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Skanska to build business centre in Slovakia
Swedish construction firm Skanska has won a EUR 35mln contract to build a new administrative building and the Cassovar Business Center in Kosice, Slovakia. The project was commissioned by Cassovar Business Center and is included in order bookings for the second quarter.
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SPDE extends loan contracts for Fornebu development
Scandinavian Property Development (SPDE) said on Tuesday it has secured extensions on loan agreements with the municipal authorities in Oslo and Norwegian financial services company Storebrand for the mixed-use development at Fornebu, Norway. Under the new agreement with the Oslo authorities, the partial payment due on 1 July 2008 has ...
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Union Investment buys Frankfurt office building for EUR 129m
Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate has acquired the Furstenhof office/commercial building in Frankfurt am Main from Eurocastle Investment in a deal worth around EUR 129mln. The property, located in the heart of Frankfurt's financial district, will be added to Union Investment's open-ended fund UniImmo: Deutschland, the company said on Tuesday.
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Sjaelso sells three retail projects in Finland for EUR 40m
Danish property developer Sjaelso Gruppen has sold three retail projects in Finland worth around DKK 300mln (EUR 40mln) to Copenhagen-based Property Group. The deal is part of an agreement reached between the two companies in 2007.
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Degi: real estate still not focus of sovereign funds
The real estate sector is still not the focal point of sovereign wealth funds' investment strategies despite announcements to increase their allocation for real estate, according to new research by German property company Degi.
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Hypo Real Estate Bank underwrites loan for Oakwood portfolio
Hypo Real Estate Bank said on Tuesday it has agreed to underwrite EUR 91mln of a EUR 106mln loan facility provided by Morgan Stanley to Curzon Capital Partners for the financing of the Oakwood portfolio. The transaction was closed on 11 June and has since been funded, Hypo Real Estate ...
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Invesco, Scius acquire first Nordic asset for German client
Invesco Real Estate and Scius Partners have made their first acquisition in the Nordic region since announcing a partnership agreement at the end of 2007. Invesco said Molnvik Retail Park, a 16,500 m[sup]2[/sup] property in the Varmdo area of Greater Stockholm, was acquired for EUR 40mln on behalf of iii-BVK ...
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Deka strengthens position in hotel segment
Deka Immobilien, the property investment arm of DekaBank, has bought a Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in Bremen for almost EUR 24mln from Hanover-based developer-owner Baumgruppe. The property will be added to Deka's open-ended Immobilienspezialfonds.
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GE Real Estate acquires EUR 642m pan-European loan portfolio
GE Real Estate has boosted its European property debt holdings with the acquisition of a EUR 642mln portfolio of performing pan-European loans from Credit Suisse.
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Nanette sells off further stake in investment vehicle Taltoring
London-listed residential property developer Nanette said on Monday it has agreed to sell a further 45% of its holding in special purpose vehicle Taltoring to EdR Real Estate (Eastern Europe), a subsidiary of the Rothschild Group. Rothschild will pay EUR 337,500 for the stake, in addition to a loan of ...
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Trigranit appoints diplomat to lead Russian business
Budapest-based Trigranit has appointed Arpad Szekely, Hungaria's ambassador to Russia, to head the firm's EUR 6bn investment programme in Russia. Szekely will assume the post of country director for Trigranit in Russia when his diplomatic assignment ends shortly.
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Akron enters Russian real estate jv with Gazprombank
Vienna-based Akron Group announced on Monday that it has formed a joint venture in Russia with Gazprom-Invest (GPBI), the real estate investment arm of Russian bank giant Gazprombank. Akron said the partnership covers large-scale office, retail and logistics projects in Moscow and St Petersburg.
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Multi and Karstadt to redevelop Recklinghausen city centre
Multi Development Germany and Karstadt department store group are to redevelop the centre of Recklinghausen, a city in Germany's industrial Ruhr region, for a total investment of around EUR 135mln. The 30,000 m[sup]2[/sup] project has been given the working title Quartier am Markt (Market Quarter) and is aimed at repositioning ...
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PSPI acquires German care home portfolio
Guernsey-based real estate firm Public Service Properties Investments has acquired a portfolio of six German care homes from a subsidiary of an undisclosed German bank for EUR 36.3mln. The portfolio comprises 403 care home beds and 154 assisted living places in cities such as Berlin, Bremerhafen and Büren.
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GCHR targets four additional hotels by year-end
Grand City Hotels and Resorts (GCHR), a private investment company which is 50%-owned by Lehman Brothers, aims to add at least four new hotel properties to its portfolio by the end of the year, marketing director Sven Doliwa told Immobilien Zeitung.
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Henderson recruits Kurzidem for German property team
Global asset manager Henderson Global Investors is appointing Sascha Kurzidem as the new director institutional business for its property business in Germany. Kurzidem will be responsible for dealing with institutional investors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Immoeast takes over Constantia property arm for EUR 440m
Austrian property company Immoeast and its parent company Immofinanz said on Monday they plan to jointly purchase the real estate division of Constantia Privatbank for EUR 440mln. Under the deal, Immoeast will pay Constantia EUR 264mln for a 60% stake in the unit, with Immofinanz paying EUR 176mln for the ...
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Taylor Wimpey seeks funds as financial tremors shake UK residential firms
Taylor Wimpey, the UK's largest home builder by construction volume, said on Monday that it is taking a £550mln (EUR 695mln) writedown on its property land bank and development programme in the UK. The company is also writing down a further EUR 88.4mln in the US and EUR 50.5mln in ...
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Italian, German investors acquire mixed-use portfolio in Berlin
A group of unnamed Italian and other private investors has teamed up with a number of German firms to acquire a mixed-use portfolio of eight buildings in the central business district of Berlin. It is understood that the investment volume for the 60,000 m[sup]2[/sup] portfolio was in the region of ...
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Investate buys prime London site for EUR 474m redevelopment
Investate Realty, a Bahrain-based real estate investment company, has announced the acquisition of a 4.5-acre (1.82-hectare) waterfront site in central London called Tideway Industrial Estate, marking its first investment in the UK capital. Investate plans to invest £375mln (around EUR 474mln) in redeveloping the site, to be renamed Tideway Wharf, ...
