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European industrial and logistics investment remained strong during the last 12 months, according to CBRE's EMEA Industrial & Logistics – Capital Markets Snapshot. Investment volumes reached €31.3bn, down 21% from the 12 months to June 2017, but up 14% after discounting the hugely significant €12.25bn Logicor deal which took ...
Real I.S. has launched another fund, specially tailored to its customer requirements. The fund will invest in the respective regions of the participating investors. This will allow the fund to optimally exploit the investors’ regional expertise. The fund volume totals approximately € 400 million. The aim is to create a portfo...
Certain funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management and Aareal Bank AG have closed a debt facility of up to €800 million with a five-year term, for the financing of a pan-European portfolio of logistics properties. The tailor-made facility provides stability, security, and flexibility for Apollo's growing and diverse pan-E...
To support its planned USD500 million (c. €439 million) investment in the European housing market, CA Ventures has appointed Carlo Matta, who will head the new London-based European division of CA Ventures, and Olaf Henschen, who will serve as managing director for developments in the Netherlands.
BrickVest has announced the launch of Harvest Investment 8 (HV8), the latest in its range of thematic strategy Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) and the first to offer investors exposure to the US market. HV8 focuses on US trophy asset real estate strategies and has been launched in response to increased demand from Europe...
CBRE has promoted Paul Hawtin, CBRE’s Head of UK HR, to Head of EMEA HR, effective from January 1, 2019. Hawtin will succeed Simon Woodhams, who is retiring from the firm at the end of 2018 following a 24 year career at CBRE. Since joining CBRE in 2015 as an Executive Director and Head of UK HR, Hawtin has overseen the imple...
Mid July, a joint venture of institutional investors led by Deutsche Finance America, a subsidiary of Deutsche Finance Group and BLG Capital, a division of Bilgili Group focused on hotel and lifestyle investments, acquired more than 100,000 sq ft of vacant office space in the „Gucci Building“ at 685 Fifth Avenue from the REIT...
Investment in European commercial real estate slowed in the first half of 2018 as high prices were among the factors that led investors, including sovereign wealth funds and U.S. institutions, to scale back their direct property acquisitions, research by Real Capital Analytics (RCA) shows. Transactions completed in January th...
Deka Immobilien GmbH has signed a new long-term lease for around 4,200 m² office space in Melbourne, Australia. The space was secured by the Leo Cussen Institute, a legal training and advanced training centre established in 1972, in the office and commercial building at 15 William Street.
Property investors believe the cyclical turning point will soon be reached in European real estate markets. Accordingly, professional investors are increasingly worried about misallocating capital. Yield targets are being reassessed. The latest investment climate study carried out by Union Investment shows that the majority o...
Real I.S. distributed almost €84 million to private investors during the 2017 financial year, including almost €79 million paid out to real estate fund investors. Investments in Real I.S. real estate funds generated average returns of 4.6%. The company’s foreign asset funds once again made a major contribution to the overall ...
Colliers International has recruited Andrew Hallissey, who will join the firm as Executive Managing Director of EMEA Occupier Services, based in London. Andrew Hallissey will drive strategy, client service delivery and spearhead the growth of the firm’s occupier business in the region.
Savills Investment Management has acquired an initial 25% stake in DRC Capital and the deal includes an option to acquire the remaining 75% in 2021. Founded in 2012 by Dale Lattanzio, Rob Clayton and Cyrus Korat, DRC has arranged more than £2.6 billion (c. €2.92 billion) of debt investments since inception and currently has a...
Corestate Capital Holding S.A. is launching a new investment program for its Club Deal clients, which will invest in value-add retail, office and residential buildings in mid-sized European cities.
Ares Management announced the final closing of its fourth European direct lending fund, Ares Capital Europe IV (“ACE IV”). Within six months of its launch, ACE IV was significantly oversubscribed relative to its initial target of €4.5 billion, closing at its hard cap of €6.5 billion of total commitments. ACE IV is the largest...
Neinver has announced the appointment of Sebastian Sommer, currently the Group’s Business Development Director and Country Head for Germany, as Marketing & Retail Director Europe. This marks the first time these two areas of the company are joined under the same leadership. In this new joint role, Sommer will lead Neinver’s m...
M&G Real Estate's Asia Property fund has acquired Centropolis Towers, a prime twin tower office building in Seoul for US$1.04 billion ((KRW1.18 trillion) in joint venture with two South Korean pension funds. The transaction, which will complete in September, marks the biggest single-asset property deal in South Korea since Mo...
Icon Real Estate has entered leasing agreements with two new tenants for the Manhattan Centerr, which is situated adjacent to Place Rogier in the North City Centre. The Brussels-based COST Association has signed a 12-year agreement for c. 3,000 sqm of space, confirming the move of its headquarters to the Manhattan Center. In ...
