Germany - Following the severe shocks triggered by the financial and economic crisis, the major European property investment markets are now picking up again. Conditions for real estate investment continued to stabilise in the first...

Germany - Patrizia has joined the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). Furthermore, with its new “F 40” development in Frankfurt, Patrizia Projektentwicklung GmbH, is participating in the DGNB pilot project “New Residential...

Germany/Seoul - Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate GmbH has leveraged cyclical opportunities in the Seoul investment market to sell the 14-storey HI Building. The office block, which is let on a long-term lease to insurance company HI Investment & Securities and was acquired for...

Germany - The some 226 feet (69 metre) high office tower Tour Total is to be built as the first building of Europacity, the projected urban district opposite Berlin’s central railway station. The high rise is scheduled to be a Green...

Germany - SEB has signed an agreement to sell its retail banking business in Germany to Banco Santander for EUR 555m. The strategic benefits and the long term financial impact are positive for SEB. Strategically this allows SEB to concentrate on its core areas of competitive...

Germany - Arcadis today announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District as one of five prime contractors for a € 45 million framework contract. Under this contract Arcadis is allowed to compete for task orders with a select number of...

The Netherlands - MEAG has sold the office and retail complex named Rokin Plaza in Amsterdam for the account of a German special fund managed by Internationales Immobilien Institut GmbH. The property located Kalverstraat 13, 15 and 17 – Papenbroekssteeg 1 and 5, 1012 NX Amsterdam and Rokin...

Germany/Spain - Hamburg based ECE Projektmanagement has acquired Auxideico Gestión S.A.U., a leading Spanish center management company, from ING Real Estate Development.

Germany - AEW Europe´s €800 million European core fund, Euroffice, has purchased an office complex, MainPark am Kaiserlei in Offenbach, close to Frankfurt in Germany, from the Bayerische Bau und Immobiliengruppe. The office asset is fully let to the state-owned French company...

Germany - In the first half of 2010 take-up in the five major German office markets Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich totalled approx. 1.16 million sqm. Compared to H1 2009 this represents a growth of 10.3%, albeit...

Germany - Andreas Löcher has been recruited by Union Investment Real Estate GmbH to strengthen its Asset Management Hotels team. The 38-year-old, who holds a degree in business administration, took over management of the...

Germany - Savills Immobilien Beratungs-GmbH has recruited Samuel Ziegler as Associate Director of its Frankfurt office from 1st July 2010.

Germany - The Executive Board of Deutsche EuroShop AG has resolved to increase the Company’s share capital by €1,780,000.00 (corresponding to around 4.0% of the current share capital) by means of a partial utilisation of authorised...

Germany - In the first half of 2010 the German market for residential portfolios saw 60 residential packages comprising a total of just below 33,900 units change hands. This marks a slight fall compared to the second half of 2009 when 74 portfolios totalling 34,400 units were...

Germany - Savills Germany has employed Jasmin Dombrowski as a new Senior Consultant for its Office Agency in Munich. Dombrowski is a certified specialist in the real estate and...