All PropertyEU Archive articles – Page 1865

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    Beltane AM acquires City of London office property

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Beltane Asset Management, has purchased St Paul's House, Warwick Lane from Grange Hotels, its second City of London acquisition in less than two months.

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    Pfizer becomes largest tenant of Adgar Plaza

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Adgar Postepu has signed a contract for the lease of office space with the Polish arm of leading pharmaceutical company Pfizer. The new tenant will occupy the largest office space among all the companies that have decided to locate their offices in Adgar Plaza, part of the Adgar complex situated ...

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    Foruminvest sells majority interest in Belgian projects

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    European investor-developer Foruminvest Group has sold the majority interests in three Belgium shopping centre developments to City Malls, a new venture established by Patric Huon, the CEO of Foruminvest Belgium, and Brussels-listed real estate company Banimmo.

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    Buck Consultants hires Ernst & Young partner

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Buck Consultants International has recruited Jan Siemons as managing partner. In his new position, the former Ernst & Young partner will be responsible for servicing the growing demand for location advice by international companies as well as the advisory services to economic development groups and inward investment agencies in Europe.

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    Chinese to replace Russians as major investors in prime London resi

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Chinese buyers are expected to replace Russian investors as major players in the prime central London market as the number of super-wealthy individuals continues to grow rapidly in the country, new research from CB Richard Ellis has revealed. Buyers with foreign currency are still enjoying attractive discounts on prime central ...

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    OVG delivers Haagsche Zwaan to Union Investment

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Rotterdam-based developer OVG has delivered the Haagsche Zwaan office development in The Hague to its owner Union Investment.

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    PREI names DeVos as Global sustainability officer

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Pramerica Real Estate Investors has named David DeVos as its new Global Sustainability Officer, responsible for overseeing the company’s evolving strategy to reduce its worldwide environmental footprint.

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    Westimmo and DG Hyp grab market share

    2010-08-27T00:00:00Z

    German lenders Westimmo and DG Hyp booked an increase in their new commercial real estate business in 2009, according to PropertyEU’s annual survey of the top financiers in Europe. Westimmo showed the strongest growth, with new loan production rising 13% to EUR 6.2 bn from EUR 5.5 bn in 2008. ...

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    Corio swings back into the black in H1

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Listed retail property specialist Corio swung back into the black in the first half of the year with a net profit of EUR 158 mln following a loss of EUR 196.4 mln in the year-earlier period. The turnaround was attributed to an increase in the value of the portfolio and ...

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    Hansteen to acquire portfolio for EUR 16.5m

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Hansteen Holdings, the London-listed investor in UK and Continental European real estate, has exchanged contracts to acquire a multi-sector portfolio of 12 freehold and leasehold assets in Scotland for a total cost of £13.5 mln (EUR 16.5 mln).

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    NCC sells housing project in Berlin for EUR 19m

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Finnish construction and development group NCC has announced that its German unit has sold a proprietary housing project in northern Berlin for SEK 176 mln (almost EUR 19 mln).

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    RREEF funds meet acquisition target for 2010

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    RREEF's Spezial Invest funds have reached their 2010 target of acquiring EUR 500 mln-worth of properties for its institutional investors and the fund manager plans to spend a further EUR 300 mln before the end of the year.

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    HGI extends EUR 685m Central London Office Fund

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Henderson Global Investors has extended its £560 mln (EUR 685 mln) Central London Office Fund I until December 2015. Nearly all of the fund's 84 investors voted in favour of extending the fund from 2011 in order to take advantage of the strong London office market. Clive Castle, fund manager ...

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    Real I.S. buys Amsterdam office building for new Bayernfonds

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    German fund manager Real I.S. has bought the office building known as 'The Book' in Amsterdam for an undisclosed sum. The property is located in the Sloterdijk/Teleport business district and has been fully let to the Dutch government until 2025.

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    Bouwfonds Parking Fund buys third Dutch asset

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Bouwfonds European Real Estate Parking Fund has acquired its third car park in the Netherlands in a sale-and-leaseback transaction with Q-Park. The investment volume was about EUR 20 mln.

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    Valad focuses on growing European business

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Sydney-listed Valad Property Group said that it is focusing on growing its European business after the group posted a full-year loss of A$165 mln (EUR 115 mln) in the year to end-June.

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    Grainger and Moorfield unveil JV

    2010-08-26T00:00:00Z

    UK listed residential property firm Grainger announced on Monday that Grainger Equity Release Limited (GERL) has entered into a 50-50 joint venture with a subsidiary of Moorfield Real Estate Fund II to run residential property company Sovereign Reversions.

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    Deka spends EUR 145m on D640 in Barcelona

    2010-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Deka Immobilien, advised by Cushman & Wakefield, has acquired a class-A office building, known as D640, in Barcelona for EUR 145 mln. The transaction is the largest single-asset deal in the Spanish market so far in 2010, according to C&W.

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    SNS Property Finance books EUR 189m loss on impairments

    2010-08-25T00:00:00Z

    SNS Property Finance saw its net losses soar more than 50% to EUR 189 mln in the first half of 2010 following impairments linked to the winding down of its international real estate financing activities.

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    Evans Randall buys London scheme for EUR 296m

    2010-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Evans Randall has acquired the newly completed Drapers Gardens development in the City of London for £242.5 mln (EUR 296 mln). The vendor is a joint venture including Canary Wharf Group and a subsidiary of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds.