All PropertyEU Archive articles – Page 1937

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    Redevco Switzerland sells C&A property in Chur

    2010-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Redevco Switzerland has sold its C&A property in Chur to Anlagestiftung der UBS für Personalvorsorge (UBS Pension Fund). The property, with a GLA of 2,992 m2, is located in the centre of Chur, Switzerland’s oldest town and the capital of Graubünden (Grisons). The sale reflects its strategy of rebalancing the ...

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    Russian market has reached nadir: C&W

    2010-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Commercial real estate market of Russia has already passed its nadir, according to global consultants Cushman & Wakefield in its quarterly report for Q4 2009. The report also claims occupiers are much more active than a year ago.

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    Danone sells its Polish headquarters

    2010-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Property adviser Cushman & Wakefield announced on Monday that it has represented Danone in the sale-and-leaseback transaction by the French food products multinational of its main office building in Poland. The financial details were not disclosed.

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    ECE, SES launch JV to develop projects in Italy

    2010-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Hamburg-based ECE Projektmanagement and Austria's SES Spar European Shopping Centers are partnering in a new joint venture to develop and manage shopping centres in Italy. Both companies have an equal share in the new partnership, SES-ECE-Management, which is based in Salzburg and will be led by SES' President Marcus Wild ...

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    Legal & General launches LPI Income Property Fund

    2010-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Legal & General has launched a new £500 mln (EUR 570 mln) fund product which the UK financial services group said offers Defined Benefit pension schemes an innovative way to invest in property coupled with a secure source of income, primarily government-backed, all with inflation-linkage. The LPI (Limited Price Inflation) ...

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    Real I.S. seeks KAG status in Germany

    2010-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Real I.S. has said it intends to launch special funds under German investment law for institutional investors itself in future. To this end, Real I.S. has applied to the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) for the licensing of its newly founded subsidiary as a German KAG (investment company).

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    Inrev launches online index tools

    2010-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Non-listed real estate fund body Inrev is introducing two new index tools to enable fund managers to benchmark performance. Inrev argues that the ability to benchmark performance of funds is already essential in a normal market but even more so in today’s environment.

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    Unibail-Rodamco to acquire Simon Ivanhoe's European portfolio

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Unibail-Rodamco has entered into an agreement to acquire Simon Ivanhoe for EUR 715 mln. Under the deal, Europe's largest listed real estate company will gain control of a portfolio of shares in seven shopping centres in France and Poland. Simon Ivanhoe is the jointly held European subsidiary of the Simon ...

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    Sunny Day Capital launched for UK market

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Didier Tandy and Stephen McBride, former Valad/Scarborough/Teesland colleagues, have launched a new property investment and development company - Sunny Day Capital - with plans to take advantage of opportunities currently in the UK property market.

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    MIPIM investor registration figures up 12%

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Some 2,300 international investors have registered for the 21st edition of MIPIM (Cannes from March 16-19), a 12% increase on the same period in 2009, in a sign of improved confidence in the real estate market and economic recovery, the organisers announced on Thursday.

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    PensionDanmark invests EUR 134m in commercial property

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    PensionDanmark has acquired five commercial properties for EUR 134 mln and announced plans to 'significantly' increase its exposure to real estate over the next 2-3years. In a recent statement, the Danish pension fund said that it intends to increase its property portfolio to EUR 1.2 bn, from roughly EUR 750 ...

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    Penta to invest EUR 200m in first Czech project

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Penta Investments has acquired the Czech Typography building complex from the Austrian firm S+B CEE Beteiligungsverwaltungs. The property, formerly known as Rudé Právo building, is situated in Prague 1 between Na Florenci Street and Na Porici Street.

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    CBRE posts 8% rise in EMEA revenues in Q4 2009

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    CB Richard Ellis reported revenue for the EMEA region, which mainly consists of operations in Europe, rose 8% to $287.1 mln (EUR 205 mln) for the fourth quarter of 2009 from $266.5 mln in the year-earlier period. The real estate adviser reported fourth-quarter operating income of $48.4 mln from the ...

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    JLL sees EMEA revenues fall 26% in 2009

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Jones Lang LaSalle said revenue from the EMEA region fell 7% to $226 mln (EUR 162 mln) in the final quarter of 2009 compared with $243 mln in the year-earlier period as transaction volumes continued to slide across the region. Full-year revenue was down 26% at $644 mln compared with ...

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    Double-digit rental growth for London offices in 2010: Knight Frank

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Offices in central London are set to record double-digit rental growth in 2010, according to Knight Frank.

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    Irish investor buys Sofia building for EUR 22.5m

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Irish property investment company West Incorporated has acquired the Telephone Palace landmark office building in Sofia for EUR 22.5 mln. The company plans to invest more than EUR 100 mln in redevelopiment of the property, located in the heart of Bulgaria's capital city.

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    London & Stamford acquires distribution unit for EUR 38m

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    London & Stamford Property has completed the acquisition of the freehold distribution unit at Tamworth for £33.3 mln (EUR 38 mln) from Clerical Medical Investment Group. The transaction which was announced on 29 January reflected an initial yield of 9.5%.

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    TMW Pramerica sells Zurich asset for EUR 40m

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Prudential Financial's property investment arm, TMW Pramerica, has sold an office building located in Pfäffikon near Zurich for around CHF 59 mln (EUR 40 mln). The buyer is the French investor Axa Investment Management. The property was held by TMW Immobilien Weltfonds vehicle.

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    SibStroyInvest gets EUR 60m financing for Aura mall

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    SibStroyInvest, a joint venture between Turkish shopping mall developer Renaissance and private equity group Amstar Global Partners, has received a EUR 60 mln debt financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and UniCredit Bank Austria to fund the development, construction and operation of a Class-A retail and ...

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    AEW Europe sells Benediktinnerring mall

    2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

    AEW Europe's EPI Oakwood subsidiary has sold the Benediktinnerring shopping centre in Villingen-Schwenningen, in Germany's Black Forest to the German clothing retailer Modepark Röther. The companies agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Kemper's Jones Lang LaSalle advised on the transaction.