Monday 19. July 2010
Global 2010 RE investment may rise 50% - JLL
Global commercial real estate investment reached $66bn in 2Q10, nearly double the market bottom one year ago, and...
Monday 19. July 2010
Pirelli equity agrees Prelios name, capital boost
Shareholders of Italian listed group Pirelli & C. Real Estate have approved a change of name to Prelios, and also a...
Monday 19. July 2010
DIC Asset sees market base, first upturn signs
Frankfurt's listed office investor DIC Asset has experienced a bottoming-out in the market for several weeks and is...
Monday 19. July 2010
BREAKFAST WITH PIE - Austria-Hungary, 17 September, London
Austria-Hungary Property Breakfast - Friday 17 Sept., London - posing the question "Will Austria & Hungary, in echo of...
Monday 19. July 2010
Poland clears Unibail-Rodamco Simon Ivanhoe deal
The Polish competition authority has approved the E715m acquisition by French-Dutch REIT Unibail-Rodamco of mall...
Monday 19. July 2010
ORIE to continue fight against Grand Paris tax
Ile-de-France commercial property body ORIE will continue to push for an alternative to the controversial capital gains...
Monday 19. July 2010
Italy Research Forum issues first joint office study
Italian research executives from six realtors, in the enlarged Italy Research Forum that aims to boost market...
Monday 19. July 2010
French Gecina aims to boost office, healthcare
French REIT/SIIC Gecina, until recently grappling with severe corporate governance controversies, aims to grow the...
Monday 19. July 2010
French Eurosic sees possible corporate tie-up
French REIT/SIIC Eurosic could link up with another property company rather than being fully sold off by parent company...
Monday 19. July 2010
Istanbul office investment accelerates in 2Q10
Office investment in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul accelerated in second quarter 2010 after many international firms...
Monday 19. July 2010
US Lufkin signs $126m site in Romanian Ploesti
Belgium-based Alinso's Romanian unit Allianso Business Park has signed a contract with Texas oil industry equipment and...
Monday 19. July 2010
RE investors returning to Estonia - Re&Solution
Some optimism is re-emerging in Estonian real estate, and foreign investor interest, especially from Scandinavia, has...
Monday 19. July 2010
Italy Research Forum issues first joint office study
Italian real estate research executives from six major international realtors, in an enlarged working group Italy...
Thursday 15. July 2010
End of silent retailing means consumer engagement - JLL
The retail industry has remained very quiet in communicating with people until now but the future of retail marketing...
Thursday 15. July 2010
Eurohypo in E75m financing for ProLogis' PEPF II
ProLogis European Property Fund II, the externally-managed European logistics real estate fund set up by US REIT...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
French RE investment curbed by letting worries
French property investment will recover only modestly this year, with activity curbed by concerns about a fragile...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
Austria's conwert raises offer price for ECO
Listed residential property group conwert, based in Vienna, has raised to E7.15 from E6.50 its takeover offer share...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
Kesko, Ilmarinen close Finland's largest deal at E180m
Kesko, Kesko Pension Fund and Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance company have established a new firm, Kruunuvuoren...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
Deka buys Paris hotel for E114m, sells in Düsseldorf
French REIT/SIIC Altarea Cogedim has sold a hotel and conference complex near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to German...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
French house prices up 8.5%yy in June - Century 21
The price of the average existing home in France has risen 8.5% over the 12 months to the end of June, and now costs...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
German WestImmo bank sale delayed to August
The sale of the Mainz-based real estate financing bank WestImmo by the Düsseldorf landesbank WestLB has been further...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
UBS raises stake in German fund unit to 95%
UBS Global Asset Management has raised its stake in its German fund management unit UBS Real Estate by 43.9% to 94.9%....
Tuesday 13. July 2010
AXA in first close of Europe development fund at E230m
AXA Real Estate Investment Managers has made the first close of its pan-European development fund, Development Venture...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
French FdR opens CB 21 La Defense tower
French REIT/SIIC Foncière des Régions last week officially opened its 75,000 sq.m. CB 21 tower in La Défense, the first...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
Deutsche EuroShop boosts capital via non-cash buys
The Hamburg-based Deutsche EuroShop is to boost its share capital by around 4.0% through the issue of 1.78m new...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
RREEF acquires Wroclaw's Grunwaldzki for E77m
RREEF Investment, the Frankfurt-based fund unit of Deutsche Bank's alternatives investment manager, has acquired the...
Tuesday 13. July 2010
German banks cautious but positive on French market
German mortgage banks remain cautious but see France as a promising market, according to Eurohypo, pbb Deutsche...
Monday 12. July 2010
Austria's conwert ups offer price for ECO
Listed residential property group conwert, based in Vienna, has raised to E7.15 from E6.50 the per-share takeover offer...
Wednesday 07. July 2010
Henderson in E300m German Special Fund targeting Austria
Henderson Global Investors, on behalf of its Hamburg-based Warburg-Henderson, has begun marketing a Special Fund...
Wednesday 07. July 2010
French house prices up 8.5%yy in June - Century 21
The price of the average existing home in France has risen 8.5% over the 12 months to end-June, and now costs E2,508...
Monday 05. July 2010
Aberdeen eyes Asia/US; has no plans to sell Degi
Investment manager Aberdeen Asset Management, after 'changing the guard' at the head of its property division, will...
Monday 05. July 2010
German property NPL 'second wave' starting next year
Following a `first wave' of non-performing loans in Germany, a second is about to break as loans mature in 2011-2015...
Monday 05. July 2010
Italian funds eye European capital-raising, face tax tussle
Italian real estate funds are moving toward capital raising in a more open Europe-wide tradition, but they face a...
Monday 05. July 2010
Grosvenor buying French retail, looks for first time at Germany
UK-based property group Grosvenor, famous for its ownership of 120 hectares of London's West End, is back in...
Monday 05. July 2010
Austria's CA Immo wins Europolis with E272m bid
Austrian listed property group CA Immobilien has agreed to acquired the investment and asset manager Europolis for...
Monday 05. July 2010
Russian Stroimontage, La Défense sign on E2bn towers
Russian construction group Stroimontage has signed an agreement with La Défense management company EPAD on the delivery...
Monday 05. July 2010
German `cycle-resistant' assets are opportunities - Internos
Despite fear of an economic double dip, Europe continues to offer substantial opportunities for major property...
Monday 05. July 2010
IVG's Airrail set to open at Frankfurt Airport in October
The giant 140,000 sq.m. office and mixed use complex Airrail, being developed by German listed group IVG next to...
Monday 05. July 2010
Speed of real estate finance gathers pace in Europe - ING
Real estate financing across Europe is picking up on the back of a revival in investment, says Rudolf Molkenboer, CEO,...
Monday 05. July 2010
Obsolescence mean Green no longer extra cost but value
Sustainable and energy efficient real estate is no longer an extra cost but an extra value, says Jean Carassus,...
Monday 05. July 2010
Corporate Village Malta: Scale of a village, capabilities of a nation
Located at the centre of the Mediterranean between Europe and Africa, the independent archipelago of Malta, Gozo and...
Monday 05. July 2010
Gothaer's Morgenroth named new INREV chair
European property funds association INREV has named Michael Morgenroth as new chairman, succeeding Johan van der Ende...