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Regis backs away from bid for Grainger
UK-based real estate investor and developer Regis Group has said it is not going to pursue a takeover of Grainger, the largest listed residential property company in the UK, citing ongoing uncertainty on housing prices and the economic environment.
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FTSE UK commercial property total return index -1.44% in July
The FTSE UK Commercial Property Index fell 1.44% in July 2008, after recording a 1.1% drop in the month earlier, bringing the total return over the last 12 months to -12.79%. The FTSE UK Commercial Property Capital Index experienced a net return of -1.83% in July, compared with -1.5% in ...
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HausInvest Europa gets first logistics property
Commerz Real has acquired the Comet logistics development in Harlow near London for its HausInvest Europa open-ended property fund. The total investment volume comes to EUR 50mln. The 35,500-m[sup]2[/sup] asset was sold by Kenmore Capital.
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Whitbread invests £100m on new hotels
UK hotel and restaurant group Whitbread said it will invest about £100mln (EUR 128mln) to open nine new Premier Inn hotels and five new pub restaurants after securing a string of property deals. The announcement came a week after the company said it was acquire 21 hotels, currently operating as ...
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Cap & Reg in talks to set up German retail jv
Capital & Regional, the London-based co-investing property manager, has confirmed that it is in talks to establish a joint venture for its portfolio of 50 out-of-town retail parks in Germany. The company issued a short statement acknowledging the talks in response to reports that it was negotiating with Apollo Real ...
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JLL names new head for capital markets in Czech Republic, Slovakia
Jones Lang LaSalle said it has appointed George Lewis as its new head of capital markets for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, effective in September. Lewis joins Jones Lang LaSalle from DTZ, where he had also been in charge of capital markets for these two countries, and will replace ...
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Valad fund buys student flats in London
Australia's Valad Property Group has acquired a student accommodation development in central London for about £30mln (EUR 38mln). The newly built 247-unit Therese House property is located near the Barbican EC1. It offers a mix of cluster apartments and studios, plus entertainment and social facilities.
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XXI Century to sell logistics portfolio
XXI Century Investments, the Ukrainian property investment and development company, has announced it is to sell its logistics portfolio to a 'major European developer'.
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HDG Mansur launches two global funds
HDG Mansur, the US-based specialist in Shariah-compliant real estate investment structures, has announced the launch of two new global funds. The firm says the funds are expected to have a combined total size of more than $1bn (EUR 671mln).
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Atlas pinpoints EUR 54m bank facility
Atlas Estates has obtained a EUR 54mln loan from the Polish division of Raiffeisen Bank for the construction of the Platinum Towers residential development in Warsaw.
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Union Investment expands holdings in Japan
Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate has acquired the Solado Harajuku commercial building in Tokyo's Harajuku district for its open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Global, in a transaction worth EUR 91mln.
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Golden age of Czech retail has ended: DTZ
Retail market saturation in Prague and in many other regional Czech cities is starting to be felt by developers, according to global property adviser DTZ. In a note on the Czech retail market, DTZ said 'the golden age of Czech retail, when practically every project was a success, has ...
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Anders Danielsson to head Skanska Sweden
Anders Danielsson has been appointed president of Skanska Sweden to replace Mats Williamson who recently moved to become president of Skanska UK.
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Deka fund acquires major Lithuanian mall
A German Westinvest InterSelect fund, represented by Deka Immobilien, has acquired Akropolis Kaunus in what has been described as one of the newest and largest shopping centres in Lithuania for a transaction volume believed to be in the region of EUR 220mln. The 60,000 m[sup]2[/sup] shopping centre was developed by ...
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PREF acquires two retail parks for EUR 135m
PREF, a partnership between British Land and Doric Properties, has completed the purchase of two European retail schemes for about EUR 135mln. In a statement, PREF said it has acquired Santarem Retail Park, a 28,253-m[sup]2[/sup] retail scheme in the central region of Portugal, for EUR 35mln from owner and developer ...
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Local shopping REIT poised to go bargain hunting
UK real estate investment trust Local Shopping REIT said that it has begun to see signs of distressed selling and hopes to take advantage of buying opportunities when property values fall further in 2009.
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Swiss-backed AIFAA expands US strategy to Texas
UNITED STATES - AIFAA, an investment company backed by 12 Swiss pension funds, has extended its real estate portfolio to Texas for the first time with the $82m (€54.8m) acquisition of the Wells Fargo Tower office building in Austin, Texas.
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Mass PRIM buys its first properties of ‘08
UNITED STATES - Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board has closed the deal on its first two direct property acquisitions in 2008 and paid a total of $177.1m (€118.6m) for the assets.
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MIT index sees price decline in Q2
UNITED STATES – The MIT Center for Real Estate has seen transaction sales prices of its commercial property sold by major institutional investors decline by 2.7% in the second quarter of 2008.
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Real estate execs express doom and gloom
UNITED STATES - Leaders in commercial real estate for the office, retail, industrial, hospitality, and multifamily sectors are facing an increasingly gloomy outlook, according to a survey conducted by the Real Estate Roundtable.
