All PropertyEU Archive articles – Page 1895

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    RBS shifts Amsterdam HQ to new office

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to move its Amsterdam headquarters to a new location in the city's Zuidas business district, the banking group said on Friday.

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    APF International buys office property in Zwolle

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    APF International has acquired a 9,970-m[sup]2[/sup] office building in the Dutch city of Zwolle on behalf of Fotex Netherlands, the Dutch subsidiary of Hungarian-listed holding company Fotex. The 'La Grande Vitesse' property, which includes 126 parking places, was sold by ING Dutch Office Fund. The financial details were not ...

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    Riabokobylko to chair ULI Russia

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Sergey Riabokobylko FRICS, senior executive director and partner of Cushman & Wakefield, is the new chairman of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Russia. In this voluntary role, Riabokobylko is replacing Arnaud Dubois, managing director and partner- IMAGIM who served as district council chairman for two years.

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    Food giant gets a taste for Poland

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The Warsaw office of international property consultant King Sturge advised in a transaction in which Associated British Foods (AB Foods) has taken over 26,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of production and warehouse space near Poznan in west-central Poland.

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    Plaza completes 30th mall in CEE

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Plaza Centers, an emerging markets property developer, has completed and opened Suwalki Plaza in Poland - its 30th shopping centre in Central and Eastern Europe and its ninth in Poland. Suwalki Plaza is located in Suwalki’s city centre in the north-east of Poland.

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    Cala takes EUR 35m loss on Brandon shopping centre

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    The Columbus UK Real Estate Fund, advised by Schroders' Columbus Capital Management, and the Chester Properties Investment Partnership have joined forces to acquire the Brandon shopping centre in Motherwell, UK. Although the price of the acquisition was not disclosed, market sources say that Cala Properties sold the scheme at a ...

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    Immofinanz reaches agreement on EUR 512m debt restructuring

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Austria's Immofinanz, the group resulting from the merger of Immofinanz and Immoeast, has reached an agreement with Constantia Packaging on the restructuring of a EUR 512 mln bond. The agreement puts an end to a longstanding dispute on a EUR 520 mln missing payment provided by Immoeast to Immofinanz Beteiligungs ...

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    Andrew Smith succeeds Backlund as Aberdeen's head of property

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Aberdeen Asset Management has announced the appointment of Andrew Smith as the group's new head of property. Smith succeeds Richard Backlund who has decided to step down from full-time executive responsibility by his 60th birthday in September.

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    Commerz Real acquires logistics project in Hannover

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Commerz Real announced on Thursday that it has signed the deed for the Hermes Hub Nord logistics project development in Hanover. Following its prospective completion in Q4 2010, the property will be transferred to the hausInvest europa open-ended real estate fund. The total investment volume for comes to EUR 24 ...

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    AXA adds Immosolutions to list of frozen GOEFS

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    AXA Investment Managers Deutschland has added its EUR 400 mln Immosolutions vehicle to the growing list of German open-ended property funds (GOEFS) that are frozen for redemptions. The three-month suspension of equity withdrawals follows outflows in the wake of the German draft discussion document. The ban will remain in place ...

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    European recovery will be 'anaemic', IPD delegates told

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Recovery of the European property market will take longer and be paler than most people would have wished, Joe Valente, Head of Investment Strategy at Allianz Real Estate, told delegates on the second day of the annual IPD conference in Amsterdam on Thursday. 'We had a very virulent downturn. The ...

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    Niels Cederholm appointed MD at CBRE Denmark

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) announced on Wednesday that Niels Cederholm has been appointed managing director of the property advisor's Danish business from I July. Cederholm has been an executive director with CBRE since 2008 following the acquisition of its Danish affiliate, Cederholm.

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    New Italian asset manager launched to fill industry gap

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Three former Cordea Savills directors have launched Endeavour Asset Management, Italy's first international real estate asset manager. The founders of the Rome-based company are Dominic White, Emmanuel Bordignon and Andrea Migliore. With over a dozen staff in the Italian capital and a satellite office in London, Endeavour has seen its ...

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    Multi's Espacio Coruña first Spanish mall to get BREEAM cert

    2010-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Espacio Coruña, developed by Multi Development Spain, has been awarded the definitive BREEAM certificate, with a 'Very Good' ranking. Multi said Espacio Coruña is the first completed shopping centre in Spain to receive this prestigious certification which is also the International Council of Shopping Centers' standard to evaluate the impact ...

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    DTZ advises on EUR 29m deal in Gothenburg

    2010-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Global property broker DTZ has advised on a EUR 29 mln property transaction in central Gothenburg where Wallenstam sold a residential property to a condominium association. The property comprises approximately 12,350 m[sup]2[/sup] and is located at Föreningsgatan 16 and Victoriagatan 19-23.

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    Accor to sell 450 hotels in move towards franchise model

    2010-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Accor plans to sell 450 hotels as part of the French group's strategy to remake itself as a major franchiser and operator of hotels, rather than a hotel owner, CEO Gilles Pélisson announced, The hotel sales will take place over the next four years.

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    Deka buys office complex in The Hague for EUR 49m

    2010-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Deka Immobilien has acquired the NWO office complex in the centre of The Hague for about EUR 49 mln for its open-ended property fund, WestInvest InterSelect. The property comprises two buildings with a total lettable space of around 18,700 m[sup]2[/sup] and 233 parking spaces. The seller is ASR Property Fund, ...

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    VTB Capital acquires Capital Plaza centre in Moscow

    2010-05-26T00:00:00Z

    VTB Capital's private equity and special situations team has acquired the Capital Plaza business centre in Moscow. The 14-floor building has a total floor space of approximately 50,000 m[sup]2[/sup].

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    Scribona acquires Catella group

    2010-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Scribona, listed on the Nordic exchange First North, is acquiring Catella AB, the European finance group that specialises in financial advisory services and asset management. The total cash amount, including redemption of Catella's debts, amounts to SEK 417 mln (EUR 43 mln). Goodwill from the acquisition amounts to approximately SEK ...

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    Skandia property fund buys properties in UK

    2010-05-26T00:00:00Z

    The Skandia Property Fund has said it is continuing to take advantage of the current value in the commercial property sector with the purchase of two properties for a total of £43 mln (EUR 50.8 mln).