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Boreal IM confirms the acquisition of the Daisy portfolio

As announced by Business Immo last October, Boreal IM and Cadillac Fairview, the property arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, have confirmed the (...)

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Valesco completes the €460m acquisition of Accor’s Paris global HQ tower

The Valesco Group has completed, via a sale and leaseback, the €460m acquisition of Sequana Tower. The tower, in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, (...)

Office

Fourth acquisition in a year for Union Investment in Paris

And that's four! Union Investment has signed its fourth acquisition in Paris in the space of a year. After 5-7 avenue du Coq (9th (...)

Logistics

Prologis signs European logistics portfolio for over €1.5bn

Prologis, on behalf of the Prologis European Logistics Fund (PELF), has acquired a European logistics portfolio from Crossbay for €1.585bn. This diversified portfolio, comprising (...)

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RedTree Capital acquires Carré Champerret in Levallois-Perret

RedTree Capital has acquired the Carré Champerret real estate complex, with a total surface area of 26,000 m², in Levallois-Perret (92). The company, founded (...)

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La Française sells Engie’s Brussels HQ

La Française Real Estate Managers (REM), assisting its client Hyundai Investments, contracted to sell 100% of the shares of Anvers Luxco SARL to an (...)

Finance

Allianz Real Estate lends €466m to refinance a retail portfolio

Allianz Real Estate has lent €466m on a long-term basis to a consortium of borrowers to refinance a portfolio of retail properties in Europe. (...)

Office

Patrizia sells Brussels' Astro Tower to Union Investment

Patrizia AG has sold on behalf of one of its single mandate institutional clients, South Korean consortium AIP Asset Managment, the shares in the company that owns (...)

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Primonial REIM and Société Générale Assurances buy La Défense's Window

Primonial REIM France and Société Générale Assurances have announced the acquisition of the Window office complex located in La Défense from Oxford Properties Group.  Entirely restructured (...)

Retail

Dead in the water, Paris's Gare du Nord project gets its amending planning permission

Could this be the last twitch for the Gare du Nord transformation program, which died and was buried two weeks ago? No long after (...)

Finance

ING refinances AEW Logistis for €580m

ING, acting as Sole Underwriter & Mandated Lead Arranger, announces the refinancing of the pan-European logistics portfolio of the Logistis Fund managed by AEW (...)

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RedTree Capital takes over the 33 rue du Quatre-Septembre in Paris

The investment fund RedTree Capital completed the acquisition of a real estate complex located at 33 rue du Quatre-Septembre, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. (...)

Housing

Primonial REIM acquires its first senior residence in Belgium

Paris-based manager Primonial REIM has made its first acquisition in healthcare real estate in Belgium by signing a forward sale agreement for a senior (...)

Housing

Gecina and Nexity partner to develop 4,000 new housing units in France

Paris-based REIT/SIIC Gecina and French listed real estate company Nexity have announced they have signed a partnership to develop 4,000 new housing units over four years (...)

Housing

France’s Primonial partners with Spain’s Grupo Lar to develop residential rental properties

Paris-based manager Primonial has signed a long-term agreement with Spanish developer Grupo Lar for the development and management of Built-to-Rent residential assets in Spain. (...)

Retail

France’s Firce Capital acquires 37,150 sqm Belval Plaza shopping centre in Luxembourg

French investment manager Firce Capital has acquired the Belval Plaza shopping centre in Luxembourg. The acquisition was completed with investment partners including Savile Capital (...)

Office

S2i Partners sells 22 rue de la Banque in Paris 2nd

Asset and fund manager S2i Partners, along with the Angelo Gordon private equity fund, has sold to Paris and London-based AEW the building located at 22 rue de la (...)

Logistics

AXA IM-RA acquires 275,000 sqm European logistics portfolio from AEW

Paris-based manager AXA IM-RA has completed the acquisition of a pan-European logistics portfolio of some 275,000 sqm from counterpart AEW on behalf of one (...)

Health / Senior

French Primonial adds 20-asset German senior care portfolio from EQT

French property fund manager Primonial REIM has signed to acquire 20 German senior care facilities in a sale-leaseback portfolio sold by EQT Infrastructure. No financial details were (...)

Office

Korean Mirae, French Amundi confirm Paris La Défense Majunga buy

Korea's Mirae Asset Daewoo and France's Amundi Real Estate have confirmed their purchase of the 67,036 sqm Majunga tower in Paris La Défense, advised by Deloitte. Mirae Asset Daewoo (...)

Health / Senior

French Primonial REIM adds 12 German care facilities in sale-leaseback

French manager Primonial REIM has finalised a sale-leaseback agreement for a portfolio of 12 residential care facilities in Germany with operator Advita Pflege for one of (...)

Office

Credit Suisse, advised by Belvedere, buys Paris La Défense office from Primonial

Zurich-based Credit Suisse Asset Management has acquired the Le Lavoisier office building in Paris La Défense from French manager Primonial REIM. No price was (...)

Logistics

Étoile, Koramco in €86m German Amazon logistics buy for Korean investors

In a deal worth €86m, French manager L'Étoile Properties and Korea's Koramco have acquired a 34,000 sqm Amazon sorting centre near Hanover in Germany (...)

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Invesco sells La Défense Tour Prisma to AEW Ciloger

US-based manager Invesco Real Estate has sold the 23,000 sqm Tour Prisma in Paris La Défense to French manager AEW Ciloger. Specialists estimated the (...)

Hospitality

Hamburg's Union acquires four economy hotel projects in forward purchase

Hamburg-based Union Investment has acquired a portfolio of four economy hotel projects in a forward purchase agreement. Seller was the developer benchmark REAL Estate (...)

Office

Savills IM pays HB Reavis €200m for Warsaw's Gdanski assets

In one of the largest transactions in Poland this year, Slovakia-based HB Reavis has sold two Warsaw office buildings, part of the Gdanski Business Center, for over €200m to Savills (...)

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Germany’s Triuva acquires office scheme Junghof Plaza in Frankfurt for €400m

US investment manager PGIM Real Estate and Frankfurter Gewerbeimmobilien GmbH (FGI) confirmed the signing of an agreement with Germanys’s Triuva on the future sale of (...)

Office

Savills IM acquires two office buildings in Warsaw for over €200m

In the largest such transaction in Poland this year, Luxemburg based developer HB Reavis has sold for over €200m two Warsaw office buildings totaling almost (...)

Office

Hines commits over €300m to European office in Berlin, Barcelona

Texas-based real estate giant Hines has committed over €300m to European real estate in the last week, acquiring the Zalando headquarters in Berlin for (...)

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Austria's CA Immo in €68m Prague office buy, 2nd in 2018 from Skanska

Austria's listed CA Immobilien has acquired the Visionary office building in Czech capital Prague for a gross price of €68m from Sweden-based Skanska which developed the asset. It (...)

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Asia-backed, German-led JV pays €170m for Rotterdam's Maas Tower

A joint venture of Germany's FOM Real Estate, Asia Pacific Real Estate, and Swiss family office Coquine has paid over €170m for Maastoren, the highest office (...)

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Allianz RE in €190m forward buy of Munich Atlas office renovation

Allianz Real Estate, a unit of the giant Munich insurer, has made a €190m forward purchase of the 26,000 sqm Atlas office building renovation (...)