All PropertyEU Archive articles – Page 1829

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    Klepierre's Odysseum wins 2010 Mapic Award

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Odysseum in the French city of Montpellier has been named best shopping centre at the 2010 Mapic Awards last week. The Odysseum scheme is a 50/50 joint venture between Klepierre and Icade and the largest shopping centre opened in France so far this year.

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    Value-added funds to target Italian retail in 2011: C&W

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    The Italian retail market will see more activity next year from value-added investors, claims Stephen Screene, head of Capital Markets Group at Cushman & Wakefield in Milan.

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    Dassault to launch EUR 26m capital increase

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    French SIIC Immobiliere Dassault is to carry out a EUR 26 mln capital increase to fund the acquisition of an office building at 127 avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris. The company will issue roughly 1.7 million new shares at a price of EUR 15 per share. The subscription period runs ...

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    Fornebu to sell Stavanger project for EUR 35m

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Norwegian listed property company Fornebu Utvikling (FBU) has signed a preliminary term agreement for the sale of its Hinna Park project company in Stavanger for NOK 287 mln (EUR 35 mln).

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    Gatehouse acquires IHG global HQ for EUR 37m

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Gatehouse Bank has completed the acquisition of InterContinental Hotels Group´s global headquarters in Denham, Buckinghamshire in the UK for £32.5 mln (EUR 37 mln). The vendor was Tritax Property Fund.

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    Pension scheme acquires Copenhagen office

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Danish pension scheme PKA has acquired a combined office and retail project in central Copenhagen for about EUR 81 mln. The vendor is Sweden's NCC Property Development.

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    Alpha seeks to strengthen TK Maxx partnership

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Cologne-based Alpha Industrial is working on enlarging its partnership with discount retailer TK Maxx through a second major distribution centre project in Continental Europe. In October Alpha handed over a 45,000-m[sup]2[/sup] distribution centre to TK Maxx in Bergheim, Germany.

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    Banimmo to build office property in Ghent

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Belgian listed property company Banimmo has been selected for the construction of an office building for the Flemish Environment Agency (VMM) in Ghent.

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    Redevco breaks ground for first project in China

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Redevco Asia, co-owner of Wuhan Tiandi Riverview Plaza, has broken the ground for a new shopping centre in Jiang’an District in Wuhan with its partner Shui On Land. The complex will offer 109,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of retail space spread across more than 250 stores, and will also provide 1,900 parking spaces.

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    London's West End remains most expensive office market: CBRE

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    London's West End continues to be the world's most expensive office market, according to CB Richard Ellis' semi-annual Global Office Rents survey. The CBRE rankings track occupancy costs for prime office space in 175 cities around the globe. Hong Kong's Central Business District (CBD) continued in second place and also ...

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    Premier Inn recruits King Sturge for London expansion

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    The UKs largest budget hotel operator, Premier Inn, has appointed King Sturge as a retained agent for Greater London to assist in their strategy for growth to add to its existing portfolio of 48 hotels within the M25. King Sturge will join existing retained agent Cropper & Co.

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    Reico's fund shops in Prague

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    The real estate investment arm of Czech bank Ceska Sporitelna has bought a mixed-use building on Prague's Wenceslas square for nearly one billion Czech koruna (EUR 41 mln). CS Real Estate Fund, which is managed by the bank's investment arm Reico, has purchased the building from an unnamed US-based private ...

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    Nigel Roberts to leave JLL

    2010-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Jones Lang LaSalle has confirmed that Nigel Roberts, director and chairman of EMEA Research, has decided to leave the firm after a career spanning nearly 30 years. Roberts intends to pursue client-side opportunities.

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    Invesco Real Estate sells French asset for EUR 14m

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Invesco Real Estate (IRE), has announced the sale of a Parisian office property for EUR 14 mln on behalf of its client, the iii-BVK Europa-Immobilien-Spezialfonds, an institutional real estate fund of Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), to BNPPREI Management on behalf of a ‘SCPI’ under management, Accimmo Pierre.

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    Plaza Centers raises EUR 15m from Polish investors

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Plaza Centers, a leading emerging markets property developer, has raised a total of PLN 60 mln (around EUR 15.2 mln) following the completion of the first tranche of a bond offering to Polish institutional investors. The bonds have a three-year maturity and bear an interest rate of six month Polish ...

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    Tag to launch EUR 174m takeover bid for Colonia

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Hamburg-based Tag Immobilien is launching a EUR 174 mln voluntary takeover offer for Cologne-based competitor Colonia Real Estate. In a statement last week, the company offered to pay EUR 5.5 for each Colonia share, representing a 30% premium on the company's average weighted market price for the past three months.

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    Pradera fund acquires three Polish malls for EUR 40m

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Pradera Europe has agreed the purchase of three shopping centres in Poland from UK-listed Carpathian for a total of EUR 40.2 mln on behalf of its Pradera Open-Ended Retail Fund (POERF).

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    Top 5 markets account for bulk of European retail deals: CBRE

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    European retail investment volume reached EUR 7.3 bn in the third quarter of 2010 and was heavily concentrated in only a small number of markets, according to the latest research from CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).

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    Helical Poland secures EUR 72m financing for Gliwice mall

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Helical Bar's Polish arm has secured construction financing for Europa Centralna, its flagship retail project near Gliwice in Poland. The company was granted a loan of EUR 72 mln from Aareal Bank for the 67,000 m[sup]2[/sup] scheme which will open in late spring 2012.

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    AEW Europe/Tristan fund confirms logistics transaction

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    AEW Europe and Tristan Capital Partners have confirmed that a subsidiary of European Property Investors Special Opportunities (EPISO), an opportunistic property fund they co-advise, has sold five logistics assets located in Rugby and southwest London to London & Stamford Property Plc for £123 mln (EUR 144 mln).