All Real Assets articles in Web Issue – Page 401
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UK house prices may have turned corner - ABFM
Investment returns at the UK's first residential index property fund surged by 19.7% in the first five months of this year, amid signs that tumbling house prices may have turned a corner, according to Alpha Beta Fund Management (ABFM).
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London & Stamford to raise new equity to fund acqusition drive
London & Stamford has said it is planning to raise fresh equity for further investments in the UK after two recent acquisitions. 'As a result of the positive deal flow and our belief that we can continue to source new deals, we intend to raise further equity,' the company ...
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C&W appoints associates in Moscow and Brussels
Cushman & Wakefield Stiles & Riabokobylko (C&W/S&R), the Russian office of the world’s largest privately held global real estate services firm, has promoted four employees to the level of associate from 1 June. The four are: Natalia Ignatova, director, Client Solutions; Natalia Kouterigina, director, Client Solutions; Evgeny Popov, director, Development ...
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Pradera appoints Nick Hewson to board
Pradera AM has announced the appointment of Nick Hewson to the board as non-executive director. Hewson and Pradera chairman Paul Whight were both founders of London-listed Grantchester Holdings and are reuniting again after 10 years apart.
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DTZ appoints director in Warsaw
International real estate adviser DTZ has announced the appointment of Lukasz Kaledkiewicz to associate director of Office Agency at its Warsaw office. Kaledkiewicz, who took up the new post at the start of May, has been with DTZ since January 2005 when he joined the office agency team as a ...
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ING Real Estate sells new Dutch office building to private investor
ING Real Estate has sold the new headquarters of Dutch national statistics agency CBS to a private investor for EUR 44.7 mln. Market sources estimate the initial yield at 6.9%.
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Honeywell signs lease at Tishman Center in Bulgaria
Developer Tishman International Companies, a leading international commercial real estate development and management company, and GE Real Estate Central & Eastern Europe, have announced that Honeywell EOOD, the Bulgarian arm of the leading multinational corporation Honeywell, has signed a 64-month lease for 3,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of office and warehouse space in ...
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VTB Capital, DB launch Russian opportunity fund
VTB Group's investment arm VTB Capital and Deutsche Bank's commercial property unit have joined forces to launch a EUR 300 mln fund to invest in Russian real estate opportunities. The business partners have announced the first closing of VTBC-DB Real Estate Partners I, a co-sponsored private equity vehicle which will ...
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CBRE expands in Nordics with Helsinki office
CB Richard Ellis has announced it has opened an office in Helsinki, Finland, further expanding its network and capabilities in the Nordic region.
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Hammerson names Clamageran as executive director
Hammerson has appointed Christophe Clamageran to its board as an Executive Director. Clamageran was already managing director for France, having joined Hammerson in March 2008 as development director. He was previously deputy CEO of BNP Paribas Real Estate, running office and residential development, and was head of the asset management ...
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Multi Vastgoed: record number of projects under construction
Gouda-based developer Multi Vastgoed currently has a total of eight new retail projects under construction in the Netherlands, the company announced Thursday in a press release.
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Hamborner set for conversion to German REIT
A majority (99.8%) of shareholders has approved the conversion of listed German property company Hamborner into a real estate investment trust (REIT), clearing the way for the creation of the third G-REITafter Alstria Office REIT and Fair Value REIT.
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Prologis seals deal with Geodis in Romania
Prologis has signed a leasing deal with Geodis for 90,000 square feet (8,400 m2) of newly developed space in Bucharest, Romania. Geodis is a third party logistics and international transport provider and subsidiary of SNCF (French Railways), and is known in Romania as Geodis Calberson.
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Drivers Jonas: dramatic reduction in new starts in London
Just six new schemes have been started in central London over the last six months, a dramatic reduction compared with previous years, according to the latest Drivers Jonas Central London Crane Survey for Q1 2009. In total, the six schemes account for 160,000 sq ft (14,864 m2) compared with 37 ...
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Multi Vastgoed working on record number of Dutch retail projects
Multi Vastgoed, the Dutch arm of pan-European retail property specialist Multi Corporation, has said it has eight new retail projects under construction in the Netherlands - a record number in over 25 years in the development business.
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Foruminvest studies new projects in Italy
Dutch retail developer Foruminest is studying various projects in Italy. One of the locations that the company has looked at is Caltanisetta in Sicily, but no deal has been signed, the company said in a statement.
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Tilburg rejects megamall
Residents of Tilburg in the southern Netherlands have rejected a proposal to develop a megamall between the city and nearby Waalwijk. A recent poll revealed that 53% was opposed to the development, with 46% in favour. Turnout totalled 35.8%.
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Philips sells 45,000 m[sup]2[/sup] site in France
Electronics manufacturer Philips has sold an 11-hectare site in Mans, Western France, to local authorities, Communauté Urbaine Le Mans Métropole. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The site comprises 20,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of office space and 25,000 m[sup]2[/sup] for office/logistics use, which is currently being redeveloped. Philips was ...
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Norwegian Property rolls out EUR 34 'repair' share offering
The board of listed firm Norwegian Property has proposed to offer 50 million new shares to enable shareholders who were not invited to take part in an earlier announced private placement to maintain their relative shareholding in the company.
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Generali buys P5 tower in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz
Generali Deutschland Immobilien has acquired the P5 tower located on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin from Dutch investor Enisma Investments. The financial details of this transaction were not disclosed.
