Legal & General Property (LGP”) has agreed to forward fund a student accommodation scheme in Elephant & Castle, London, for a total consideration of £25.7 million. One of the most active investors in the sector, the deal represents...
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London saw average advertised rents increase for the first time in four months this April, with rents rising by 0.26% between week two and week four. The average advertised rental price stands at around £2,182 per month in the capital...
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Land Securities and its joint venture partner Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) have confirmed the commencement of the £768 million first phase of its Victoria Circle project, as part of the continued transformation of...
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KWG Kommunale Wohnen AG sells 160 of its apartments in Wolfsburg. The price realised for the portfolio of around 9.400 sq m of residential letting space amounts to €9.2 mn and thus is approx. 4.5 million higher than the price KWG paid...
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Corestate announces it has acquired a German mixed-use commercial and residential portfolio with a market value of €290 million/CHF355m out of a special situation.
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St. Modwen has appointed Vinci Construction UK to deliver the first phase of a £450m Science and Innovation Campus at Swansea University. The contract will see the construction of a 65,000 square metre development on the shore front of...
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Multi Vastgoed has signed a sales contract with Syntrus Achmea Real Estate & Finance for two retail and residential buildings in the city centre of Almere Buiten, the Netherlands. Both of these retail and residential buildings, with a...
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Hadley Mace, a joint venture partnership between Mace Limited and Hadley Property Group, has completed a ground-breaking £225m (approx. €265m) „Public Land Initiative’“ deal to develop 645 residential units in East Greenwich.
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Today, Deutsche Wohnen AG announced that it entered into a purchase agreement for the acquisition of a residential real estate portfolio comprising approximately 6,900 residential units that is held by various companies. The purchase...
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Knight Frank today releases its forecast for the student accommodation sector, showing a continuing positive outlook for the market. Over the next 12 months the average blended UK investment return is projectedat 9.2%. This reflects an...
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London will see significant growth in student accommodation stock between now and 2015, new data from CBRE reveals. With 3,000 bedspaces in the pipeline for delivery this year, 6,300 in 2014 and another 3,800 in 2015, rental and...
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An exclusivity agreement has been signed between Diageo and Kilmarnock-based Klin Group to allow the potential development of the company’s former packaging plant in the interests of the local community. Diageo has already gifted 10...
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Thames Valley Housing (TVH) has invested £25 million (approx. €29.3 million) for a 50% stake in a brand new build for sale venture, Opal Land LLP, in partnership with Galliford Try’s residential arm, Linden Homes. Opal Land is the...
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Farmland continues to outperform many other asset classes over the mid to long-term (see graph below), although the recent bounce in equity values means the FTSE 100 has performed more strongly over the past year as investors recover...
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Lands Improvement has obtained planning approval for 201 homes on a former brownfield site. Acquired in August 2011, the 14 acre site is part of an overall 53 acre landholding situated in Colchester, Essex surrounded by an orchard and...
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The investor consortium led by Patrizia Immobilien AG has emerged as the successful bidder for BayernLB’s shares in the listed housing company GBW AG (50.19 million shares representing approx. 91.93 %). BayernLB announced today that...
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Buwog has sold another major portfolio. In Carinthia, 35 properties with a total of 781 apartments were sold to the ÖSW Group, the largest private non-profit development company in Austria. Seven of these properties were owned directly...
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NCC has been commissioned to construct housing units and a parking garage at the Port of Copenhagen. The customer is Marmormolen P/S and the contract amount is SEK 379 million. The order will be registered in the second quarter of 2013....
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