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Corio sees undiminished spending at big Italian malls
Fashion-conscious Italian consumers will continue to shop in dominant malls in the coming years despite the grim macro-economic headlines and looming austerity measures, according to Gerard Groener, CEO of Amsterdam-listed shopping centre investor Corio.
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Green Properties, CIT to build London resi towers
A partnership of Ireland's Green Properties and UK private equity real estate group CIT plans to build a residential high-rise complex to the east of Nine Elms in Central London.
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Nama offloads Odeon Cinema in London's West End
The National Asset Management Agency (Nama) and Real Estate Resolutions have sold the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square to UK hotel chain Edwardian Group for an undisclosed price.
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Falling knives
The bearish sentiment expressed in this year鈥檚 edition of Emerging Trends does not come as a surprise, but some of the metaphors are disheartening nevertheless. This year鈥檚 report, compiled by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers, kicks off with a chapter entitled 鈥楶repare for the Big Freeze鈥� in a stark ...
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PropertyEU Magazine January/February 2012
The January/February edition of PropertyEU Magazine examines the crumbling wall of debt. Continental European banks are beginning to offload large property loan portfolios in response to the eurozone debt crisis. Up to now, discounts have averaged 40%.
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Invesco buys Manchester scheme for EUR 50m
Real estate investment manager Invesco Real Estate has agreed to buy 1 New York Street, a BREEAM Excellent-rated office property in central Manchester, from local office property firm Bruntwood for 拢42 mln (EUR 50 mln). The asset is earmarked for the 拢150 mln Invesco Real Estate - UK III Fund.
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JV acquires former Royal Danish Conservatory of Music
A Danish-UK joint venture has acquired the former home of the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen for an undisclosed sum. The investment was carried out by the Saxo Properties and London-based investment firm Meghraj on behalf of a group of private investors.
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Alternative property gains traction in uncertain climate
Highly specialised non-core investments are gaining traction as alternatives to traditional property types, according to the annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe report published by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Nexity ties up with Fran莽aise AM to launch services arm
French property group Nexity is partnering with asset manager La Fran莽aise AM to create a new real estate management and services giant in the French property industry.
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Anixton brokers sale of Waterside building in Brussels
Ireland's troubled O鈥橫ahony holding has sold the Waterside office building in Brussels to a joint venture of the Int茅grale mutual insurance fund and the Ogeo Fund for close to EUR 20 mln.
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Natixis to set up Pfandbrief mortgage bank in Germany
French bank Natixis has unveiled plans to establish a new business unit specialising in the financing of European commercial real estate transactions through the issue of Pfandbriefe, or covered bonds.
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'Big freeze' puts pressure on investors
The withdrawal of heavyweight lenders Eurohypo and Soci茅t茅 G茅n茅rale at the end of last year marks a sea change for the European real estate industry, according to the 2012 Emerging Trends report.
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International tenants flock to Freeport鈥檚 expanded outlet centre in Lisbon
Freeport, the retail outlet operating unit of Carlyle Europe Real Estate, has reached almost 100% occupancy at its Alcochete outlet retail centre near Lisbon following the completion of a new extension that is due to open today. International retailers including Helly Hansen, Claire鈥檚, PreNatal and Dockers have signed up to ...
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Consortium takes control of Fonci猫re Paris France
Paris H么tels Roissy Vaugirard, a vehicle controlled by insurers Allianz and Cov茅a together with property company Cofitem-Cofimur, has raised its stake in Fonci猫re Paris France to 68%, thereby sealing its hostile takeover offer for the French listed office landlord.
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French and Dutch markets hit hardest by economic jitters
The French and Dutch real estate markets were badly affected by increasing nervousness due to the weakening economic climate in the last quarter of 2011, according to the Royal Institution of Charters Surveyors (RICS).
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Structural shifts put pressure on investors
The withdrawal of heavyweight lenders Eurohypo and Soci茅t茅 G茅n茅rale at the end of last year marks a sea change for the European real estate industry, according to the 2012 Emerging Trends report.
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Istanbul leads Emerging Trends ranking for 2012
Over half of the cities surveyed in the annual Emerging Trends report on European real estate recorded a lower investment score than last year, including major markets such as London, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Madrid and Rome. The top-ranked cities in the survey tend to be either in western or northern Europe, ...
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New EUR 120m debt fund targets high-end London residential
Luxembourg-based investment firm Aeriance has launched a 拢100 mln (EUR 120 mln) closed-ended specialist debt fund to provide bridging loans for residential property transactions in London. Aeriance said that the fund, OREL, was created to capitalise on the dislocation in short-term real estate lending in the UK.
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European investment volumes rise 7% between 2010 and 2011
The volume of commercial property investments traded in the main Western European markets rose by 7% between 2010 and 2011, according to a report by international adviser BNP Paribas Real Estate.
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Blackstone tops 2011 investor list
US private equity giant Blackstone leads PropertyEU's ranking of the top 100 real estate investors by volume in Europe in 2011. The provisional ranking - based on the transaction list from PropertyEU Research - records 10 investments totalling EUR 2.6 bn carried out by Blackstone in Europe on behalf of ...
