with Icecapital Housing Fund II for the sale of land and an accompanying housing contract for SEK 590 mln (EUR 58 mln). Apartment buildings, with a total of 330 apartments, are to be constructed on the land plots in Helsinki, Vantaa, ...

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    Nanette to delist from AIM market

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Nanette, the Central & Eastern European residential developer, announced on Thursday that a special resolution to delist the company from the AIM market in London was passed at the company's EGM on 16 September.

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    Züblin rotates independent appraisers, sells properties in Germany

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Züblin Immobilien Holding announced that its board has approved the rotation of the group's independent property appraisers.

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    Mirax restructures $250m of debt with Alfa Bank

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Russia's Mirax Group has reached agreement with Alfa Bank to restructure $250 mln (EUR 170 mln) of debt. The repayment of the loan will be postponed by up to 18 months, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday. The Russian lender is also considering providing new funding to enable ...

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    Orco unveils debt restructuring plan

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Troubled Central European property developer Orco is offering its bondholders a debt-for-equity swap as part of its restructuring plan. The company, which was granted protection from its creditors by a Paris court last March, is proposing that the creditors exchange their bonds worth EUR 411 mln for a mix of ...

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    Black Sea launches takeover bid for Deutsche Land

    2009-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Romania-based investor Black Sea Global Properties (BSGP) has launched a £40 mln (EUR 45 mln) offer to buy Deutsche Land, the London-listed German property investor. BSGP, which last week raised its stake in Deutsche Land to 32.1%, is now offering 12 pence in cash per share to buy the remaining ...

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    Sewell appointed to board of NewRiver Capital

    2009-09-16T00:00:00Z

    NewRiver Retail, the newly formed specialist commercial property investment and asset management company, has announced the appointment of Nick Sewell to the board of NewRiver Capital.

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    Goodman plans new warehouse in Andover

    2009-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Global property company Goodman and UK-based Co-operative Group have announced plans to develop a new regional distribution warehouse (RDC), which will create over 900 new jobs at Goodman’s Andover Airfield site in Hampshire.

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    Plaza Centers buys 55,000 m[sup]2[/sup] site in Poland

    2009-09-16T00:00:00Z

    CEE property firm Plaza Centers has acquired a 55,000 m[sup]2[/sup] site in Lodz, Poland for the development of a new 45,000 m[sup]2[/sup] shopping and entertainment centre. This is Plaza's second acquisition in Lodz and the firm's 14th project in Poland.

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    RREEF snaps up UK mall for £60m

    2009-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Germany's RREEF Spezial Invest has bought Prince Bishops shopping centre in Durham, UK from Irish investor BlackRock for £60 mln (EUR 68 mln).

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    Rallye, Apsys refinance Ruban Blue mall

    2009-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Rallye' s Fonciere Euris and the Apsys Group have reached an agreement with bank Locindus, part of the Credit Foncier Group, to refinance the Ruban Blue shopping centre in Saint Nazaire, Western France, through a financial lease with a purchase option.