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    Elysses Pierre acquires EUR 12 mln offices

    2006-12-11T00:00:00Z

    HSBC REIM has acquired 7,826 m[sup]2[/sup] of offices in the southern Parisian suburb of Rungis for SCPI Elysees Pierre for a total of EUR 12.3 mln. The offices are fully let, French property news website Business Immo reported. Keops, investment department, and the Morin practice advised on the transaction.

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    Plan for world's second tallest tower unveiled

    2006-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Privately-owned Irish property company, Shelbourne Development, has unveiled revised plans to build a 2,000 foot (609 metre) residential tower in Chicago. Shelbourne purchased a site on the shore of Lake Michigan for $64 mln (EUR 48.4 mln) in July for the 'Chicago Spire', which would be the tallest skyscraper ...

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    Row over Belgian property sale heats up

    2006-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Opposition parties rounded on Belgium's finance minister Didier Reynders when he presented plans at the weekend to sell off EUR 500 mln worth of government buildings. The sale has to be completed before the end of the year to balance the budget, Reynders insisted.

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    Klemurs IPO 9 times oversubscribed

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Klemurs has announced the successful placing of 6.8% of its shares, including the over allotment option, at a price of EUR 20 per share during a fixed-price offering on December 6. Demand was 9.4 times above the size of the offering, Klemurs, a subsidiary of French real estate group ...

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    Allokton buys 9 properties ahead of listing

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Allokton, the Stockholm-based real estate company, has bought nine properties from peer Solrosen Invest for more than SEK 600 mln (EUR 60 mln). The properties are in the Swedish towns of Falun and Borlange are mainly retail. They have a total lettable area of 42,000 m[sup]2[/sup].

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    Tower Group acquires 35 properties in Germany

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Danish listed real estate company Tower Group has concluded an agreement to acquire 34 properties in Wuppertal, a city in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region. The properties, consisting of a total of 30,536 m2, has 463 residential and 23 business tenancies.

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    Quinlan Private buys Dublin telecoms HQ for EUR 190 mln

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Private equity company Quinlan Private has purchased the Dublin headquarters of Irish telecoms group Eircom for more than EUR 190 mln in one of the largest sale and leaseback deals in the Irish capital this year. Eircom has agreed a 25-year lease at a annual rent of EUR 8 ...

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    Warburg-Henderson acquires BAT centre

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Warburg-Henderson KAG, the Anglo-German open-ended fund, has bought the British American Tobacco (BAT) building in Hamburg in a sale and leaseback deal, newspaper Immobilien Seating reported. The property with 15,400 m[sup]2[/sup] of lettable area was acquired for the Warburg-Henderson's Pan Europe No. 2 fund.

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    Metro 'sells' Kaufhalle RE to Cushman & Wakefield

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Germany's Metro is to sell its Kaufhalle real estate operations to Cushman & Wakefield for more than EUR 130 mln, newspaper Handelsblatt has cited sources close to the sale negotiations as saying. Metro declined to comment when contacted by the newspaper. Cushman & Wakefield will be selected from a large ...

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    Inmoracal to get 89% stake in SFL

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Inmoracal has acquired a 89.67% stake in France's property investment firm Societe Fonciere Lyonnaise, the Spanish property company announced to the French regulatory agency. Inmoracal had offered EUR 55 per share for 20.64% of SFL, the website Finanzas.com said. Before the latest acquisition, Inmoracal held 79.36% stakes in SFL ...

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    ING Dutch flagship funds to convert to semi-open structure on January 1

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    ING Real Estate's closed-ended Dutch flagship funds are to convert to a semi open-ended structure with an infinite lifetime on January 1 next year. The Netherlands-based company said in a statement that the change concerns the ING Dutch Office Fund, ING Dutch Residential Fund and the ING Dutch Retail Fund. ...

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    Tishman Speyer selling Manhattan tower for EUR 1.3 bn

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Tishman Speyer, the American real estate giant, has agreed to sell a skyscraper in Manhattan for $1.8 bn (EUR 1.3 bn) to New Jersey-based Kushner Companies. This is one of the one of the highest prices ever paid for a single US office building.

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    Prochnik building sells for EUR 50 mln

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    A property formerly used by Polish men's wear producer Prochnik has been sold for EUR 50 mln to the Warsaw-based real estate company MR2. The building, located in Lodz, the second Polish largest city, was sold at auction with a reserve price set at around EUR 30 mln. Four companies ...

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    Banuelos earns EUR 40 mln for 1% of Astroc

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Enrique Banuelos, ceo of Astroc, has earned EUR 40 mln from the sale of 1% of his shares in the property company, Astroc has informed the Spanish national commission on stock exchange CNMV.

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    Italease launches retail property mortgages

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Italian listed bank Italease is to launch a new line of property mortgages for the retail sector, the bank announced in a press release. The mortgages, dedicated to entrepreneurs, will finance at fixed rates up to 100% of a property, thanks to the insurance coverage provided by Netherlands-based Genworth Financial.

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    Orco acquires office property in Berlin

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Orco Property Group, based in Luxembourg, has acquired an office building in Berlin for an undisclosed sum. The property at Kurfurstendamm 102 comprises 10 office and retail units with a total floor space of 3,400 m[sup]2[/sup]. The tenants include Commerzbank, Canon and the IVD real estate federation of Berlin-Brandenburg.

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    Kungsleden sells 8 Brussels properties for EUR 90.5 mln

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Kungsleden, the listed Swedish property company, has agreed the sale of eight properties in Brussels to a joint venture between JER Partners Catalyst Capital for a total of EUR 90.5 mln. The transaction is expected to close in January 2007, conditional on the buyers financing of the deal.

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    JP Morgan Asset Management buys Bonn mixed-use mall

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    JP Morgan Asset Management has bought the Fronhofer Galeria from ING Real Estate Development Germany. Located in the city of Bonn - Bad Godesberg, Fronhofer Galeria is a mixed-use property that was created from the redevelopment of the former Hertie-Kaufhaus department store in 2004.

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    Echo Investment to develop 80,000 m[sup]2[/sup] shopping mall

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Polish property company Echo Investment intends to develop a shopping and entertainment mall in the centre of the Polish town of Piotrkow Trybunalski, real estate newspaper Eurobuild has reported. The project covers a 80,000 m[sup]2[/sup] area with a 37,000 m[sup]2[/sup] gross lettable space. The centre will house 120 retail stores, ...

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    Multi Development enters the Slovakian market

    2006-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Multi Development Czech Republic plans to develop a 16,000 m[sup]2[/sup] shopping and leisure centre in Slovakia in its first project in the country. The Netherlands-based company said on Thursday it has acquired a plot of land from the municipality of Presov in the east of Slovakia for the mall but ...