UK - Sky News has taken 1,200 sq ft from Abbey Business Centres and Swiss Re for a flagship studio on the 15th floor of Swiss Re’s 30 St Mary Axe, better known to Londoner’s as The Gherkin.

Germany - Henderson Global Investors’ €900 million pan-European retail property fund, Herald has acquired the Real Hypermarket & Gallery, a retail warehouse park in Giessen, Germany for approximately €30 million from the Metro...

Poland - Echo Investment begins realization and sale of apartments of the residential project Klimt House located at Kazimierzowska street in Warsaw.

UK - Around £1m in annual rent has been secured in just one week as a result of Cullen Property’s recent student viewings, with 68 of the 80 available properties already let for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Luxembourg - Gagfah S.A. today announced its financial results for 2009. William Joseph Brennan, CEO of Gagfah S.A.'s German subsidiaries: "Gagfah has delivered another year of solid results, on target with our expectations. Full year 2009, Gagfah's core Funds from Operations (FFO)...

UK - Jones Lang LaSalle today announced that Andrew Gardiner is to join its National Office Agency team based in Manchester. Andrew will work alongside Trevor Sloan, head of office agency in Manchester. He replaces Richard...

UK - AMB Property Corporation today announced it has leased approximately 142,000 square feet (13,200 square meters) in its AMB East London Distribution Park. This new lease, to a FTSE 100 company, brings the two-building park to 100 percent leased.

UK - Terrace Hill Group has exchanged conditional contracts to acquire two new sites for supermarket developments, located in Sunderland and in Whitchurch, Shropshire, and also submitted a planning application to redevelop...

Turkey - The pan-European retail property fund VastNed Retail has acquired a high street shop at Istiklal Caddesi 85 in Istanbul.

Poland - Cushman & Wakefield’s latest report on the real estate market Marketbeat – Spring 2010 presents an analysis of the office, retail, industrial, hospitality and residential markets as well as the investment market in Poland...

UK - Construction work is underway on The Exchange - a new enterprise hub at Colworth Science Park, Bedfordshire, which is being developed by Unilever and leading research and...

Germany - Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank AG (WestImmo) is proud to have won the CEE Quality Award in the “CEE Real Estate Banking & Financial Services” category.

Poland - Real estate developers Warimpex and UBM and hotel management firm Vienna International have opened their sixth angelo design hotel after Prague, Bucharest, Munich, Pilsen and Ekaterinburg: the angelo Hotel in Katowice,...

Germany - With approval given by the Supervisory Board on 09.03.2010, the Management Board of GWB Immobilien AG has passed a resolution to increase the share capital of the company by up to €650,000 from the current level of €6,525.000 to up to €7,175.000 using some of the...

UK - Cordea Savills has appointed Helen Soult as Assistant Portfolio Manager for the Charities Property Fund. Focusing on asset management, Helen will report to Harry de Ferry Foster, Director of Investment at Cordea Savills.