All Real Assets articles in Web Issue – Page 758
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LGP appoints Adam Kerr as transactions chief
Legal & General Property (LGP) has appointed Adam Kerr as the new head of transactions. Kerr is the latest senior addition to LGP, following the restructuring of its management team announced last month, which included the promotion of Gordon Aitchison, former head of transactions, to a new position of director ...
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HDG Mansur appoints new chief financial officer
HDG Mansur has appointed Thomas Kmiecik as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Until recently Kmiecik was senior treasury officer at Forest City Enterprises, a $12 bn (EUR 9 bn) NYSE-listed real estate development company. He also held past positions as senior vice president and treasurer of First Union ...
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Savills appoints head of Swedish property management
International real estate adviser Savills has appointed Dante Felixson to head the commercial property management team at its Stockholm office.
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AXA rolls out 'green lease' concept in Germany
AXA Real Estate Investment Managers has introduced green leases for all its commercial lettings in Germany. The lease format is already being implemented in France, where about 20 new contracts have been signed.
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Sarah Leroy named legal head at AXA RE
Sarah Leroy has been appointed to head the global legal department at AXA Real Estate Investment Managers. She will head a 14-strong team dealing with all the legal issues relating to the management of real estate assets and commercial real estate loans.
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Pramerica confirms Madrid deal with Invesco
Pramerica Real Estate Investors has confirmed the sale of the Titán 4 office building in Madrid to Invesco Real Estate, as reported by PropertyEU last week. Financial details were not disclosed but the transaction price is understood to be around EUR 40 mln, reflecting a net yield of 6.5%.
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HB Reavis seeds first fund with EUR 165m portfolio
Slovakian developer HB Reavis said on Tuesday that its Luxembourg-based investment management arm has bought a portfolio of five commercial assets for a total of EUR 165 mln, reflecting a blended initial yield of 7.6%. The assets were developed by HB Reavis.
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ECE opens EUR 200m BahnhofCity mall in Vienna
German retail specialist ECE Projektmanagement has announced that its BahnhofCity Vienna West shopping centre is opening its doors on Wednesday after a construction period of three-and-a-half years.
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Highstreet JV sells Karstadt store for EUR 40m
The Highstreet investor consortium has completed the sale of a Karstadt department store in Bielefeld, northern Germany to local investment firm Aachener Grundvermögen KAG. The price of EUR 40 mln generates capital gains of EUR 3 mln.
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FastPartner snaps up 5 Stockholm malls from RBS' Centeni
Swedish property firm FastPartner has acquired a portfolio of five shopping centres in Stockholm from the Royal Bank of Scotland's Centeni, the former joint venture company established by UK private investment firm Boutlbee and collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers. Financial details were not disclosed.
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AXA Real Estate's Kiran Patel quits
Kiran Patel said on Tuesday he was resigning as global head of business development, distribution, research and strategy at AXA Real Estate to pursue new opportunities. Patel will leave the company at end-December after 11 years with the French property fund management group.
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Blackstone backs Berggruen's bid for Kaufhof - report
Nicolas Berggruen, the Karstadt department store chain owner, has teamed up with US group Blackstone to mount an improved offer for Metro's Kaufhof unit, according to a news report in German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Banks favour development financing in Poland
Banks prefer to finance new development projects rather than existing assets in Poland, according to a study carried out by accountancy firm KPMG. In Austria and Slovakia, lenders are equally open to financing either development or existing assets, the findings show.
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Opco-propcos face 'painful' refinancing challenge, report warns
Stakeholders in opco-propco structures will be hard put to meet the looming refinancing challenge, according to a report published by financial adviser Bishopsfield Capital Partners. The majority of opco-propco real estate structures - whereby a property company is split between an operating division (the opco) and a unit for its ...
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Foreign investors own majority of City of London offices
Foreign investors now own 52% of the Square Mile’s office stock, up from 8% in 1980 and continuing an upward trend seen since the Big Bang, according to the 'Who Owns the City' report published on Tuesday by Development Securities.
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Colliers to manage GE's Romanian logistics parks
Colliers International has been appointed property manager of Olympian Logistic Parks in Romania, a 45,000 m[sup]2[/sup] industrial portfolio owned by GE Capital Real Estate in partnership with Helios Phoenix.
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Futureal eyes five Polish projects
Budapest-based property developer Futureal is carrying out due diligence to buy five joint venture development schemes in Poland, Romania and Hungary, CEO Gabor Futó has told PropertyEU. The assets are a mix of office and retail schemes, but Futó declined to give further details until it was clear which deals ...
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Credit Suisse raises EUR 188m for Swiss-listed global fund
Credit Suisse's global fund management arm has raised CHF 231 mln (EUR 188 mln) from both private and institutional investors for a new Swiss-listed fund investing exclusively in properties outside Switzerland.
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WealthCap sells Berlin shopping centre for EUR 341m
German property investor WealthCap has signed a preliminary agreement with an unnamed buyer to sell the Gropius Passegen in Berlin for a total of EUR 341 mln. The 85,000 m[sup]2[/sup] scheme in the city's Neukölln district is owned by WealthCap's closed-end HFS Immobilien Deutschland 11 fund.
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Morgan Stanley ties up with MSS for Nordic acquisition drive
Morgan Stanley Real Estate has agreed a partnership with UK investor and fund manager MSS Real Estate to spearhead a major property acquisition programme in Scandinavia.
