All PropertyEU Archive articles – Page 1919

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    Invesco launches 4th US property fund in Europe

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Invesco Real Estate (IRE) has announced the first closing of its US IV fund, the fourth in a series of tactical funds investing European institutional capital into the US real estate markets.

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    BayernLB provides EUR 40m loan for new E.ON office

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    German regional bank BayernLB said it is providing a loan of around EUR 40 mln to finance the construction of a new office building for energy company E.ON in Regensburg. The funding will be issued to a closed-end fund managed by Real I.S., a subsidiary of BayernLB, which will undertake ...

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    BNP Paribas REIM launches EUR 500m OPCI fund

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management is creating a new OPCI investment vehicle, SPF1, which will seek to invest around EUR 500 mln in the French retail property sector over the next three years. The vehicle has already completed its first acquisition with the purchase last month of a EUR ...

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    Schroders acquires Swiss shopping centre

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Schroder Property has announced the purchase of the Via XXV Aprile4 shopping mall in Winterthur, Switzerland on behalf of its EUR 800 mln listed property fund Schroders ImmoPlus. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

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    Savills names new head of office agency in Germany

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Robert Kellershohn has been appointed head of office agency for Savills Germany with immediate effect. Based in Savills' Dusseldorf office, Kellershohn has been responsible for the office letting activities of Savills in Dusseldorf and the Ruhr area since May 2008. In his new role as head of office agency, he ...

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    Law firm leases space at Alte Post in Hamburg

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Alstria Office REIT and Quantum Immobilien announced on Friday that international law firm Graf von Westphalen is leasing 3,500 m[sup]2[/sup] at Alte Post in Hamburg.

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    Metrovacesa mulls capital increase

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Spanish property firm Metrovacesa has said it is considering a capital increase as part of a debt refinancing agreement being negotiated with its creditor banks. 'The company confirms it is in talks with its creditor banks about various options, one of which is a possible capital hike,' the Madrid-based company ...

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    Colonial outlines new strategy

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Spain's Inmobiliaria Colonial has announced plans to focus on its rental income portfolio after completing its debt restructuring process later this year. The Madrid-listed company, which reached an agreement to restructure EUR 4.9 bn of debt in February, said it intends to proceed with its plan to hive off its ...

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    Hatfield Philips introduces quarterly investor meetings

    2010-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Hatfield Philips International has introduced quarterly investor meetings to supplement the official reporting rounds that only occur once a quarter around interest payment dates,.

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    Sonae Sierra sees losses narrow to EUR 160 mln in 2009

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    Portuguese developer Sonae Sierra booked a net consolidated loss of EUR 159.9 mln in 2009 compared with a negative consolidated result of EUR 185.5 mln a year ago. The company attributed the losses to further writedowns of its assets. However, it added that the pace of devaluation started to slow ...

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    Kenmore sees portfolio value fall 9.5% in 2009

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    Kenmore European Industrial Fund, a Guernsey-registered closed-end investment company focusing on industrial property assets in Western Europe and Scandinavia, said the underlying value of its portfolio fell by 9.58% in 2009 as property values across mainland Europe slid in the wake of the financial crisis.

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    Eurohypo sees new business growing in 2010

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    German financier Eurohypo expects new business to grow further in 2010, board chairman Frank Pörschke told PropertyEU in an interview at Mipim last week. 'I expect we will see a higher single-digit billion-euro figure representing new business this year.'

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    Helaba-led syndicate provides EUR 250m financing for Munich deal

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    German lender Helaba has announced it is acting as syndicate leader in the provision of EUR 250 mln financing for the purchase of a Munich business park.

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    Liberty sells London store for £41m

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    MWB's 68%-owned unit, Liberty has exchanged contracts for the sale of the freehold interest in its 125,000 sq ft (11,600 m2) flagship store on Great Marlborough Street, London W1, for £41.5 mln (EUR 46 mln), to Sirosa Liberty. The sale price reflects an initial yield of 4.8%.

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    AEW, HSBC vie with Amundi for Genepierre's management mandate

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    AEW Europe and HSBC REIM are vying with Amundi Immobilier, the new EUR 5.2 bn investment management firm created from the merger of CAAM RE and Societe Generale AM, to receive the management mandate for the SCPI investment vehicle, Genepierre. Genepierre has so far been managed by Societe Generale and ...

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    Brussels scoops four Mipim Awards

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    The Marco Polo Tower in Hamburg, Germany is the winner of this year's Mipim Awards for residential developments. Designed by Behnisch Architekten, the tower was developed by DC Residential & Co. and Hochtief Projektentwicklung. The winner In the category hotels & tourism resorts was Kameha Grand Bonn in Bonn, developed ...

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    Mann Immobilien becomes new major IVG shareholder

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    Karlsruhe-based Mann Immobilien-Verwaltung has become IVG Immobilien's new major shareholder after acquiring an 18.4% stake in the German fund manager from Solidas 3, the former partners of bank Sal. Oppenheim. IVG said in a statement on Thursday that the transaction is subject to the approval of Germany's antitrust agency.

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    Wichford German subsidiaries get extension of loan standstill

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    UK-listed real estate investor Wichford has announced that a loan servicer has agreed to extend the standstill agreement on a EUR 67.50 mln German facility for an additional 60 days.

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    Schroders re-opens Nordic fund for new investments

    2010-03-21T00:00:00Z

    UK asset manager Schroders has re-opened its Nordic property fund for new investments in efforts to take advantage from advantageous conditions across the Scandinavian property markets. Ubbe Strihagen, director of Schroders' business in Scandinavia, told PropertyEU in an interview that the re-opening follows requests by existing German investors to increase ...

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    Mipim 2010 sees improved market confidence

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Some 18,000 delegates from 81 countries met for business at the 21st edition of Mipim this week, slightly up on the 17,658 visitors and 79 countries registered in 2009 when the financial crisis hit real estate markets full force. In a sign of improved industry sentiment, the number of investment ...