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Logistics

Blackstone announces €21bn recapitalisation of Mileway

Blackstone has announced that existing investors in Mileway, its 14.7 million square meter pan-European last mile logistics company, have agreed to recapitalise the company for (...)

Housing

Deutsche Wohnen said eyeing €750m German resi buy from Swedish Akelius

Deutsche Wohnen, Germany's second largest listed housing company, is reported to be preparing to purchase, for some €750m, some 2,800 domestic residential assets from (...)

Listed

New Madrid office REIT Árima agrees €110m acquisitions by year-end

Madrid office REIT/SOCIMI Árima, created by former executives of Axiare acquired last year by Colonial, agreed acquisitions worth €110m by year end, just two months after its (...)

Logistics

UK's GreenOak adds 22 logistics assets in France, Spain for €656m fund

London private investment manager GreenOak is acquiring 22 logistics assets in France and Spain totalling 720,000 sqm. It gave no price details but said (...)

Office

More Frankfurt office towers needed to match rising demand - Colliers

Office occupiers in Frankfurt are increasingly focusing on skyscrapers, making them popular investment assets and depressing vacancies to 3.7%, says adviser Colliers. Also due (...)

Office

Commerz Real's Frankfurt Omniturm buy said at €700m

Commerzbank's real assets manager Commerz Real has purchased one of Frankfurt's largest and most spectacular office projects, Omniturm, for a price reported to be almost (...)

Finance

Cushman shares rise 7% in first NYC trades after IPO raises $765m

Shares in global commercial real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield rose as much as 7% on the first day of trading Thursday after its (...)

Finance

TPG's Cushman & Wakefield IPO said aiming at $1bn to help cover debt

TPG, the US opportunity fund owner of Cushman & Wakefield, has launched the global commercial real estate adviser's initial public offering which, US media report, (...)

Housing

US Round Hill makes first Finland resi buy at 3,263 units; to seek more

US-based opportunity real estate manager Round Hill Capital has made its first residential purchase in Finland, buying 3,263 units in 106 buildings from Helsinki (...)

Housing

Kojamo's €97m housing sale marks Morgan Stanley REI's entry to Finland PRS

Finnish housing firm Kojamo, currently considering a stock market flotation, said its €97m sale to Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing of almost 1,600 residential units (...)

Housing

German Instone gets listing placement away at base of range to raise €428m

German residential developer Instone set its private placement stock market listing price at €21.50, the bottom end of an offered range, and said it has placed (...)

Housing

German resi developer Instone eyes value of €943m as it starts listing placement

German residential developer Instone has set the price range for its private placement stock exchange listing at €21.50 to €25.50 per share, giving an capitalisation of (...)

Office

Berlin Sony Center an attractive buy even if not a 10% yield - ULI Europe Conf.

Berlin's Sony Center will not yield the 10% that Canada's Oxford Properties usually targets in real estate but was nonetheless an attractive purchase due to the (...)

Housing

German housing developer Instone confirms IPO; said likely in first quarter

German residential property developer Instone Real Estate, formed last year by the Jersey-based ActivumSG, has confirmed that it intends to list its shares on (...)

Finance

Spanish Colonial bid on track after Axiare board votes in favour

The takeover bid by Spain's REIT/SOCIMI Colonial for its smaller peer Axiare Patrimonio remains on track after Axiare's board voted in favour and its CEO said he will (...)

Office

Vienna’s Millennium Tower said acquired above 3.7% by Cologne’s Art-Invest

Cologne-based Art-Invest Real Estate said it will seek more assets in Austria after its first purchase there of Vienna’s Millennium Tower on the banks of the (...)

Office

Berlin’s Sony Center: N. American weight of capital outweighs even Korean

If anyone still doubts if European commercial property yields will fall further it’s certainly not Oxford Properties and New York-based Madison who last month signed to (...)