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Office 11/12/2019

[REPORTAGE] What is it that makes investors run to La Défense?

Often considered too cold, too mineral or even too mono-functional, La Défense is the object of all desires. Investors - led by South Koreans (...)

Finance 03/12/2019

"Real estate is a very important asset class for Oddo BHF "

Business Immo: Oddo BHF has just acquired the IKO building in Clichy-la-Garenne from LaSalle. Can you remind us of the details of this operation? Grégoire Charbit: IKO was delivered last December and includes approximately (...)

Finance 10/10/2019

LaSalle IM makes €200m mezz loans to Blackstone for Euro logistics portfolios

LaSalle IM is providing three mezzanine loans of over €200m to Blackstone funds to refinance three portfolios of logistics assets Germany, the Netherlands, France (...)

Office 30/09/2019

Blackstone said paying €100m for Barcelona’s Tarragona Tower

US fund Blackstone is reported to have paid around €100m to acquire the 18,000 sqm Tarragona Tower office skyscraper in Spain's Barcelona from UBS (...)

Finance 04/09/2019

Mokrane joins Germany's Patrizia as Head of Investment Strategy & Research

German listed real estate investment manager Patrizia has appointed Mahdi Mokrane as new Head of Investment Strategy & Research. The Augsburg-based firm said Mokrane will join Patrizia in due (...)

Retail 02/07/2019

LaSalle in €73m S-L purchase of six Spanish Metro assets for French fund

LaSalle Investment Management has paid €73m for six properties of Makro Spain from German wholesaler Metro Properties for French public pension scheme ERAFP. Following the transaction, (...)

Finance 05/06/2019

LaSalle IM's Mokrane joins BI sister firm iread as Senior Advisor

Mahdi Mokrane, Head of European Research and Strategy at LaSalle Investment Management, is joining Business Immo's sister company iread as Senior Advisor. Iread said Mokrane will collaborate and provide, in particular, his expertise (...)

Territories 15/05/2019

Opportunities abound aboard the Grand Paris Express

"Grand Paris Express is an exceptional investment opportunity, as the public authorities are investing €40bn to develop it, but also a very strong sign (...)

Finance 07/05/2019

European RE investment slides to lowest level in 6yrs as resi outpaces retail

European commercial real estate investment in 1Q19 slid to its lowest level in six years, with slowing economic growth and political uncertainty weighing on (...)

Office 17/04/2019

LaSalle IM signs €100m Paris office forward deal with Belgium's AG

LaSalle Investment Management has signed a forward deal worth almost €100m to acquire a 9,800 sqm office block in Paris from Belgium's AG Real (...)

Finance 04/04/2019

California's CalSTRS, Germany's BVK add European strategies to boost returns

Two major pension funds, California's CalSTRS and Germany's BVK, are raising targets for European real estate and adding strategies to boost returns, the INREV (...)

Office 03/04/2019

LaSalle IM pays €134m to acquire Munich’s Westen Yards

LaSalle Investment Management has agreed to pay €134m to acquire the 31,000 sqm Westend Yards office building in Munich from PGIM Real Estate. The agreement (...)

Finance 18/03/2019

No sector for old cowboys

A maturity is entering real estate. Recognition that it is not for old cowboys but a sector where success is tied directly to user (...)

Office 11/01/2019

LaSalle adds ElseBella office portfolio in Munich for €169m

LaSalle Investment Management has paid €169m to acquire two office properties in Munich on behalf of the LaSalle Encore+ Pan European Fund. Seller is (...)

Office 27/11/2018

LaSalle IM pays €56m to add Amsterdam's Luna Arena

LaSalle Investment Management has paid €55.6m to acquire Amsterdam's Grade-A office building Luna Arena for its Encore+ fund, the fourth Dutch acquisition for the (...)

Finance 23/10/2018

Paris, Munich closing on London's top spot in LaSalle's E-REGI index

London has retained the top spot in LaSalle Investment Management's E-REGI ranking of European cities by growth prospects in 2018 but Paris comes a (...)

Finance 04/10/2018

London's Aviva forms real assets unit, sells multi-manager to LaSalle

London-based pension investments manager Aviva Investors is launching a real assets business and is selling its £6bn real estate multi-management business to LaSalle IM.  It (...)

Finance 24/07/2018

Euro real estate fundamentals robust but correlated global growth ending - LaSalle

European real estate fundamentals remain robust even if growth has slowed, says LaSalle Investment Management. But with looming trade wars, geo-political tensions and differential (...)

Finance 31/05/2018

LaSalle acquires Aviva's €6bn multi-manager business, Encore+ fund

Global real estate manager LaSalle Investment Management is acquiring the Real Estate Multi-Manager business of UK manager Aviva Investors, which manages €6bn of assets, plus full ownership (...)

Listed 05/12/2017

Post-IPO, Singapore's Cromwell European REIT eyes Italy, eschews Poland

With the Australian Cromwell Property Group as its 35.8% sponsor, Cromwell European REIT raised €866m in a second try at a Singapore float last (...)