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Savills’ recent investment in Germany for South Koreans tops €1bn
Savills Investment Management has acquired two German logistics properties €140m on behalf of a consortium of South Korean institutional investors. The real estate investment manager said the 88,884sqm portfolio was acquired from the Dubai based... Read more
20 Jan 2020
Raimond Spekking
Korea’s Mirae Asset exits Cologne property with 8% annual return
Listed German property investor DIC Asset AG bought the Cologne City Hall office complex near the city’s Bahnhof Deutz train station from Korean investment manager Mirae Asset Global Investments for €500m just before Christmas. Read more
17 Jan 2020
Bühler
Sirius’ added firepower boosts further business park deals
Sirius Real Estate, the operator of branded business parks across Germany, is continuing on its acquisition trail with a couple of notable deals in the last quarter. The company’s stock has been a stellar performer as it prunes existing holdings... Read more
8 Jan 2020
NomadSoul1
Greenman OPEN’s latest deals bring fund assets to above €700m
Greenman OPEN, Germany’s largest food retail-focused investment fund, finished up the year with two significant deals which brought the value of its German ‘Fachmarktzentrum’ portfolio of retail parks to over €700m. Read more
6 Jan 2020
nd3000
Singapore’s GIC to acquire ‘Maximus’ portfolio for around €950m
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has signed an agreement to acquire a pan-European logistics portfolio, ‘Maximus’, from Apollo Global Management and Palmira Capital Partners for around €950m. Read more
13 Dec 2019
Long Harbour
Long Harbour launches €400m European Ground Lease Fund
Ground lease funds are starting to emerge in the German market. Read more
13 Dec 2019
Grigory_bruev
Vonovia gets green light for full takeover of Sweden’s Hembla
Vonovia, Germany’s (and Europe’s) largest residential homeowner, has been give the green light by Sweden’s antitrust authorities to take over the remaining shares it does not already own in Swedish housing company Hembla. Read more
13 Dec 2019
Deutsche Hypo
German real estate economy: better than “the competition”
The quarterly Reecox European economic indicator published by Deutsche Hypo continues to decline: so has the European real estate economy peaked? Read more
5 Dec 2019
elxeneize - envatoelements
Residential market rents continue to increase, but less rapidly
In the German residential market, rents continue to increase, but less rapidly, according to property advisor Colliers, who report that there is greater new-build activity in second-tier cities than in the Big 7 – an indication that new... Read more
2 Dec 2019
nd3000
GIC on the brink of acquiring pan-European logistics portfolio for almost €1bn
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC is believed to be on the brink of making a dramatic return to the European logistics space. Read more
27 Nov 2019
