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    JLL wins mandate to manage AXA portfolio in Slovakia

    2012-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Property adviser Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has won a mandate to manage a portfolio comprising four logistics properties in Slovakia on behalf of AXA Real Estate.

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    Invesco buys Eindhoven Holiday Inn for hotel fund

    2012-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Global investment manager Invesco Real Estate (IRE), has bought the Holiday Inn in the Dutch city of Eindhoven for EUR 22.5 mln in a sale-and-leaseback deal with Hampshire Hospitality.

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    Invesco RE snaps up London office for German fund

    2012-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Global investment manager Invesco Real Estate (IRE) has acquired a GBP 124 mln (EUR 144 mln) mixed-use complex in the City of London on behalf of a fund owned by Germany’s largest public pension fund Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK). The property at 107 Cheapside was acquired on behalf of the iii-BVK ...

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    Ghelamco readies office sales in Warsaw

    2012-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Ghelamco Poland, one of the largest property developers in Central and Eastern Europe, is gearing up to sell two of its office projects in Warsaw. Ghelamco Poland managing director Jeroen van der Toolen told PropertyEU that the Senator and Mokotow Nova schemes are being commercialised and are ready for sale.

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    Patrizia targets AUM of EUR 10b by 2015

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Listed German property company Patrizia Immobilien aims to increase its assets under management to over EUR 10 bn by 2015, after coming close to the EUR 7 bn mark earlier this year following the EUR 1.4 bn residential deal with German bank LBBW.

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    IVG eyes turnaround after EUR 126m loss in 2011

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Listed German property firm IVG Immobilien on Wednesday reported a net loss of EUR 126 mln for the financial year 2011, following a number of significant impairment write-downs and major acquisitions.

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    Canada's FirstService acquires Colliers UK

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Colliers International UK will in future operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada's FirstService Corporation, the company announced on Wednesday. In addition, FirstService will assume the UK ownership interests in Ireland and Spain. FirstService now owns almost 90% of Colliers International by revenue globally.

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    Tristan and AEW snap up Leipzig complex

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    London-based investment manager Tristan Capital Partners has teamed up with AEW Europe and German investment manager Caleus to acquire the 26,500 m[sup]2[/sup] ‘Forum am Bruhl’ office complex in Leipzig. The property was bought from RREEF. Financial details were not disclosed.

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    Polish market maintains investor appeal: IVG

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    New research from German property company IVG shows that Poland remains highly favoured among international investors and is set to increasingly outperform its Central European neighbours.

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    Arneken Galerie in Hildesheim opens to the public

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Multi Development opened the Arneken Galerie shopping centre in the northern German city of Hildesheim on Thursday, just a week after inaugurating the Forum Nova Karolina mall in the Czech city of Ostrava.

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    CBRE to market Malmo's Turning Torso tower

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Property advisor CBRE has been appointed to manage the sale of Europe's second-tallest residential building, the Turning Torso in the Swedish city of Malmo.

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    Peter Denton to chair real estate finance council

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Peter Denton has been named chair-elect of the CRE Finance Council Europe, a trade association dedicated to promoting the strength and liquidity of commercial real estate finance in Europe. Denton will begin his term as chair-elect immediately before taking up the position of chairman for a two-year term from November ...

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    Office take-up slips as confidence declines: JLL

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Office take-up across Europe fell by 2% to around 2.9 million m[sup]2[/sup] in the final quarter of 2011, according to a new report by Jones Lang LaSalle. The figure marked a decline of 9% on the year-earlier period, the adviser said, due to subsiding corporate confidence and increasing uncertainty during ...

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    RREEF snaps up London's Park House for EUR 180m

    2012-03-29T00:00:00Z

    RREEF Real Estate, the real estate investment management business of Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division, said on Thursday that it has acquired Park House at Finsbury Circus in London on behalf of one of its German open-ended funds, Grundbesitz Europa, for £150 mln (EUR 180 mln). The seller is investment ...

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    German index posts record returns in 2011: IPD

    2012-03-29T00:00:00Z

    The total return before tax and financing for all German properties reached a record level of 5.5% in 2011, according to the latest research from the Investment Property Databank.

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    Land Secs divests London mixed-use scheme for EUR 280m

    2012-03-29T00:00:00Z

    UK REIT Land Securities has exchanged contracts to sell its Arundel Great Court mixed-use development site overlooking the Thames for a headline price of £234 mln (EUR 280 mln). The buyer is Waterway PCP Properties, a Dubai-based private equity group fronted by Amanda Staveley.

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    Philips confirms sale of High Tech Campus for EUR 425m

    2012-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Dutch electronics group Philips has sold its High Tech Campus in the city of Eindhoven to a consortium led by private investor Marcel Boekhoorn for EUR 425 mln, the two parties confirmed on Thursday. The deal is the biggest single-asset property transaction ever to be closed in the Netherlands.

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    HSH places EUR 500m mortgage bond

    2012-03-29T00:00:00Z

    HSH Nordbank has placed a benchmark five-year mortgage pfandbrief to the tune of EUR 500 mln and bearing a coupon of 1.875%.

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    Eurohypo set to be wound down following EU agreement

    2012-03-29T00:00:00Z

    Commerzbank, Germany’s second-largest bank by assets, is expected to wind down rather than sell its troubled property lending arm Eurohypo following an agreement with the European Commission.

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    Assura names British Land finance boss as CEO

    2012-03-29T00:00:00Z

    UK's primary healthcare property company Assura has appointed Graham Roberts as its new chief executive officer. Roberts joins from UK REIT British Land where he has held the post of finance director for the past 10 years, overseeing £21 bn of investment and development transactions.