All PropertyEU Archive articles – Page 1924

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    GTC, Polnord join forces to develop EUR 250m mall

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    CEE commercial property developer GTC and Warsaw-listed Polnord are partnering to develop a modern shopping centre on a seven-hectare site in the Miasteczko Wilanów district of Warsaw, currently owned by Polnord. The planned project will feature 60,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of retail area and will require an investment of around EUR 250 ...

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    SEB fund acquires Trinity Park III in Warsaw for EUR 93m

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    SEB Asset Management has acquired the Trinity Park III office building in Warsaw on behalf of its real estate mutual fund SEB ImmoPortfolio Target Return Fund for EUR 93 mln. The seller of the top-class office building was the international property developer Ghelamco.

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    Land Securities unveils key appointments to London team

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Land Securities has announced a number of key appointments to its London Portfolio management team. Scott Parsons has been appointed to the new post of Property Director with responsibility for Investment Management, Asset Management and Property Management. He joins the London Portfolio Executive Committee and will report to Robert Noel, ...

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    Cordea Savills appoints assistant portfolio manager at Charities Fund

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Property fund manager Cordea Savills has appointed Helen Soult as Assistant Portfolio Manager for the Charities Property Fund. Focusing on asset management, she will report to Harry de Ferry Foster, Director of Investment at Cordea Savills.

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    Arabella teams up with Starwood to build Zurich tower

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Munich-based property group Arabella Hospitality is strengthening its presence in Switzerland with the development of a new hotel complex in partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts. Located in Zurich, the new project will be part of Arabella's 80-metre high Hard Turm Park tower project and will be delivered in the ...

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    Hansteen backs off from bid for Kenmore European Industrial Fund

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    London-listed real estate firm Hansteen has announced that it is no longer considering making an offer for Kenmore European Industrial Fund (KEIF).

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    Beni Stabili sets up high-street retail JV

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Milan-listed office-focused firm Beni Stabili has signed an agreement with Italy's Real Estate Services for the creation of a new joint venture, Beni Stabili Retail. The new entity will be majority-held by Beni Stabili (55%), and 45% owned by RES, an Italian real estate company specialised in the retail sector ...

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    UK prime yields fall as market continues to stabilise: C&W

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Prime yields fell 9 bp in February as the UK commercial property market continued to stabilise after a period of rapid re-pricing in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s latest business briefing.

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    Poland joins core European real estate markets

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Warsaw's rise in ULI/PwC’s 2010 ranking of European cities which offer the best investment prospects has placed it in a league of its own within Central and Eastern Europe.

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    New firm to target distressed real estate exposure in Europe

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Two former directors at JER Partners have established Resolute, a new firm to offer specialist asset management and consultancy services focussed on distressed debt and equity positions underpinned by real estate portfolios in European and former CIS countries.

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    LSR Group set to launch new projects in Russia

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Russian listed property developer LSR Group has unveiled plans to launch new development projects in a bid to take advantage of a forecast 'construction sector recovery' in the country.

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    PropertyEU Live from Mipim

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    PropertyEU will be reporting Live from Mipim this week with our team of reporters on the ground at Cannes. Our line-up of dealmakers includes Frank Pörschke of Eurohypo, Struan Robertson of Morgan Stanley and Richard Backlund from Aberdeen Property Investors.

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    P3 set to invest EUR 100m in Bratislava logistics park

    2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

    PointPark Properties (P3) plans to invest around EUR 100 mln in the expansion of its PointPark Bratislava logistics park in the Slovak capital. The European logistics asset manager and developer has acquired a further 41 ha of land next to the park in a bid to extend the facility by ...

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    Norway's SWF to invest EUR 16b in real estate

    2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Norway's Ministry of Finance has unveiled new rules allowing the country's sovereign wealth fund to invest up to NOK 130 bn (EUR 16 bn) across the world's property markets. According to the new guidelines, the Norwegian pension fund will allocate 5% of its investment portfolio to real estate, with a ...

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    F&C REIT portfolios outperform IPD index in 2009

    2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

    F&C REIT Asset Management, the property asset management group created in September 2008 from the combination of F&C Asset Management's property business and REIT Asset Management, said its property portfolios turned in a strong performance in 2009, the company's first full year of operation.

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    Major retail deals propel February investment volume to EUR 5b

    2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Three major retail property deals helped lift total European real estate transaction volume to EUR 5 bn in February, a 36% increase compared with January, according to data compiled by PropertyEU. The investment volume for the month was also up 25% on the figure for February last year. The three ...

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    Norwegian Property raises EUR 68m from private placement

    2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Norwegian Property said it successfully completed a private placement of 45,326,000 shares with professional Norwegian and international investors after the close of the Oslo Stock Exchange on 10 March 2010. Gross proceeds from the placement amount to NOK 543.9 mln (EUR 67.7 mln).

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    Cinema City sells two malls in Bulgaria for EUR 85m

    2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

    CEE multiplex cinema operator Cinema City International (CCI) has agreed the sale of its Bulgarian real estate business to Israeli investor Israel Theatres for around EUR 85 mln. In a statement on Wednesday, the company said that the portfolio includes the Mall of Ruse which is expected to open later ...

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    UK shop vacancies rise again in post-Christmas lull

    2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Over 10% of shops on the UK's high streets are now vacant or available to lease, according to the latest Retail Availability survey from real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield.

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    SEB buys office development in Paris

    2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

    SEB Asset Management has signed a preliminary contract to acquire 'Claude Bernard A2', a high-quality new office building in Paris still under construction, from BNP Paribas Real Estate Property Development. The property will be added to SEB's ImmoInvest open-ended real estate fund. The parties agreed not to disclose the ...