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Watts opens office in Sweden
UK-based real estate company Watts has opened a new office in Stockholm. The team will be led by managing director Eva Sterner. According to the company statement, the new office will 'provide the Nordic market with its core technical and environmental due diligence, project management and consultancy services'.
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C&W reports 33% rise in EMEA operations turnover
Global property advisers Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) has reported global turnover of $1.8 bn in 2007, a 21% increase on the previous year ($1.5 bn). Turnover for the firm's EMEA operations rose by 32.8% in 2007 to £282.4 mln (EUR 384.1mln) from £212.0 mln in 2006. The firm's strongest ...
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Dubai developer to build new town near Moscow
Dubai World's development arm, Limitless, is teaming up with Russian investment firm RDI on a master plan to deliver a new town near Moscow for around 12,000 people. The project marks Limitless' entry into the Russian market.
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IHI snaps up Metropole for £130m
A consortium led by Malta-based hotel developer International Hotel Investments (IHI) is buying the Metropole building and 10 Whitehall Place from UK Crown Estate for £130 mln (EUR 174 mln). IHI, which is owned by Dubai state-controlled investment firm Istithmar, will refurbish the 37,161 m[sup]2[/sup] of accommodation to provide a ...
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LaSalle IM buys Coppergate mall from Land Securities
UK real estate investment trust Land Securities has sold the Coppergate shopping centre in York to LaSalle Investment Management. The investment amount is said to be around £43 mln (EUR 57 mln). LaSalle has appointed regeneration specialists Centros to develop a long-awaited second phase of the 200,000 sq ft (18,580 ...
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Niam Fund IV to invest over EUR 2.5bn
Swedish private equity company Niam has launched its fourth property fund with EUR 700 mln of equity and an investment capacity of EUR 2.5 bn to EUR 3 bn. The fund will be one of the largest opportunistic property funds in Europe. Investors include global financial institutions and pension funds.
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Multi gets green light for £300m regeneration scheme in UK
Multi Development UK has been given the go-ahead for the construction of the £300 mln (EUR 402 mln) Summer Row development in Wolverhampton. The company received approval for the compulsory purchase of 72,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of land to the south of the city from the City Council this week.
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Klemurs optimistic on back of good results in 2007
French property investment company Klemurs has said it experienced ' sustained development' in its end of year report for 2007 with a 17.3% increase in net current cash flow per share to EUR 1.57. As a result the company is positive about the outlook in 2008 and has recommended a ...
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AREF: Pooled property funds outperform other asset classes in Q4
Pooled property funds (PPFs) in the UK outperformed other asset classes in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to research released by Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF).
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Urban Land Institute Paris Conference 2008
PropertyEU reports from the Urban Land Institute's Paris Conference. Click on the link below to watch Bill Kistler, president of ULI Europe, tell PropertyTV about his expectations for 2008 at the start of the ULI conference in Paris. Also, Alec Emmott of Europroperty Consulting and Menno Maas, CEO of ...
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Gecina purchases warehouse in southern France
French property company Gecina has added to its real estate portfolio in the south of France with the acquisition of a second warehouse in the Ecopôle logistics park in Saint-Martin de Crau. The 30,000 m2-property, completed in 2006, was bought in a sale-and-leaseback transaction with Maisons du Monde. The financial ...
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Brack Capital finalist in German EUR 3.4bn property tender
Brack Capital Real Estate is one of three finalists in the tender to buy the property portfolio of Germany's Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft (LEG), owned by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, according to a newspaper report. If the company wins the tender it will pay EUR 3.4 bn for the portfolio of 93,000 ...
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MagazineDeparting the traditional mainstream
Asia and distressed real estate are the opportunities of the moment as the market enters an uncertain new year. Richard Lowe reports
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MagazineLenders batten down the hatches
Governance is moving back up the agenda as the credit crunch continues to bite, and more banks are looking to syndicate. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports Governance is moving back up the agenda as the credit crunch continues to bite, and more banks are looking to syndicate. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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MagazineNo more compromise
The credit crunch means that investors have lost bargaining power but they should gain in reassurance. Claudio Lagemann reports
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Playing the ratings game
As a consequence of the sub-prime crisis, one key component of the value chain is under scrutiny. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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News
Hewitt urges caution on Irish property
IRELAND – Consultants have urged pension fund trustees to diversify away from Irish property in the medium term, despite property funds averaging 6.9% returns in 2007.
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MagazineBroaden the scope
Are property derivatives fulfilling their potential? Suppliers and investors must do more, says Simon Redman
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MagazinePurchasing Power
Multi-employer pension fund UMR Corem has transformed the real estate portfolio since it was inherited in 2003 from a simple collection of Parisian apartments into a well-diversified, dynamic and purposeful allocation that returned nearly 30% last year – almost five times the average return of the whole fund.
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MagazineYear of high achievement
The array of initiatives launched last year by INREV make it easy to see why CEO Lisette van Doorn is so highly regarded by the investment community. She won the prize for Outstanding Industry Contribution at the 2007 IPE Real Estate Awards in Amsterdam for the second year in succession. ...
