All Real Assets articles in Web Issue – Page 626
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Internos to advise on EUR 170m worth of funds
Internos Real Investors said on Wednesday that it has been appointed as fund and asset manager of Merchant Place Property Partnership 51B (MP51B), which owns 17 retail assets in Germany valued at around EUR 70 mln.
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BNP Paribas REIM buys and sells for EUR 562m in 2010
BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management said that it has completed over EUR 562 mln worth of transactions in 2010 on behalf of its funds. The figure represents a 45% increase on the total transactional volume reported in 2009.
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Bank sales will dominate 2011 hotel investment market
Hotel investment volumes in the EMEA region are expected to grow by 18% to EUR 8.3 bn in 2011, from EUR 7 bn in 2010, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels' latest Hotel Investment Outlook report.
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CPI snaps up Hilton hotel Valencia for EUR 42m
Continental Property Investments (CPI), the Paris-based real estate investment firm of Lebanese businessman Boutros El Khoury, has acquired the five-star Hilton hotel Valencia out of administration for a bargain basement price.
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Rockspring buys Dutch mall for EUR 44m
Rockspring Property Investment Managers has bought a 40,000-m[sup]2[/sup] shopping centre located in the Dutch city of Den Bosch for over EUR 44 mln. The deal comes shortly after the opening by Rockspring of an office in the country to focus on asset management and sourcing acquisitions. The vendor was Unibail-Rodamco.
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LaSalle, Curtis JV to acquire London industrial site
LaSalle Investment Management and Curtis Real Estate (CRE) have partnered to acquire a prime industrial site on White Hart Lane, Tottenham. The proposed scheme is believed to be one of the first major developments of industrial space in Greater London for several years.
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Gazeley to build new UK centres for Tesco and B&Q
Global logistics property developer Gazeley has announced plans to construct two new major projects in the UK. In the southwest of England, the company will develop a 74,000-m[sup]2[/sup] built-to-suit (BTS) distribution centre at G. Park Swindon for the British DIY chain, B&Q. The scheme is expected to be delivered in ...
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IPD: Shallow negative Irish return masks steep capital falls
Irish commercial property delivered an annual total return of -2.4% last year, a vast improvement on 2009 when total returns declined by 23.3%, according to the SCS/IPD Ireland Quarterly Property Index.
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GOEFs limitations now official, says EPRA
The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) has responded to the announcement of new restrictions imposed on German open-ended real estate funds (GOEF) by repeating its call for the expansion of the German listed property sector.
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Wallenstam acquires 7 properties for EUR 135m in Goteborg
Swedish real estate company Wallenstam has announced the acquisition of a portfolio of seven properties in central Göteborg, Sweden's second-largest city, for SEK 1.2 bn (EUR 135 mln). The seller is northern European private equity firm Niam.
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Alstria acquires two properties in Hamburg for EUR 20m
Alstria Office-REIT has agreed to acquire two office buildings in inner city locations in Hamburg for a total transaction cost of around EUR 20 mln in an off-market transaction. The Hamburg-based investment company said that the properties offer significant value creation potential, as the vacancy rate of 24% provides ...
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Beos plans EUR 350m worth of German acquisitions in 2011
Germany's Boes has unveiled plans to invest up to EUR 350 mln in commercial real estate this year after the launch in 2010 of its first spezialfonds with a spending capacity of EUR 400 mln.
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Mipim announces 21 award finalists
MIPIM has announced the names of the 21 finalists for the 2011 MIPIM Awards selected by a jury of international real estate professionals. The organisers of the international real estate fair in Cannes, France also the introduction of a new award category.
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Niam completes first close of 5th Nordic fund
Swedish private equity firm Niam has completed the first closing of its fifth opportunistic real estate fund Niam Nordic V, having raised EUR 125 mln of capital from mainly North American and European institutional investors. Niam Nordic V has a target fund size of EUR 600 mln, providing a total ...
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Prologis and AMB in merger talks
Prologis, the New York-listed global industrial real estate specialist, and its US listed rival AMB Property Corporation have confirmed that they are in talks about a potential 'merger of equals'. Such a tie-up would create a globally active real estate investment trust with a combined market capitalisation of about EUR ...
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Italy's Fimit closes merger with First Atlantic RE
Italian fund managers Fondi Immobiliari Italiani (Fimit) and First Atlantic Real Estate have reached an agreement for the merger of their real estate fund management businesses, creating a market leader in Italy with over EUR 8 bn of assets and 19 funds under management.
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Edward Bates leaves as co-head of Doughty Hanson Real Estate
Edward Bates has left European private equity company Doughty Hanson after three years as co-head of Real Estate. Based in Paris and London, Bates had joined the company in 2007 to replace John Howard and lead its growth in continental Europe, supporting fellow co-head Julian Gabriel who is based in ...
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British Land jv restarts construction of 'Cheesegrater'
British Land and Oxford Properties have recommenced construction of The Leadenhall Building, dubbed the Cheesegrater, in London's Square Mile. Contractors are back on site and pressing ahead with the laying of structural support for the 56,000-m[sup]2[/sup] building.
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RICS receives EU grant for energy efficiency project
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has received a European Commission grant of EUR 260,000 to launch Trainrebuild, a two-year project which will advise residential property owners across Europe on how to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings.
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Modest rental growth in Europe's office markets: JLL
Modest growth persisted throughout quarter four (Q4) 2010 in Europe’s office markets with Jones Lang LaSalle's Office Rental Index rising 0.8% over the quarter and by 5.4% over the year. Jones Lang LaSalle’s European Office Clock also highlighted an increase in occupier activity over the quarter with take-up increasing 20% ...
