Special Properties

CBRE forecasts significant levels of take-up and supply to be brought to the European data centres market in the final quarter of 2022, following a subdued third quarter.

Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) acquires the eight-storey underground car park Largo Corsia dei Servi with 332 parking spaces in the historic center of Milan. The long-term tenant is APCOA, one of the largest private providers of parking spaces in Europe.

Stoneshield Capital has signed a sales agreement for Xdata Properties, S.L.U. with the American company Iron Mountain (“IRM”), a data centre services company. The company owns a unique scaled data centre campus development project with unparalleled time to market in Madrid, Europe’s next data centre hot spot.

Skanska has signed a binding Stock Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) for its 50 percent ownership in the PPP project Royal Papworth Hospital i Cambridge for about £9m. The buyer is Equitix Infrastructure 3 Ltd. Closing of the transaction is scheduled for September 30 and it will be recorded under the Central stream in the third quar...

AG Real Estate France is selling two car parks valued at around €47 million to Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG), a German investment fund. These two car parks are in prime locations in Paris: the first on Avenue Kléber in the 16th arrondissement and the second under the Marché Saint-Germain in the 6th arrondissement, both opera...

Altera Vastgoed N.V. has recently agreed a long-term extension to its contract with Q-Park for the underground car park beneath Sint Jorisplein in Amersfoort. The car park has 444 spaces, it has charging facilities for electric vehicles and will also offer car sharing in the future. The car park is located in the very centre ...

AIF Capital Group has acquired the Princesa underground car park in a central downtown location in Barcelona. After the purchase in June this year, this already is the second acquired property in the Catalan metropolis. The purchase was made for the open-ended special alternative investment fund (AIF) Parking Fund Europa, whi...

TSC Real Estate has purchased the „Bergman Clinics Klinik im Park“ in Hilden. The acquisition is for the „5QRE Healthcare Infrastructure Deutschland 01“ fund, which was developed jointly with Five Quarters Real Estate. The vendor is a German family office. TSC Real Estate, the exclusive investment manager for the fund, is al...

Compass Datacenters and Hines have marked their entry into the European data centre market: The JV plans to build one of the largest data center campuses in Italy.

Catena has signed an agreement to sell the property Vanda 1 in Kista, Stockholm, via a corporate transaction at an underlying property value of SEK 460 million before deduction of deferred taxes. The purchase price for the shares amounts to SEK 345 million.

The Iberian Peninsula is positioned as one of the strategic European markets for the Data Centres according to Colliers. According to the data collected in the Colliers report, Data Centres Snapshot, there are more than 700 MW under development in data centre projects in the three main locations of the Iberian Peninsula: Madr...

Internet giant Google is buying 50 acres of more land from the city of Hamina next to its current data centre for €4.3 million.

Infinity SDC has sold its Romford based data centre business to Azrieli Group Ltd. The share purchase agreement has been signed and it is understood that Azrieli Group Ltd will use the acquisition to expand their existing Norwegian based data centre business, Green Mountain.

Castellum and the foundation-owned Blå Stjärnan Animal Hospital are developing a new specialist animal hospital in Mölndal. The hospital will be Sweden’s largest small-animal clinic, and its 7,000 square metres will house an advanced medical practice where animal welfare and animal protection are key cornerstones.

Hyperco has acquired its first data centre from TS-Yhtymä, a Finnish family office, at a total transaction value over €35 million. The transaction is the first purchase for Hyperco, the new Finnish data centre investment and development company backed by Nordic institutional investors Varma and NREP.

Guest Article The global Internet industry has been growing at an exponential pace in the past few decades, driven by increasing numbers of applications and wide adoption in every aspect of work, play and life. The amount of data, too, has increased exponentially— particularly during the past 10 years. Numbers of global Internet users have...

AIF Capital Group has acquired a parking garage in a central location of Barcelona. The purchase of Parking Financia is for the open-ended special alternative investment fund (AIF) “Parking Fund Europe“, which focuses on parking garages and underground garages.

La Française Real Estate Managers is investing in the healthcare sector for the first time in Ireland to drive its diversification.