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French listed group Altarea Cogedim ended 2017 well ahead of plan, with recurring FFO one-third higher at €256.3m and diluted net asset value up 9% to (...)
Speed of execution, ability to close core-plus and value-added deals, good returns were the keys for Avignon Capital to win China's CITIC Securities unit CLSA as a client for its (...)
Paris-based BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management added €3.3bn in assets in 2017 to reach €27.4bn in AUM, split between €1.7bn in cash inflows to its (...)
CLSA, the Hong Kong-based international platform of China's largest investment bank CITIC Securities, is entering European property in a partnership with London investment management boutique Avignon (...)
One of the most successful turnround specialists in German real estate, ActivumSG, has sold its last owned office asset and is moving out of direct (...)
The imminent arrival of blockchain to the real estate industry will 'disrupt' in the full sense, shortening deal times to, perhaps, 24 hours from (...)
Slovakia-based, European developer and investor HB Reavis has appointed Marian Herman as new chief executive in a planned succession to Pavel Trenka who completes an agreed term of (...)
One of Frankfurt's property 'eyesores' has finally been bought for redevelopment - the old police presidium, well known by thousands of trade fair visitors (...)
Finnish property investments delivered a total return of 6.6% in 2017, up from 6.2% in 2016, though income return continued to fall, says the KTI research (...)
Spain's largest REIT/SOCIMI Merlin Properties reported a 89% surge in 2017 net profit to €1.1bn, with FFO up 31% at €289m, though per share FFO rose (...)
Germany's alstria Office REIT reported a 3.3% fall in 2017 FFO but said strong operations and portfolio valuation gains boosted consolidated net by 67.9% to €297m. (...)
Norway's Government Pension Fund Global held 2.6% of its €881bn assets in unlisted real estate at end-2017 which produced a return of 7.5% - (...)
Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate investment arm of Quebec-based pension fund manager CDPQ, has trimmed its holding in French office REIT/SIIC Gecina by 4.28% via a (...)
Madrid retail-focused REIT/SOCIMI Lar Espana Real Estate boosted 2017 net profit by 48% to €135.6m, with rental income driving the surge, up 29%yy. It will propose (...)
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% (...)
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 (...)
Milan-based REIT/SIIQ Coima Res more than doubled 2017 recurring FFO to €16.8m from €6.2m in 2016 on gross assets worth €619.7m, up from €526m. It will (...)
French office REIT/SIIC Gecina raised net income by 4.6% in 2017, adding nearly 19% to net asset value to take it to €152.9 per (...)
The State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea nation's sovereign investment fund, intends to nearly double its real estate holdings (...)
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