All Real Assets articles in Web Issue – Page 69
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Savills launches cross-border European valuation team
Property advisor Savills has recruited three directors who will comprise the initial core of its new cross-border European valuation team. The team consists of Nick Harris, previously of Colliers CRE; Simon Orr, who has transferred from Savill's Paris office and Chris Millington, who is joining Savills from DTZ in April.
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Russia, Middle East help Mipim to new record
The Mipim property fair held annually in Cannes, France has set an all-time attendance record for the second year in a row. The 18th edition of Mipim in mid-March attracted 26,210 participants, an increase of 22% over 2006. Event organiser Reed Midem said in a statement on Tuesday that Mipim ...
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LaSalle opens Turkish office
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has opened an office in Turkey and has won the property management and leasing contract for the 346,000 m[sup]2[/sup] Istanbul Cevahir retail and leisure complex in the heart of Istanbul. Istanbul Cevahir is the largest shopping centre in Turkey. The former head of Shopping Centre Management ...
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Warburg-Henderson launches EUR 1bn European fund
Warburg-Henderson has set up a new European fund, European Core Property Fund No. 1, with a target size of EUR 1 bn. The fund made its first acquisition in Hamburg on Wednesday when it bought a mixed-use office and commercial asset in the town centre. The property is rented to ...
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DCM may put EUR 1bn property in G-REIT
Fund manager Deutsche Capital Management (DCM) may become the first company to float a German real estate investment trust (G-REIT), Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing unidentified people from the banking industry. The German lower house of parliament, Bundestag, passed legislation last week to introduce the investment vehicle and the ...
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Protego and EFM plan EUR 1.65bn Nordic retail fund
Protego Real Estate Investors is seeking to raise EUR 585 mln in equity for its Nordic Retail Fund. When this sum is combined with gearing of up to 65%, the fund will grow to about EUR 1.65 bn. The core plus Euro-denominated fund will invest in a diversified portfolio, primarily ...
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Commerz Grundbesitz invests in 2nd Lyon logistics project
Commerz Grundbesitz-Spezialfondsgesellschaft (CGS), has signed the deed for a logistics project located in Isle d'Abeau near Lyon. This is the second logistics property in Lyon that CGS has purchased since November 2006. The Isle d'Abeau property, intended for CGS's institutional property funds CGS-Immo-Spezial, was sold by Italian wholesale company Caserta ...
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Invista shops in France with EUR 348m
Invista Real Estate Investment Management has acquired a French portfolio through a joint venture with Propinvest for EUR 348 mln. The British property fund manager, which launched an initial public offer in September, said it has conditionally exchanged a contract to acquire 34 high-quality assets across France, with a concentration ...
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Axa Reim buys EUR 55m logistics property
Axa Reim is acquiring two logistic centres in France on behalf of its European Logistics Income Venture fund for EUR 55 mln. The assets, developed by Panhard Developpement, provide some 70,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of logistics space. They are located in Chelles and Brie-Comte-Robert in the northern French region of Seine-et-Marne, French ...
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Atlas Estates buys EUR 76m property in Warsaw
Property investment company Atlas Estates has bought the Millennium Plaza building in Warsaw for EUR 76 mln, reflecting an initial yield of 8%. The 28-storey property provides some 37.300 m[sup]2[/sup] of office and commercial space. The company also acquired 50% of a 20,640 m[sup]2[/sup] plot of land in Budapest for ...
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Capital Park acquires EuroCentrum in Warsaw
Polish development company Capital Park has acquired the EuroCentrum, a 1.8 hectare mixed-use development site in central Warsaw that includes the 20-storey Alpha Building office tower. Colliers International advised the seller 8 Star.
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Alstria reveals details of IPO
Hamburg-based Alstria Office has announced that it is offering 25.4 million shares, with a price range from EUR 16 to EUR 17.50 a share, in its IPO to retail and institutional investors in Germany and Luxembourg. The offer period runs from 28 March to noon on 2 April.
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Fadesa bets on Morocco
The Moroccan government has granted Spanish property company Fadesa approval to develop a tourist resort on the Atlantic coast of Spain opposite the Canary Islands.
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Catella moves into 'booming' Russia
Phenomenal growth in the Russian real estate investment market and large assignments from clients has led Catella Property Group to open a new office in Moscow. The Swedish property advisor and provider of asset management services said that the Russian market is 'booming' and on the verge of taking off ...
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Multi Corporation boss De Haan to step down
Arnold de Haan is stepping down from his role as ceo of Multi Development on 1 May 2007. He has agreed to serve as a senior advisor to Multi and its shareholder Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund V International 'for a certain period', the company said in a four-line press ...
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Four skyscrapers set to change Madrid's skyline
Four Spanish property companies are to plough about EUR 1.2 bn into the development of mixed-use towers in Madrid's Ciudad Deportiva district, the plot of land that formerly housed Real Madrid's training center. The four 200-metre structures will change the skyline of the Spanish capital by 2008.
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Morgan Stanley fund takes stake in Russian developer
Morgan Stanley Real Estate's Special Situations Fund III has acquired a 25% stake in RBI Holdings, a St Petersburg-based developer active in the residential and retail sectors. The fund made the investment though a dedicated capital increase. The final details were not disclosed. Although Morgan Stanley has had a continuous ...
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Skanska develops new Stockholm office
Sweden's Skanska is to develop a new office building comprising 30,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of space at Lindhagensterrassen in Stockholm. The investment amounts to EUR 91 mln. The property will be occupied by the insurance company Skandia.
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Sama Dubai snaps up Istanbul's largest state-owned plot
Sama Dubai has acquired a 46,000 m[sup]2[/sup] plot of land owned by Istanbul's Transport Authority in the Levent district of the city for $705 mln (EUR 528 mln), Italian news agency Ansa reported. The company, a subsidiary of Dubai Property Group, launched a bid significantly higher than the ones made ...
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Greece calls for companies to build EUR 1.1bn properties
Greece's government is calling for companies to participate in tenders for public development projects worth about EUR 1.1 bn in 2007, said Italian newsagency Ansa, citing the country's economic affairs minister Giorgios Alogoskoufis.
