W. P. Carey acquire Multimedialny Dom Plusa office building in Warsaw (PL)

Linklaters has acted for its longstanding client, W. P. Carey, a real estate investment trust specialising in corporate sale-leaseback and build-to-suit financing, in relation to the acquisition of ...

Office occupier market to embrace new technologies in 2016

The office occupier market is set for technological transformation and the convergence of HR and real estate strategies according to JLL’s predictions for 2016. John Duckworth, lead director of ...

European office vacancy levels fall to four-year low

Prime office space across Europe is in short supply with vacancy levels at their lowest since 2012, according to CBRE.   Across 47 European cities, the majority - 69% - are now showing stable or ...

Redefine International exchanges on 16 Grosvenor Street for £35.6m (UK)

Redefine International has announced that it, jointly with the Aegon UK Property Fund, exchanged contracts on the sale of 16 Grosvenor Street in Mayfair, London for a total of  £35.6m ...

Bouwinvest Office Fund sells 14 assets to Bryant Park Netherlands B.V. (NL)

Bouwinvest Real Estate Investment Management’s specialist office real estate fund has sold a portfolio of 14 non-core properties in the Netherlands to an affiliate of MCAP Global Finance (UK) ...

Business services sector needs modern offices

Over 70% of companies from the business services sector are planning to expand their office space in the next two years. According to “BPO and Shared Service Centres’ management speak out ...

Tishman Speyer refinances the ‘Lumière’ in largest debt package in French real estate in 2015 (FR)

BNP Paribas and Natixis, acting as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners and joined by Allianz, BECM and La Banque Postale, have provided a 10-year loan to a Joint Venture led by Tishman Speyer for ...

Warburg-HIH sells London Friary Court office scheme (UK)

Hamburg-based Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH (Warburg-HIH Invest) has sold the office scheme Friary Court in London to BCDH Capital Holding FC S.à.r.l. on behalf of the state-owned ...

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