All Real Assets articles in Web Issue – Page 829
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Savills strengthens European investment team
International real estate advisor Savills has strengthened its European investment team further with the appointment of Dirk Hoenig-Ohnsorg who will be based at the company's Munich office in Germany.
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Mood Stockholm attracts 655,000 visitors in two months
Mood Stockholm, the newest retail destination in the Swedish capital, attracted 655,000 visitors during its first two months of trading, according to its owner AMF Fastigheter. Mood Stockholm opened to the public on 23 March 2012 and is the first new retail development in the Swedish capital in over ...
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Deutsche Wohnen buys Baubecon resi portfolio for EUR 1.2b
Deutsche Wohnen has won the bid to acquire the Baubecon portfolio of 23,500 housing units in Germany in a deal worth EUR 1.2 bn. The transaction, which was financed with a combination of equity and debt, reflects a net initial yield of 7.7%. Credit Suisse advised the buyer.
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Realty Brussels reports almost 10% increase in visitor numbers
Realty Brussels attracted 5,300 visitors during the three-day real estate trade fair last week, almost 10% more than the 4,900 visitors in 2011. There was also a doubling in the number of international investors while about 100 retailers attended the last day on 24 May.
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BNP Paribas wins 3 management contracts in Europe
BNP Paribas Real Estate Property Management has expanded its footprint in Europe with the signing of three new management contracts in Spain, Hungary and Ireland.
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Helaba provides EUR 33m loan for Altarea's Gare de l'Est gallery
German lender Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen has arranged a EUR 33.2 mln refinancing loan for Gare de l'Est shopping gallery in Paris. The property is owned by Altarea, a real estate investment trust and third largest retail property company in France.
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GRESB gains ground as key global benchmark
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) is gaining ground as the key global benchmark for the real estate industry, according to a number of industry leaders. GRESB, an initiative of pension fund administrators including APG, PPGM and USS, is due to release its third annual sustainability survey in September.
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PropertyEU explores how to break into Italian market
Italy's real estate offers many attractive opportunities yet cross-border investors often find the market hard to access. This may be changing now that the country has a reform government led by Mario Monti who replaced Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial businessman-politician who was the longest serving post-war Italian prime minister.
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Catella launches real estate debt indicator for Sweden
Catella is launching a market sentiment indicator to highlight the trends and changes in the Swedish real estate debt financing market.
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Corestate sees opportunity in widening funding gap
Real estate investor Corestate Capital believes the widening real estate debt gap in Europe offers opportunities for asset management specialists.
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Integrated planning needed for Dutch market
Dutch municipal authorities need to formulate long-term urban planning strategies to tackle the high level of office vacancies in the Netherlands, according to Pieter Hendrikse, CEO of CBRE Global Investors EMEA.
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Trigranit and Europa open new Polish train station
CEE developer Trigranit and real estate fund manager Europa Capital have announced the opening of Poznañ G³ówny train station - the first phase of a major mixed-use development in the Polish city of Poznañ.
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London & Stamford unveils EUR 250m London resi JV
UK REIT London & Stamford said it has established a joint venture to invest £200 mln (EUR 250 mln) in Central London residential property. The other members of the joint venture are Green Park and an unnamed partner.
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Key European markets see office take-up slide to 3-year low: CBRE
Net take-up in key Western European markets dropped to around two million m[sup]2[/sup] in the first quarter of 2012 as economic woes in the eurozone and the uncertain outlook continued to affect occupier demand and constrain leasing activity, according to CBRE's EMEA Research Study on the office sector. The take-up ...
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Klépierre raises EUR 300m in bond market
French REIT Klépierre has raised EUR 300 mln through three private placements in the bond market. The transactions were completed in May under the company's Euro Medium Term Notes (EMTN) programme and attracted strong interest among several investors in Europe, Klépierre said.
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HSH Nordbank issues EUR 500m pfandbrief
German lender HSH Nordbank has placed a EUR 500 mln mortgage pfandbrief with a four-year term, the second covered mortgage bond of this size to be issued by the bank this year. It comes days after pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank placed a EUR 500 mln bond.
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Briggs to head Colliers retail agency in Eastern Europe
Colliers International has appointed Sean Briggs as managing director of retail agency for Eastern Europe. Briggs' remit covers Colliers’ retail agency business across Central and Eastern Europe, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
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Kungsleden recruits banker as financing market worsens
Listed Swedish property company Kungsleden has appointed Anders Kvist as its new chief financial officer and deputy chief executive. Kvist, who currently works for northern European banking group SEB, succeeds Johan Risberg, who is leaving Kungsleden.
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Office conversion a growing trend in Benelux - Investment Briefing
Converting empty office properties to other uses is a growing trend in the Netherlands and Belgium, PropertyEU’s Benelux Investment Briefing heard at the Realty Brussels real estate fair on 22 May.
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Private investor buys Microsoft's Portuguese HQ
Property adviser CBRE has announced the sale of Microsoft's Portuguese headquarters to a private investor. The investment volume was not disclosed but CBRE said the transaction, completed in just over three months, was the largest single-asset deal n Portugal so far this year.
