Manager News – Page 38
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA acquires Hague office portfolio with redevelopment potential
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, announces that it has acquired nine freehold office buildings in the centre of The Hague, on behalf of a client, from Onderlinge Levensverzekering-Maatschappij ‘s Gravenhage U.A.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA acquires “ML69” office asset in Frankfurt, Germany
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, announces the acquisition of “ML69”, a multi-let office building in Frankfurt, on behalf of one of its German commercial funds.
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Asset Manager NewsOrchard Street launches new ‘Fitted, Furnished and Ready to Go’ office space at Dunn’s Hat Factory, Camden
Orchard Street Investment Management (‘Orchard Street’), the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed two new lettings at Dunn’s Hat Factory, Camden, alongside unveiling its new offering of ‘Fitted, Furnished and Ready to Go’ accommodation which serves the shorter-term commercial lettings market, a third of which is already under offer.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA makes key residential acquisition in Copenhagen
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, announces that it has acquired a fully let, 127-unit residential asset in the Valby district of Copenhagen, Denmark, from Europa Capital and Keystone Investment Management A/S.
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Asset Manager NewsPGIM Real Estate acquires residential property in Frankfurt for Core European Strategy
PGIM Real Estate has acquired a residential building in Frankfurt’s Sachsenhausen South district on behalf of its recently launched European core open-ended real estate strategy.
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Asset Manager NewsGreystar Announces $2 Billion Final Close for 10th U.S. Multifamily Value-Add Real Estate Fund
Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC (“Greystar”), a global leader in the investment, development and management of high-quality rental housing properties, announced today, on behalf of its affiliates, the final close of Greystar Equity Partners X (“GEP X”) with aggregate equity commitments of $2 billion from a diverse group of global institutional investors from North America, Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific. GEP X represents the largest ever fundraise for a U.S. multifamily value-add fund. GEP X is the 10th in Greystar’s flagship series of funds focused on acquiring existing assets in top U.S. markets that exhibit favorable rental housing fundamentals.
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Asset Manager NewsTribeca Investment Group, PGIM Real Estate and Meadow Partners Enter into New Ground Lease at the Textile Building in Manhattan
A newly-formed joint venture among Tribeca Investment Group and funds managed by PGIM Real Estate and Meadow Partners today announced they have entered into a new 99-year ground lease at 295 Fifth Avenue, a 17-floor, 700,000-square-foot property occupying the full block along Fifth Avenue between East 30th and East 31st streets in Midtown South. The joint venture plans to commence a nearly $300 million repositioning program that will transform the building into a Class A office tower, capitalizing on the strong demand for large floor plates in the area’s tight office market.
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Asset Manager NewsOrchard Street completes repositioning of West London industrial assets, doubling rental income
Orchard Street Investment Management (‘Orchard Street’), the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed 12 separate asset management initiatives across 150,000 sq ft of multi-let industrial accommodation at its 215,000 sq ft West Drayton, London estates. As a result, both the contracted rental income and average lease lengths have more than doubled over the last 18 months.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA strategically partners with WiredScore
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, announces that it has made a strategic investment in WiredScore, the global rating scheme for digital connectivity across commercial and residential real estate.
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Asset Manager NewsSC Capital Partners and Fortius buy Central Park Retail, Sydney
SC Capital Partners, on behalf of its RECAP Fund series, and Fortius Funds Management (“Fortius”) have jointly acquired the three final retail assets in the mixed- used community development of the award winning A$2 billion Central Park in Sydney CBD for A$174.5 million from Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA forecasts residential investment resilience despite geopolitical volatility
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, has launched its 11th PATRIZIA INSIGHT study on the European Residential Markets. The findings show that despite today’s more volatile geopolitical and economic environment residential investment is forecast to continue offering resilient returns for investors. Total unlevered returns of between 5% to 6.5% per annum are expected over the next five years, of which 2.5% to 3.5% is expected to be income.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA sells French logistics portfolio to Blackstone for EUR 260m
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, on behalf of TransEuropean Property Limited Partnership VI (“TEP VI” or “the Fund”) has completed the sale of a French logistics portfolio to real estate funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) for a total consideration of EUR 260m in an off-market transaction.
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Asset Manager NewsSchroders Real Estate Investment Management (Europe) (Content)
Schroders has acquired the Sofitel Gatwick North Terminal on behalf of a joint venture between BAE Pension Funds, and Immobilien Europa Direkt, an investment vehicle of Zurich Investment Foundation managed by Schroders.
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Asset Manager NewsTwo years running PATRIZIA wins key MSCI award for PanEuropean fund
For a second, consecutive year PATRIZIA, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, has won the MSCI award for ‘Best Performing Balanced Fund in the PEPFI Index’ for The PanEuropean Property Limited Partnership (‘PanEuropean’), which has again achieved the highest three-year NAV-level performance versus its peers. Launched in 1973, the fund targets net returns of 6%, but continues to significantly outperform by delivering a three-year annualised return net to institutional investors of 11.2% (as at 30 June 2019).
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA, Cognotekt and EVANA to build cutting-edge industry platform
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, announces that it has acquired a strategic stake in Cognotekt, a Cologne based artificial intelligence platform that has developed a unique technological approach for state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing. This method translates written text into mathematical formulas to classify documents and extract data with higher accuracy than common AI solutions.
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Plus ça change? In 20 years of E-REGI index, much has changed but some things have remained remarkably consistent
Throughout the 20-year history of LaSalle’s European Regional Economic Growth Index (E-REGI), many new drivers of real estate demand have emerged, from flexible working patterns to energy conservation and sustainability. However, across the two decades in which we have scored and ranked each European city region through the index, a number of themes have remained constant.
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Barings Acquires French Courier Portfolio from BNP Paribas REIM
Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers, announces the acquisition of three Grade A courier assets located in the French cities of Paris, Lyon and Poitiers. The high quality assets were purchased on behalf of institutional clients for a core investment strategy from an OPCI (a French REIT), managed by BNP Paribas REIM. The three assets offer a total of 71,000 square meters of space and are fully let to Poste Immo, real estate subsidiary of Le Groupe La Poste, the French national postal service.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA acquires residential development in Danish city of Aarhus
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment announces that together with Universal-Investment it has agreed to forward purchase the development of a 136-unit residential development project in Aarhus, Denmark, on behalf of Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), Germany’s largest public pension group. The asset has been acquired in an off-market transaction from a consortium of private investors.
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Asset Manager NewsECB Easing and Trade Deescalation Boost Markets
The three things you need to know this week: More signs are pointing to U.S.-China trade war de-escalation, ECB launches new stimulus and the PBOC cuts required reserve ratios.
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Asset Manager NewsPGIM Real Estate invests in the office and logistics sector in France for core plus and value-add pan-European funds
PGIM Real Estate has acquired three properties in France on behalf of investors in its core plus and value-add pan-European discretionary funds: Atria, an office building in Paris; a Class A logistics platform development project in the south of Paris; and Portes Sud, an office campus in Toulouse. PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment business of PGIM, the US$1.3 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).
