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Niam sells major stake in Norway's 2nd largest mall company
Nordic private equity group Niam is selling a 72.5% stake in shoping centre operator Sektor Gruppen to an investor group consisting of Joh. Johannson (31%), Varner Invest (27%) and Home Invest (14.5%).
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PropertyEU Magazine November 2012
The November edition of PropertyEU Magazine features a special report on the European retail sector with rankings of the top retail investors and developers and the top cross-border retail investment deals.
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Banks are 25% through deleveraging process: Morgan Stanley
European banks have completed 20-25% of the commercial real estate deleveraging process, a faster pace than expected, according to a new research report published by Morgan Stanley.
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Colliers adds six to Russian retail team
Colliers International Russia has hired six new retail experts for its existing 20-strong retail team. The announcement follows hard on the heels of a series of personnel changes at the leading brokerage firms in Moscow and the loss of Colliers' team to rival Jones Lang LaSalle.
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Foreign investors advised to head for secondary cities in Turkey
International investors interested in entering the Turkish real estate market would be well advised to look at secondary cities outside the big three 鈥� Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. That was one of the key messages that emerged at the PropertyEU Investment Briefing on Turkey held on Thursday at the London ...
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Highstreet puts Berlin鈥檚 KaDeWe store on sale
KaDeWe, Berlin's iconic luxury department store and the largest in Continental Europe, has been put up for sale for some EUR 500 mln, well-informed market sources confirmed to PropertyEU.
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Blackstone joins forces with Canadians to buy Gecina's debt
US-based Blackstone Group has teamed up with Canadian investor Ivanhoe Cambridge to buy loans backed by a 12% stake in Paris office landlord Gecina. Financial details were not disclosed.
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Cultural and legal issues challenge maturing Turkish property market
Turkey鈥檚 lenient planning laws can still thwart foreign developers and investors keen to build up a position in this emerging country on the fringe of Europe, Barlas Balcioglu, partner, head of Istanbul real estate at Salans, told the PropertyEU Turkey Investment Briefing hosted on Thursday by Aberdeen Asset Management at ...
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Starwood to launch IPO for European debt investment platform
Starwood Capital is planning an IPO in the fourth quarter for its European debt investment platform, Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SEREF). The vehicle will seek to raise some 拢300 mln (EUR 376 mln) in the initial capital raising.
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Time is right for German listed sector evolution, says EPRA
The lack of a large listed real estate sector in Germany means Europe's largest economy is only benefitting to a limited extent from the strong investment flows and professional services that listed companies can bring to the urban landscape, the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) argues.
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Makro acquires 17,800m[sup]2[/sup] property in Madrid
Cash-and-carry specialist retailer Makro, a Spanish affiliate of the Metro group, has acquired a 17,800 m[sup]2[/sup] property in Madrid for an undisclosed sum. CBRE acted for the vendor in the sale of the property on Paseo Imperial in the Spanish capital. The property was bought from interior furnishings retailer Radisa.
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AIK acquires residential property in Berlin
German real estate investment company AIK has acquired a 3,000 m[sup]2[/sup] residential building in Berlin-Mitte on behalf of a single-investor fund.
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SES Spar joins sustainability alliance
European shopping centre developer SES Spar has become the latest member of the International Sustainability Alliance (ISA), a global network of real estate owners, occupiers, developers and investors which collectively control commercial real estate assets worth some EUR 150 bn.
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Spanish market fails to attract new lenders
Core investors like insurers and private equity houses are becoming more willing to provide financing in the larger, stable markets of Western Europe, but Spain remains an exception, Jesus Varela, partner and head of Real Estate Spain at law firm Salans told the PropertyEU Debt Finance Investment Briefing at Expo ...
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Real estate investment slows in Western Europe: BNPPRE
Commercial real estate investment activity in Western Europe dropped by 9% over the first nine months of 2012 compared to same period in 2011 and continues to slow, property adviser BNP Paribas Real Estate (BNPPRE) said.
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Kennedy Wilson poised to close new Irish buy
US real estate investor Kennedy Wilson is set to finalise the acquisition of another Irish multi-family residential portfolio after signing a preliminary agreement in late October, PropertyEU has learned.
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Obama win a relief for European property investors: Colliers
Barack Obama鈥檚 election victory will impact positively on business sentiment in Europe, feeding into occupier markets and, in turn, lifting confidence among property owners and investors, comments Walter Boettcher, director of UK/EMEA Research at Colliers International.
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Starwood links up with CWI to launch European finance platform
US-based investor Starwood Capital Group has announced the launch of Starwood European Finance Company (StarFin), a real estate finance platform designed to take advantage of financing opportunities arising from banks' retreat from property lending.
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ICSC Europe plans EU push
The International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC) is gearing up to hold an event in Brussels next May that would bring together EU officials and the national shopping centre councils which fall under the European organisation, ICSC Europe鈥檚 new managing director Mike Morrissey, told PropertyEU.
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Mirland secures financing for phase II of St Petersburg project
Russian real estate company Mirland has secured a loan of $47.5 mln (EUR 37 mln) via its Petra subsidiary to finance the construction of 630 apartments in the second phase of the Triumph Park mixed-use development in St Petersburg.
