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AEW announces the rebranding of its business in Europe. The group is adopting the AEW brand for its institutional business across Europe. Following the merger with Ciloger in October 2016, the retail fund management business in France will adopt the AEW Ciloger brand.
The next major deal in the logistics sector is right ahead: According to the British Property Week, the US-based Brookfield Property Partners is planning to sell the European part of its logistics company for a price of about € 1.7 billion. As the selling agents, the investment bank Morgan Stanley as well as CBRE have been a...
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI) announced this year’s winners of the 19th MSCI European Property Investment Awards. These annual awards recognize European property funds that out-performed in each of most European countries during the three years to December 2016.
Skanska has signed contract to build a new recreation center for Boston College in Massachusetts, USA. The contract is worth €100.9 million (USD 113 million), which will be included in the US order bookings for the second quarter of 2017. Skanska will replace Boston College’s existing Flynn Recreation Complex with a new four-...
EQT today announces the successful closing of its first real estate fund, EQT Real Estate I, with total commitments of €420 million. The fund will invest in value-add real estate assets with a focus on repositioning high-yielding properties, predominantly in the office sector, in gateway cities in western Europe.
Union Investment has acquired the Class A Midtown21 office building in Seattle. The impressive 21-storey property offers around 35,000 sq m of rental space and was completed in 2016. It is located in the high-growth Denny Triangle between the central business district and the South Lake Union submarket. The office space is le...
The latest paper from Savills, Global Real Estate Capital: Ebbs & Flows, reveals the level of global trading in real estate in 2016 was 25% ahead of the 10-year average, totalling nearly US$770 billion, as investors recognise property as a safe haven for capital in the face of geopolitical uncertainty.
Phoenix Spree Deutschland will join the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Europe and UK indices following the quarterly index review, the results of which were announced on Thursday, June 1.
Internos Global Investors announces the first closing of its second hotel real estate fund with equity of €133 million from seven German institutional investors. All but one of the seven investors had already invested in Internos' first hotel real estate fund which, with its core strategy, has consistently exceeded target ret...
According to a report of the Financial Times with reference to insider information, the Chinese sovereign wealth funds China Investment Corporation (CIC) seems to have won the bidding procedure for the logistics platform Logicor with a bid of a sum totalling € 12 billion. Thus, the contract could be ready for signing within t...
The total value of real estate assets under management (AUM) reached €2.4 trillion in 2016, up 20.1% on the €2 trillion peak achieved the previous year, based on an increase in the sample size of the global Fund Manager Survey 2017. The joint report by INREV, ANREV and NCREIF, also revealed significant growth in the average A...
In April, CBRE Group has acquired the business of Mainstream Software, Inc. (Mainstream), a technology company that provides mobile and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology solutions for facilities management operations. The proprietary technology further enhances CBRE’s Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) offering in the are...
Commerz Real has acquired the new Dexter Station office building in Seattle, Washington, for its open-ended real estate fund hausInvest. The seller of the complex of buildings is Stockbridge Capital Group; the purchase price is approx. €255.9 million (286 million US dollars). RFR Group is investing as joint-venture partner of...
Vastned buys back 849,846 shares for a total amount of € 29.9 million. Vastned launched a buy-back tender offer for up to €50 million on 11 April 2017, using part of the proceeds from the divestment of its entire Turkish portfolio. Vastned shareholders were offered the opportunity to tender their shares at a maximum price of ...
Charles Daulon du Laurens is Global Head of the Client Capital Group. His responsibilities include client relationship management and capital raising for AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets’ entire product range, including both equity and debt offerings. Charles Daulon du Laurens is a member of the Executive Committee of A...
Union Investment Real Estate GmbH is has reinforced its investment activities in the North American retail markets by hiring retail expert Kseniya Merritt. Merritt joined Union Investment’s team based in New York City on May 1st. Merritt will be in charge of expanding Union Investment’s existing retail portfolio in the U.S. a...
The Frankfurt-based Silverton Group (Silverton) is to cooperate with 720° Restructuring & Advisory (720° RE), based in Vienna. The objective of the cooperation is to pool the existing expertise, in order to expand the range of services offered to clients and to expand the regional coverage.
Hammerson has appointed Maxime Depreux to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer – Premium Outlets, with responsibility for Hammerson's European outlets portfolio. Depreux, who will report into Timon Drakesmith, Hammerson's Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director, Premium Outlets, began working at Hammerson F...
