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    UniCredit sells Italian bank assets to new fund

    2009-01-06T15:30:00Z

    ITALY – Italian bank UniCredit has sold 72 commercial properties worth approximately €800m to a real estate investment fund run by Italian fund manager Fondi Immobiliari Italian (Fimit).

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    IGD SIIQ buys Gran Rondo property for EUR 52m

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    IGD SIIQ, the sole Italian real estate investment trust, has acquired a commercial gallery and office building which form part of the Gran Rondo shopping centre in Crema, Northern Italy from Immobiliare Gran Rondo. The investment amount comes to EUR 52.3 mln, of which EUR 29.3 mln have already been ...

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    Warimpex sells stake in Czech hotel spa

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Warimpex, the Vienna-based property developer and investor, has sold its shares in the project company that owns the four-star Dvorak Spa Hotel in the Czech city of Karlovy Vary to a subsidiary of Austria's Raiffeisen Leasing.

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    Union Investment confirms Marsans HQ acquisition

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Germany's Union Investment has confirmed the acquisition of the Portico office building in Madrid from the Spanish tourism and transportation conglomerate Marsans. The transaction, initially reported by PropertyEU on 22 December 2008, is the first acquisition in Spain for Union Investment's UniImmo: Deutschland fund. The financial details of the deal ...

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    Beni Stabili sells in Rome and Milan

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Italian property company Beni Stabili has completed the sale of an office building in Milan's Corso di Porta Nuova 1 to an unnamed private investor for EUR 73.5 mln. The sale price compares to an appraised value at end-June 2008 of EUR 71 mln. The preliminary sale agreement for the ...

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    Banks buy EUR 443m assets from Martinsa-Fadesa

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Martinsa-Fadesa, the Spanish property developer which filed for administration in July, has sold EUR 443 mln worth of property assets to creditor banks BBVA, Banco Santander and savings bank Caixa Galicia, newspaper Expansion reported.

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    CFI and CNP buy 11 cinemas in France

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    French SIIC Compagnie Fonciere Internationale (CFI) and insurance group CNP-Assurances have signed an agreement to purchase a portfolio of 11 cinema complexes in France for an undisclosed amount. The properties, which are fully leased to European cinema operator UGC, are located in Paris and its surroundings as well as other ...

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    UniCredit sells EUR 930m worth of assets to Fimit fund

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Italian bank UniCredit has sold part of its real estate portfolio to the Omicron Plus Immobiliare fund run by Italian property fund manager Fimit for EUR 800 mln. The bank is retaining the use of the buildings as well as a 33% stake in the fund. Omicron is being invested ...

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    Nanette increases stake in major Kiev project

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    London-listed residential property company Nanette has purchased an additional 15% of the share capital of Olimpia Real Estate, the holding company for a residential development in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Nanette paid $6 mln (about EUR 4.4 mln) to increase its holding in Olimpia to 30%. The company's total ...

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    GE Real Estate divests 29 Swedish properties for EUR 233m

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    GE Real Estate has sold a portfolio of 29 properties in Sweden to a new vehicle which GE established with Swedish pension organisations. The properties are located in 15 municipalities across Sweden and comprise 230,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of lettable space. The purchase price was not disclosed, but Swedish media widely reported ...

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    Gecina to launch mandatory offer for Gecimed

    2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Listed French property group Gecina is to launch a mandatory public offering for the shares of its former majority owned medical property subsidiary Gecimed after GE Real Estate sold its 20% stake.

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    Russian government throws weight behind Pik Group

    2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Pik Group, one of Russia's leading residential real estate developers, has been included on the list of companies that can count on state support to survive the financial crisis. The list, which was drawn by the Russian Government on the instructions of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin includes companies from various ...

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    Pirelli, Intesa complete EUR 270m sale of FM unit

    2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Italy's Pirelli Real Estate and Intesa Sanpaolo have sold their stakes in Pirelli RE Integrated Facility Management (PREIFM), a 50/50 joint venture in facility and project management, to the Italian group Manutencoop FM. The companies signed a preliminary agreement in early November 2008. Pirelli RE and Intesa said they have ...

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    Leasinvest buys assets in Luxembourg.

    2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Leasinvest Immo Lux, a subsidiary of Leasinvest Real Estate, has acquired three retail properties located in Strassen, Diekirch and Foetz, Luxembourg for EUR 47.5 mln. The assets generate a total rental income of EUR 3.6 mln per annum, reflecting a gross initial yield of 7.68%. They are fully let with ...

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    AXA acquires European assets for EUR 260m

    2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

    AXA Investment Managers Deutschland has expanded the portfolio of its open ended real estate fund AXA Immoselect with the acquisition of three properties and property development companies in Luxembourg, Sweden and Spain. The value of the acquisitions comes to EUR 260 mln, and the finacing has already been secured, AXA ...

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    NSI closes EUR 275m refinancing agreement, sells assets

    2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Dutch investor Nieuwe Steen Investments (NSI) has reached an agreement with its banks to refinance EUR 275 mln of short-term credit facilities. As a result, the company said that all refinancing facilities for the year 2009 are now covered.

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    Affine sells non-strategic assets in Paris region

    2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Affine has sold three non-strategic properties in the Paris region to an undisclosed buyer as part of the reorganisation its office property portfolio. In the first transaction, the firm said it sold a 5,800 m[sup]2[/sup] office building in Eastern Paris for an undisclosed amount. The asset is leased to Inrap, ...

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    KanAm does EUR 20m deal in Lille

    2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

    KanAm Spezial grundinvest Fonds has acquired the Madeleine office building in the French city of Lille for EUR 19.4 mln. The German institutional fund said the prime property is fully leased to Finaref, a French banking and insurance group, on a long-term lease through 2016.

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    Colonial raises EUR 1.31 bn in convertible bond issue

    2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Troubled Spanish property group Colonial has placed EUR 1.31 bn in convertible bonds, mostly with its creditor banks which have underwritten the issue. The banks are Goldman Sachs, Eurohypo, Calyon and Royal Bank of Scotland as well as Banco Popular and La Caixa.

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    Fimit closes EUR 850m purchase of Intesa Sanpaolo's real estate

    2009-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Italian fund manager Fimit has completed the acquisition of 284 properties from bank Intesa Sanpaolo for a total of EUR 850 mln. The assets, which offer over 420,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of commercial space, were transferred before the New Year to Fimit's Omega real estate fund. Fimit said it is retaining around ...