All PropertyEU Archive articles – Page 1712

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    Hines fund buys Birmingham office property

    2011-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Hines has announced that its Pan-European Core Fund (HECF) has acquired an office property in Birmingham for an undisclosed sum. The vendor was the institutional fund arm of German listed property company IVG.

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    Wife of ex-Moscow mayor offloads property company

    2011-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Binbank's chief executive Mikhail Shishkhanov in partnership with Russia's savings bank Sberbank Investments is buying Inteco, one of the country's leading construction and property companies, for a price said to amount to $1.2 bn (EUR 850 mln).

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    European pooled funds stay postive: IPD

    2011-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Cross-border European property funds recorded a fifth consecutive quarter of positive returns, delivering 1.2%, despite ongoing eurozone debt contagion concerns, according to the IPD pan-European Pooled Funds Index.

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    Sjaelso Gruppen pulls out of Poland

    2011-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Danish listed property group Sjaelso is to withdraw from the Polish real estate market due to the financial crisis. Sjaelso, which owns a DKK 274 mln (EUR 38 mln) development portfolio in Poland, said activities will be closed down as the company is no longer able to secure the necessary ...

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    Savills forecasts investment slowdown in H2

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    International real estate advisor Savills has forecast a slowdown of investment activity in the European property sector during the second half of 2011. Nevertheless, Savills said that some European markets - including France, Germany, Ireland and Norway - will beat 2010 levels in terms of annual turnover.

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    Curzon fund acquires Glasgow office for EUR 23m

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Pan-European property investment manager Tristan Capital has announced that one of its funds has acquired a newly-developed office building for EUR 23 mln. The vendor was Lloyds Bank through administrators Grant Thornton.

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    Commerz Real closes EUR 700m power grid deal

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Commerz Real has completed the groundbreaking acquisition of a majority stake in the German energy giant RWE's transmission grid for EUR 700 mln.

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    Gagfah offers to buy back EUR 75m shares

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Listed German residential property company Gagfah has announced an offer to buy back up to EUR 75 mln of its shares. The offer will be in the form of a modified Dutch auction with an offer price of between EUR 3.50 and EUR 5 per share.

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    Deka acquires Biz Two office complex in Vienna

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    German fund manager Deka Immobilien is buying the Bis Two office complex in Vienna on behalf of the open-ended property fund Westinvest Immovalue. The vendor is Austrian developer IC Projektentwicklung. The financial details were not disclosed.

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    Private investor buys shop units in Amsterdam

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    A private investor has acquired five retail units on one of the most exclusive shopping streets in Amsterdam. The financial details were not disclosed but PropertyEU estimates the investment volume of EUR 18 mln. This reflects a yield below 4.75%.

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    CBRE Hotels mandated to sell London development

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    CBRE Hotels have been instructed to market a hotel development site in Southwark, London. Situated in booming Bankside, an area which is seeing significant regeneration, the hotel is located between Southwark Underground station and the famous Tate Modern art gallery.

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    C&W to property manage for new Henderson fund

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Global real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) has been commissioned to provide property management services to the recently launched Henderson German Retail Income Fund (HGRIF).

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    Sovereign debt issues polarise property markets

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Sovereign debt issues are likely to continue to overshadow the fragile and uncertain outlook for the European economy, according to Knight Frank. This in turn is having a significant impact on the property sector, notably in respect of occupier and investor confidence.

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    International investors drive down Dutch office yields

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    International investors are showing a strong interest in the main Dutch office markets, resulting in net yields being driven downward to between 5.3% and 5.7%, according to research released by Savills.

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    Majoirty of Von Essen Hotels under offer

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Property adviser Christie + Co has said that that 19 out of 28 of Von Essen Hotels in the UK are now under offer following two rounds of a bidding process.

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    Grosvenor FM recruits Giles Wintle

    2011-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Grosvenor Fund Management has appointed Giles Wintle as deputy managing director for Continental Europe. Wintle, who has 15 years experience in European real estate, joins from GIC Real Estate, where he oversaw the investment activity in France, Italy, Nordics, CEE and Russia.

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    Henderson gets go-ahead for EUR 120m scheme

    2011-09-05T00:00:00Z

    Henderson Global Investors (Henderson) has been granted outline planning approval for its retail-led scheme in the market town of Bishop's Stortford in England.

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    Russia sees largest ever deal volume in Q2: CBRE

    2011-09-05T00:00:00Z

    Investment in Russian commercial real estate hit a record high in the second quarter of 2011, exceeding even the boom levels reached in the years of 2005 to 2008, according to new research released by CB Richard Ellis.

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    Rockspring secures EUR 219m loan for O'Parinor mall

    2011-09-05T00:00:00Z

    International property fund manager Rockspring has obtained a EUR 219 mln debt facility in one of the largest real estate financing deals in France this year. The loan is securitised against the O'Parinor shopping centre in the north of Paris. It was provided by German property lenders Helaba and Aareal ...

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    Christie + Co brings 5-star London hotel to market

    2011-09-05T00:00:00Z

    Christie + Co has been appointed to to sell a five-star hotel on London's South Bank. The property adviser received the mandate from Maurice Moses and Angela Swarbrick, joint administrators of Hotel Verta and Verta Properties.