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Finance 08/02/2018

JLL appoints former EPRA CEO Charls as senior capital markets adviser

Global real estate adviser JLL has appointed former EPRA CEO Philip Charls as a senior capital markets adviser to further enhance its capabilities in the listed real estate (...)

Finance 29/11/2017

Austria's Immofinanz, after signing Moscow mall sale, doubles 9mth FFO1

Austrian listed Immofinanz, having finally signed to sell a troubled Moscow mall portfolio, said it more than doubled nine months' FFO1 to €48.6m, turning round (...)

Retail 13/11/2017

Austria’s Immofinanz sells Moscow malls ready for CA merger, writes down €169m

Austrian listed Immofinanz said it has sold all five Moscow malls for €901m to the Petersburg-based Fort Group, taking a €169m writedown. The long-awaited sale clears (...)

Finance 06/11/2017

European public real estate outperforms, with 8% ytd in October

Global listed real estate returned 1% during October, lower than industrial equities at 2.7% but beating the world’s bond market performance of just 0.3%, (...)

Retail 03/11/2017

Kaufhof/Karstadt would be major test of Signa’s entrepreneurial ability

Austria’s private Signa group is well on its way to wiping out memories of the past troubles of its youthful founder René Benko. If (...)

Finance 25/10/2017

Eighteen IPOs in European public RE in first 9mths raise €4.3bn

Eighteen IPOs took place in the European public real estate markets in the first nine months of 2017, raising €4.3bn, according to EPRA. Those planned (...)

Housing 25/10/2017

Companies need to adapt as Europe enters new property cycle

Europe is entering a new property cycle after two decades of rises interrupted by the GFC, and client demands are shifting, says Paris-based consultancy ViewS+S. (...)

Hospitality 20/10/2017

Gold in Spanish resort hotels (1): First mover Hispania tracked by Blackstone, Ruggieri

Gold has been discovered in Spanish resort hotels and REIT/SOCIMI Hispania is the first in the ‘rush’. But other fast movers are close behind. They include Blackstone, (...)

Office 04/10/2017

Globalworth buys US Oaktree control stake in Poland’s Griffin Premium

Less than a year after South Africa’s largest REIT Growthpoint took a stake in Romania-focused, AIM-listed Globalworth, the latter has already started expansion, buying control of Polish (...)

Finance 01/10/2017

ETF universe to shift as FTSE Russell creates property class

Index provider FTSE Russell is to follow S&P and MSCI in giving real estate its own industry classification, moving it out of Financials after it found correlation divergence. The move (...)

Finance 01/10/2017

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 (...)