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23 Dec 2019
Intu sells Spanish mall for €475m

Intu sells Spanish mall for €475m

Intu Properties has struck a deal to sell the Puerto Venecia shopping centre in Spain for €475.3m. The company, which owns the asset in Zaragoza in partnership with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, will receive €237.7m from the deal as it looks to address its balance sheet with the value of its UK shopping centres continuing […]

20 Dec 2019
U+I Group submits plans for £200m scheme in south London

U+I Group submits plans for £200m scheme in south London

U+I Group, the specialist regeneration developer and investor, has submitted plans for its £200m mixed-use scheme at Faraday Works in Charlton, Greenwich.  Formerly known as Westminster Industrial Estate, this is one of two planning submissions totalling £1bn gross development value (GDV) outlined at the interim results on 20 November 2019.  U+I expects an outcome in the […]

20 Dec 2019

Globalworth makes €134m acquisition of office complex in Poland

Globalworth, the office investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has agreed a deal to acquire an office in Kraków, Poland. The asset, Podium Park, comprises three connected 11-storey buildings which will, on completion, have a total lettable area of ​​over 55,000 sq m, and it is one of the few office projects in Poland with BREEAM […]

20 Dec 2019

LondonMetric sells £145.3m of big box warehouses

LondonMetric Property has sold four distribution warehouse assets  for a combined £145.3m. Across three deals, the company has disposed two mega box warehouses and two regional distribution warehouses as it continues to reduce it ‘big box’ exposure. In Newark, it has sold a 726,000 sq ft warehouse to an international investor for £80.8m, reflecting a net […]

18 Dec 2019

Stenprop sells largest asset for €160.15m as part of UK industrial strategy

Stenprop has agreed a deal to sell its largest asset, Bleichenhof in Hamburg, for €160.15m as it continues its transition to a fully-focused UK multi-let industrial (MLI) owner. The sale of the office and retail asset will see UK MLI asset rise to 56% of Stenprop’s portfolio, from 44.6%. The Bleichenhof property makes up around 21% […]

18 Dec 2019

Hansteen agrees £500m sale of company to Blackstone

Hansteen Holdings has agreed terms to sell the company to Blackstone for £500m. Under the terms of the deal, Hansteen shareholders will receive 116.5p a share, which represents a 10.3% premium to yesterday’s closing price and an 18.1% premium to the average price for the last three months. It also reflects an 11.6% premium to the […]

18 Dec 2019

Shaftesbury agrees pre-let at Carnaby Street office redevelopment

Shaftesbury has pre-letted almost 50% of the office space at its 72 Broadwick Street redevelopment in Carnaby Street to American fitness and lifestyle brand Equinox. The group has entered into an agreement to let 32,000 sq ft of space at the 66,000 sq ft building. It is expected the space will be handed over for fitting out […]

17 Dec 2019

Sirius Real Estate acquires German business park for €44.5m

Sirius Real Estate, which operates business parks across Germany, has completed the acquisition of Alzenau Business Park, 34km east of Frankfurt am Main, for €44.5m. The business park comprises eleven buildings constructed between 1985 and 2002 providing a total of around 60,000 sqm of lettable space and was bought ar a net initial yield of […]

16 Dec 2019

ASLI buys €49.9m logistics units in Netherlands

Aberdeen Standard European Logistics Income (ASLI) has signed an agreement to acquire a logistics warehouse in the Netherlands for €49.9m. The group has bought a 43,000 sq m facility in Den Hoorn at a net initial yield of 4.5%. The transaction is expected to close in January 2020. The newly built facility, which is located within the Randstad […]

12 Dec 2019

Custodian REIT total returns hit by retail woes

Custodian REIT saw total return fall to 0.5% for the six months to 30 September 2019 as turmoil in the retail market dragged on its results. Net asset value (NAV) per share total return of 0.5% for the period, was down from 4.3% at the same point last year. Share price total return was 8.7% […]