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Carmina Ganyet

Corporate Managing Director

Pere Viñolas Serra

Chief Executive Officer - Member of the Executive Committee

Carmina Ganyet

Corporate Managing Director

Pere Viñolas Serra

Chief Executive Officer - Member of the Executive Committee

Office

"Our 99.5 % occupancy rate rewards our investment strategy"

Business Immo : SFL has a 99.5 % occupancy rate. What does this figure mean to you ? Dimitri Boulte : It's a historical, (...)

Career

Dimitri Boulte, new CEO of SFL

Chaired since last April by Pere Viñolas Serra, the Board of Directors of Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL), an affiliate of Spain's Colonial, has decided to appoint (...)

Office

SFL sells Issy-les-Moulineaux's "Le Vaisseau" for €27m

Paris-based REIT/SIIC SFL, an affiliate of Spain's Colonial, has sold the "Le Vaisseau" office building, located on Ile Saint-Germain in Issy-les-Moulineaux, to the Institut Catholique de Lille, which (...)

Office

SFL acquires Paris 15th's 39,500 sqm Pasteur building from Primonial REIM France

Paris-based REIT/SIIC SFL, , an affiliate of Spain's Colonial, and Primonial REIM France entered into an agreement under which Primonial Reim France undertakes to sell to SFL (...)

Listed

Colonial and SFL want to reclassify all their outstanding bonds as green bonds

Colonial and its French subsidiary SFL have announced their intention to convert all outstanding bonds of the Colonial Group, representing a total amount of (...)

Listed

SFL completes €500m bond issue

Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL), the Paris-based office REIT 82% held by Spain's Colonial, successfully issued €500m worth of seven-year bonds maturing on 5 June 2027 and (...)

Listed

Spanish REIT Arima wins €60m equity offer from Canada's Ivanhoé

Amid a growing trend for private capital to buy into listed real estate, Spain's REIT/SOCIMI Arima has won a €60m subscription offer from Canada's (...)

Listed

After logistics sale, Spain's Colonial analysing assets worth €1bn

Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Colonial, fresh from the €425m sale of its logistics portfolio, aims to continue expanding in office and is now analysing some €1bn in assets for (...)

Logistics

Prologis Europe's winning bid for Colonial's Spanish logistics portfolio said at €425m

Prologis European unit has won the bid to purchase a 473,000 sqm Spanish logistics portfolio owned by REIT/SOCIMI Colonial for a price reported at €425m. The (...)

Listed

Spain's Colonial boosts 1H net 66% to €69m, sees strong business model

Spain-based office REIT/SOCIMI Colonial boosted recurring net profit by 66%yy to €69m in the first half-year, and said the earnings set strengthens the group's business (...)

Listed

Sweden's Castellum joins pan-European REIT innovation, CSR think tank

Swedish listed Castellum has joined the sustainability and innovation think tank created in 2017 by alstria, COIMA RES, Colonial, Gecina, Great Portland Estates and (...)

Logistics

At €480m, Blackstone, Prologis said leading bid for Colonial's Spanish logistics

US firms Blackstone and Prologis are reportedly leading the bid for the Spanish logistics portfolio being sold by listed group Colonial, with bids running (...)

Logistics

Spain's Colonial said selling logistics portfolio with €400m price tag

Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Colonial is reported to be preparing its entire logistics portfolio for sale in a deal that could fetch up to €400m. The portfolio is (...)

Office

Offices still preferred working space despite tech - European REITs

Technology may allow workers to operate anywhere, but more than ever physical offices are the working environments of choice, says a new report by (...)

Listed

Spanish Colonial's recurring net surges 22% to €101m after busy 2018

Recurring net profit for Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Colonial surged 22% to €101m in 2018 and its portfolio revalued by the same amount to €11.35bn after a (...)

Listed

Paris office REIT SFL reports 4.1% EPRA earnings rise to record €107m

Société Foncière Lyonnaise, the Paris office REIT 82% held by Spain's Colonial, reported a 4.1% rise in EPRA earnings to a record €106.7m in 2018, and portfolio value (...)

Finance

Spanish yields to hold stable after foreign capital surge in 2018 - CBRE

Spanish property yields should remain stable this year, predicts international adviser CBRE, after foreign capital made up €11.8bn of the record €20bn invested in (...)

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 (...)

Office

Spain’s Colonial looks forward to organic growth after busy 2018

Spanish office REIT/SOCIMI Colonial, after a takeover and a readjustment of capital this year, is looking ahead to delivering organic growth with a rise (...)

Listed

French SFL stake increase helps Colonial to first BBB+ S&P rating

Spain's Colonial has become the first Spanish REIT to obtain a BBB+ credit rating from US agency S&P after taking 81% of France's Société (...)

Listed

Spain's Colonial acquires Qatar stake in French SFL to raise holding to 81%

Spanish REIT Colonial is raising its stake in France's Société Foncière Lyonnaise by 22pts to 81% by buying Qatar Investment Authority's entire holdings in (...)

Listed

Spanish Árima starts IPO as Madrid office REIT aiming at 15%

Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Árima, created by former executives of Axiare Patrimonio, has launched its IPO at €300m, saying it aims to be a Madrid office pure-play targeting (...)

Listed

Former Spanish Axiare team seeks €300m for new firm Arima

Live from Expo Real (Münich) - Former executives from Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Axiare, taken over this year by peer Colonial, are launching a new firm (...)

Office

Spain's Colonial sells €441m Madrid offices to UK's Tristan

Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Colonial said it has sold a portfolio of seven Madrid office buildings for €441m in a deal announced separately by the buyer, London's (...)

Listed

After delays, Portugal cites January 2019 as start date for REITs

After several delays, Portugal is planning to introduce REIT legislation in January for all real estate asset classes and will finalise details before year end, says (...)

Listed

Spain's Colonial grows 1H net 12%; Axiare merger ups AUM to €11bn

Spain's largest listed office owner, REIT/SOCIMI Colonial, raised first half recurring net profit 12%yy to €41m and said the consolidation of just-acquired Axiare expanded gross AUM 29% (...)

Listed

Paris office REIT SFL posts 4% 1H rise in EPRA earnings to €52m

Paris office REIT/SIIC Société Foncière Lyonnaise, an affiliate of Spain's Colonial, reported a 4.1%yy first half rise in EPRA earnings to €51.7m, though lower (...)

Listed

Spain's Colonial to grow rental income to €500m with Axiare - CEO

Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Colonial should be able to boost annual rental income by €200m to €500m after the inclusion of newly acquired peer Axiare, plus a number of (...)

Listed

Spain's Colonial raises €650m after Axiare merger creates €11bn SOCIMI

Spain's Colonial becomes the nation's largest REIT/SOCIMI with 11bn AUM after it agreed a merger with peer Axiare following a takeover accepted by 87% of Axiare shareholders. Colonial (...)

Finance

Spanish SOCIMI success story set to go further - EPRA/Iberian Property conf.

Spain's REIT/SOCIMIs have succeeded in the government's aims of reviving the nation's previously depressed real estate, boosting the economy and creating jobs, the EPRA/Iberian (...)

Listed

Portugal moving toward REIT start this year – EPRA/Iberian Property panel

Shifting economics and politics in Portugal mean the government is increasingly likely to introduce REIT legislation this year, an EPRA/Iberian Property conference heard. The (...)

Finance

Father of Spain's REIT regime to speak at EPRA/Iberian Property event

Miguel Ferre, one of the fathers of Spain's REIT regime, is to take part, alongside four of his most successful 'progeny', Merlin Properties, Hispania, Colonial and Lar España, at (...)

Office

Spanish office REIT Colonial 2017 net jumps 149%, recurring up 14%

Spanish office REIT/SOCIMI Colonial, which owns a majority in France's SFL, said attributable net profit last year, prior to its takeover of Madrid peer Axiare, jumped 149% (...)

Finance

French REIT SFL, controlled by Spain's Colonial, boosts 2017 net by 36%

Société Foncière Lyonnaise, a Paris office REIT/SIIC controlled by Spain's Colonial group, raised 2017 EPRA earnings by 1.5% to €102.4m though attributable net profit surged more strongly - (...)

Finance

Spanish REIT Colonial's takeover bid for peer Axiare declared successful

As expected after the board of Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Axiare approved a takeover offer by peer Colonial, a majority of its shareholders accepted by the (...)

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 (...)

Listed

Six European office REITs form sustainability and innovation thinktank

Even if real estate is local, clients' technical and environmental needs are the same across Europe, says Meka Brunel, CEO of French SIIC Gecina and one of (...)

Finance

Spain's Colonial raises another €416m for Axiare bid in accelerated rights issue

Hard on the heels of an €800m bond issuance to help finance its €1.46bn bid for peer Axiare, Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Colonial has added another €416m to (...)

Finance

Spanish Colonial’s bid for Axiare thrown into confusion as BoA, funds raise stakes

Spanish REIT Colonial’s takeover bid for peer Axiare has taken a confusing turn after Bank of America declared a 6.7% stake in the target, Boston fund Wellington (...)

Retail

Material news from the European listed universe: Unibail, Hypoport, Colonial

Ahead of third quarter results, which will be upon us starting this week, here are some selected actions and calls that are material to (...)

Finance

Portugal to lead Poland, Sweden into Euro REITs club?

It looks as if Portugal will become the next member of the European REITs club as political confusion reigns in Poland, and Sweden shows (...)

Finance

European public real estate in good shape, led by German resi, French/Spanish office

European public real estate markets are in good shape as our website goes live. German housing stocks are near highs, as are most of (...)