All PropertyEU Archive articles – Page 1973

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    WGF transfers property management to Koch Immobilien

    2009-11-10T00:00:00Z

    WGF Westfälische Grundbesitz und Finanzverwaltung has transferred the property management for its residential and commercial real estate holdings to Koch Hausverwaltungs in Düsseldorf.

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    Nexity delivers 20,000 m[sup]2[/sup] scheme near Barcelona to UBS

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    French property company Nexity said it has completed a new 19,500 m[sup]2[/sup] office complex located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, near Barcelona. The scheme, comprising the Kibo and Vinson buildings, was developed for UBS Euroinvest Immobilien, a real estate fund managed by UBS Global Asset Management.

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    Acciona to sell Madrid office for EUR 100m

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Spanish infrastructure group Acciona has reportedly entered into exclusive negotiations with pension fund La Mutualidad de la Abogacía (the Spanish private pension fund for lawyers) to sell two office buildings in Madrid for EUR 100 mln. According to a news report in Europroperty, the two buildings are located in Madrid's ...

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    FDL buys EUR 118m worth of property from Predica

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Foncière Développement Logements (FDL) has acquired EUR 118 mln worth of property in France from Credit Agricole's insurance arm Predica.

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    Urbas Guadahermosa to issue EUR 150m worth of bonds

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Spanish property company Urbas Guadahermosa plans to issue EUR 150 mln in convertible bonds, increasing its share capital to EUR 240 mln.

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    Spain's Banesto seeks S&L on 24 properties

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Spanish bank Banesto has reportedly put a portfolio of bank branches and office properties on the market with a price tag of EUR 150 mln. According to financial newspaper Expansion, the lender has hired Aguirre Newman to manage the sale process of 24 flagship properties in Spain's major cities.

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    UK bank real estate lending falls in Q3: JLL

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The latest Bank of England lending figures show that bank lending in sterling to real estate over the third quarter of 2009 fell for the first time since December 1997, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.

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    Pirelli RE sees 3Q loss widens to EUR 58m

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Pirelli Real Estate saw its losses widen to EUR 58 mln in the first nine months of the year from EUR 13 mln a year before. Revenues dropped 33% to EUR 199 mln in the third quarter, from EUR 296 mln in the same period in 2008.

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    Urban&Civic buys former Alconbury Airfield

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Urban&Civic has acquired the former Alconbury Airfield in Cambridgeshire, UK for £27.5 mln (EUR 30.8 mln). The property was commissioned as an American airbase during the Second World War and was declared surplus to requirements by the Ministry of Defence in March 1995. The existing estate comprises over 100 ...

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    YIT and BPT form Russian development partnership

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Finnish international developer YIT and Copenhagen-based Baltic Property Trust (BPT) have signed a strategic partnership agreement for the Russian real estate market.

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    ECE to lease and manage Central Bratislava

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Immocap Group has commissioned ECE Projektmanagement Praha for the planning, leasing and centre management of the Centrál shopping centre in Bratislava. 'We are very pleased that we have won such an important and experienced partner as ECE for our project,' said Petr Luke and Michal Lazar, managing directors of the ...

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    Castellum wins first BREEAM-certified property in Sweden

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    A full-service facility in Gothenburg developed by Castellum AB's subsidiary Eklandia Fastighets for and together with Toyota has been assigned Sweden's first BREEAM certification. Castellum's real estate portfolio now comprises 74 properties with a Green Building classification.

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    Robust rents slow capital depreciation in Netherlands

    2009-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Dutch commercial property markets have completed four consecutive quarters of negative capital growth although the latest third quarter figure, at -0.8%, is the shallowest decline since the downturn, according to the ROZ/IPD Netherlands Quarterly Property Index.

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    Valuations show 10% margin of error: RICS

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    The majority of valuations in the largest commercial property markets in Europe fell within 10% of sale prices in 2008 despite a year of growing market uncertainty, according to the RICS Valuation and Sale Price Report published in November.

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    USS acquires Segro's Great Western park for EUR 123m

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Segro announced on Friday that it has sold the Great Western Industrial Park in Southall, West London to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) for £110.4 mln (EUR 123 mln). The investment volume reflects a net initial yield of 6.9%, which rises to over 7% once outstanding reviews are settled.

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    Meag leases out 6,200 m[sup]2[/sup] in Paris

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Meag, the global asset manager of Munich Re and Ergo, is leasing 6,200 m[sup]2[/sup] in its Paris Eight property to the international legal firm Norton Rose. The office building Paris Eight is situated at 40 Rue de Courcelles in Paris's 8th arrondissement (CBD). The lease agreement with Norton Rose is ...

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    Profile: Christian Delaire of AEW Europe

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    AEW CEO Christian Delaire has over EUR 2 bn burning in his pocket for investments in real estate. AEW Europe is one of the key equity players who are revving up their engines as they step up their search for affordable assets around Europe.

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    John Cartwright appointed CEO of Aref

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    The Association of Real Estate Funds (Aref) has announced the appointment of John Cartwright as its new CEO. Cartwright was previously head of Retail and Institutional Funds at real estate investment managers PRUPIM. He has a total of 35 years experience in property investment, including 20 years as a fund ...

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    Prologis refinances Polish assets with Austrian bank

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Denver-based distribution facilities operator Prologis announced last week that it has reached an agreement with an unnamed bank based in Austria to provide a new EUR 41.4 mln financing to the Prologis European Properties Fund II (PEPF II).

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    London market gets welcome year-end boost

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    New requirements for London office space totalling almost 1 million sq ft (92,000 m2) have been launched in the last month by major corporates, according to a new report from Cushman & Wakefield. The new requests provide a further boost to the market which has just enjoyed its best quarter ...