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Cordea Savills seals three new deals in Benelux
Cordea Savills has completed the acquisition of two distribution warehouses and an office building for a combined price of EUR 48 mln in Belgium and the Netherlands. The acquisitions are in Eindhoven and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and in Houthalen, Belgium, and were purchased on behalf of the Cordea Savills ...
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JLL sees two-speed market emerging in Europe
A two-speed market is emerging in Europe, with a slower pace of investment activity expected in the UK compared to continental Europe, according to a report by global adviser Jones Lang LaSalle. 'Diminishing yield spreads in Europe's heartland will lead to greater interest and activity in the smaller and less ...
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Warsaw's office take-up rises 24% in 1H 2007
Take-up in the Warsaw office market rose by 24% year-on-year to about 260,000 m[sup]2[/sup] in the first half of 2007, according to the latest Polish office report issued by real estate advisor Colliers International. The first quarter of 2007 registered a record with deals signed in the city for 144,000 ...
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AAIM buys Hungary's largest mall for EUR 400 m
Plaza Centers, a leading emerging markets property developer, said on Tuesday it has sold the Arena Plaza shopping mall in Budapest to UK-based Active Asset Investment Management (AAIM), for about EUR 400 mln. Designed and developed by Plaza Centers following the purchase of the site in 2005, Arena Plaza is ...
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Niam sells office portfolio in Finland
Acta Kapitalförsäkring has acquired an office portfolio in Finland from Niam Nordic Investment Fund III for EUR 125 mln. The portfolio comprises five properties in the Finnishe cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Tampere and Oulu. Niam acquired the asstes from NCC during 2004-2007. The portfolio provides some 36,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of office ...
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Akron, Curzon JV purchases Amsterdam's Teleport Boulevard
ING Real Estate has sold its property on Teleport Boulevard in the Sloterdijk business district of Amsterdam for an undisclosed amount. The office property has been sold to a joint venture between Akron and Curzon Global Partners. Teleport Boulevard offers a lettable floor area of nearly 10,000 m[sup]2[/sup] plus 77 ...
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FedEx moves CEE base from Frankfurt to Cologne
FedEx plans to shift its Central and Eastern European base from Frankfurt to a new site at Cologne airport in 2010, the express freight company said on Monday. The new premises will form part of a 50,000 m[sup]2[/sup] freight and sorting centre, in which the airport plans to invest ...
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Adler join AIG in EUR 58m joint venture
Germany's Adler Real Estate and AIG Global Real Estate Investment, the property arm of the American International Group, have jointly acquired a portfolio of four office properties in Munich. The buildings have a net lettable area of around 35,000 m2, and the value of the transaction amounts to about EUR ...
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New JLL report reveals climbing rents in top Dutch offices
Jones Lang LaSalle analysts in the Netherlands presented the latest edition this week of their 'Dutch City Reports', their half-yearly review for users and investors of the key indicators in the real estate markets of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Eindhoven. Key findings included rising top rents, above average ...
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Metrovacesa set to launch new French unit
Metrovacesa is set to launch a new French subsidiary that will own the EUR 2.25 bn real estate assets the Spanish company will receive from its French parent company Gecina under the separation process agreed by Metrovacesa's main shareholders last February. The new unit, to be named Medea, will be ...
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Hypo RE sells EUR 4.27 bn loans to ING
Hypo Real Estate Bank has agreed to sell a German real estate financing portfolio worth EUR 4.27 bn to INGDiBa, a German unit of ING Group. The portfolio comprises 53,300 performing loans of approximately 39,000 borrowers. The loans comprise mainly residential financing with a maximum sum of EUR 1 mln ...
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Immoeast shops in Prague for EUR 110m
Immoeast has purchased the Gamma property in the BB Centrum office complex of Prague for EUR 110 mln. The purchase of BB Centrum Gamma is part of the company's extensive investment programme for the 2007/08 business year. Immoeast noted that almost half of the total investment volume of EUR 6 ...
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Land Securities sells Greater London House
UK REIT Land Securities has said it has exchanged contracts for the sale of Greater London House in Camden, London to local property company Lazari Investments for £ 165 mln (EUR 242 mln). The 30,658 m[sup]2[/sup] Art Deco-style office building was originally developed as a cigarette factory in the 1920s, ...
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Tchenguiz raises stake in M&B to 20%
Property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz has increased his stake in Mitchells & Butlers from 3% to almost 19%, Tchenguiz's investment vehicle Violet Capital said on Monday in a regulatory news filing. The move comes on the back of the collapse of Tchenguiz's £4.5 bn property joint venture agreed last May with ...
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LaSalle Investment Management sells Stockholm office for EUR 123 m
LaSalle Investment Management has sold Kungshuset, a prime office building in Stockholm, for SEK 1.13 bn (EUR 123 mln), to an affiliate of GIC Real Estate, the property investment arm of the government of Singapore. The property has a lettable area of 17,211 m2, including offices, retail and a cinema.
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Kungsleden sells 97 Swedish properties for EUR 184.5m
Listed Swedish real estate company Kungsleden has announced that it has divested 97 commercial properties in eight cities in central and northern Sweden. The properties consist mainly of offices and industrial/warehouse buildings, and have been sold to Kungsleden’s Swedish peers Klovern and Dios, who will take possession on September 3rd. ...
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HSBC pulls in property team
UK - HSBC Investments has brought in a seven-strong team of fund selection specialists in a move the firm hopes will increase property-hungry investors’ appetite for multi-manager funds. Guy Morrell, who will head the UK-based team, told IP...
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Irish property returns up
IRELANDS - Returns on Irish property reached 16.9% in the year to June, despite a continuing exodus of domestic investors into other European real estate markets. IPD figures published last week showed returns on Irish real estate rose from 2.2% i...
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RREEF predicts new spending in Asia-Pacific
UNITED STATES – Institutional capital will head into new countries within the Asia Pacific region such as Vietnam and Brazil over the next two years, according to research presented by RREEF Details of RREEF’s Asia Pacific Property Cyc...
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BC pension fund buys hotel Reit
CANADA - British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC), the investment arm of several Canadian public-sector pension funds, is to acquire a hotel Reit for CA$1.2bn (€800m) in cash. The CA$85bn fund will acquire the Canadian Hot...
