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    Matterhorn Capital acquires London's O2 centre for EUR 103m

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Capital & Regional, the co-investing property asset manager, has said that its X-Leisure Fund has agreed to sell the 02 Centre in Finchley Road, London to property company Matterhorn Capital for £92.5 mln (almost 103 mln). Capital & Regional holds a 19.4% stake in the fund and is the property ...

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    Multi clinches EUR 165m facility for Forum Duisburg

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Multi Development has secured a EUR 165 mln financing facility for its Forum Duisburg shopping centre which opened in the German city of Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia last year. The developer signed the financing agreement with German banks Hypo Vereins, Eurohypo, Sparkasse and Helaba on Monday.

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    Danish property returns stay positive over 2008, says IPD

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Investment in Danish commercial real estate returned 3.1% last year, compared to 10.1% over 2007, according the IPD Denmark Annual Property Index for 2008. However, property significantly outperformed the equity market, which returned -50.3% last year, but lagged behind the bonds markets, which returned 9.5%2.

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    Redevco Turkey to open two malls in Q3

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Redevco is to open its first two shopping centre schemes in Turkey in the third quarter of this year. Gordion Shopping Center, which is being developed in Ankara, Turkey's capital and second largest city, will open its doors at the end of August. Erzurum Shopping Center in Erzurum, the largest ...

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    Immofinanz sells EUR 300 mln in assets as part of restructuring

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Immofinanz has sold EUR 300 mln worth of assets since November 2008 despite the financial crisis. The listed Austrian real estate group said the sales were carried out at prices on average above current appraisal values.

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    Sirius secures EUR 45m credit facility

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Sirius, the real estate company that acquires large mixed-use commercial sites for upgrading into flexible workspaces in Germany, has secured a new EUR 45 mln credit facility from Landesbank Berlin, the owner of BerlinHyp.

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    Fashion House enters Russia, to develop first outlet centre in the country

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Fashion House Development (FHD), a Poland-based partnership between GVA Grimley Outlet Services and Belgium's Liebrecht & Wood, said on Monday that it has completed the acquisition of a land plot on which the group plans to develop Russia's first outlet centre. The plot is located in Moscow and was bought ...

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    Segro confirms it is considering equity raising

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Segro has confirmed that it is in talks about a potential fund raising to strengthen its balance sheet. It was responding to media reports that it is poised to launch a discounted rights issue to raise £300-£400 mln (EUR 335--446 mln).

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    FranconoWest in stock market switch to cut costs

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    German residential property company FranconoWest has announced it intends to transfer its listing from the Regulated Market to the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in a bid to cut costs. FranconoWest specialises in the purchase, letting and optimisation of residential property in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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    Prologis finds new tenant for Marseille project

    2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Point P, part of global manufacturer Groupe Saint-Gobain, is to take 38,560 m[sup]2[/sup] of logistics space in a new project being developed by Prologis in the Marseille region of France. The development is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2009. DTZ advised the lessor and the lessee. 'Since the ...

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    Martinsa Fadesa, Colonial post EUR 6 bn loss in 2008

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Spanish property companies Colonial and Martinsa Fadesa reported a combined loss of EUR 6 bn for 2008 on the back of heavy revaluations of their real estate portfolios. Colonial, which is now controlled by its creditor banks, has posted a loss of EUR 3.98 bn in 2008, compared with a ...

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    GPR 250 Europe records further losses in February

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    The GPR 250 Europe index returned -9.4% in February 2009, following a 5.3% loss for the first month of the year. On a national level, Turkey (Is REIT; +10.6%) was the only market to stay in positive territory. The other countries performed as follows in February: Italy (-2.6%), Poland (GTC; ...

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    Renta Corporacion sells EUR 380m of property, reaches refinancing agreement

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Spanish property company Renta Corporacion has sold EUR 380 mln worth of property assets since the start of the year as part of an agreement with banks to refinance EUR 500 mln of long-term debt. The group, which posted a loss of EUR 111.5 mln in 2008, said its debt ...

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    MCG buys stake in two Moscow hotels for $60m

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Mos City Group (MCG), a Moscow-based development company owned by Pavel Fuks, has acquired a 55% stake in the Budapest and Peter I Hotels located in the centre of the Russian capital for a total amount of $60 mln, including $47 mln of debt, according to Russian media reports.

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    Colonial sells Madrid office for EUR 70m

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Spanish property group Colonial has sold an office building located on Madrid's famous Paseo de la Castellana to the Spanish public insurance group Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros for around EUR 70 mln. The transaction is said to reflect a yield of 5.3%. The building comprises around 11,400 m[sup]2[/sup] of ...

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    AEW Europe set to appoint AXA REIM executive as new CEO

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    AEW Europe is expected to announce the appointment in the coming days of Christian Delaire as its new CEO to replace veteran Francois Pochard, according to a report in Business Immo, which was confirmed on Tuesday by PropertyEU's sources. Delaire, 41, is currently the head of global fund management at ...

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    Fimit to bid for Enasarco portfolio

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Italian fund manager Fimit is reportedly considering a bid for the commercial part of the portfolio that pension fund Enasarco put up for sale last year. According to the Italian property news website Demanio RE, Enasarco, which announced plans to offload its entire property portfolio worth over EUR 3 bn ...

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    Tim Wheeler replaced at Brixton by investment officer

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Brixton, a UK real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on industrial property, has announced that Tim Wheeler is leaving the company after 24 years, the last nine as CEO. Wheeler is being replaced by the firm's investment director Peter Dawson.

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    Mfi gets financing for Leipzig shopping centre project

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    German developer Management fur Immobilien (mfi) has secured the financing for the development of the Hofe am Bruhl inner-city shopping centre. According to German media, the builder was able to get the financing for the EUR 200 mln project from Eurohypo after losing its joint development partner, Canada-based shopping centre ...

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    PropertyEU expands news service with new daily and weekly editions

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    PropertyEU is launching two new newsletter products to keep industry professionals updated on the fast-changing real estate landscape in Europe. On Monday 9 March, PropertyEU is launching PropertyDay, a unique digital news service that readers can customise according to their needs. It brings together more than a hundred news sources ...