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IGD acquires Sicilian mall for nearly EUR 100m
Listed Italian property company IGD Siiq has completed the purchase of 100% of the Katane shopping centre in Gravina, eastern Sicily, for a total investment of EUR 98.4 mln. The centre, which opened in May 2009, consists of a 15,000 m[sup]2[/sup] mall with 70 shops, as well as a 8,000 ...
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UK shopping centre investment to exceed 2008: Savills
Savills has forecast shopping centre investment turnover in 2009 will exceed the 拢1.5 bn (EUR 1.6 bn) booked last year following a marked change in investor sentiment towards the sector, which has seen yields begin to harden in the third quarter of 2009.
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Rockspring makes EUR 296m acquisitions for Korean pension fund
Rockspring Property Investment Managers announced on Monday that it has completed its first acquisitions in London on behalf of the South Korean National Pension Service's London Property Limited Partnership for a total of EUR 296 mln. The acquisitions comprise 88 Wood Street, which it bought for 拢183 mln (EUR 202 ...
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Bouwfonds parking fund acquires 4th asset in Germany
Bouwfonds European Real Estate Parking Fund acquired another multi-storey car park in Germany from F&C REIT Asset Management. The carpark provides 860 places under the Friedensplatz in the heart of Bonn. The total transaction value is about EUR 13 mln.
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WestImmo supports Europa Capital/M7's partnership
German lender Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank (WestImmo) has agreed to support the roll out of Europa Capital and M7's Light Industrial Property Partnership (Lipp). WestImmo has initially provided funding for Lipp's first acquisitions of four industrial estates in Milton Keynes, Didcot, Basildon and Tewkesbury, for about 拢20 mln (EUR 22 mln).
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Italy's Aedes liquidates JV with Operae
Italian property developer Aedes Immobiliare has said that it is liquidating its non-strategic partnerships with Operae as part of its new 2009-2013 business plan aimed at re-launching the company's activities. The Milan-based firm said the initiative would bring EUR 11.5 mln into the company's coffers.
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Icade approves merger with SIICInvest
French listed property group Icade and its 90%-controlled SIICInvest unit announced on Friday that the companies' shareholders have approved the planned merger by absorption of SIICInvest into Icade.
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UK poised to become retail investment hotspot
The UK is poised to become a retail investment hotspot in the next few years at the expense of Central Europe, according to Alessandro Bronda, head of global investment strategy at Aberdeen Property Investors. Bronda aired the view at the PropertyNL retail conference in Amsterdam last week. PropertyNL is the ...
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Dutch vacancy mananger expands service to UK
FMT vastgoedbeheer, the Netherlands-based specialist in vacancy management, is poised to open a branch in London as the first step in its international expansion.
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Savills markets portfolio of four German malls
International real estate advisor Savills, on behalf of Prime Commercial Properties (PCP), is marketing a freehold portfolio of four shopping centres in Germany for a guide price of circa EUR 400 mln. The four centres, Allee-Center Leipzig, Billstedt-Center Hamburg, City-Center Chorweiler, Cologne; Haven H枚枚vt Vegesack, Bremen, comprise 139,355 m[sup]2[/sup] of ...
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Reyal Urbis to 'temporarily' freeze its development activities
Spanish property company Reyal Urbis is planning to 'temporarily' halt most of its development activities as part of a new debt refinancing proposal with creditor banks. In a statement last week to the Spanish stock market regulator CNMV, the company said that the measure is part of its strategy to ...
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IT company buys Swiss property from Zublin
A subsidiary of IT company Optibase has acquired a fully let commercial property in R眉mlang, Switzerland from Zublin Immobilien for about EUR 15.5 mln.
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Sponda to build 22,000-m[sup]2[/sup] facility for Metso in Finland
Finnish property investor Sponda said it has signed an agreement with the international technology supplier Metso Automation for the development of a production facility near the Finnish city of Vantaa. The new building, with a floor area of some 22,000 m2, will be built next to the Honkatalo logistics centre ...
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Kempinski to build 150-room hotel in Vienna
A consortium of Porr Solutions, Warimpex, Vienna Insurance Group and Wien Holding has signed a letter of intent with the German luxury hotel operator Kempinski for the operation of the Palais Hansen building in the heart of Vienna. The property, which is being redeveloped and transformed into a new 150-room ...
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Serbia's first outlet centre to open in 2010
Black Oak Development has appointed European outlet specialists, GVA Outlets, to manage, operate and lease the Belgrade Outlet Shopping Centre, the first outlet centre in Serbia.
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C&W sees 'green shoots' as European investment jumps 53% in Q3
Green shoots of recovery are at last starting to appear in the European property market, with investment volumes jumping 53% in the third quarter to EUR 19.6 bn, yields stabilising and even the occupational market managing to show some more encouraging signs, at least of approaching stability, according to Cushman ...
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Orascom buys 90% of Montenegro project
Orascom Development, a Swiss/Egyptian listed property group, has entered into an agreement with the Government of Montenegro to acquire a 90% stake in Lustica Development Podgorica, the developer of a 6.8 million m[sup]2[/sup] site in Tivat on the Mediterranean's Traste Bay. The State of Montenegro is retaining the remaining 10% ...
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Alstria sells EUR 93m office portfolio
Alstria office REIT has announced it is selling seven office assets for EUR 93.4 mln in the largest office portfolio deal in Germany so far this year. The identity of the buyer was not disclosed.
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Risk aversion remains across Europe: DTZ
Commercial real estate investors across Europe show little willingness to move up the risk curve, according to DTZ's latest European Quarterly report. Over the third quarter, commercial real estate investment activity remained focused on the main liquid and transparent markets of Western Europe.
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Berlin office letting market most stable in Germany: NAI Apollo
The office letting market in Berlin has proven to be more stable than other leading German markets, according to NAI Apollo. So far this year the Berlin branch of the independent real estate consulting group has brokered 9,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of office space letting. About 50% of all mediated rental ...
