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    Prologis acquires French distribution centre

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    ProLogis European Properties (PERP) has acquired a 43,400 m[sup]2[/sup] distribution centre in Blois, Central France. It is fully leased under a long-term agreement to the logistics and distribution subsidiary of Redcats, a leading home shopping retailer, and will serve as the primary distribution hub for Redcats' mail-order line of home ...

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    Kungsleden acquires 6 properties

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Swedish listed property company Kungsleden has announced the acquisition of 6 properties, worth SEK 140 mln (EUR 15.4 mln), in Taby outside Stockholm. The properties have a lettable floor-space of 9,600 m[sup]2[/sup] and comprise 34% school 29% retail, 17% office premises and 19% industrial/warehouse.

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    CBRE acquires EUR 30 mln Defense Bergeres building

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    CB Richard Ellis has acquired the 'Defense Bergeres' building in Nanterre, central France for the French Dynamique Bureaux company. This vacant office building, completely renovated in 2005, provides a lettable area of about 10,000 m[sup]2[/sup] and includes a restaurant and 254 parking spaces. The investment is of the order of ...

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    Deal signed for new Amsterdam entertainment venue

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Amsterdam's municipal authorities and three Dutch property companies have signed a deal to develop a new entertainment centre in the south-east of the city for approximately EUR 250 mln. Work on the GETZ centre is due to start in the first half of 2008. The name GEZT comes from the ...

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    Bilboa acquires France's residential development

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Spain's Balboa group has purchased a residential complex in central France. The asset includes a four-star hotel, a golf course and further plots of land to be developed in residential areas. The price for the acquisition was not disclosed.

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    Aktiva to develop EUR 500 mln recreational centre

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Italian real estate company Aktiva is to invest EUR 500 mln in the development of Romilia recreational and retail centre near Bologna, in northern Italy, the financial newspaper Milano Finanza has reported. The centre will cover an area of 3 million m2, of which 1.7 million m[sup]2[/sup] is green ...

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    Masso to get 13% stake in Aisa

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Masso group, owned by Barcelona's ex major Enric Masso, is to acquire a 13% stake in the Catalan property company Aisa, Masso has informed the news agency Europa press. Financing for the transaction, valued at about EUR 68 mln, should be guaranteed by a capital hike scheduled to get approval ...

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    Halverton acquires offices for GO fund

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Halverton Real Estate Management has acquired three further properties for its Go (German Office Partnership) Fund for approximately EUR 23.4 mln. The purchase price reflects a net initial yield of between 7.1% and 8.6%.

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    Arlington gets RE mandate from EP pension fund

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Arlington Securities has received a EUR 10 mln mandate from the pension funds of the members of the european Parliament (EP), the first time for the pension fund to invest in real estate. The money will be invested in Arlington's eurozone Fund of Funds, established by the company in July ...

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    West Pioneer mines EUR 30 mln in London

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    West Pioneer Properties has raised around £20.4 mln (EUR 30.3 mln) by placing 25 million shares at 81.5p on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The placing valued the company at over £61 mln (EUR 91 mln).

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    German group slams REIT index plan

    2006-12-14T00:00:00Z

    ZIA, Germany's central association for real estate organisations, has hit out at plans by the German stock exchange to mandatorily remove IVG Immobilien and other property companies that intend to convert to real estate investment trust (REIT) status from the main DAX indices and place them in a separate index.

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    Rivero to sell part of his Metrovacesa stake

    2006-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Metrovacesa's chairman Joaquin Rivero intends to reduce his holding in the Spanish property company, newspaper BolsaCinco has reported. Rivero raised his stake in the company to around 19% in September after launching a public offer for Metrovacesa in order to compete with the Sanahuja family, which is currently the largest ...

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    Italy moves closer to approving 'REIT' legislation

    2006-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Italy's Senate is to approve REIT legislation through the Finanziaria, the state annual budget, before the end of the week, Italian newspaper IlSole24Ore has reported. In November, the lower chamber 'Camera dei Deputati' drafted the 2007 budget law, containing an amendment over the SIIQs, the real estate investment trusts.

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    Interesting Vastgoed buys two office properties

    2006-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Interesting Vastgoed, a Dutch real estate company, has acquired two office properties in Almere and Capelle aan den IJssel in the Netherlands for a total investment volume of EUR 44 mln. The building in Almere, with about 12,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of lettable area, is entirely let to USG People. It has ...

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    BBI Burgerliches Brauhaus to be REIT

    2006-12-13T00:00:00Z

    BBI Burgerliches Brauhaus is likely to be listed as a German real estate investment trust (REIT) in the medium term, researchers at merchant bank Kempen & Co noted as Bavaria's VIB Vermogen announced it had reduced its holding in the company based in Ingolstadt, Germany from 94.45% to 28.63%. Germany ...

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    Mirland raises EUR 213 mln in IPO

    2006-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Mirland Development Corporation, the Cypriot-based real estate company, expects to raise £143.4 mln (about EUR 213 mln) through an initial public offer of 30 million new shares in London. The price is 478p per share. Trading in the shares on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) is expected to begin on ...

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    ULI seeks entries for Europe excellence awards

    2006-12-13T00:00:00Z

    The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has issued a call for entries for its 2007 Awards for Excellence in development projects in both the public and private sectors in Europe, the Americas and the Asia Pacific region.

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    TAS sells German sheds to Dutch investor

    2006-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Hamburg-based real estate company TAS has sold two logistics properties in Germany to a Dutch investor. One of the sheds is in Hannover-Hainholz and the other is located in Hamburg-Stellingen. Together they have a total floor space of 35,500 m[sup]2[/sup]. The name of the buyer and the financial details were ...

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    Africa-Israel building in Romania and Moscow

    2006-12-13T00:00:00Z

    AFI Europe has announced it intends to build a 50,000 m[sup]2[/sup] shopping mall on a 8-hectare plot of land it has acquired in the western Romanian city of Arad. The mall, scheduled to open in 2009, is the latest in a series of projects AFI Europe has in Romania. In ...

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    WTC Stockholm sold for EUR 332 mln

    2006-12-13T00:00:00Z

    Swedish pension company Alecta has bought the World Trade Centre in Stockholm from property company Hufvudstaden. Alecta paid SEK 3 bn (about EUR 332 mln) for the shares in Vasaterminalen, Hufvudstaden's subsidiary which owns and runs the WTC centre and TWC Parkering.