All Real Assets articles in Web Issue – Page 270
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Castellum invests over EUR 100m in Swedish properties
Swedish property developer Castellum said on Thursday that a number of its subsidiaries had invested a total of SEK 768 mln (EUR 81.6 mln) in commercial properties and committed to new construction, extensions and refurbishment estimated at SEK 182 mln (EUR 19.4 mln).
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Segro sells Slough retail park for EUR 116m
UK-based logistics property player Segro said on Thursday it had completed the sale of the Bath Road Retail Park in the town of Slough to The Crown Estate for £92 mln (EUR 116 mln). The deal covers 18,068 m[sup]2[/sup] of A1 retail space and 626 parking spaces and reflects an ...
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Fabege lets 4,200 m[sup]2[/sup] to government agency in Stockholm
Swedish property company Fabege said on Wednesday it has let about 4,200 m[sup]2[/sup] of its Getingen 15 property in central Stockholm to the Swedish Schools Inspectorate, a new government agency set to start operations in October. The lease runs for four years and the annual rental value is about SEK ...
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Prologis pumps another EUR 42m into private equity fund
Prologis European Properties said on Wednesday it has invested a further EUR 42 mln in Prologis European Properties Fund II (PEPF II), a private equity fund set up to acquire assets from the company's development pipeline in Europe and conforming assets from third parties.
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Deka buys EUR 53m office building in Florida
Deka Immobilien, the property investment arm of Germany's DekaBank, said on Wednesday it has acquired the BAC Colonnade office building in Coral Gables, Florida, for around $83mln (EUR 53mln) from Crescent, a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley. The purchase does not include the adjacent 157-bed hotel which is part of the ...
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Invista sees assets under management dip by EUR 630m
UK-based property investment manager Invista Real Estate said in a trading update that its assets under management fell by £500 mln (EUR 631mln) to £8.2bn in the five months to end-May, due to continuing investment outflows and the devaluation of the underlying property assets. The company said outflows from open-ended ...
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Acciona develops eco-offices in Zaragoza
Spanish property company Acciona Inmobiliaria said on Thursday it plans to develop the Oficinas Plaza, a new sustainable office complex in the Plaza de Zaragoza logistics park in Zaragoza, Spain. The scheme, which will provide 10,700 m[sup]2[/sup] of office space, will include solar panels covering an area of 120 m[sup]2[/sup]. ...
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ING RE acquires Czech retail park from Multi
ING Real Estate said on Wednesday that it has acquired a newly-built retail park in the Czech city of Pilsen, about 90 km west of Prague, for around EUR 16mln from the developer Multi. The property is earmarked for ING RE's Property Fund Central Europe.
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AMB completes Barajas logistics park in Madrid
AMB Property Europe, a subsidiary of AMB Property Corporation, celebrated the opening this week of the AMB - Barajas logistics park located just 500 metres from Madrid International Airport.
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Eurohypo: covered bonds may be solution to CMBS collapse
Covered Bonds may be the solution to the lack of available financing for real estate as a result of the collapse in demand for asset-backed securities and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) in particular, German lender Eurohypo has said.
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Clerestory: equal terms essential as opp funds proliferate
The proliferation of private opportunity funds in the US and Europe targeting distressed property amid the fallout from the credit crunch is increasing pressure on managers to accept 'special terms' from investors, according to New York-based fund of funds manager Clerestory Capital Partners. 'This issue needs to be more widely ...
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Risanamento may consider Limitless offer for Falck site
Italian real estate developer Risanamento may look at an offer made by the Arab fund Limitless for its vast redevelopment of the Falck steel factory in Sesto San Giovanni, near Milan, Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore reported on Thursday. The area has a book value of some EUR 300mln, ...
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IHG to open two new hotels in Istanbul
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) said on Thursday it had signed a deal with Turkish property investor ORA Istanbul Real Estate Investment and Development to open two new hotels in Istanbul, one of which will be Turkey's first Holiday Inn Express. The deal will take the total number of IHG hotels ...
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Inrev funds' database universe rises to 484 in Q1
The number of non-listed real funds covered by Inrev's vehicles database hit 484 in the first quarter of 2008, up from 476 in the final quarter of 2007, with 11 new vehicles coming to the market over this period, according to the industry association's latest quarterly research report.
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City of London Office vacancy breaks through 10% barrier
Office vacancy rates in the City of London have broken through the 10% barrier to 10.2% in the second quarter, up from 9% in the previous quarter, according to property agency NB Real Estate.
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Deka buys Polish office and commercial building for EUR 106m
Property fund manager Deka-ImmobilienFonds, part of Germany's DekaBank, said it has made its first investment in the Polish market, the acquisition of a commercial and office building in Wroclaw. The property, known as Bema Plaza, was acquired for the open-ended public fund Deka Immobilien for about EUR 106mln from Belgian ...
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IPD: Global property returns slowed in 2007
Global property returns in local currency terms stood at 11.5% in 2007, down from a 14.7% peak return delivered globally in 2006, IPD said as it published its first ever global property index.
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Pirelli RE swaps land for 34% stake in Warsaw project
Italian property company Pirelli Re said it has exercised an option on 720,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of buildable land in the Polish capital Warsaw, which it will contribute to an urban development initiative. Pirelli has a 34% stake in the project.
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CLS sells two Central London properties for EUR 72m
real estate investment firm CLS Holdings has sold two properties in Central London to Aziz Family Trust Companies, represented by Criterion Capital, for £57mln (EUR 72mln).
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Eurocastle closes refinancing of EUR 80 mln on three properties
Eurocastle Investment, a Guernsey-based affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, has closed the refinancing of approximately EUR 80mln on three properties previously financed through the EUR 330mln Mars floating facility.
