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23 August 2010
Montag 28. September 2009
Link from property sustainability to returns is established - APG's Kanters
Sustainability now matters for property investors because a firm link has been established between it and risk-adjusted...
Montag 28. September 2009
IVG Protect Fund for institutions fully placed
The Bonn-based IVG has fully placed a new open-ended, specialised real estate fund with five institutional investors,...
Montag 28. September 2009
Demand for Vienna housing to rise - Bank Austria
Rising numbers of households and a trend toward single households in Vienna are likely to drive the existing surplus in...
Montag 28. September 2009
Unibail-Rodamco cautious on German activities, says too early to enter Russia
French-Dutch retail mall, office and conference centre REIT Unibail-Rodamco continues to look for `critical mass' in...
Montag 28. September 2009
Munich most attractive for real estate investment, says LaSalle IM's E-REGI survey
Germany's third largest city Munich has overtaken London and Paris to head the league table of European cities where...
Montag 28. September 2009
European RE recovery to hinge on credit availability - Catella
A real estate recovery in Europe will depend on availability of credit, currently easier to obtain for residential...
Montag 28. September 2009
Germany's Commerz Real pays e72m for asset near Paris
Commerzbank real estate fund manager Commerz Real has acquired the Le Flavia office scheme in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris...
Montag 28. September 2009
Slovak banks said missing out on country's recovery
Banks in Slovakia are creating unnecessary obstacles for development companies by asking for the near-impossible - as...
Montag 28. September 2009
Portuguese RE investment should grow in 2010 - Cushman
The Portuguese property sector should grow modestly in 2010 if the economy picks up as predicted, and even if...
Montag 28. September 2009
Orco bondholders reject sweetened restructuring plan
Ailing listed CEE developer Orco said its bondholders rejected sweetened proposals for restructuring bonds via a...
Freitag 25. September 2009
Kyiv office negative net absorption may abate
After bearing the full brunt of the global economic contraction last fall, office market in the Ukrainian capital of...
Freitag 25. September 2009
German office, retail rents falling, housing stable - DG Hyp
Office rents in Germany are likely to fall by around 5% this year, with the pace slowing only marginally in 2010, says...
Freitag 25. September 2009
UK's PMM Partners sell Berlin asset at 100% return
The UK boutique real estate fund manager PMM Partners has completed the sale of a Berlin property, St Clemens Höfe, to...
Mittwoch 23. September 2009
Troubled developer Orco reconvenes restructuring EGM as bondholders waver
Troubled listed developer Orco is reconvening a key shareholder meeting on 20 October as the necessary 50% quorum was...
Mittwoch 23. September 2009
Plaza Centers buys site to develop e85m mall in Poland's second city Lodz
Listed emerging markets shopping centre developer Plaza Centers has acquired a 55,000 sq.m. site in Lodz, Poland, for a...
Mittwoch 23. September 2009
Nordic property valuations near bottom, as buyers start to return, says advisor Newsec
The bottom of the Nordic property market is starting to appear, albeit in diverse ways across all four of the main...
Montag 21. September 2009
TMW Pramerica to reopen German property fund as green vehicle
Fund manager TMW Pramerica will re-open its TMW Immobilien Weltfonds German open-end fund for redemptions in the fourth...
Montag 21. September 2009
Madrid urged to introduce housing stimulus measures
Flexible and even innovative measures should be implemented by the Spanish government to re-activate the residential...
Montag 21. September 2009
French commercial real estate investment surges in second quarter
French commercial investment rose by 90% in the second quarter against the first, says international real estate...
Montag 21. September 2009
Immofinanz makes e200m sale to Munich family office AM alpha
The Vienna-based Immofinanz has finalised the sale of two fully-let office buildings and a 5-Star hotel worth e200m to...
Montag 21. September 2009
ProLogis European proposes legal change to SICAF, amends e900m financing
The Luxembourg-registered listed logistics and warehouse fund ProLogis European Properties is continuing a thorough...
Montag 21. September 2009
Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany said attractive housing investments
Residential rental markets of Sweden, Denmark, France and Germany offer above-average attractiveness for institutional...
Montag 21. September 2009
UK-based realtor DTZ posts 2008/9 loss but sees profitability ahead
International property adviser DTZ posted a loss of nearly £80m for the fiscal year to end-April due to significant...
Montag 21. September 2009
Spain's BBVA bank to follow Santander in e1.6bn S&L of branches
Spanish banking group BBVA, in a similar move to its main competitor Banco Santander in the last 18 months, is near to...
Montag 21. September 2009
Retail property investment seen 35% of European total, highest ever
Despite the absolute decline in retail investment across Europe in 1H09, it still accounted for 35% of total property...
Montag 21. September 2009
HRE unit DPB places first post-crisis mortgage Pfandbrief, at e1.5bn
After a roadshow around major financial capitals, Deutsche Pfandbrief, the financing subsidiary of the...
Montag 14. September 2009
Real estate equities bear market is over, opportunities coming, says Cohen & Steers
The two-year bear market in real estate stocks has run its course and a fundamental recovery is already under way in...
Montag 14. September 2009
French REIT/SIIC Affine doubles operating profit though NAV slides; starts re-focus
French REIT/SIIC Affine posted a 17.6% increase in net rental income in first half to e34m, nearly doubled operating...
Montag 14. September 2009
New European shopping centre openings to fall until 2011 - Cushman & Wakefield
Next year will see the lowest level of European shopping centre development for five years, with only 7m sq.m. of new...
Montag 14. September 2009
California's GI Capital sells last Frankfurt asset, says realises 60% gross internal rate of return
The California-based private equity firm GI Partners has sold the last European asset from its debut Fund 1, a data...
Montag 14. September 2009
Catella launches first specialist German open-end fund; e1bn aimed at health care
Catella Real Estate is to launch a German open-ended property fund specialising in European health care facilities, and...
Montag 14. September 2009
German indices show real estate apocalypse called off, says King Sturge
Under the title, Apocalypse Called Off, King Sturge said the August reading on its German Real Estate Economy Index...
Montag 14. September 2009
Netherlands' FBI fund VastNed Retail raises e76m new equity for investment
Dutch REIT/FBI VastNed Retail has raised e75.6m through an accelerated bookbuild offering of 1.7m new shares at a price...
Montag 14. September 2009
AIM-listed Ablon narrows pretax loss, sees no recovery signs in first half
Hungarian CEE property owner and developer Ablon, registered in Guernsey and listed on London's AIM, narrowed its first...
Montag 14. September 2009
Belgian Domo, Piritex in e750m joint venture on Romanian industrial park
Belgian chemicals and real estate group Domo is partnering with Romanian businessman Petrica Usurelu's Piritex in...
Montag 14. September 2009
US industrial developer Panattoni Europe enters Slovakia with first project
Panattoni Europe, an affiliate of the US-based Panattoni Development Company and a leading industrial developer in...
Montag 14. September 2009
Netherlands' FBI VastNed Retail raises e76m new equity for investment
Dutch REIT/FBI VastNed Retail has raised e75.6m through an accelerated bookbuild offering of 1.7m new shares at a price...
Montag 14. September 2009
California's GI Capital sells last Frankfurt asset, says realises 60% gross IRR
The California-based private equity firm GI Partners has sold the last European asset from its debut Fund 1, a data...
Mittwoch 09. September 2009
Capital value decline slowing; UK, Nordics to recover soonest, says Aberdeen
The pace of decline in capital values of commercial real estate across Europe is beginning to slow, but economic growth...
Mittwoch 09. September 2009
Denominator impact in indirect real estate investment now reversing - C&W
International realtor Cushman & Wakefield said the second half of 2009 is set to see a turnaround in indirect...
Mittwoch 09. September 2009
Vienna starts Urban Lakeside to meet future housing needs
Vienna's Urban Lakeside is a massive new development on the Austrian capital's former airport, scheduled for completion...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
Register now for PIE/PFE Emerging Eastern Europe Property Breakfast Friday in London
The deadline for registration for PFE/PFE's Emerging Eastern Europe Property Breakfast in London this Friday is...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
Long, winding road to recovery in 2nd half; Green issues come into view in new section
The road to recovery is long and winding but our September cover highlights that European real estate, coming back from...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
Asset management challenge changes as German banks, owners come under pressure
Pressure on banks and property owners to manage assets to add value in the wake of the financial crisis is likely to...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
WestImmo eyes future outside WestLB. Says property credit, refinancing plentiful
European real estate banking and debt financing are changing fast. September PIE Q&A interview is with Peter Knopp,...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
44 new global private equity RE funds set up, but overall slide extended in first half
Some 44 new real estate private equity funds have been established worldwide in recent weeks but the declining trend...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
Immofinanz/East say capital structures sound enough, despite massive `08/09 losses
Vienna listed property firms Immofinanz and Immoeast, battling for a year to stave off the biggest collapse in European...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
Swiss Jelmoli results improving as more shareholders reject Swiss Prime Site offer
Swiss real estate and stores group Jelmoli Holding, currently under a share-based takeover bid from Swiss Prime Site,...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
National Assembly passes law to set France on path to greenest EU nation by 2020
The French National Assembly in July adopted a new foundation text which brings into law environmental regulations...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
German house prices decline by 3% in July - Hypoport HPX price index
German house prices continue a gradual decline in July, deepening to nearly 3%y/y in aggregate, according to the latest...
Sonntag 06. September 2009
Carlyle to target some of e2.2bn fund at Portugal in link-up with Crimson realty
Global private equity firm Carlyle Group is targeting at least some of the e2.2bn of equity it raised in June 2008 in...
Freitag 04. September 2009
Servicing business heats up as CBRE lands coup
The competition is heating up around Europe for the business of servicing or working out portfolios of distressed or...
Freitag 04. September 2009
Asset management challenge changing - German CRE Resolution
Pressure on banks and property owners to manage assets to add value in the wake of the financial crisis is likely to...