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    Danish telecom group sells 224 properties for EUR 550m

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Danish telecom operator TDC has divested 224 properties in a sale-and-leaseback agreement to a company controlled by Danish pension funds ATP Ejendomme and PFA Ejendomme. The DKK 4.1 bn (EUR 550 mln) sale is expected to result in an after-tax gain of about EUR 376.3 mln, which will be ...

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    Electra RE, Kamor buy BMW plant for EUR 48m

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Electra Real Estate and Kamor have acquired a BMW spare parts factory and logistics centre in Regensburg, Germany for about EUR 48 mln. The property is fully leased to BMW until 2033, with an early exit option in 2018. Net rental income from the complex is EUR 3 mln per ...

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    British Land launches £250m share buyback programme

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    British Land has repurchased a total of one million shares at an average price of 1.37 pence per share, taking advantage of what it sees as an undervalued share price. British Land, which converted to real estate investment trust (REIT) status at the beginning of this year, said that it ...

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    Icade ups Opera Construction stake

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    The Capri unit of French property developer Icade has increased its stake in French builder Opera Construction to 83.3% from 69.3%, after buying a 13.9% stake from Ste Privee de Gestion de Patrimoine. Icade Capri acquired a 69.3% stake in Opera Construction in April, and now plans to launch a ...

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    Goldman Sachs set to sell EUR 3bn German real estate

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Goldman Sachs is putting two German property portfolios valued at about EUR 3 bn on the market, newspaper the Financial Times has reported, without citing sources. Noting the assets were acquired during the past 18 months, the newspaper said the sale plans are the latest sign foreign investors are exiting ...

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    Merrill Lynch launches EUR 433m bid for Berenice

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Merrill Lynch's Galante fund has launched a counter bid of EUR 760 per unit, or a total of EUR 433 mln, for Italy's real estate office fund Berenice. The new bid beats the EUR 725 offer for each of the 570,000 Berenice units already made by Goldman Sachs-owned Zwinger Opco. ...

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    Norwegian Property agrees EUR 2.7bn refinancing

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Norwegian Property has announced the signing of loan and mandate agreements with Nordea Bank Norge and SEB Merchant Banking Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken for a total financing volume of up to NOK 21 bn (EUR 2.7 bn).

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    Serviced apartments in the Alps go on sale

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    The sales process has begun for apartments in two uniquely-shaped residential towers being built in the 1,600-metre-high Katschberg region in the Austrian Alps. The towers - named Edel and Weiss - are one of the first 'serviced living' schemes being developed by the Falkensteiner Michaeler Tourist Group as part of ...

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    Accor ups stake in Portuguese hotel venture to 100%

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    French hotel group Accor plans to acquire the remaining 50% in its Portuguese hotel joint venture from Portuguese property investor Amorim for an undisclosed sum. Accor added that it had also agreed to sell the Sofitel Thalassa Vilalara hotel to Amorim for EUR 25 mln. The company said the joint ...

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    VastNed adds Frankfurt offices to portfolio

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Dutch property investor VastNed Offices/Industrial has purchased a 13,000 m[sup]2[/sup] office building in the city of Frankfurt for EUR 37 mln, bringing its total investments in the German office market up to EUR 90 mln.

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    Heijmans, Ballast win EUR 52m Dutch construction project

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Dutch construction companies Heijmans and Ballast Nedam have won a EUR 52 mln construction project in the Dutch city of Tilburg. Heijmans will carry out two-thirds of the construction work, with Ballast Nedam taking on the remaining third. The project is for the construction of two mixed residential and office ...

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    DG Hyp, Muenchener to merge, paper reports

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    German cooperative real estate banks DG Hyp and Muenchener Hypothekenbank are close to signing a merger agreement, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing an unnamed source. The paper said the non-executive boards of the two companies are set to approve a letter of intent on the merger this week. ...

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    NCC sells phase 1 of business park

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Swedish construction firm NCC and its Finnish peer Alfred A Palmberg have agreed to sell the first phase of their Polaris business park project in Helsinki to German property investor Oppenheim Immobilien-Kapitalanlagegesellschaft (OIK), part of IVG, for SEK 200 mln (EUR 22 mln). The construction companies said they will also ...

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    AFI in EUR 580m Moscow project

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    A wholly-owned subsidiary of AFI Development's has entered into a short-term land-lease agreement with the municipality of Odintsovo in the suburbs of Moscow for the construction of a major project. Through the agreement, AFI has taken possession of a plot of land of almost 32 hectares that is zoned for ...

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    Miller Developments enters Bulgaria

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    Miller Developments is continuing its drive into central and Eastern Europe with the purchase of a retail and leisure development in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna. The company has agreed to buy Mall Varna, a complex with a gross leasable area of 32,000 m2, from local developer Interservice ...

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    DTZ confirms Donaldsons' acquisition talks

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    Real estate adviser DTZ confirmed on Wednesday that it is 'in discussions with regard to the potential acquisition of Donaldsons,' a privately-owned, UK-based property consultancy with particular expertise in the retail and property management sectors. DTZ added that there 'can be no certainty as to whether any transaction will be ...

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    Kungsleden acquires 35 properties in northern Sweden

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    Listed Swedish property company Kungsleden is acquiring a portfolio of 35 properties located in the northern Swedish cities of Umea, Harnosand, Lulea, Nordmaling and Solleftea from Midnattssolen Fastigheter for a purchase price of SEK 540 mln (EUR 59 mln). The transaction reflects a yield of 7.2%.

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    Livermore buys into commercial property in Switzerland

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    Livermore Investments Group said it has acquired Wylerpark, a 34,000 m[sup]2[/sup] commercial freehold property in Switzerland through a sale-and-lease-back deal with the Swiss national railway company, SBB. The transaction value comes to £38 mln (EUR 56 mln). The investment company said it will also develop 39 luxury apartments on the ...

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    Westbrook buys Shell-Mex House for £490m

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    US property investors Westbrook is buying London's Shell-Mex House, an art-deco office building overlooking the Thames river, for about £490 mln (EUR725 mln). The trophy asset in the West End district of London is owned by a consortium including entrepreneurs Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz, David and Simon Reuben, and Jack ...

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    Skanska sells office project in Copenhagen

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    Skanska is selling the Havneholmen Atrium office building in Copenhagen to real estate company Norrporten for an undisclosed amount. Norrporten will take over the property when it is completed in the second quarter of 2008. The project, started in the second quarter of 2006, will require an investment of about ...