All Real Assets articles in Web Issue – Page 381
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Retailers continue to globalise despite crisis: CBRE
Retailers have continued to expand their global footprint during the past 12 months, strategically developing long-term growth plans despite the global economic slowdown and a rapid weakening in sentiment, according to CBRE in its annual How Global is the Business of Retail? report. Retailers have continued not just to internationalise, ...
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Orchard Street completes two deals with RBS funding
Orchard Street UK Special Situations Fund has completed the purchase of two retail assets in the UK. The fund, managed by Orchard Street Investment Management bought Royals Shopping Centre in Southend and Meadows Retail Park in Chelmsford. The vendor of Royals Shopping Centre was Warner Estate.
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UK empty rates 'increase unnecessary demolition'
The UK's Empty Property Rates (EPR) system is paving the way for future instability in non-residential property markets as property owners are increasingly turning to demolition to avoid paying the rates whilst cutting back on future investment, according to the results of a new study published by the RICS and ...
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Hedge fund rejects Hypo nationalisation offer
Hedge Fund manager Exchange Investors has rejected the takeover offer made by the German government for the shares of property financier Hypo Real Estate.
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Goodman leases 43,000 m[sup]2[/sup] in France
Australian logistics developer and operator Goodman has announced the closing of two leasing transactions across its European portfolio. In France, the company said it has reached an agreement for the leasing of a 42,819 m[sup]2[/sup] logistics project in the east of the country to Vins et Spiritueux de LVMH with ...
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Investment market stirs to life again in Q1
Turnover in the European real estate investment market continues to decline, but there are subtle signs that investor sentiment may be starting to improve. While the volume of deals transacted in the first quarter of this year was down 44% at EUR 11.5 bn, the rate of decline slowed in ...
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Beni Stabili posts 3% rise in Q1 operating profit
Beni Stabili, the Italian unit of French property group Fonciere des Regions, has reported a 3% increase in operating profit to EUR 45.5 mln in the first quarter of 2009 from EUR 44.2 mln a year earlier. The improvement essentially reflects a reduction in overheads compared with the same period ...
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WestImmo's pre-tax earnings up 15.5% in 2008
German lender WestImmo saw its pre-tax earnings increase by 15.5% year-on-year to EUR 121.2 mln in 2008. The bank, which specialises in commercial real estate financing in Europe, US and the Asia-Pacific region, said on Wednesday that net profit rose by 5% to a record EUR 97 mln in 2008.
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Cordea Savills buys Cardiff office for EUR 22.6m
Cordea Savills has acquired a prominent office building in the Welsh capital, Cardiff, from Standard Life Investment for EUR 22.6 mln. The 8,832 m[sup]2[/sup] property is let to Eversheds through 2022.
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Rents falling and yields rising across EMEA, says CBRE
Rents contineud to fall in the first quarter of 2009 across the EMEA region, according to the latest results of CBRE´s Rent and Yield Indices. The CB Richard Ellis office rent index for the EU-15 area fell by 3.4% in the quarter, taking the year-on-year rate of growth to -4.1%.
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HSH Nordbank to sell property arm - report
HSH Nordbank, the troubled German bank that was bailed out by the city state of Hamburg and the state of Schleswig-Holstein earlier this year, is putting its real estate unit, HSH Real Estate, up for sale, newspaper Financial Times Deutschland has reported. According to the paper, the company. which has ...
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Unibail-Rodamco gets overwhelming backing for bond issue
Unibail-Rodamco said on Wednesday that its EUR 575 mln bond placement launched on Tuesday was nine times oversubscribed, with an order book of more than EUR 4.5 bn in less than two hours coming primarily from long-term investors.
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Carpathian receives takeover offer
AIM-listed property investment company Carpathian confirmed on Wednesday that it has received a takeover offer from New Europe Property Investments (NEPI). In an announcement on Wednesday morning, NEPI said it had approached the board of Carpathian with a potential offer to acquire the entire issued share capital at a price ...
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UK commercial property yields to stabilise, says Invista REIM
UK commercial property yields may now stabilise if the government and Bank of England actions succeed in steadying financial markets and reducing corporate bond yields, according to the latest research report issued by Invista REIM.
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Mature is the new mantra
In early April, Germany lived up to its reputation as one of the most boring (read: stable) markets in Europe. While the UK and Ireland saw their All Property Capital Values plunge in 2008 by 35% and 27% respectively, the All Property Capital value for Germany fell only 1.4% over ...
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Citycon swings to EUR 18m loss in Q1
Finnish property investment firm Citycon swung to a loss of EUR 18.1 mln in the first quarter of 2009 from a profit of EUR 11.3 mln a year earlier due to a EUR -31.6 mln devaluation of its investment properties. Turnover grew by 3.6% year on year to EUR 45.9 ...
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San Jose renegotiates EUR 2bn of debt
Spanish property group San Jose and its parent company Parquesol Inmobiliaria y Proyectos said on Thursday that they have reached an agreement with banks regarding the refinancing of the group´s corporate debt for a total of EUR 2 bn.
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Capital raising for non-listed funds halved in 2008
Capital raising in the second half of 2008 slowed dramatically as activity in the non-listed property markets came to a halt due to the financial downturn. In total, fund managers raised EUR 10.2 bn in 2008, compared to EUR 19 bn in 2008, a drop of 46%. Of the ...
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Inrev appoints 3 new members to management board
Inrev, the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles, said on Thursday that it has made three new appointments to its management board. The new members further align the board with Inrev's membership by both increasing its UK representation and also including the first adviser member on the ...
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ICSC Europe announces shopping centre award winners
Four European shopping centres out of a record 41 entries from 19 countries have won awards at this year’s International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Awards. A further seven received recommendations, certificates of merit and ReStore and ReSource special recognitions.
