Meyer Bergman fund sells Czech shopping centre for €82.6m (CZ)

A fund established by Meyer Bergman has sold Forum Ústi nad Labem shopping centre in the Czech Republic to New Europe Property Investments for €82.6m. Mark G ...

Prelios to launch €280m retail property fund (DE)

Prelios plans to launch the ‘Prelios German Retail Property Fund Germany’ with a targeted volume of around €280m for German and international institution ...

Tristan Fund acquires Norwegian retail park for €47m (NO)

EPISO 3, advised by Tristan Capital Partners, has acquired the Stoa Vest retail park in Arendal on the southeast coast of Norway from Nordea Life for €47m. The deal ...

Regional centres identified as hidden champions in retail

European regional centres are outstripping the traditionally dominant cities on the retail market. More than 100 regional centres have higher sales indexes and well over ...

UK shopping centre investment volumes down 39% y-o-y in slow start to 2016

Twelve shopping centre transactions totalling £591m (€732.2m) either completed or exchanged in Q1 2016 with the sale of Grand Central, Birmingham, accounting f ...

Design International to construct retail destination in Parma (IT)

Architecture firm Design International has announced their latest design, the Parma Urban District, a three-level retail destination situated in the Parma region of North ...

CBRE Global Investors sells Baronen shopping centre to Sveafastigheter (SE)

CBRE Global Investors has sold the mixed-use property Baronen Shopping Centre on behalf of the CBRE Nordic Property Fund (NPF). The buyer was Regio, which is owned by Sve ...

JLL acquires French retail real estate consultant Véronique Nocquet (FR)

JLL has acquired French retail real estate consultant Véronique Nocquet. The eponymous firm, founded and managed by Véronique Nocquet, has supported both na ...

Tristan purchases two of Northern Ireland’s largest retail parks (NI)

European Property Investors Special Opportunities 4, the opportunity fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan CapitalPartners is investing more ...

ECE launches Play it! game show as part of retailtainment strategy

ECE are set to launch the first fully automatic digital visitor magnet developed for its centres with the interactive Play It! game show. The game show tour commenced at ...

LPP Group opens the largest Reserved store in Russia (RU)

LPP has opened the largest store of its flagship brand Reserved in Russia, signalling the company’s largest investment this year to date. The new store based in th ...

Tiger, Skechers and White Stuff sign to Cribbs Causeway (UK)

M&G Real Estate and intu have secured three leading brands for The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol. Tiger, Skechers and White Stuff have each signed ten-year leases ...

H.I.G. Capital acquires real estate assets in Italy and Sweden

Affiliates of H.I.G. Capital have completed the acquisition of a portfolio of retail assets in Sweden and an office property in Rome, Italy in two separate transactions. ...

NewRiver enter negotiations for £120m Broadway Square acquisition (UK)

NewRiver Retail has confirmed it is in advanced negotiations with a vendor regarding the proposed acquisition of the Broadway shopping centre and Broadway Square in Bexle ...

Hart van 's-Gravenzande secures Jumbo, Lidl and Big Bazar lettings (NL)

The new development project Hart van 's-Gravenzande in ‘s-Gravenzande will accommodate a Jumbo and a Lidl supermarket and a Big Bazar shop. Jumbo recently signed th ...

ECE to undertake €30m refurbishment of Poznań City Center (PL)

ECE has started a major refurbishment of Poznań City Center in Poland with an investment of around €30m to cover a broad scope of construction and fit-out measures. ...

Bayerische Versorgungskammer acquires €55m prime mixed-use asset in Milan (IT)

Bayerische Versorgungskammer has completed the freehold acquisition of a seven-story retail and office building on via Dante 16, one of Milan's main high streets, for &eu ...

Ulmart to invest $250m in construction of 10 logistics centres by 2021 (RU)

Ulmarthasannounced the next stage of the company’s strategic development that envisions construction of proprietary logistical platform in Russia. Chairman of the ...

Standard Life Investments buys iconic buildings in Aarhus (DK)

The Standard Life Investments European Real Estate Club L.P. II (Euro Club II) has acquired two landmark buildings in Denmark’s thriving second city, Aarhus. The R ...

Russia expects 10-year record low of shopping centre completions in 2016

According to CBRE, uncertain retailer demand as well as expensive and unavailable financing were the major reasons for lowered developer activity in Russia. As a result, ...

40% of visitors choose a shopping centre based on dining options

A new study published by ECE has shown that 40% of visitors base their choice of shopping centre primarily on the available dining options and not on the variety of other ...

The new Einkaufspark Duckwitz retail park opens today (DE)

The new Einkaufspark Duckwitz retail park in Bremen-Neustadt opens today with around 30 shops over 19,000m² of leasable space. The former hypermarket location has un ...

Manchester refurbished office market prospers as occupier demand increases (UK)

Approximately 625,000ft² (58,063m²) of office space in Manchester is set to be refurbished over the next two years as the market responds to continuing levels o ...

Bilfinger Real Estate wins management contracts for four Dutch shopping centres (NL)

Real estate services provider Bilfinger Real Estate has been awarded management contracts for four shopping centres in the Netherlands by its existing customers Bouwinves ...

Retail Warehouse developments under construction rise from H1 2015 (UK)

Since H1 2015 the retail warehouse pipeline has increased marginally, by 1%, but space under construction rose by 20%, according to CBRE. In recent years, demand for unit ...

M7 acquires Dutch 15-asset portfolio for EREIP III (NL)

M7 Real Estate has acquired a collective portfolio of 15 assets across three separate transactions in the Netherlands on behalf of its latest European investment fund M7 ...

Grocery schemes continue to decline as pressure mounts (UK)

Britains Big Four supermarkets (Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons) continue to reduce the amount of new supermarkets and developments as the grocery pipeline c ...

Invesco and Thor acquire prime retail opportunity in Madrid (ES)

Invesco Real Estate and Thor Equities have commenced leasing for 11 Puerta del Sol in Madrid, after completing the joint acquisition of this high street corner retail ass ...

Corestate and Sistema Capital Partners JV secure four German retail assets for €120m (DE)

Corestate Capital Group and Sistema Capital Partners have formed a joint venture targeting opportunities in Germany. The partners have secured four high street retail pro ...

BHS faces £1.3bn collapse (UK)

BHS has issued a warning to its creditors stating they stand to lose up to £1.3bn (€1.674bn) without the implementation of a radical turnaround plan. The comp ...

Tristan fund acquires Bloomfield Shopping Centre in Northern Ireland’s Bangor for £54.5m (UK)

European Property Investors Special Opportunities 4 (EPISO 4), an opportunity fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners, has ac ...

Second-tier Dutch cities identified as retail investment hotspots (NL)

Prime retail property in second-tier cities offers the best real estate investment potential in the Netherlands, according to Savills Investment Management’s latest ...

Rockspring adds £38.4m Liverpool shopping centre to UK Value 2 fund (UK)

Rockspring Property Investment Managers, on behalf of Rockspring UK Value 2 Fund, has acquired Clayton Square, a high street retail block in Liverpool for £38.4m, r ...

Delta Real Estate sells two shopping centres to Hyprop and Homestead Funds JV

Delta Real Estatehas sold two Delta City shopping centres in Belgrade, Serbia and Podgorica, Montenegro for a total of €202.7m to a joint venture between South Afric ...

Tikehau IM acquires I Petali di Reggio shopping centre for €87m (IT)

Tikehau IM has acquired the I Petali di Reggio shopping centre located in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy, from CBRE Global Investors. The centre, opened in 2007, sees app ...

Helsinki CBD buoys Finnish office market performance (FI)

Offices in the Helsinki CBD performed strongly in 2015 amid a climate of challenging economic conditions and overall market depreciation. According to new research from ...

Warsaw retail market grew by 64,000m² in 2015 (PL)

JLL has summarised 2015 on the Warsaw agglomeration's retail market. The Warsaw agglomeration is the biggest retail market in Poland, offering a total of approximately 1. ...

MVRDV present €300m transformation of Part-Dieu (FR)

Dutch architecture firm MVRDV have unveiled renovation plans for Lyon’s Part-Dieu shopping centre, the focal piece in a major renovation which includes the surround ...

European retail sector to attract €70.5bn investment in 2016

According to research conducted by Cushman & Wakefield, the retail sector recorded the fastest growth in Europe’s commercial property market last year, with inv ...

Galeria Metropolia to welcome Sports Direct (PL)

UK retailer Sports Direct is to open a store in Galeria Metropolia, currently under construction in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz, Poland. Cushman & Wakefield acted as the agent o ...

CBRE sells Megahertsi Shopping Centre to eQ Finnish Real Estate (FI)

CBRE Global Investors has sold the Megahertsi Shopping Centre in Herttoniemi, Helsinki to eQ Finnish Real Estate, a Special Investment Fund. Megahertsi is located in the ...

Søstrene Grene chooses intu Victoria Centre for UK debut (UK)

Søstrene Grene, a pan-European retail chain that first started business in Denmark in 1973, is coming to the UK having chosen intu Victoria Centre as the location ...

Veranda shopping centre secures €25.5m financing (RO)

Veranda shopping centre, situated in the Obor area in Bucharest, has attracted funding of €25.5m from Raiffeisen Bank SA and Raiffeisen Bank International AG for the ...

CEE region sees record of 185 new retail brands over 2014-2015

According to CBRE, a record of 185 new retail brands have entered five CEE countries, opening up a total of 550 stores in 2014 and 2015, with plans for another 75 opening ...

JLL summarises 2015 Czech retail market highlights (CZ)

According to JLL, 2015 was a year of consolidation for the Czech shopping centre market. During the year there was only one shopping centre opening and as such, it repres ...

European cities enjoy high street revival

Europe’s most luxurious high streets recorded another year of robust rental growth in 2015, according to research from Cushman & Wakefield. Rents on Via Monten ...

Splurge of spring successes at Queensberry Real Estate’s Friars Walk (UK)

Queensberry Real Estate has announced that five new retail and leisure brands will soon be opening their doors at Friars Walk. The €150m (£117m) shopping and r ...

CBRE acquires two prime retail assets in Madrid (ES)

CBRE Global Investment Partners, in joint venture with IBA Capital Partners, has acquired two prime high street retail assets in Madrid; the ABC Serrano Shopping Centre o ...

Pramerica acquires London retail property (UK)

Pramerica Real Estate Investors has acquired an eight-unit retail property on London’s Fulham Road in Chelsea for a reported sum of£45m. The eight-unit, 2,38 ...

Commercial real estate sentiment continues to pick up in CEE

Most countries in central and eastern Europe can expect relatively strong economic growth and remarkable improvements in their commercial property markets in 2016, with b ...

Immochan and CBRE Global Investors acquire Alegro Setúbal shopping centre (PT)

Immochan and Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC), represented by CBRE Global Investors, have acquired the Alegro Setúbal shopping centre in Portugal. The tra ...

AshbyCapital secures £53m financing for Morfa Retail Park, Swansea (UK)

AshbyCapital has secured a £53m (€68.8m) loan facility from Deutsche Hypo for Morfa Retail Park in Swansea. The financing follows the acquisition of the retail ...

BRC/Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor records best performance in two years (UK)

Retail customer footfall in the UK in January was up 1.2% up on a year ago, significantly above the 2.2% deline seen in December, and its best performance since January 2 ...

CBRE and Universal-Investment acquire Lion Walk Shopping centre, Essex (UK)

CBRE Global Investors and Universal-Investment have completed the acquisition of Lion Walk Shopping Centre in Colchester, Essex, UK, on behalf of German fundBayerische Ve ...

Greenman Investments buys hybrid centre in Kamen, North Rhine-Westphalia (DE)

Irish real estate investment manager Greenman Investments has acquired an inner-city retail property in North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany. The property is located in the cit ...

Invesco commits to Spanish hypermarket portfolio for €358m (ES)

Invesco Real Estate, has exchanged contracts on a portfolio of 11 hypermarkets in northern Spain, for IRE's open-ended pan-European fund, with a transaction value totalli ...

AEW Europe acquires prime retail asset in Copenhagen (DK)

AEW Europe has announced that it has acquired a high-end retail asset in central Copenhagen on behalf of the City Retail Fund. The transaction marks the first Danish acqu ...

Deutsche Bank’s asset management arm sells The Helicon (UK)

Deutsche Bank’s asset management arm has sold The Helicon, 1 South Place, London on behalf of one of its funds. Located in the City of London and built in 1996, th ...

Prague’s Galerie Harfa awarded LEED Gold Certificate

Galerie Harfa shopping centre in Prague has been awarded a LEED Gold for Existing Buildings: Operation & Maintenance. The certificate is unique as it was performed fo ...

Ares acquire €200m French outlet portfolio (FR)

Resolution Property has completed the sale of its 47,000m²French outlet centre portfolio, comprising assets in the cities of Roubaix and Troyes, to a fund managed by ...

Neinver commits to sustainable management and design (ES)

Neinver has bolstered its commitment to sustainable construction and management by earning a BREEAM certificate during the design phase of its new Viladecans The Style Ou ...

Westgate Oxford Alliance acquires £47.2m Castle Quarter (UK)

The Westgate Oxford Alliance, ajoint venturebetween Land Securitiesand The Crown Estate, has acquired the Castle Quarter, Oxford for £47.2m from the Trevor Osborne ...

Prologis to add 36,000m² for Coolblue at Prologis Park Tilburg (NL)

Prologis, Inc. has signed a 36,000m² agreement at Prologis Park Tilburg with Coolblue. Coolblue, one of the largest online retailers in the Benelux, is a current Pr ...

Neinver to manage Megapark Barakaldo (ES)

Neinver, Europe’s second-largest outlet operator, will manage part of the Megapark Barakaldo retail park, located in the Basque region of Spain. Megapark, with a s ...

AEW Europe acquires prime high street retail development in Madrid (ES)

AEW Europe has acquired a high-end retail asset in central Madrid on behalf of the City Retail Fund, in a forward purchase agreement. This is the first Spanish acquisitio ...

World Retail Congress 2016

Over the course of 12-14 April 2016, more than 1,000 CEOs, heads of marketing and e-commerce professionals from retailers representing 50+ countries will unite for the 10 ...

London prime shopping rents soar 9% (UK)

Rents for prime central London shops boomed by 9% in the final quarter of 2015, the fastest growth experienced in sector since 1988. Meanwhile, rents for high street shop ...

Hines acquires prime retail asset in Madrid for €39.5m (ES)

Hines has acquired a prime retail asset in Madrid from Spanish real estate company Grupo Baraka for €39.5m. The Gran Via 44 property comprises 900m² and is loc ...

Hammerson to acquire Grand Central, Birmingham, for €441m (UK)

Hammerson plc (Hammerson) has exchanged contracts with Birmingham City Council to acquire the new Grand Central shopping centre in Birmingham for £335m (€441m) ...

Vacancy rates in Moscow shopping centres grow as retail sales decline (RU)

According to JLL, vacancy rates on the Moscow retail market has reached 8.3%, increasing by .8 pp. in Q4 2015 and by 2.3 pp. year-on-year respectively. The availability h ...

Kaufhaus des Westens to be renovated by OMA (DE)

OMA has been selected to renovate the historic Berlin department store Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe). The department is the largest in continental Europe, first opened in ...

Warburg-HIH Invest acquires Citygate shopping centre in Vienna (AT)

Warbug-HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH has acquired the Citygate shopping centre in Vienna in the fast-growing 21st district. The shopping centre opened in February 2015, wit ...

Poland sees record investment in Q4 2015 (PL)

The volume of investment in commercial property in Poland exceeded €4bn last year, representing thesecond highest volume and the most active last quarter ever record ...

Morfa Retail Park, Swansea sells for £83.5m (UK)

AshbyCapital, the real estate investment company, has purchased Morfa Retail Park in Swansea from The Crown Estate for €110.4m (£83.5m) on behalf of its group ...

Polish retail market saw 502,000m² delivered in 2015, says JLL (PL)

According to JLL, 2015 saw the Polish retail market grow by a total of 651,400m² worth of retail space, including shopping centres (502,000m²), outlet centres ( ...

Australia's Wesfarmers enter agreement to acquire UK retail Homebase for £340m (UK)

Wesfarmers Limited has entered into an agreement to acquire Homebase from Home Retail Group for £340m (€446m). Homebase is the second largest home improvement ...

Meyer Bergman Fund acquires €100m property portfolio (FR)

A fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Meyer Bergman has bought a portfolio of 38 retail and mixed-use properties located across France for a sum i ...

Union Investment acquires first shopping centre for Dutch retail fund (NL)

Union Investment has acquired its first shopping centre in the Netherlands for its institutional open-ended real estate fund UII Shopping Nr. 1. Completed in 2004, De Kla ...

Redevco acquires five retail boutiques in Shoreditch (UK)

Redevco has acquired five ground-floor retail units of 15-29 Redchurch Street in the thriving and fashionable Shoreditch district in London for more than £16m (&eur ...

Queensberry appointed on Broadway Bradford (UK)

Queensberry Real Estate has been formally instructed by Meyer Bergman to provide development management advice for its Bradford Leisure Quarter. Broadway Bradford officia ...

Super-Pharm to launch its first drugstore in Tychy (PL)

International drugstore chain Super-Pharm has leased 530m² in Skałka shopping centre. Super-Pharm brings together a pharmacy, drugstore and perfumery under one roof ...

LondonMetric Property sells three retail parks for £30m (UK)

LondonMetric Property have announced that the Metric Income Plus Limited Partnership, its joint venture with Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd, has sold its retail p ...

Retail leads record breaking year of investment in CEE

Investment into central and eastern European countries (excluding Russia) for 2015 reached a historic high level at over €9.55bn, representing a 19% increase y-o-y, ...

CBRE Ireland Outlook 2016 predicts busy year for commercial property market (IE)

CBRE has released their Outlook 2016 annual report containing their final year figures for transactional activity in each sector of the Irish commercial property market i ...

Patrizia acquires property portfolio encompassing 21 specialist outlets (DE)

Patrizia Immobilien AG has acquired a portfolio of 21 specialist markets, supermarkets and DIY stores belonging to leading chains such as Rewe, Edeka, Kaufland and Bauhau ...

Hammerson to sell Villebon 2 retail park in Villebon-sur-Yvette (FR)

Hammerson plc has announced that it has exchanged contracts to sell the Villebon 2 retail park to a consortium of leading French institutional investors for €159m (& ...

Demand for retail parks, warehouses and foodstores to increase in 2016 says Cushman & Wakefield

According to Cushman & Wakefield, demand for retail parks, solus retail warehouse & foodstore units in Great Britain is forecast to increase by 6% to 11.49 millio ...

JLL acquires ACREST, a leading retail asset management business in Germany (DE)

JLL has announced its acquisition of ACREST, one of Germany’s leading retail real estate asset management businesses, following approval from Germany’s compet ...

John Lewis sees sales boom over Christmas season (UK)

One of the UK’s leading retailers, John Lewis Partnership, has reported a 4.1% growth in y-o-y sales in the six weeks to 2 January 2016, buoyed significantly by onl ...

AXA IM - Real Assets acquires Porta Siena shopping centre for €21.5m (IT)

AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets has completed the acquisition of Porta Siena, a shopping centre in Siena, Italy for €21.5m, on behalf of clients as part of its ...

Edinburgh Airport redevelopment to create more than 200 new retail jobs (UK)

With the redevelopment of its airside retail space, Edinburgh Airport is set to deliver over 200 new retail jobs at the airport in H1 2016. The redevelopment will see th ...

KWE acquires La Moraleja Green shopping centre in Madrid for €71m (ES)

Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate Plc has completed the acquisition of La Moraleja Green shopping centre, Madrid, from ING Real Estate & Other. KWE has acquired a 95. ...

Cornerstone completes €38.3m acquisition of leading department store, Åhléns, in Malmö city centre (SE)

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers Europe, a subsidiary of Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC, have announced that it has completed the acquisition of a prime high street ...

Dutch department store V&D on brink of bankruptcy (NL)

The management of V & D Group (V & D Department and La Place)have applied fordeferred payment to its creditors inthe courtof Amsterdam. The court granted the requ ...

Tristan Fund agrees €273m purchase of Dutch shopping centre portfolio (NL)

EPISO 4, the latest value-add/opportunity style fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners, has agreed to purchase a 15-property ...

Vastned divests €26m worth of non-strategic assets (BE)

Vastned Retail Belgium has completed divestment of 11 non-strategic properties for a net selling price of approximately €26m, continuing its strategic course of focu ...

Skałka shopping centre on track for development (PL)

The development of Skałka shopping centre in Tychy is ongoing. Intensive works on the building’s commercialisation are underway, with 70% of the planned retail spa ...

Hammerson plc disposes of Monument Mall, Newcastle (UK)

Hammerson plc has exchanged contracts for the sale of two assets for a total of £87m (€119.4m), including the wholly owned shopping centre Monument Mall in New ...

The largest Christmas markets in the CEE region

Colliers International has examined the selection of Christmas markets in selected Polish and European cities. Experts have visited several Christmas markets, comparing t ...

Sistema Capital Partners makes €125m debut on the European real estate market (DE)

Sistema Capital Partners, the international real estate private equity platform launched in December 2015 by Sistema JSFC, has secured a portfolio of German high street r ...

Polish shopping centre market to focus on upgrades and renovations in 2016 (PL)

Growing competition for retailers combined with significant new openings and evolving customer expectations is creating a new trend on the Polish shopping centre market a ...

Meyer Bergman completes purchase of NOK5.3bn Oslo retail portfolio (NO)

Meyer Bergman has completed the purchase of a portfolio comprising 11 prime retail properties in central Oslo’s historic shopping district on behalf of its latest f ...

Redevelopment of intu Watford moves forward (UK)

The transformation of intu Watfordis moving forward with several top names signing new leases including Jack & Jones, Tiger and Timberland. At the same time, the rede ...

Klépierre acquires downtown Oslo’s leading shopping centre, Oslo City (NO)

Klépierre has announced that Steen & Strøm, its 56.1% controlled Scandinavian subsidiary, has signed a sale and purchase agreement, jointly with Entra, ...

Aerium sells portfolio of forecourt convenience stores to clients of Investra Capital for £30.9m (UK)

Aerium, the European real estate fund manager, has announced the sale of a portfolio of 14 petrol station convenience stores to clients of Investra Capital, a private equ ...

Shopping centres dominate Polish retail market (PL)

Modern retail stock in Poland reached almost 13 million m²by December 2015, of which 9.3 million m²(71%) consisted of shopping centres, followed by 3.5 million ...

Triuvia sell Platan shopping centre for €51.8m (PL)

Rockcastle Global Real Estate has purchased the Platan shopping centre in the city of Zabrze (Katowice urban area) from TRIUVA for €51.8m – offering an initial ...

Michael Kors opens at intu Milton Keynes (UK)

Michael Kors has announced the opening of a Michael Kors Lifestyle store at intu Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, this December. The 2,177ft² (202m²) store will ...

Retail investment to be largest contributor to Portugal’s €2bn annual investment

According to Knight Frank, Portuguese commercial property investment totalled €1.3bn during the first nine months of 2015, and is forecast to reach a record €2b ...

CBRE acquires Sfera shopping centre in the Silesia region (PL)

CBRE Global Investors has completed the acquisition of the Sfera Shopping Centre in Bielsko-Biala in the Silesia Region. The centre comprises approx. 61,878m² acros ...

European retail investment up 45% year on year

As reported by CBRE, European retail investment reached near record levels with €17bn transacted in Q3, a 45% increase on Q3 2014 levels. The German retail market ha ...

RockCastle completes Karolinka and Pogoria sales agreement with BlackRock for €220.8m (PL)

RockCastle Global Real Estate Company Ltd and BlackRock Real Estate have officially signed the final sales agreement for the acquisition of the Karolinka and Pogoria shop ...

Mall of Scandinavia sees 1 million visitors in just 17 days

Unibail-Rodamco successfully delivered two emblematic shopping centres in H2 2015, benefiting from the group's latest concepts and innovations, including The Designer Gal ...

Heuvel Galerie in Eindhoven reopens after renovation (NL)

With a record number of approximately 350,000 visitors during the reopening of the shopping centre and the launch of a permanent light sculpture during the GLOW light fes ...

M&G Real Estate acquires Bridgend Designer Outlet for £115.5m

M&G Real Estate has acquired Bridgend Designer Outlet for £115.5m (€164.1m) from TH Real Estate, reflecting a net initial yield of 5.75%. The acquisition w ...

The ‘Stary Browar’ in Pozan has been sold in second largest transaction on the investment polish market (PL)

The ‘Stary Browar’ in Pozan, Poland, has been acquired by Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management on behalf of its German fund grundbesitz europa for approxima ...

Future of retail to include skyscraper warehouses, super ports and 'showrooming'

A new report from Colliers predicts the future of retail and logistics in Europe. With spare logistics space in European cities at an all time low and growth in online sh ...

Cornerstone completes €36m extension and refurbishment of Center Syd shopping centre in Malmö (SE)

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers Europe (‘Cornerstone’), a subsidiary of Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC, one of the largest global real estate investmen ...

Savills Investment Management commit €100m to Dutch real estate (NL)

Savills Investment Management, the international property investment manager, has continued its investment programme into Dutch real estate with the acquisition of the Aa ...

Rockspring achieves planning consent for two distribution assets in Yorkshire (UK)

Rockspring Property Investment Managers has secured planning consent for two industrial developments, totalling over 13,000m²(140,000ft²) at Thorp Arch Estate, ...

ICSC Retail Strategy & Trends Forum launches tomorrow (DE)

The ICSC Retail Strategy & Trends Forum opens tomorrow in Berlin, Germany. The three day event will follow the theme “return on innovation” with speakers ...

LaSalle Investment Management makes first Central European acquisition with Futura Retail Park in Wroclaw (PL)

LaSalle Investment Management has made its first acquisition in Central Europe on behalf of Encore+, with the purchase of a retail park in Poland. Futura Retail Park in ...

TH Real Estate secures €91.7m debt financing for Nova Lund Shopping Centre (SE)

TH Real Estate has secured a €91.7m (850m SEK) debt financing for Nova Lund Shopping Centre in Lund, Sweden. The new seven year, fixed rate facility has been provid ...

Ratos enters Finnish commercial real estate market via €191.5m joint venture with Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company (FI)

Ratos AB (publ), the Swedish listed private equity conglomerate, has signed an agreement with Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company to form a €191.5m joint venture ...

Tristan Fund acquires retail park portfolio and development sites in Norway (NO)

EPISO 3, the opportunity fund advised by pan-European real estate investment adviser Tristan Capital Partners, has agreed to acquire a portfolio of five retail parks and ...

Worldwide sales of luxury goods increase as Chinese purchasers look abroad

Worldwide sales of luxury goods continue to increase according to the latest report by global property advisor CBRE, Luxury Retail 2015. 70% of all Chinese-led luxury pur ...

STRATOS brings first Imax theatre to South-East France (FR)

Immochan, the real estate division of Auchan holding, signed the first multiplex of the South-East of France fitted with Imax technology in STRATOS, as part of Alpha 2017 ...

Grocery stores need to attract shoppers back in store as online profitability decreases (UK)

Profit profiles are changing in the UK grocery sector as superstores make floor space work harder and online profitability declines. According to Knight Frank, the main ...

MAPIC 2015 award winners announced

The 20th MAPIC Awards ceremony took place during MAPIC, the international retail property market. The 10 winners and four special Awards were revealed during the prestigi ...

JLL ranks the most attractive Russian cities for retailers in exclusive MAPIC report

JLL has prepared its Destination Russia report exclusively for MAPIC. In this report, JLL has analysed more than 250 international and domestic retailers’ presence ...

Fashion House Group showcases two projects at MAPIC 2015

Fashion House group, the leading outlet developer and operator in the CEE and Russia, is showcasing its projects, including the second phase of Fashion House Outlet Centr ...

Generali Real Estate partners with Sonae Sierra on the development and management of CityLife Shopping District (IT)

Generali Real Estate, the real estate asset manager of Generali Group, and Sonae Sierra, the international shopping centre specialist, have announced an agreement for the ...

Neinver commits to the omni-channel model

NEINVER has announced a digital transformation of its management model, to offer brands and shoppers a seamless, innovative digital experience that responds to an omni-ch ...

Eating is the new shopping as space allocated to F&B in shopping centres soars

Food & beverage (F&B) operators have doubled the amount of floorspace they occupy in shopping centres over the last 10 years, from 7% to 15%, according to researc ...

Omni-channel retailing way forward for Europe

With 20-25% retail spending set to be generated online, retailers across Europe need to start future proofing their businesses in order to remain competitive and profitab ...

Greenman Investments acquires retail centre in Datteln (DE)

Irish real estate investment manager Greenman Investments has acquired a €26.4m hybrid centre in Datteln, Germany for its Greenman Retail+ fund. The seller of the pr ...

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank finances EPISO 3 retail park acquisition (UK)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a medium-term acquisition facility for a total of £28m (€39.9m) to European Property Investors Special Opportunities 3 ...

BNP Paribas Real Estate analyses European trends in retail real estate

European investment in retail showed strong momentum in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Poland and Italy, with a cumulative volume over nine months exceeding the figure f ...

Best performing outlet centres in Europe announced in new report

The results of the latest ‘Factory Outlet Centre Performance Report Europe 2015’ by ecostra and Magdus have been released. The report is published as an annua ...

Michael Kors set to open its first store in Gothenburg (SE)

Michael Kors is planning to open its first store in Gothenburg in 2016 – on the corner of Fredsgatan and Södra Hamngatan – in one of Hufvudstaden’s ...

CORESTATE acquires €125m worth of retail properties (DE)

CORESTATE Capital Group has announced the acquisition of 20 single and well located retail buildings in prime locations in the pedestrian zones of German mid-sized cities ...

Hunter UK Retail Trust completes first acquisitions (UK)

Hunter Real Estate Investment Management has completed the first acquisitions in its Hunter UK Retail Trust since launching the fund over the summer. The purchases compri ...

W.P.Carey Inc. acquires €58.6m Stern Group Auto Dealership portfolio (NL)

W.P. Carey Inc. announced today that it has entered into an approximately €58.6m sale-leaseback transaction for a portfolio of 10 automotive retail and services site ...

British Land secures impressive host of new lettings at Meadowhall (UK)

British Land has secured 11 new lettings totalling nearly 2601m2 (28,000ft2) at Meadowhall, the UK’s fourth largest shopping centre and Yorkshire’s premier re ...

Gouden Hart shopping centre open for business (NL)

Gouden Hart shopping centre in the Gouden Buurten of Berkel and Rodenrijs has officially opened its doors on 7 November 2015 by the mayor of Lansingerland, Mr. van de Sta ...

Retail demand increases in the heart of Mayfair, London (UK)

Retail demand in the heart of Mayfair (London) continues to increase as luxury retailers aim to secure prime positioning. Knight Frank have acquired 5-6 Stafford Street ...

Unibail-Rodamco completes renovation of Ruhr Park in Bochum (DE)

Unibail-Rodamco has officially completed the redesign of the Ruhr Park in Bochum. After one and a half years of renovation and a €150 mn investment, the shopping cen ...

Sonae Sierra recorded a total net profit of €94.8m in the first nine months of 2015

The third quarter of 2015 saw a like-for-like increase in tenant sales in the European portfolio, recording a 2.6% growth, with emphasis on the 6% growth in Italy, 3.9% i ...

IMMOFINANZ opens second VIVO! shopping centre in Poland (PL)

IMMOFINANZ has successfully completed and opened the first section of their VIVO! shopping centre in Stalowa Wola, Poland, under its VIVO! retail brand. The Stalowa Wola ...

Retail construction volumes increasing in Helsinki area (FI)

Almost 190,000 m²of new retail space was under construction in the Helsinki Metropolitan area at the end of September, according to research and analysis specialists ...

Retailers gearing up for surge in Black Friday sales (UK)

Retailers are gearing up for the anticipated surge in footfall and Black Friday sales this year following on from the success of Black Friday 2014. 66% of those polled as ...

Patrizia acquires €340 mln Dutch retail portfolio (NL)

Patrizia Immobilien AG has acquired a premium property portfolio for €340 mln, encompassing 145 retail, residential and office units in the Netherlands. The transac ...

New shopping attraction in Aachen opens its doors (DE)

Approximately two and a half years after a grandceremony launched construction, Aquis Plaza with its 130 specialty stores, restaurants, cafés and service providers ...

Dublin’s prime retail streets remain hot property for Irish investment funds (IE)

New research from BNP Paribas Real Estate has revealed that funds own 54% of the buildings on both of Dublin’s prime retail streets – Grafton Street and Henry ...

€63 million financing secured by Cerberus for German retail portfolio project (DE)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank will provide financing – secured by land charges – in a total amount of €63 mln to affiliates of Cerberus Capital Management ...

ParkLake joint venture shopping centre completes debt-finance agreement (RO)

ParkLake, a 50:50 Sonae Sierra and Caelum Development joint venture project, has announced the signing of a debt-finance agreement for the shopping centre. The joint vent ...

Vastned acquires two high street shops in Le Marais, Paris (FR)

Located at Rue des Rosiers 3ter, Vastned has acquired two high street shops for €16.2 mln in total. Le Marais, also known as the Jewish quarter, is located in the t ...

€204 mln Resorts World Birmingham brings a touch of Vegas to the West Midlands (UK)

Europe’s first resort destination, Resorts World Birmingham, located on the NEC campus, has opened to the public after a two year development programme worth € ...

F&B now sole attraction for a third of shopping centre visitors across EMEA

Almost a third of all visitors to shopping centres across Europe, South Africa and the Middle East will visit a restaurant or coffee shop just to eat and drink, according ...

JLL reports eight year investment high in Belgian property market (BE)

Commercial property investments in the Belgian capital have soared in 2015, with investment volume year-to-date jumping by 59% y-o-y to €3.3 bln, already exceeding f ...

LondonMetric sells a further two retail assets for €44 mln (UK)

LondonMetric Property Plc (LondonMetric) announced that it has sold the DFS property in Enfield for €33.5 mln (£24.5 mln) on behalf of it’s DFS joint ven ...

FISCHAPARK's new look unveiled following €100 mln investment by SES (AT)

FISCHAPARK in Wiener Neustadt has revealed a bold new look and impressive facilities following a €100 mln refurbishment and expansion project. The operator, SES Spa ...

KGAL acquires Austrian retail park Galleria Danubia Hainburg for their ARPP institutional fund (AT)

KGAL, the German based asset and investment manager, has acquired the Galleria Danubia in Hainburg – the fifth property for its institutional property fund Austrian ...

KIKO expands its UK portfolio with intu (UK)

Italian beauty chain KIKO Milano is set to open four new shops within regional intu shopping centres across the UK. intu Trafford Centre, intu Derby, intu Bromley and in ...

Tristan Capital Partners and STAM Europe agree sale of PariSquare (FR)

Following the recent announcement of the Publicis Group’s letting of 21,100 m2 at PariSquare on a new 10-year lease, Tristan Capital Partners and STAM have agreed t ...

Tamaris secures prime letting in Mannheim (DE)

Tamaris has secured a letting of 290 m² in P7 24, leased by Lührmann’s retail specialists. The opening took place at the end of September 2015. "Mannheim, ...

Tesco agrees sale of Spenhill sites to Meyer Bergman for €338.5 mln (UK)

Supermarket giant Tesco has agreed the sale of 14 Spenhill development sites across London, the South East and Bath. The sites, previously allocated for new store develo ...

NEINVER reduces its shopping centres’ energy consumption by nearly 9%

In 2014 the retail properties managed by NEINVER reduced their water consumption by 2.7%. The company considers eco-friendly management essential to boosting the perform ...

New shopping magnet opens in Neumünster, northern Germany (DE)

Following a construction period of about 19 months, Neumünster's new city-center attraction will celebrate its opening on Thursday (October 15, 2015). The new Holst ...

NREP Nordic Strategies Fund acquires a 28,300 m² daily goods portfolio from KF Fastigheter (SE)

NREP Nordic Strategies Fund, a fund managed by Nordic Real Estate Partners (NREP), has acquired seven modern daily goods assets located in greater Stockholm, Linköpi ...

Union Investment expands Riem Arcades in Munich (DE)

Union Investment Real Estate GmbH sees potential for added value in its €7 bln portfolio of shopping centres and aims to leverage the available opportunities through ...

Pradera fund completes €163.4 mln loan refinancing with Aareal bank

Pradera, the specialist retail real estate fund and asset manager has announced the refinancing of their first fund, the Pradera European Retail Fund (‘PERF’) ...

Tikehau Investment Management acquires Bercy 2 in Paris for €64 mln (FR)

Tikehau IM announces the acquisition, for €64 mln, of 100% of the co-ownership units owned by Hammerson France in Bercy 2 shopping centre which represents 35,200m&su ...

M&G Real Estate signs Quiz and Smiggle for Maidstone shopping centre (UK)

M&G Real Estate has signed Quiz and Smiggle, two of the UK’s fastest growing high street brands, for Fremlin Walk shopping centre in Maidstone. Womenswear fash ...

Redevco forms joint venture with Hermes to acquire €250 mln of retail real estate (EU)

Redevco, the pan-European retail real estate specialist, and Hermes Investment Management, the €40.5 bln (£29.8 bln) manager focused on delivering superior, su ...

AEW Europe completes German retail portfolio acquisition (DE)

AEW Europe announces that it has completed the acquisition of an eight asset German retail portfolio. The transaction forms part of a series of acquisitions totalling &eu ...

Real Estate Partners completes acquisition of RetailP

Real Estate Partners (REP), the business incubator and investor in innovative companies within commercial real estate, has today [5 October 2015] announced the acquisitio ...

Meyer Bergman clients join fund in €554 mln retail portfolio purchase in central Oslo from Søylen-­Madison JV (NO)

A fund and clients advised by Meyer Bergman, the real estate investment management firm, have agreed to purchase a portfolio of 11 prime properties in central Oslo's prin ...

Prelios Immobilien Management assumes management of Galerie Neustädter Tor in Giessen (DE)

Prelios Immobilien Management, the German specialist for commercial real estate, will assume the management of the “Galerie Neustädter Tor” shopping cent ...

Shopping highlight in Berlin's new entertainment district - East Side Mall (DE)

In the heart of Berlin and one of the city’s most important district developments, the architecturally unique ‘East Side Mall’ is being created. In Ber ...

CBRE Global Investors acquires retail park in Southampton (UK)

CBRE Global Investors, on behalf of a separate account client, has acquired Mountbatten Retail Park, Southampton for €23 mln (£16.2 mln), reflecting a net init ...

Allianz Real Estate and Hammerson plc invest in loan portfolio secured against prime Irish retail property (IE)

Allianz Real Estate together with its joint venture partner, Hammerson plc, has signed an agreement with Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) to acquir ...

Tristan Fund acquires two retail parks for approx. €60.5 mln (UK)

An opportunity fund advised by Tristan Capital Partners, the pan-European real estate investment manager, has purchased a retail park in northeast England and another 217 ...

FACTORY Ursus becomes Warsaw’s biggest outlet centre (PL)

FACTORY Ursus, Poland’s first outlet centre developed by NEINVER, welcomes customers in a brand new way with an expansion measuring 6,200 m² GLA. This makes it ...

pbb provides €87 mln financing to McArthurGlen for designer outlet (FR)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has agreed a €87 mln medium-term facility for Village de la Peronne SAS, a 100% subsidiary of the Simon Property Group and McArthurGlen. ...

PATRIZIA establishes division for pan-European logistics business in Amsterdam (NL)

PATRIZIA Immobilien AG has established a division for Europe-wide logistics business. The new platform is based in Amsterdam. "The acquisition of an expert team allows us ...

Colliers International appointed exclusive consultant for Respublika Plaza mall (KZ)

International consulting company Colliers International has been appointed as exclusive broker of Respublika Plaza, a new super-regional shopping and entertainment centre ...

AMF Fastigheter secures largest letting for Urban Escape Stockholm (SE)

AMF Fastigheter has let over half of the T32 office block to Nordic law firm Roschier, marking the largest commercial letting now secured for the 130,000 m² (1,400,0 ...

Goodman develops 130,000 m² logistics centre for Zalando in Lahr (DE)

Zalando, the leading online platform for fashion in Europe, will start the construction of its fourth self-operating logistics centre in Germany this October. The company ...

pbb provides financing to Standard Life Investments fund for Länna Retail Park (SE)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a medium-term acquisition facility totalling approx. €29.5 mln (SEK275.5 mln) to the Standard Life Investments European Real ...

NEINVER's FACTORY Ursus becomes Warsaw’s biggest outlet centre (PL)

FACTORY Ursus, Poland’s first outlet centre developed by NEINVER, welcomes customers in a brand-new way with an expansion measuring 6,200 m² GLA. This, makes i ...

New Look, Moss Bros, Perfume Shop lead host of lettings for the Liberty, Romford (UK)

Fashion retailers New Look and Moss Bros are leading a host of retail lettings for The Liberty, the 110-unit pre-eminent shopping and lifestyle centre located in the hear ...

Overseas shoppers spend €24 mln per annum on buying luxury property & retail goods in London (UK)

There is a correlation between luxury goods and residential real estate sales in London due to purchasing by the same high-net-worth spenders from resource rich countries ...

Mayfair Capital Commercial Property Trust acquires three properties for €36.8 mln (UK)

Mayfair Capital Investment Management, the UK real estate investment manager, announces that Mayfair Capital Commercial Property Trust (MCCPT) has acquired three properti ...

Bumper raft of lettings for Two Rivers, Staines-upon-Thames (UK)

Aberdeen Asset Management has secured nine new leading retail and leisure brands to join Surrey’s leading retail and leisure park, Two Rivers, Staines-upon-Thames. ...

Worldwide consumer confidence at highest level in four years

The biggest leap was in Western Europe where sentiment is six times more positive than a year ago, according to the study released at the 10th Annual World Retail Congres ...

Manolo Blahnik opening in Burlington Arcade, London (UK)

Thor Equities, a global leader in urban real estate development, leasing and management and Meyer Bergman, the co-owners of London’s iconic Burlington Arcade, are p ...

World Retail Awards winners and hall of fame inductees 2015

World Retail Awards winners: The retail industry gathered to celebrate the achievements of retailers over the past year at the Rome Cavalieri. The winners were presented ...

CBRE Global Investors acquires shopping centre in Carcaixent (ES)

CBRE Global Investors has completed the acquisition of the Ribera del Xúquer shopping centre in Carcaixent, Spain on behalf of a European retail strategy. The cen ...

Tristan's new core plus fund acquires shopping centre in Poitiers (FR)

A fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners has acquired a shopping centre in the heart of Poitiers,the cityin central west Fra ...

“Deka Realkredit Klassik” debt fund purchases loan for shopping centre in Italy (IT)

The “Deka Realkredit Klassik” debt fund has acquired a senior €10 million tranche of a real estate loan from DekaBank. The tranche is part of the financi ...

CBRE signs five lease agreements with anchor retail operators for City Park in Saransk (RU)

CBRE, the exclusive leasing and marketing agent for shopping and entertainment complex City Park in Saransk, Russia, has signed five lease agreements with anchor retail o ...

intu gets green light for Milton Keynes shopping centre redevelopment (UK)

The much anticipated redevelopment plans for intu Milton Keynes have been given the green light by planners. intu, the owner, developer, and manager of many of the UK&rs ...

Union Investment acquires dominant shopping centre in Gdynia (PL)

Union Investment has acquired another regionally dominant shopping centre in Poland by purchasing the Riviera centre. Comprising some 230 stores across 70,540 m² of ...

CapMan Real Estate acquires a prime mixed-use property in central Copenhagen (DK)

CapMan Nordic Real Estate fund has acquired a mixed-use property "Kobmagergade 25" in central Copenhagen. The property is ideally located on the high street Kobmagergade, ...

Aberdeen Asset Management reaches agreement to sell Auchan Titan Shopping Center (RO)

Aberdeen Asset Management Deutschland AG has reached an agreement to sell Auchan Titan Shopping Center in Bucharest to New Europe Property Investments (NEPI). Aberdeen wa ...

Klépierre completes the disposal of €770 mln portfolio of nine shopping centres in the Netherlands (NL)

Klépierre today announced it has completed the disposal of a portfolio of nine shopping centres[1] located in the Netherlands to Wereldhave. Total consideration fo ...

Galeria Neptun has welcomed its one millionth customer in only four months since opening (PL)

Galeria Neptun in Starogard Gdański has welcomed its one millionth customer only four months since its grand opening. It is the largest shopping centre in the region wit ...

Warsaw popular among brands entering Polish market (PL)

The total stock of shopping centres in the Warsaw agglomeration amounts to 1.4 mln m² located within 42 schemes. The 84,000 m² of new space remains under constr ...

CBRE Global Investors acquires Angel shopping centre in London (UK)

CBRE Global Investors, on behalf of its investors, has exchanged contracts to acquire Angel Shopping Centre in Islington, London, N1. The vendor was Warburg-HIH Invest Re ...

pbb provides €112 mln (£81 mln) financing to Harbert European Real Estate Fund IV (UK)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a €112 mln (£81 mln) facility to a subsidiary of Harbert European Real Estate Fund IV, LP which is advised by Harbert ...

WH Smith reveals strong performance in travel division due to growth in passenger numbers (UK)

WH Smith PLC expects the outcome for the year to 31 August 2015 to be slightly ahead of the consensus of analysts’ expectations of full year sales of €1.63 bln ...

Vastned Retail H1 direct result rises to €1.23 per share (EU)

Highlights HY1 2015: Direct result up to €1.23 per share (HY1 2014: €1.21 per share Positive indirect result of €0.16 per share (HY1 2014: €0.73 neg ...

Schage Eiendom acquires Salto Eiendom in Norway in a multi million euro deal (NO)

Schage Eiendom acquires the Norwegian shopping centre company Salto Eiendom, effective as of November 2015. A possible sale of Salto was announced in January this year. S ...

Sonae Sierra records net profit of €79.3 mln in the first half of 2015 (EU)

· Direct result reaches €26.8 mln · EBIT at €50.1 mln · NAV grew 4.2% to €1.2 bln · Growth in the provision of third party serv ...

Dutch H1 retail investment volume exceeds 2014 volume says CBRE (NL)

Investors seem to be anticipating the growing demand for retail space now the economic situation in the Netherlands is improving. During the first half of 2015, according ...

Eastern European markets lead in shopping centre development, says CBRE

Eastern European markets continue to lead shopping centre development with 60% of space under construction located in Russia and Turkey, reports leading property advisor ...

DIC Asset AG completes €57 mln worth of investments on behalf of funds (DE)

DIC Asset AG has completed three acquisitions with a total volume of €57 mln on behalf of the company's three investment funds. As a result, the investment volume cl ...

Catalyst acquires €78.55 mln portfolio (UK)

Catalyst Capital, the European real estate investment and asset management firm, has acquired a portfolio of properties in the UK for £54.85 mln (approx. €78.5 ...

TFI PZU SA instructs Savills to sell two commercial real estate portfolios (PL)

International real estate advisor Savills has been instructed by Towarzystwo Funduszy Inwestycyjnych PZU SA (TFI PZU SA) to sell two commercial real estate portfolios wit ...

Scarborough unlocks Marina Quay development with new anchor tenant (UK)

Scarborough Group, the UK and international real estate investor and developer, has announced that it has secured a new letting with The Range, the British home, garden, ...

Thor Equities acquires first Spanish property at 9 Puerta del Sol in Madrid (ES)

ThorEquities, has acquired its first property in Spain, a prime retail property at 9 Puerto del Sol in Madrid, company executives announced. The Spanish period building ...

X5 Retail Group and Freight Village RU to set up distribution centre on the border of New Moscow (RU)

X5 Retail Group, one of the largest Russian food retailers, and the Freight Village RU group of companies have signed a preliminary agreement to set up a distribution cen ...

ATP Real Estate invests €212 mln in German shopping centre (DE)

ATP Real Estate has acquired the shopping centre Waterfront located in Bremen, Germany from vendors Resolution Property and LNC Property Group. ATP Real Estate has purcha ...

TH Real Estate buys retail warehouse park from Ten Brinke (DE)

TH Real Estate has acquired a retail warehouse park in Frankenberg/Hesse, Germany on behalf of its Core German Retail Fund (CGRF), from Dutch property developer Ten Brink ...

Second ECE Fund acquires La Cartiera shopping centre in Pompei (IT)

The ECE European Prime Shopping Centre Fund II has acquired the units of Fondo Immobiliare Pompei, owning La Cartiera shopping centre in Pompei. Opened in 2012, La Cart ...

British Land sells 39 Victoria Street for €203 mln (UK)

British Land announces that it has exchanged contracts for the sale of 39 Victoria Street, SW1 to Singaporean property company Ho Bee Land for a gross purchase price of � ...

Standard Life Investments acquires office portfolio and a retail warehouse for €25.2 mln (UK)

The Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust has purchased a portfolio of three offices, plus a retail warehouse in cities across the UK. The two separate deals re ...

Orchard Street acquires Manchester retail park for €87.4 mln (UK)

Orchard Street Investment Management, the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed the acquisition of Snipe Retail Park in Manchester in an off-ma ...

Knight Frank selected as sole agent of Grzybowska 43 (PL)

Knight Frank has been selected by the international holding company Wisher Enterprise to be the sole agent responsible for the commercialisation of the office building � ...

H.I.G. Capital sells Parque Ceuta shopping centre in Ceuta, Spain (ES)

H.I.G. Capital, a leading global investment firm, announced today that its affiliate has completed the sale of Parque Ceuta Shopping Center to a consortium of private inv ...

Roubaix Group secures Fareham Shopping Centre for €77.7 mln (UK)

Roubaix Group Ltd, the niche property investment business run by Chris Beckerman, has acquired its second major UK retail asset with the purchase of Fareham Shopping Cent ...

Niki Lauda private foundation acquires stakes in SIGNA Prime and SIGNA Retail (AT)

The private foundation of former Formula 1 driver, Austrian sporting icon and leading businessman Niki Lauda, will acquire 1% of SIGNA Prime and a 10% stake in SIGNA Reta ...

Meridia Capital acquires shopping centre Miramadrid (ES)

Meridia Capital Partners has announced the acquisition of the shopping centre Miramadrid, located in Madrid. The property comprises a 7,148 m² mall. Opened in Aug ...

Fair Value REIT-AG acquires four properties from subsidiaries for direct ownership (DE)

The Fair Value REIT-AG has acquired four of the group’s properties into direct ownership. As a result of the acquisition Fair Value has increased its weighted proportio ...

ING Bank Śląski refinances Centrum Ogrody shopping centre in Elblag (PL)

ING has provided a bilateral €64.5 mln senior term loan facility to refinance Ogrody Shopping Centre in Elblag. The centre is owned by CBRE Property Fund Central ...

Citycon divests a non-core portfolio in Finland for €76 mln (FI)

Citycon continues to implement its strategy by divesting a portfolio of non-core properties. Citycon has entered into an agreement to sell a 60,000 m² portfolio of 13 gr ...

Tristan EPISO 4 fund speeds to hard cap (EU)

Pan-European real estate manager Tristan Capital Partners has achieved the fastest capital raising in the firm’s history with equity commitments from investors to its E ...

CBRE advises sale of prime mixed use property in Luxembourg (BE)

CBRE exclusively advised Mavin Property Fund in the sale of a prime office and retail property to IVG Institutional Funds in Luxembourg Station district. IVG Insti ...

AFI Europe acquires a 40,000 m² plot to develop a shopping mall and an office project (RO)

AFI Europe Romania has signed an agreement for the acquisition of a 40,000 m² plot in the City Center of Brasov, where it plans to develop a shopping mall and an office ...

Helical brings forward redevelopment of Covent Garden (UK)

Helical Bar has entered into a development agreement with Corporate Pension Fund clients of Savills Investment Management (formerly Cordea Savills), to bring forward the ...

CBRE Global Investors sells ten shopping centres in France and Belgium (FR/BE)

CBRE Global Investors announces it has successfully closed the sale of a sizeable portfolio of ten shopping centres in France and Belgium last week. The portfolio was sol ...

Plaza Centers receives building permit for Belgrade Plaza (RS)

Plaza Centers N.V., a leading emerging markets property developer, announces that it has received the building permit to develop Belgrade Plaza, a 32,000 m² GLA shopping ...

Valad Europe completes largest Polish retail letting this year (PL)

Valad Europe, the leading diversified real estate investment manager, has signed seven leases with Auchan, the multi-national hypermarket chain, and one lease with Schiev ...

NewRiver acquires the Ramsay Retail Warehouse Portfolio for €96 mln (UK)

NewRiver Retail Limited a UK REIT announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire the Ramsay Retail Warehouse Portfolio for a total consideration of £69.1 mln (appr ...

Deka Immobilien investing €700 mln in German retail portfolio (DE)

Deka Immobilien GmbH has secured a diversified retail portfolio in Germany for approx. €700 mln. The 51 retail properties are spread over 37 A- and B-cities and are al ...

Tottenham Hotspur announce plans for new football stadium (UK)

Tottenham Hotspur has announced plans to develop a brand new 61,000 seat stadium, which will be submitted to the London Borough of Haringey in the coming weeks. The North ...

CBRE Global Investors acquires two retail properties in Belgium from MG Real Estate (BE)

CBRE Global Investors has acquired two recently opened retail properties in Belgium for a total purchase price of €79.6 mln, reflecting a net initial yield of 5.4%. The ...

MITISKA REIM achieves successful exit of a Belgian retail park (BE)

MITISKA REIM, on behalf of its real estate fund “First Retail International” (FRI), and its joint-venture partner A.B.L.I. have sold the retail park “Parc Commercia ...

CBRE Global Investors sells Tyresö Centrum Shopping Centre in Sweden (SE)

CBRE Global Investors, on behalf of the CBRE European Shopping Centre Fund (ESCF) has signed an unconditional Sale and Purchase agreement with Diligentia to divest the T ...

NEINVER begins construction of new €80 mln outlet in Barcelona (ES)

NEINVER is entering a new phase with Viladecans The Style Outlets, the property it is developing in Greater Barcelona. This outlet centre, NEINVER’s first in Catalonia ...

Sunrise Properties completes €360 mln German retail portfolio deal (DE)

An independent investment vehicle owned by Jacob Lyons, Claudius Meyer, Stephen Benson and Torsten Hollstein has completed the acquisition of the Sunrise Portfolio in G ...

ATOS takes over asset management of the Treveria portfolio “Silo D” (DE)

ATOS Asset Management GmbH has been appointed the asset manager of the so-called “Silo D” portfolio, belonging to the British property company Treveria, with effect f ...

Hines secures acquisition of prime Edinburgh mixed-use development (UK)

Hines announced that it has secured the freehold acquisition of a seven-storey retail and office building on Princes Street in Edinburgh city centre, on behalf of the Hin ...

Real Estate Partners (REP) completes acquisition of InfinAgora

Real Estate Partners (REP), a real estate technology incubator that focuses on creating and investing in innovative companies within real estate and retail, announced it ...

TH Real Estate acquires interest from NEINVER in retail assets in Poland (PL)

TH Real Estate, on behalf of TIAA-CREF, has completed the purchase of a 50% interest in Factory Annopol in Warsaw, and Factory Krakow and Futura Park in Krakow, Poland. ...

LondonMetric to purchase and fund the development of a 48,681 m² retail distribution warehouse (UK)

LondonMetric Property Plc  announces that it has exchanged conditional contracts with CDP Ltd, the development arm of the Marshall Construction Group, to purchase and fo ...

Sponda sells shopping centre and office building in Moscow for €41.9 mln (RU)

Property investment company Sponda Plc has sold the shopping centre known as Solnechniy II as well as the Bakhrushina House office building in Moscow for the price of $46 ...

Hammerson officially opens Silverburn’s leisure extension (UK)

Hammerson has officially opened its exciting new £20 million (approx. €28.3 mln) leisure extension at Silverburn in Glasgow. The 100,000 ft² (9, 290 m²) development ...

TH Real Estate acquires retail warehouse park for €25 mln (FR)

TH Real Estate, on behalf of Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH, acquires a retail warehouse park, currently under development, in the Paris Region. TH Real E ...

IKEA to test small retail formats (UK)

Home furnishing retailer IKEA announced plans to test a number of new retail formats in the UK. IKEA will explore different Order and Collection Point formats in selected ...

ICSC’s European Advisory Board welcomes two new members (EU)

The International Council of Shopping Centers’ (ICSC) European Nominations Committee has appointed Joris de van der Schueren, Fund Director & Head of International ...

Klépierre agrees on disposal of a €770 mln retail portfolio (NL)

Klépierre announced it has reached a conditional agreement with Wereldhave on the disposal of a portfolio of nine shopping centres located in the Netherlands for a total ...

CORESTATE Invests €370 mln in retail properties in Germany (DE)

CORESTATE, a specialized real estate investor based in Zug, Switzerland, announces the €370 mln acquisition of 35 handpicked and well located retail buildings in prime ...

Delhaize Group and Royal Ahold agree on €26 bln merger

Leading European food retailers Delhaize Group and Royal Ahold N.V. today announced that they have entered into an agreement to merge. The combined company, which wil ...

Major retail park investment portfolio on the market for €162 mln (IE)

The portfolio includes: Nutgrove Retail Park, Letterkenny Retail Park, Sligo Retail Park, Tullamore Retail Park, and Deerpark Shopping Park. It represents the largest Iri ...

H.I.G. Capital acquires Plaza Éboli shopping centre in Madrid (ES)

H.I.G. Capital announced that an affiliate has completed the acquisition of the Plaza Éboli Shopping Centre in Madrid. The centre comprises over 31,000 m² and tenants i ...

HSH Nordbank to finance retail portfolio for Partners Group (DE)

HSH Nordbank will provide vehicles majority-owned by Partners Group with pro-rated finance amounting to €62 mln for the purchase of seven retail properties. The ...

Logicor acquires 19 logistics assets in France and Germany (FR/DE)

Logicor announced the acquisition of 19 logistics assets in France and Germany from Goodman European Logistics Fund (GELF), a leading European logistics real estate fund. ...

Blackstone and Multi acquire Palmanova Outlet Village and AVM in Italy (IT)

Multi announced the acquisition by Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe IV of Palmanova Outlet Village, a 22,000 m² high-quality outlet centre located between Trieste ...

French shopping centre executive wins scholarships to attend the ICSC Retail Property School

The French Council of Shopping Centers (CNCC) announced the 2015 winner of the “Jeunes Espoirs” Awards today, awarding one promising French shopping centre executive ...

Europa Capital sold Westgate Park Rudna in Prague to a US developer (CZ)

Europa Capital’s Westgate Park Rudna, a 90,000 m² logistics project of built and future development in Prague, has been sold to a US based developer. The deal follows ...

Hammerson sells Bercy 2 shopping centre in Paris for €64 mln (FR)

Hammerson plc announces that it has exchanged contracts to sell its interest in Bercy 2 shopping centre in Charenton-Le-Pont, Paris, to Tikehau Capital Partners for €64 ...

Serravalle Designer Outlet expands and adds 12,500 m² of retail (IT)

Europe’s largest luxury designer outlet, Serravalle Designer Outlet, near Milan, one of 20 McArthurGlen Designer Outlets across Europe, announced its expansion. ...

German consumers rarely shop close to home (DE)

Germans have a 2015 retail purchasing power of €5,692 per person. But they do not spend most of this money in the places they live. This is one of the findings of GfK's ...

Hines sells Spanish shopping center for €70 mln (ES)

Hines announced that the Hines European Value Added Fund (HEVAF) has sold 100% of the shares of the company holding Zielo Shopping Pozuelo shopping center (“Zielo”) f ...

ECE's Marstall shopping center in full occupancy rate and ready for refurbishment (DE)

The refurbishment of the new Marstall at Ludwigsburg is in full swing. Most of the tenants have been signed and three and a half months before the opening, the center's o ...

UKCPT disposes of two retail assets for €117 mln (UK)

UK Commercial Property Trust Limited announces that it has agreed to the sale of 176-206 Kensington High Street, London and disposed of 134-138 North Street, Brighton in ...

Verdion acquires strategic Hanover logistics site for 50,167 m² Phase 2 expansion (DE)

Verdion has secured a 540,000 ft² (50,167 m²) site in Hanover, Germany for the Phase Two expansion of its existing logistics scheme. The site is located adjacent ...

Patron Capital sells Motor Fuel Group in £500 mln (€684 mln) transaction (UK)

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, and Patron Capital Partners today announce that funds managed by CD&R will be partnering with the management of Motor Fuel Group to acqu ...

Redevco plans mixed-use development including creation of a new “Brighton Lane” (UK)

Redevco has acquired the 1.3-acre Hanningtons Estate which occupies a prominent position in the heart of Brighton’s vibrant shopping district. Following the £50 mln (� ...

RO Real Estate completes office letting with Regus in Hull (UK)

RO Real Estate has completed a 13,000 ft² (1.207 m²) letting with Regus at its 30,000 ft² (2.787 m²) office building, Norwich House on Savile Street in Hull. R ...

Multi’s commences €194 mln construction of shopping center complex (PL)

Multi Poland officially commenced the construction of the Forum Gdańsk shopping centre complex. The new center will offer some 63,000 m² of gross leasable area in the i ...

TH Real Estate sells German retail park to M&G Real Estate for €52 mln (DE)

TIAA Henderson Real Estate, on behalf of its Herald Fund, has sold a 23,000 m² retail park in Dreieich, Germany for approx. €52 mln. The asset, Dreieich Nordpar ...

Forever 21 signs long-term lease agreement with CBRE global investors (NL)

Forever 21 and CBRE Global Investors have signed a lease agreement to open the second Forever 21 store in the Netherlands. The clothing retailer will open its new store i ...

British Land offers convertible bond of €485 mln (UK)

The British Land Company PLC announces the launch of an offering of £350 mln (approx. €485 mln) of senior, unsecured Convertible Bonds due in 2020. The Comp ...

CPA:18 - Global acquires €95.4 mln retail property in Oslo (NO)

W. P. Carey Inc. announced that CPA®:18 – Global has acquired a multi-tenant retail site in Oslo, Norway for approx. NOK 815 mln (€95.4 mln), including transaction c ...

Niam sells seven shopping centers in Sweden for more than €100 mln

Niam has signed an agreement to sell seven shopping centers located in southern Sweden to the buyer, A Group Of Retail Assets. The shopping centers included in ...

The Crown Estate and Oxford properties agree on €202 mln extension of partnership in London (UK)

The Crown Estate and Oxford Properties have agreed a £145 mln (€202 mln) extension to the St James’s Market Partnership with the establishment of a new joint venture ...

Tristan Fund acquires Northern Ireland Shopping center for €47.7 mln (IE)

The CCP IV ‘core plus’ strategy fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners has acquired the Erneside Shopping Centre in Enni ...

M&G Real Estate makes Scottish shopping center acquisition (UK)

M&G Real Estate has acquired Ayr Central from Ayr Shopping Centre Ltd, a joint venture between Sovereign Land and funds managed by Ares Management, L.P. The transacti ...

HSH Nordbank finances Barthonia Forum acquisition (NO)

HAMBURG/KIEL HSH will provide a senior financing facility totalling €91 mln to a joint venture between European Property Investors Special Opportunities 3 L.P, a pan Eu ...

Vastned acquires premium shopping building in Amsterdam for €108 mln (NL)

Vastned, the listed European property company focusing on venues for premium shopping, has acquired the building located on Kalverstraat 11-17/Rokin 12-16 in Amsterdam fo ...

Unibail-Rodamco signs €394 mln agreement with CPPIB for mfi AG acquisition (DE)

Unibail-Rodamco announced an agreement to sell to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board a 46.1% stake in mfi AG. CPPIB will pay the Group €394 mln for the equity stake a ...

London is the most international retail center, according to new report

According to the new research, Tokyo is the world’s hottest city for new retailer expansion, attracting 63 new retail brands. London has retained its position as the w ...

TLG IMMOBILIEN acquires central neighborhood shopping center for €28.2 mln (DE)

TLG IMMOBILIEN AG last week signed the purchase agreement for the Südstadt-Center property in Rostock. TLG IMMOBILIEN is investing approx. €28.2 mln in the acquisition ...

Eurocommercial Properties agrees to to invest in Italian retail assets (IT)

Eurocommercial Properties N.V. announced that it has reached an agreement to invest in one of the most important shopping centers in Northern Italy, following the agreeme ...

HB Reavis accelerates profitable growth in 2014

HB Reavis Group (the Group) reported a 26% growth in consolidated net profit to €89 mln in the year to 31 December 2014 according to its recent annual financial state ...

Schroder Real Estate acquires Retail Park in Bedford for €44 mln (UK)

Schroder Real Estate announces that it has acquired the freehold interest in St. John’s Retail Park in Bedford for £31.8 mln (€43.7 mln) reflecting a net initial yie ...

Orchard Street acquires 64/76 New Oxford Street, London for €50.4 mln (UK)

Orchard Street Investment Management has completed the acquisition of 64/76 New Oxford Street, WC1, for £36.5 mln (€50.4 mln) on behalf of St James’s Place Wealth Ma ...

RBS and Ediston to begin €52 mln mixed-use development (SCO)

In association with its development partner Ediston Real Estate, RBS has concluded final contracts that will allow the regeneration of the 8.5 acre (approx. 34,400 m²) f ...

Kennedy Wilson acquires Plaza Puerta Del Sol 9 in Madrid for €30 mln

Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate Plc has completed on the acquisition of Puerta del Sol 9, a high street property in the iconic Plaza Puerta del Sol in Madrid, for €30 ...

Cathay Life buys Walbrook Building for €802 mln in London (UK)

Minerva, the real estate investment and development group jointly owned by funds managed by Ares Management and Delancey, announced the sale of The Walbrook Building, a p ...

Blackstone acquires three shopping centers in Spain and Portugal (ES/PT)

Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe IV (“Blackstone”) announces that it has acquired an additional three assets in Portugal and Spain which will be managed by its ...

British Land announces two lettings at Marble Arch House (UK)

British Land has announces that it has completed two further lettings at Marble Arch House, W1, taking the building to over 80% let with just one floor remaining. ...

Goodman to cross the three million m² milestone in Germany (DE)

At the 2015 transport logistic fair in Munich, Goodman announces a major milestone in the company’s history. With the start of several new industrial development projec ...

pbb provides new €56.6 mln facility to 90 North Real Estate Partners LLP (UK)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided an approx. €56.6 mln loan facility to an SPV sponsored by 90 North Real Estate Partners LLP to assist with their acquisition of ...

ECE takes over a center development in Verona (IT)

ECE is set to take over a shopping center project in the Italian city of Verona. The project comprises a leasable area of 42,000 m² and will open with approximately 130 ...

Refinancing of German retail portfolio and disposal to joint venture (DE)

Redefine International confirms that it has completed the first part of the refinancing related to the €156.8 mln German retail property portfolio acquired in a 50/50 j ...

European investment volumes in 2015 could exceed €230 bln record after buoyant Q1 (EU)

European commercial real estate investment totaled €51.4 bln in the first quarter of 2015, a 40% increase on a year ago, according to a DTZ report. Following a stron ...

Genesta sells a retail and office property for €74 mln to Tristan Capital Partners (SE)

Genesta has divested Grensen 5-7, a retail and office property in Oslo, on behalf of its managed fund Genesta Nordic Baltic Real Estate (GNBRE), for about NOK630 mln (€ ...

Global shopping center development increases to 39 mln m²

Global shopping center development continues to grow with a total of 11.4 mln m² of new shopping centre space opened in 2014, compared with 10.6 mln m² in 2013. ...

Greenman acquires 29 German supermarkets for approx. €95 mln (DE)

Irish real estate investment company Greenman Investments has acquired a major portfolio from food retailer EDEKA containing 29 properties. The purchase price for the por ...

TLG IMMOBILIEN invests approx. €85.9 mln to acquire two retail centers (DE)

TLG IMMOBILIEN AG signed the purchase agreement for two special retail centers in the Berlin area. The properties were acquired from private owners and have been well est ...

Union Investment acquires Focus Park in Rybnik, Poland (PL)

Union Investment has acquired the Focus Park shopping center in the Polish city of Rybnik, close to the Czech border. The vendor is Aviva Investors Polish Retail S.a.r.L. ...

Partners Group provides mezzanine in €125 mln German property portfolio refinancing (DE)

Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has provided €34 mln in mezzanine financing on behalf of its clients to support the €125 mln refinancin ...

Mitsubishi unveils plans for 40-Storey tower in the center of London (UK)

Mitsubishi Estate London ltd is to submit a planning application to the City of London Corporation for a 40-storey office tower at the heart of the city. Situ ...

LondonMetric Sells Lichfield Retail Park For €18.5 mln (UK)

LondonMetric Property Plc (“LondonMetric”) announces that the Metric Income Plus Limited Partnership (“MIPP”), its joint venture with the Universities Superannuat ...

JLL voted Consultant of the Year at CRE Awards 2015 and RCSC Awards 2015 (RU)

Moscow, 24 April 2015 – At the annual Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Awards ceremony held in Moscow’s Forum Hall on 24 April 2015, JLL has been voted ‘Consultant of t ...

TH Real Estate secures new €555.9 mln debt financing on behalf of UK Retail Warehouse Fund (UK)

TIAA Henderson Real Estate has secured a new £400 mln (approx. €555.9 mln) debt financing on behalf of its c.£1.1 bln (approx. €1.5 bln) flagship UK Retail Warehous ...

Hammerson plc sells Drakehouse Retail Park for €86.5 mln (UK)

Hammerson plc announces that it has completed the sale of Drakehouse Retail Park in Sheffield to 90 North Real Estate Partners LLP for £61.7 mln (approx. €86.5 mln ...

Global shopping center development increases to 39 million m²

Global shopping center development continues to grow with a total of 11.4 million m² of new shopping center space opened in 2014, compared with 10.6 million m² in 2013. ...

Benson Elliot reels in 5,574 m² of regional office lettings (UK)

Benson Elliot, the UK-based private equity real estate fund manager, has inked over 60,000 ft² (5,574 m²) of leases in its portfolio of prime regional offices during a ...

Rockspring launches TransEuropean VI with target equity of €400 mln (EU)

Rockspring Property Investment Managers LLP announces the launch of Rockspring TransEuropean VI.  The fund will target equity of c. €400 mln from investors based aroun ...

Hundreds of attendees for the first day of ICSC’s 2015 European Conference

More than seven hundred retail real estate professionals have converged on London for the 40th annual ICSC European Conference today, making the event an unprecedented su ...

Tristan’s EPISO 3 Fund acquires landmark Karstadt building in Munich (DE)

European Property Investors Special Opportunities 3 (EPISO 3), an opportunity fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners, has ac ...

Russia becomes Europe’s largest shopping center market for the first time (RU)

After a number of large-scale malls were delivered to the European market in H2 2014, Russia has now broken France’s 43-year reign as Europe’s largest shopping center ...

W. P. Carey Inc. acquires €23.4 mln retail facility net leased to Hornbach (AT)

W. P. Carey Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in corporate sale-leaseback financing, build-to-suit construction financing and the acquisition of si ...

New Frontier properties enters UK market with €249 mln retail purchase (UK)

Mauritian-based special property vehicle, New Frontier Properties Ltd, which is listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange has entered� ...

Thor Equities acquires 105-109 Oxford Street in London (UK)

Thor Equities has closed on its acquisition of 105-109 Oxford Street in London, company executives announced today. The seven-level building includes 51 feet of fr ...

Vinci St. Modwen and CGMA complete development agreement for the regeneration of new Covent Garden Market (UK)

VINCI St. Modwen, the 50/50 joint venture between St. Modwen Properties PLC and VINCI PLC, and its partner the Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA), today announces that ...

The Crown Estate to develop €191 mln shopping and leisure park (UK)

The Crown Estate has committed to fund the development of the £140 mln (€191 mln) Rushden Lakes shopping and leisure scheme at Rushden, Northamptonshire, purchasing th ...

Amplion seals final exit of its high-performing Finnish retail fund (FI)

Amplion Asset Management, the Catella-backed boutique Nordic real estate investment and asset management company, announced today a successful final exit of its Finnish r ...

Tristan Fund acquires 93,280 m² portfolio of German properties for €117.5 mln (DE)

A fund advised by Tristan Capital Partners has acquired a 14-property portfolio located in Berlin from funds managed by Germany’s DG ANLAGE Gesellschaft mbH for €117. ...

Commerz Real acquires third property for hausInvest in Warsaw (PL)

Commerz Real has concluded a purchase agreement with a Polish subsidiary of Austria’s S+B Gruppe AG on the acquisition of the rights of usufruct for the land and the re ...

The construction of ETHOS gets the green light (PL)

Kulczyk Silverstein Properties (KSP), an international investment and development company, has been granted construction permit for an office and retail building at Plac ...

SEGRO joint venture acquires logistics facility in Germany (DE)

SEGRO plc announces that the SEGRO European Logistics Partnership joint venture, in which SEGRO has a 50% interest, has acquired a 36,844 m² prime logistics facility in ...

CBRE Global Investors Poland completes €60 mln redevelopment of Ogrody Shopping Center (PL)

CBRE Global Investors Poland, acting on behalf of its Property Fund Central Europe (PFCE) successfully completed the redevelopment of Ogrody Shopping Centre, Elblag. Afte ...

Vastned Retail Belgium strengthens its position in Antwerp by acquiring real estate and new leases (BE)

Regulated real estate company Vastned Retail Belgium has acquired a premium city high street shop in the heart of Antwerp. It forms an entity of 220 m² on the ground flo ...

GRR German Retail Fund No.1 buys retail asset in southern Germany (DE)

GRR Real Estate Management has expanded the portfolio of the GRR German Retail Fund No. 1 by adding another property. The latest investment is a REWE supermarket in Baden ...

International Consortium to buy London south bank regeneration project from the Carlyle Group for €421.5 mln (UK)

An international consortium, comprising of the UK’s Native Land, Singapore’s Temasek and Hotel Properties Limited (HPL), and Malaysia’s Amcorp Properties announce ...

TIAA Henderson Real Estate completes €274 mln commercial real estate debt transactions (UK)

TIAA Henderson Real Estate has recently completed a series of loans through its newly established commercial real estate debt platform.  TH Real Estate offers senior, ju ...

Altarea Cogedim buys Qwartz France’s shopping center in Paris for €400 mln (FR)

Altarea Cogedim signed an agreement with an entity held by Orion European Real Estate Fund III CV, a fund managed by Orion Capital Managers. Altarea Cogedim Group now own ...

AXA Real Estate completes acquisition of 63 St Mary Axe, London for €95.8 mln (UK)

AXA Real Estate, the leading real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe, announces that, on behalf of the French public service additional pension scheme, it has c ...

Rockspring buys Euro Retail Park in Ipswich for €65 mln (UK)

Rockspring Property Investment Managers announces that it has acquired Euro Retail Park, in Ipswich from Helix Property Advisors for £47.5 mln (approx. €65 mln) reflec ...

RBS to sell The Hanningtons Estate in Brighton (UK)

RBS announces that it has commenced marketing for the sale of the mixed-use Hanningtons Estate, which comprises the freehold to 1.32 acres of office, residential and reta ...

Rockcastle Global Real Estate acquires Solaris Center in Opole, Poland (PL)

Rockcastle Global Real Estate Company Limited, advised by international real estate advisor Savills, has acquired Solaris Center in Opole, Poland from Coucal Sp z o.o. ...

C&W exclusively appointed to lease iconic Paris flagship (FR)

Global real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed by the owners of one of Paris’ most recognizable retail landmarks to find a new tenant. The ...

Croydon Partnership acquires leasehold interest in the Whitgift Centre (UK)

The Croydon Partnership, the joint venture between Westfield and Hammerson, has made significant progress in its land assembly programme with the acquisition of Whitgift ...

Broadgate Estates takes space at 2 Kingdom Street, Paddington Central (UK)

British Land announces that Broadgate Estates, its wholly owned subsidiary, will move its headquarters to 2 Kingdom Street, Paddington Central in July 2015. Broadgate Est ...

IDI Gazeley announces further 59,000 m² distribution center project with John Lewis (UK)

IDI Gazeley (Brookfield Logistics Properties), a leading global investor and developer of logistics warehouses and distribution parks, announces the signing of a project ...

Thor Equities acquires prime property on Avenue des Champs Elysees (FR)

Thor Equities, a global leader in urban real estate development, leasing and management, has signed a contract to acquire a prime retail and office property at 102 Avenue ...

ChemChina and Camfin signed share purchase agreement with respect to Pirelli

China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) through its wholly owned subsidiary China National Tire & Rubber Co. (CNRC) signed with Camfin S.p.A. (CF) and its sha ...

British Land exchanges €1 bln of joint venture properties with Tesco (UK)

British Land announces it has completed a £733 mln (approx. €1.012 bln) property exchange transaction with Tesco.  Under the terms of the transaction, British Land ha ...

Valad boosts UK portfolio with €32.8 mln of acquisitions for its Valad European Diversified Fund (UK)

Valad Europe, the leading independent diversified real estate investment manager, has acquired three UK properties for a total of £23.7 mln (€32.7 mln) on behalf of th ...

Tristan Fund EPISO 3 completes €31 mln purchase of German logistics park (DE)

An opportunistic fund advised by pan‐European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners has purchased a 24.3 hectare logistics park in the major German di ...

NEINVER: Sales rose by 10% to €952.29 mln at all managed outlet centers (EU)

The outlet centers managed by NEINVER in six European markets ended 2014 with positive figures for both sales and visits. The 15 centers attracted more than 41.48 mln vis ...

Union Investment acquires shopping center in Poland from CBRE Property Fund Central Europe (PL)

Union Investment announces the acquisition of Sarni Stok shopping center, Poland from the CBRE Property Fund Central Europe, managed by CBRE Global Investors. The propert ...

CBRE Global Investors acquires 21,800 m² retail asset in Brno (CZ)

A fund managed by CBRE Global Investors announces the acquisition of “Campus Square” Retail Center located in Brno, Czech Republic. The vendor was AIG/Lincoln. ...

HSH Nordbank finances €120 mln specialty store center portfolio (DE)

HAMBURG/KIEL HSH Nordbank is providing finance of €120 mln for the re-financing of a shopping center portfolio. The portfolio is owned by a joint venture between a real ...

Union Investment acquires shopping center in Esslingen from Rockspring (DE)

Union Investment Real Estate GmbH is acquiring the Das ES! shopping center in Esslingen from a fund managed by Rockspring Property Investment Managers. The Ham ...

AEW Europe launches opportunistic investment partnership (EU)

AEW Europe has signed an investment programme focused on German retail assets as part of the expansion of its opportunistic platform. AEW Europe has a long and recognized ...

Intu unveils plans for retail development at intu Milton Keynes (UK)

Plans to remodel and transform parts of intu Milton Keynes have been unveiled. Proposals from intu, the leading owner and manager of prime regional shopping centers in th ...

Europa Capital announces the purchase of Pasteur Retail Park, Great Yarmouth (UK)

Europa Capital LLP, the fund manager of Europa Fund IV, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a joint venture partnership with Ediston Real Estate and has compl ...

Klepierre acquires Plenilunio, a major shopping center in Madrid (ES)

Klépierre signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Plenilunio from an entity 100% indirectly owned by the Orion European Real Estate Fund III C.V., a real estate fund spon ...

IVG Institunional Funds sells coastal Belgian shopping complex to Union Investment (BE)

IVG Institutional Funds has sold the shares of the company Immo Feest en Cultuurpaleis Oostende NV, which owns a prime retail shopping complex located in the coastal city ...

#MIPIM: Bilfinger wins management contract for 307,000 m² portfolio (DE)

Bilfinger Real Estate wins management contract for German office and retail property portfolio of SEB Asset Management measuring 307,000 m². At Mipim, the interna ...

#MIPIM: Rowan announces expansion in Germany

Rowan, the London-based property company, is at MIPIM this year to launch a major acquisition strategy aimed at growing its portfolio of assets in the German market. ...

The Allianz Group grants financing for the 92 avenue de France building in Paris (FR)

Allianz Real Estate today announces the financing of the 92 avenue de France building on behalf of French companies of the Allianz Group. The amount of the loan is €90, ...

ActivumSG opens Madrid office (ES)

coupled with a surge in non-performing assets coming to market provides ideal conditions for entering the market. We are employing the same approach to investing in Spai ...

TH Real Estate agrees to acquire Nova Lund Shopping Centre in Sweden for €176 mln (SE)

TIAA Henderson Real Estate , has exchanged contracts for the acquisition of Nova Lund Shopping Centre in Sweden, from Unibail Rodamco, for SEK 1635 mln (€176 mln). The ...

Hannover Leasing sells majority stake in Prague's largest shopping center (CZ)

Hannover Leasing has sold a majority stake in the largest downtown shopping center in the Czech Republic: the "Palladium" in Prague. The transaction is based on a real es ...

Greenman Investments acquires Tribseer Center in Stralsund (DE)

Irish real estate investment company Greenman Investments has acquired the Tribseer Center on Rostocker Chaussee in Stralsund. The total price of the Fachmarktzentrum sta ...

Commerz Real and RFR cooperating in Miami once again (US)

Commerz Real and RFR Holding have signed an agreement to purchase the real estate “Atlas Plaza” in Miami/Florida for its open-ended real estate fund hausInvest. The r ...

Irish investor sells Belgian real estate portfolio (BE)

CBRE advised Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Assurance Company Limited in the sale of its Belgian real estate portfolio managed by Tribeca Capital Partners. IBRC ...

TH Real Estate has secured a new €122 mln debt financing on behalf of Designer Outlet Roermond (NL)

Acquired by TH Real Estate’s European Outlet Mall Fund in 2004, Designer Outlet Roermond spans 18,970 m². Ideally situated within one of the most densely populated are ...

Kungsleden leases warehouse and office space to Brammer (SE)

Kungsleden AB has signed a six year lease agreement with Brammer Sweden AB for warehouse and office space in the property Högsbo 29:2 in Högsbo, located in southern Got ...

GRR German Retail Fund No.1 acquires Retail Park Portfolio in Southern Germany (DE)

The GRR Real Estate Management GmbH has further expanded the portfolio of its GRR German Retail Fund No.1. With the purchase of a retail park in Heßdorf and a local supp ...

British Land acquires Surrey Quays Leisure Park for €185.9 mln (UK)

British Land announces it has acquired Surrey Quays Leisure Park in Canada Water for £135 mln (approx. €185.9 mln) from clients of Aviva Investors. This acq ...

Prelios Immobilien Management to manage the “Schlossberg Center” in Marburg (DE)

Prelios Immobilien Management has concluded a comprehensive management agreement for the “Schlossberg Center” located in Marburg’s city center. The full-service rea ...

Catella secures €400 mln mixed-use project (DE)

The companies Living Central 1-11, which are managed by Catella Corporate Finance GmbH, have signed contract of purchase to acquire a property area of approx. 38,000 m² ...

L&G and Schroders commit to the €272 mln regeneration of Bracknell (UK)

The Bracknell Regeneration Partnership, a 50:50 joint venture between Legal & General Capital and Schroder UK Property Fund (“SPF”), together with Bracknell Fores ...

Intu Potteries signs Coast to Coast for its €27 mln restaurant extension (UK)

Coast to Coast American Restaurant & Bar is joining the line-up of top names at the £20 million (€27.2 million) restaurant and leisure extension at intu Potteries. ...

Riverview office building reaches 100% occupancy (CZ)

Skanska Property Czech Republic has leased all the retail units at Riverview. In addition to the anchor tenant, global pharmaceutical company MSD, the building will be oc ...

KGAL acquires commercial building in Hamburg-Wandsbek for special AIF (DE)

The KGAL Group signed a purchase agreement for a new commercial building to be constructed in the Hamburg district of Wandsbek. The investment project was acquired fo ...

VIB Vermögen AG expands further its portfolio (DE)

VIB Vermögen AG, a company specialising in commercial real estate management, is continuing on its growth path with the purchase of a retail park in Neu-Ulm, located in ...

Helical makes €189 million of retail disposals with sales of Cledenbank and Corby (UK)

Helical Bar announced that it has disposed of its two major retail schemes in Glasgow and Corby as it seeks to recycle capital into new opportunities. Helical has ...

Meyer Bergman fund acquires Vinopolis site for €406.1 mln (UK)

A fund advised by pan-European retail property investment manager Meyer Bergman has acquired the Vinopolis two-acre site next to the London foodie mecca of Borough Market ...

TIAA Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate) has acquired Milsom Place, Bath, for €35.2 million (UK)

Over a number of years, private developers, L&R, built the estate through the acquisition and development of a series of listed buildings that link key streets and co ...

PATRIZIA acquires supermarket portfolio for €286 million (DE)

PATRIZIA Immobilien AG has acquired a supermarket portfolio with 107 retail properties. The portfolio chiefly consists of supermarkets, discounters and retail centers thr ...

Moorfield completes c.€1.35 bln diversified investment portfolio sale to Lone Star (UK)

Moorfield Real Estate Fund and Moorfield Real Estate Fund II have completed the sale of a diversified real estate investment portfolio to Lone Star Real Estate Fund III f ...

CBRE Retail Property Fund Iberica extends life for a further five years (ES)

The CBRE Retail Property Fund Iberica (RPFI), managed by CBRE Global Investors, has had unanimous agreement from its Limited Partners to extend the life of the fund for a ...

Uncertainty still surrounds V&D, is Blokker next? (NL)

The 63 branches of department store chain V&D were due to open for business as usual on Monday but it remains unclear if its owners have thrashed out a rescue package ...

AXA Real Estate establishes joint venture with Eurocommercial Properties (FR)

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, the leading real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe, announces that on behalf of AXA insurance companies, it has establishe ...

Kennedy Wilson completes purchase of €669 mln mixed-use portfolio (UK)

Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate Plc, an LSE listed property company that invests in direct real estate and real estate loans in Europe, announces the completion of its ...

P3 completes acquisition of 467,000 m² of warehouses from CA Immobilien (PL)

The assets acquired from CA Immobilien are A 177,000 m² park at Blonie, 30 km west of Warsaw’s city center. Tenants include Bayer, IBM, Orange, Triumph and online reta ...

AXA Real Estate completes the acquisition of three assets for approx. €208 million (EU)

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers SGP, an affiliate of AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, announces that it has completed the acquisition of three separate assets in ...

Development Securities acquires €25.5 mln of Newcastle retail scheme (UK)

Development Securities completes recycling of investment portfolio with acquisition of 17,187 m² convenience retail investment asset in Newcastle. Development ...

W. P. Carey Inc. closes €308 mln acquisition of 73-property Pendragon Auto (UK)

W. P. Carey Inc. announced that it has acquired a portfolio of 73 automotive retail facilities located throughout the UK, net leased to Pendragon plc for a gross purchase ...

INTERNOS secures long-term letting with H&M in the Netherlands (NL)

INTERNOS Global Investors Limited, the €3.6 billion owner-managed real estate fund management firm, announces that its Netherlands team has signed H&M, the renowned ...

MITISKA REIM acquires 2 retail parks in Poland (PO)

MITISKA REIM, a Brussels-based real estate investment management company, has acquired a 100% interest in two retail parks in Poland. The Kaufland-anchored projects are l ...

SEB Asset Management lets roughly 4,400 m² of space in Hamburg (DE)

SEB Asset Management has announced that two large-scale leases have been signed for a total of roughly 4,400 m² of space in the Strassenbahnring 6–18 property in Hambu ...

Bouwinvest acquires Rotterdam World Trade Center and Amsterdam’s Citroën buildings (NL)

Institutional real estate investment manager Bouwinvest’s Dutch Office Fund, has acquired the World Trade Center in Rotterdam and the iconic “Citroën buildings” in ...

INTERNOS sell remaining assets in the German Retail Partnership (DE)  

INTERNOS Global Investors Ltd, the €3.9 bln owner-managed real estate fund management firm, has sold the remaining assets in the German Retail Partnership (GRP), a 55 a ...

IMMOFINANZ Group to construct next VIVO! shopping center in the Polish city of Krosno (PL)

IMMOFINANZ Group is continuing the expansion of its newly established VIVO! shopping center brand: a six hectare site was secured in Krosno, a city in southern Poland, fo ...

Union Investment awards management contract to Sonae Sierra for three shopping centers in Hamburg (DE)

Sonae Sierra, the international specialist for shopping centers, is strengthening its professional services business for third parties with new contracts for the leasing ...

Redevco initiates long-term investment program with high street property purchase in Paris’s Golden Triangle (FR)

Redevco, the retail real estate specialist and one of Europe’s largest owners of high street properties, has made its first acquisition following a period of strategic ...

AFI Palace Cotroceni mall in Romania starts expansion (RO)

AFI Palace Cotroceni started its next expansion and re-organization construction works, following the policy of the mall’s management to continuously offer a new, moder ...

INTERNOS Global Investors to target €750 mln in acquisitions following strong 2014 (EU)

INTERNOS’s strategy for 2015 is to launch a range of new funds in parallel with the takeover of existing portfolios, a business line where INTERNOS has demonstrated con ...

Grosvenor Fund Management to acquire Skärholmen Centrum Shopping Centre, Sweden (SE)

Grosvenor Fund Management (GFM) has agreed to acquire Skärholmen Centrum, one of Sweden’s leading shopping centers, on behalf of its Retail Centers V (Sweden) fund. ...

Skanska commences construction of The Monument Building, London EC3 (UK)

Skanska, has completed demolition of the existing building at 11-19 Monument Street and commenced construction of The Monument Building, its 94,000 ft² (8,733 m²) offic ...

Arcus Real Estate: strong performance and new openings in 2014 (IT)

Arcus Real Estate closed their 2014 budget with great satisfaction. Sicilia Outlet Village had an extraordinary performance in 2014 with steady growth in economic terms, ...

Capco expands ownership on Bedford Street in Covent Garden (UK)

Capital & Counties Properties PLC ("Capco") has acquired the freehold interests of 31-33 Bedford Street in Covent Garden for a total cost of £32 million (€41 mln), ...

Development Securities acquires leading leisure attraction in Manchester for €19.3 million (UK)

Development Securities today announces that it has expanded its investment portfolio through the £15.5 million acquisition of Extreme Cool Limited (ECL), the Company tha ...

Vastned acquires €39 million high street shops (NL)

Vastned, the listed European retail property company focusing on venues for premium shopping, has acquired seven premium city high street shops for €39 million in Amste ...

Rockspring buys Orchard Shopping Centre in Taunton from RBS for €35 mln (UK)

Rockspring Property Investment Managers (“Rockspring”), on behalf of UK Value 2 LP (“UK Value 2” or the “Fund”), announces that it has completed the acquisiti ...

INTERNOS completes the acquisition of a retail asset portfolio in Germany (DE)

INTERNOS Global Investors Limited (“INTERNOS”), the €3.9 billion owner-managed real estate fund management firm, has acquired a portfolio of 10 retail assets in Ger ...

Helical Bar’s Barts square scheme secures €210 mln development facility with HSBC (UK)

Helical Bar today announces that its Barts Square scheme, held in joint venture with The Baupost Group LLC, has secured a new £165 mln (€210 mln) revolving credit faci ...

Ares Management closes two oversubscribed real estate funds (EU/USA)

Ares Management, L.P. announced the final closings of two real estate funds, both of which were significantly oversubscribed. The $1.3 billion (€1.098 billion) A ...

British Land sells €326 mln of retail and office property (UK)

British Land has sold a retail and office portfolio in an off-market deal to Legal & General Property for £219.6 mln (approx. €326 mln), ahead of September book va ...

NEINVER and TIAA Henderson Real Estate create strategic partnership (EU)

NEINVER and TH Real Estate, on behalf of TIAA-CREF, have formed a strategic partnership to create a leading designer outlet platform in Europe, bringing together two well ...

Valad Europe announces new €500 mln joint venture with the purchase of the €140 mln UNO portfolio (NL)

Valad Europe, the leading independent diversified real estate investment manager, has entered into a joint venture agreement with an investor to build a diversified portf ...

Intu Properties acquires Puerto Venecia shopping center in Zaragoza, Spain for €451 mln (ES)

Intu Properties announces that it has exchanged contracts with an entity indirectly fully owned by the Orion European Real Estate Fund III C.V. (a fund managed by Orion C ...

AXA Real Estate completes the acquisition of retail and leisure portfolio for approx. €290 million (IT)

A new Italian regulated real estate fund (the “Fund”), which has Apollo European Principal Finance Fund II (“EPF”), a fund affiliated with Apollo Global Managemen ...

Prelios develops shopping center in Husum (DE)

The Hamburg-based retail real estate expert Prelios Immobilien Management is developing and letting a shopping center in the heart of Husum on behalf of Husum Shopping Ce ...

JLL selected as exclusive leasing agent for CEDET in Warsaw (PL)

The international advisory firm JLL has been selected as an exclusive agent, responsible for the process of leasing retail and office space in CEDET - Immobel's flagship ...

Unibail-Rodamco SE announces a lease agreement with L'Oréal SA in the So Ouest Plaza tower in Levallois-Perret (FR)

Unibail-Rodamco, Europe's leading listed commercial property company, signed today a long-term (10 years) lease agreement with L'Oréal SA for 12 office floors of the So ...

AXA Real Estate acquires two assets in Madrid and Rome for €114 mln (EU)

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers SGP, an affiliate of AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, announces that it has completed the acquisition of two separate assets in So ...

Meyer Bergman makes acquisition in Norway with a purchase in Central Oslo for €30 mln (NO)

Meyer Bergman’s second value-add retail real estate investment fund has acquired a mixed-use building in central Oslo for approximately €30 mln from a venture between ...

Orchard Street secures €60 mln financing facility from pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (UK)

Orchard Street Investment Management, the specialist commercial property investment manager, has entered into a new £47.75 mln (approx. €60 mln) five year term loan wi ...

Meyer Bergman Managed Fund acquires shopping center in Czech Republic’s Hradec Králové for €87.6 mln (CZ)

A value-add fund advised by Meyer Bergman, the pan-European retail-focused real estate investment manager, has acquired Futurum Hradec Králové shopping center in the Cz ...

Tristan’s EPISO 3 Fund to invest more than €90 mln to revive Copenhagen shopping center (DK)

EPISO3, a fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners and joint-venture partner Solstra Capital Partners, will invest in excess o ...

South African billionaire plans to launch major new fashion retailer (UK)

Christo Wiese assembles team of retailers, including the former boss of Asda, to build new retail brand in the UK. The South African billionaire Christo Wiese is planning ...

Dominant Swedish retail hub to undergo major refurbishment and extension (SE)

Swedish property developer and investor–AMF Fastigheter–has announced a significant revamp and 6,000 m² extension to Gallerian, central Stockholm’s leading shoppin ...

AXIARE invests €180 mln into four office properties and a retail warehouse (ES)

Axia Real Estate has acquired a property portfolio comprised of four office buildings located in highly sought-after areas of Madrid and Barcelona and a retail warehouse ...

Land Securities sells The Centre and Almondvale West Retail Park, Livingston for €284.25 mln (UK)

Land Securities announces the sale of The Centre and Almondvale West Retail Park, Livingston to HSBC Alternative Investments Limited as part of its Club Deal program, tog ...

Valad Europe trades asset in Berlin Neukölln, Germany for €46.75 mln (DE)

Valad Europe, the leading diversified real estate investment manager, has sold Thiemann Quartier, in Berlin Neukölln, Germany, to Concarus Real Estate Invest for €46.7 ...

AXA Real Estate completes the sale of a Finnish retail portfolio for €107 mln (FI)

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, the leading real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe(1), announces that it has completed, on behalf of one of its funds, the ...

Benson Elliot moves into Wolverhampton with €75 million Mander Centre acquisition (UK)

Benson Elliot, the UK-based private equity real estate fund manager, has acquired the Mander Centre in Wolverhampton city center from Mander Investments Ltd. for £59 mil ...

Evolve Estates purchases two new investments in Hampshire and Yorkshire (UK)

In Hampshire, Evolve Estates has purchased the freehold of Dukes Mill Shopping Parade on Broadwater Road, Romsey for £2.4 mln (approx.€3.05 mln) from a private seller. ...

Blackstone acquires five retail assets in Portugal (PT)

Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe IV (“Blackstone”) announces that it has acquired a further five retail assets in Portugal for its European retail platform, Mul ...

GRR German Retail Fund No.1 adds two local shopping centers in Lower Saxony to its portfolio (DE)

GRR Real Estate Management GmbH (GRR) has added two more retail properties to the portfolio of its GRR German Retail Fund No.1, with the purchase of two local shopping ce ...

TLG IMMOBILIEN acquires speciality retail center in Berlin for €30.825 million (DE)

TLG IMMOBILIEN AG signed a purchase agreement for a speciality retail center located in Berlin, Adlershof (Treptow Köpenick district). The purchase price is €30.825 mi ...

CBRE Global Investors sells 14 Dutch retail assets to Blackstone (NL)

CBRE Global Investors announces the completion of the sale of 14 retail assets in the Netherlands on behalf of the CBRE Dutch Retail Funds to Blackstone Real Estate Partn ...

AVIAPARK, Europe’s largest shopping mall to open today in the North-West of Moscow (RU)

Many retailers’ flagship concepts will be launched at AVIAPARK along with stores opening for the first time in Russia. H&M fast-fashion retailer will open its bigge ...

IKEA Shopping Centres Russia has seen significant activity in 2014 and plans future development (RU)

IKEA Shopping Centres Russia has seen significant activity at its 14 MEGA branded malls located across Russia in 2014, as international retailers continue to seek growth ...

pbb provides new €78.2 million facility to Rockspring managed portfolio of regional office and retail assets (UK)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a £62 million (€78.2 million) loan facility to four SPVs sponsored by Rockspring Property Investment Managers, on behalf of it ...

Harworth Estates acquires major development site in Leeds (UK)

Harworth Estates, the UK property regeneration company, has acquired the site of the former Skelton Grange power station near Leeds from RWE Generation. The 162-acre site ...

JLL announces Europe’s retail gateway cities (EU)

London is the most attractive European location for international retailers according to a new cross-border retailer index compiled by global real estate adviser JLL. Th ...

L&G‘s PAIF acquires two further office assets for €76.5 mln (UK)

Legal & General Property (LGP) announces, on behalf of its Legal & General UK Property Fund, that it has successfully acquired 55 Strand in London and 5 Vanwall B ...

LondonMetric sells Bishop Auckland retail park for €29.8 mln (UK)

LondonMetric Property Plc announces that it has exchanged contracts on the sale of Bishop Auckland Shopping Park to Standard Life Investments for £23.6 mln (approx. €2 ...

#MAPIC BNP Paribas Real Estate signs as new ICSC European partner

The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) has announced leading international real estate provider BNP Paribas Real Estate, which has more than 35.8 million m� ...

Sierra Fund and CBRE Retail Property Fund Iberica sell the La Farga Shopping Centre (ES)

Sierra Fund (a pan-European retail fund in which Sonae Sierra has a stake of 50.1%) and the Retail Property Fund Iberica (RPFI), which is managed by CBRE Global Investors ...

Land Securities takes full control of Thomas More Square, E1 (UK)

Land Securities has acquired the 50% share it doesn't already own in Thomas More Square, E1 for £85.3 million (€106.7 mln) from an affiliate of its joint venture partn ...

#MAPIC NEINVER continues expanding and strengthens its international positioning

NEINVER, one of Europe’s leading property development, investment and management companies, is presenting its forthcoming retail properties at MAPIC. The centers that N ...

Schroder Real Estate Investment acquires retail warehouse for €12.3 million (UK)

The Company announces that it has acquired a retail warehouse in Bletchley, Milton Keynes for £9.9 million (€12.3 million), reflecting a net initial yield of 6.5%. The ...

AEW Europe acquires prime building in Lille (FR)

AEW Europe announced that it has acquired the “L’Opéra Faidherbe” building in Lille on behalf of an institutional client. The 8,322 m² asset is split between reta ...

C&W advises Pylos in the sale of City Station (LU)

City Station is a landmark building located at Avenue de la Gare 8-10 and developed in 2013-2014 by Pylos. This mixed use building offers office space of 2,550 m² and a ...

VIA Outlets acquires European portfolio (EU)

Hammerson and its partners in VIA Outlets, APG, Meyer Bergman and Value Retail, have acquired three further centers for their newly created venture, established to take a ...

Hermes Real Estate and CPPIB form UK regional joint venture (UK)

Hermes Real Estate and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced that they have formed a new UK regional joint venture. The partnership involves Hermes Real ...

NEINVER is the first European retail property company to earn ISO 50001 certification for all the centers it manages (ES)

NEINVER, one of Europe’s leading property developers, investors and management companies, has obtained ISO 50001 energy efficiency certification from the German certifi ...

Leasinvest Real Estate acquires a high-quality retail portfolio in Switzerland (CH)

Leasinvest Real Estate has acquired, via its 100% Luxembourg subsidiary Leasinvest Immo Lux SA SICAV-SIF, a high-quality real estate portfolio in Switzerland. The portfol ...

TLC appointed consulting partner for Zsar Outlet Village, Finland (FI)

Specialist Property asset management company, Thompson Lordland Chameleon (TLC), has been appointed as partner to the €40 mln Zsar Outlet Village, the first open-air ou ...

C&W and BAR exclusively mandated to sell Vienna’s €500 million Wien Mitte (AT)

Global real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield and Austrian agent Bareal Immobilientreuhand GmbH (BAR) have been exclusively mandated to sell Wien Mitte, the largest ...

Catalyst buys Cologne retail park for €55 million (DE)

Catalyst Capital, the European real estate investment and asset management firm, has acquired a substantial retail park near Cologne, Germany, for €55 million. C ...

Allianz acquires Nicetoile Shopping Center in Nice for €312.5 million (FR)

Allianz Real Estate is acquiring a 90% share in the "Nicetoile Shopping Center", the British real estate retail specialist Hammerson will coinvest the remaining 10%. The ...

Atrium acquires AFI Palac Pardubice in Czech Republic for €83 million (CZ)

Atrium European Real Estate Limited, a leading owner, operator and developer of shopping centers and retail real estate in Central and Eastern Europe, announces that it h ...

Benson Elliot sells CBXII office scheme to Blackrock for €44.7 million (UK)

Benson Elliot, the UK-based private equity real estate fund manager, has sold CBXII in Milton Keynes to Blackrock for £35 million (€44.7 mln), reflecting a net initial ...

JLL concludes record transaction in Bucharest (RO)

JLL has successfully advised Raiffeisen Evolution, the renowned Austrian development company, in the sale of the Promenada Mall (38,209 m² of GLA) in Bucharest, Romania. ...

Dentons advises AFI Europe on refinancing of its German portfolio (DE)

Dentons’ Global Real Estate team advised AFI Europe Group on a new credit facility agreement with Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) for a €74.5 million refinancing of ...

Two new industrial transactions advised by JLL (CZ/SK)

The JLL Capital Markets team have recently advised its clients on two additional transactions. C-Mec Holding N.V. has sold an industrial building in Kladno, Czech ...

Unibail-Rodamco to dispose of a €850 million portfolio of six shopping centers in France (NL/FR)

Unibail-Rodamco SE signs a definitive agreement with Wereldhave to dispose of a €850 million portfolio of six shopping centers in France. Pursuant to the announc ...

TIAA Henderson Real Estate sells Telfspark retail warehouse in Austria (AT)

TIAA Henderson Real Estate sells Telfspark, a retail warehouse in Austria, to a European investor for €18.5mln. The asset, located in Telfs, comprises a lett ...

PAMERA CORNERSTONE wins new contract for Nauener Karree (DE)

On behalf of an investor, PAMERA Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers has acquired the Nauener Karree in the district town of Nauen near Berlin at a forced auction sale. ...

Evolve Estates invests in St. Martin's Walk Shopping Center in Dorking (UK)

Evolve Estates has purchased the long leasehold interest in St Martin’s Walk shopping center in Dorking, along with an adjacent retail block, from Stamford Properties L ...

CBRE Group acquires PSM Center Management to expand retail real estate capabilities in Switzerland (CH)

CBRE Group, Inc. today announced that it has acquired PSM Center Management AG, a shopping center management, leasing and consulting company in Switzerland. Based ...

METRO GROUP and Groupe Auchan enter into an international purchasing partnership (DE/FR)

This cooperation is clustered in two agreements that will combine the complementary strengths of the retailer Groupe Auchan and the wholesale and food retail divisions of ...

Commercial Real Estate growth accelerates in Europe (EU)

Growth in the European commercial real estate market will accelerate over the next two years, which in turn will benefit Bulgaria by creating more favorable conditions fo ...

pbb and Scor provide Apsys with €105 million development financing (FR)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank and Scor have provided a €105 million development finance facility to Apsys. pbb acted as arranger and agent, initially lending the full € ...

Valad Europe enters into €500 million joint venture targeting Central European retail real estate (EU)

Valad Europe, the leading independent diversified real estate investment manager, has entered into a joint venture agreement with a new investor to build a portfolio of C ...

KGAL acquires eo shopping center in Austria for institutional fund ARPP (AT)

With the eo Oberwart shopping center, KGAL has acquired another building for its institutional real estate fund Austrian Retail Park Portfolio (ARPP). The shopping center ...

ECE starts constructions for Aquis Plaza in Aachen (DE)

Aquis Plaza in Aachen celebrates its topping out: Construction workers raised the topping-out wreath on the shell construction of the shopping gallery in Aachen's city ce ...

INTERNOS appoints retail expert Jenefer Greedwood to board (EU)

INTERNOS Global Investors Limited (“INTERNOS”), the €4 billion owner-managed real estate fund management firm, has appointed retail expert Jenefer Greenwood to its ...

Atrium appoints Scott Dwyer to lead its Polish operations (PL)

Atrium European Real Estate Limited, a leading owner, operator and developer of shopping centers and retail real estate in Central and Eastern Europe, is pleased to annou ...

Orchard Street secures Next Outlet to anchor Gretna Gateway Outlet Village, Scotland (UK)

Orchard Street Investment Management, the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed its first pre-let to Next Outlet at the new 15,000 ft² (1.393 ...

TIAA Henderson Real Estate acquires retail parade in Romford, London (UK)

TIAA Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate) has acquired Market Place - a well let retail parade in Romford, Greater London, for approx. £12.3 million (approx. €15.5 m ...

ECE raises more than €500 million in the first close for new Shopping Center Fund (EU)

ECE European Prime Shopping Center Fund II has had a strong start: The first closing in excess of €500 million has taken place. Investors include, alongside the Otto fa ...

Unibail-Rodamco SE enters into an agreement with Wereldhave to dispose a €850 million retail portfolio in France (FR)

Unibail-Rodamco and Wereldhave have entered today into an agreement pursuant to which Wereldhave offers to acquire a portfolio of six non-core shopping centers located in ...

Citycon acquires GIC’s ownership stake in the Iso Omena shopping center (FI)

Citycon has today agreed to acquire GIC’s 40% stake in the Iso Omena shopping center in the Helsinki region. After this transaction, Citycon owns 100% of the existing s ...

Dentons advises Atrium on €122 million Focus Mall acquisition (PL)

Dentons’ real estate team advised Atrium European Real Estate, a leading owner, operator and developer of shopping centers in Central and Eastern Europe, on the acquisi ...

AXA Real Estate fully lets 20 Garrick Street in Central London (UK)

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, the leading real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe, announces that, acting on behalf of one of its client, it has fully le ...

British Land secures 4.645 m² of deals with Outfit (UK)

British Land announces that it has agreed separate deals with Outfit totalling 50,000 ft² (4.645 m²) across four of its retail parks. The Arcadia fascia is takin ...

GIC acquires remaining stake in RomaEst Shopping Center (IT)

GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has acquired a 50% interest in RomaEst Shopping Center from a Fund managed by CBRE Global Investors. Following the purchase, GIC ...

Castellum sells Hansa in Malmö for €66 million (SE)

Castellum AB (publ) has, through the wholly owned subsidiary Fastighets AB Briggen, sold Hansa shopping mall in central Malmö. Hansa consists of two properties of 40,500 ...

Cushman & Wakefield wins largest Hungarian Retail Real Estate mandate in 2014 (HU)

Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) the world’s largest privately held commercial real estate services firm, has been appointed to manage and lease the Resideal Retail Po ...

TIAA Henderson Real Estate and Land Securities exchange contracts on prime shopping center property swap (UK)

TIAA Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate), on behalf of its UK Shopping Centre Fund, and Land Securities Group PLC (Land Securities), have exchanged contracts to sell t ...

Development Securities sells Market Place in Romford for €15.6 million (UK)

Development Securities today announces that it has sold the majority of its Market Place property, a mixed-use development in Romford, for £12.3 million (approx. €15.6 ...

ECE has launched Milaneo in Stuttgart (DE)

One of the largest quarter developments in the country has entered the final stages of construction: The new shopping center Milaneo in Stuttgart has open its gates to vi ...

Mansfield Leisure Park signs up Bella Italia, Chiquito and Nandos, Nottinghamshire (UK)

Legal & General Property (LGP) announces that it has successfully won its planning appeal to extend and enhance Mansfield Leisure Park as it unveils the three restaur ...

Atrium acquires the Focus Mall in Bydgoszcz, Poland for €122 million (PL)

Atrium European Real Estate Limited, a leading owner, operator and developer of retail real estate and shopping centers in Central and Eastern Europe, announces that it h ...

Cityhold acquires Burstah offices in Hamburg, Germany (DE)

Pension fund investor expands its portfolio in Germany to €300 mln. Cityhold Group from Sweden has further increased its commitment to Germany with the exchange of cont ...

LondonMetric acquires Dixons Retail distribution warehouse for €87 million (UK)

LondonMetric Property Plc (“LondonMetric” or the “Company”) announced that it has exchanged contracts for the off-market acquisition of the Dixons Retail distribu ...

CBRE appointed as a leasing agent for the Plac Unii City Shopping in Warsaw (PL)

CBRE, the world's leading real estate advisory firm, has been chosen as one of the agents responsible for the lease of Plac Unii City Shopping in Warsaw, Poland. P ...

World Retail Congress: 2014 World Retail Awards Winners

The standard of 2014 World Retail Award entries was exceptional, underlining the scale of innovation and creativity within the retail industry. Congratulations to this ...

TIAA Henderson Real Estate secures extension for UK Retail Warehouse Fund (UK)

TIAA Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate) has secured a six-year extension for its approx. £1.1billion (€1.2 billion) flagship UK Retail Warehouse Fund. The original ...

Prime Retail appointed by PwC on Phones 4u administration (UK)

Prime Retail have been appointed by PwC to advize on the Phone 4u property portfolio. Their role will be to assist the joint administrators’ team at PwC to realize valu ...

KGAL acquires retail park in Erding, Munich for institutional real estate fund (DE)

The KGAL Group has purchased Erding retail park for an institutional real estate fund with a forward-looking mixed-use concept. The heavily frequented retail park lies wi ...

Rockspring completes acquisition of Helvetia Parc, Germany (DE)

Rockspring Property Investment Managers (“Rockspring”), has acquired Helvetia Parc, a 30,000 m² retail park in Groß-Gerau, 30 kilometres outside of Frankfurt, Germa ...

Karlin RE acquires retail portfolio in Spain and Portugal from Redevco (ES/PT)

In its first European acquisition outside of the UK, Los Angeles-based Karlin Real Estate has acquired in an all cash transaction, a 23,810 m² portfolio of retail proper ...

CBRE Global Investors acquires dominant shopping center for €153 million in Spain (ES)

CBRE Global Investors has completed the acquisition of El Boulevard Shopping Centre in Vitoria, Spain. The superregional dominant shopping center has been purchased for � ...

British Land takes Drake Circus, Plymouth to the Next Stage with €51 million leisure development (UK)

British Land announces that it has signed an agreement with Plymouth City Council to develop Drake Circus Leisure, a circa 100,000 ft² (9.290 m²) leisure scheme next to ...

World Retail Congress: China switches from the world’s factory to consumer superpower, but rise of middle class shopper is both an opportunity and a threat

Global retailers face seismic changes as China’s rising middle classes flex their new found spending power. Spiraling wages will transform the country from the � ...

MITISKA REIM acquires retail park in Serbia (RS)

MITISKA REIM, a Brussels-based real estate investment management company, has acquired an 85% interest in the retail park Capitol Park Šabac in Serbia. MITISKA REIM made ...

Unibail-Rodamco SE agrees with Carmila to sell a €931 million shopping center portfolio in France (FR)

Pursuant to the announcement made on July 30, 2014, and after consultation by the Group and Carmila of their respective work-councils, Unibail-Rodamco announces that it h ...

Hammerson to acquire Highcross and launch new European outlet venture for €357 mln (UK)

Hammerson has exchanged contracts to acquire the remaining 40% of Highcross, securing 100% ownership of Leicester’s major shopping center and committed capital to a new ...

Goodman announces new warehouse letting to e-retailer, Wiggle at Citadel Logistics Centre, Wolverhampton (UK)

Global integrated property group, Goodman, has let a 323,000 ft² warehouse to e-retailer, Wiggle at Citadel Logistics Center in Wolverhampton Wiggle, the world’ ...

Rockspring brings €337 mln UK regional shopping center portfolio to market (UK)

Rockspring Property Investment Managers (“Rockspring”), on behalf of UK Value 1 LP (“UK Value 1” or the “Fund”), confirms that it is bringing a portfolio of s ...

Allianz to invest €140 million in IPUT (IE/DE)

Munich-headquartered global financial services group, Allianz, has committed to invest €140 million in IPUT, the investment vehicle of choice for commercial real estate ...

TIAA Henderson Real Estate plans to invest €500 million in Nordic region (EU)

The real estate investment manager, which invests capital on behalf of its global client base, has built up an established presence in the region since opening its office ...

Helical Bar acquires two retail warehouses in €15 million (UK)

Helical Bar today announces the acquisition of two modern leasehold retail warehouses located in Harrogate and Stockport from a UK corporate vendor for £12.082 million ( ...

Sonae Sierra signs contract with Carrefour for the ParkLake development (RO)

ParkLake, a Sonae Sierra and Caelum Development project, located in the 3rd sector of Bucharest, has just signed a contract with Carrefour for the ownership and operation ...

HUT's Parkgate Shopping scheme in Rotherham in 100% let (UK)

Hercules Unit Trust (HUT), the specialist retail park fund advised by British Land and managed by Schroders, is pleased to announce that Wilko has opened a 20,000 ft² (1 ...

Aareal Bank AG arranged financing of €160 million for La Sociedad General Inmobiliaria (ES)

Aareal Bank AG arranged a €160 million financing for La Sociedad General Inmobiliaria (LSGI), one of the major shopping center investors and developers in Spain and wit ...

AXA Real Estate completes third letting at 6 Bevis Marks, to Browne Jacobson (UK)

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers (“AXA Real Estate”), the leading real estate portfolio and asset managers in Europe, announces that it has signed a new 15 year le ...

CapMan Real Estate acquires two additional mixed residential & retail properties in central Copenhagen

CapMan Nordic Real Estate fund is adding to its existing residential & retail portfolio in Copenhagen with the acquisition of two more properties located along Amager ...

Redevco opens €90 million new mixed-use building ALEA 101 in Berlin (DE)

Redevco, one of the largest investors in European high street properties, has opened a €90 million retail-anchored building constructed on central Berlin’s renowned A ...

Syntrus Achmea acquires prime high street retail property portfolio for €120 million (FR)

Syntrus Achmea Real Estate & Finance, the property arm of the Dutch asset manager and pension administrator, has acquired on behalf of a client the shares in Grosveno ...

pbb provides €125 million financing for a regional UK shopping center (UK)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a £100 million (€125 million) financing facility secured by the Frenchgate Shopping Centre in Doncaster ultimately owned by Pa ...

Mega Mall shopping center opens in Sofia, Bulgaria (BL)

The new shopping center Mega Mall in Sofia, which is managed and leased by ECE Bulgaria, has opened. The center is located in the West of the Bulgarian capital and is the ...

LondonMetric and Universities Superannuation to acquire Liskeard Retail Park for €29.4 mln (UK)

LondonMetric Property Plc announces one acquisition on behalf of the Metric Income Plus Partnership, and the disposal of two wholly owned assets, with a total transaction ...

KKR and NEINVER establish a joint venture to acquire two retail centers in Spain from a fund managed by British Land (ES)

KKR announced the acquisition of two retail assets in Spain from the Pillar Retail Europark Fund (PREF) which is majority owned and managed by British Land. The tr ...

Real I.S acquired mixed-use property in Munich from Jargonnant Partners (DE)

Real I.S. Investment GmbH, has acquired Charles-de-Gaulle-Straße 2-3 in Munich’s Neu-Perlach district for its Southern Germany funds. The mixed use asset was purchased ...

C&W letting agent for Multishop Jarocin Retail Park (PL)

A global advisory firm Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed the exclusive letting agent for Multishop Jarocin retail park. The facility is scheduled for completion ...

MITISKA REIM starts construction of Dansaert Retail Park in Brussels (BE)

MITISKA REIM, a Brussels based real estate investment management company, has started the construction of its Dansaert Retail Park in Brussels, Belgium. MITISKA REIM unde ...

Citycon to acquire €120 million shopping center in Sweden (SE)

Citycon has signed a joint venture agreement with NCC Property Development for the (re)development and letting of Mölndals Galleria. An existing old retail property is p ...

Meyer Bergman increases €750 million for the second Retail Partners fund (EU)

Meyer Bergman European Retail Partners II, the European retail - anchored real estate fund advised by investment manager Meyer Bergman, has capped its equity raising at � ...

Partners Group purchases €300 million property portfolio in Finland and Sweden (FI/SE)

Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has completed the purchase of a real estate portfolio of retail and office properties in Finland and Sweden ...

BNP Paribas Real Estate participates in one of the largest transaction carried out in Paris (FR)

The Olayan Group, in association with Chelsfield, acquired 17-19 Montaigne, a building with more than 6,000 m² of shops and offices.  This operation finalizes the acqui ...

NAS Invest plans to invest €100 million in Berlin and Northern Germany (DE)

Nikolai Dëus-von Homeyer, former Director and Head of Corporate Development at property investor Corestate Capital AG, has launched his own real estate investment firm. ...

Alza.cz expands warehouses with JLL (CZ)

The largest electronic retailer and e-commerce pioneer in the Czech Republic Alza.cz will open a new 12,681 m² warehouse in September 2014. Alza.cz is expanding to a new ...

Shopping Center Poland - the largest event of its kind in Central Europe

Shopping Center Forum (SCF) is a biannual convention for retailers and investors in the retail real estate industry. The upcoming Fall Edition will be held on 17-18 Septe ...

Tristan Fund sells Dusseldorf residential/retail complex for €70.5 million to BVK, German Pension Fund (DE)

CCPIII, the core plus fund advised by pan-European real estate manager Tristan Capital Partners, has sold the Dieterich Karree residential/retail complex in downtown Duss ...

Development Securities buys Chippenham shopping center for €20.48 mln (UK)

A JV between Clearbell Capital LLP and Tristan Capital Partners have sold Borough Parade in Chippenham to Development Securities for £16.325 mln (approx. €20.48 mln). ...

Prospect SEC, the only new mall in Ukraine, to open in September (UA)

Prospect SEC to open in September, as it has been stated earlier by Arricano Real Estate, the developer of the project. The shopping & entertainment complex will star ...

Auxideico takes over management of Marineda City in La Coruña (ES)

The Spanish subsidiary of ECE, Auxideico, which is one of the leading shopping center operators in Spain, was awarded the management contract for Marineda City Shopping C ...

Bigger retail park in Galeria Sudecka (PL)

Echo Investment has won a tender procedure concerning the purchase of investment land next to Galeria Sudecka, which is under construction in Jelenia Góra. The investor ...

IPUT acquires €115 mln property portfolio from the Bank of Ireland Staff Pension Fund (IE)

IPUT plc announces that it has acquired a portfolio of commercial property assets from the Bank of Ireland Staff Pension Fund for an all cash consideration of €115 mln ...

British Land secures six new lettings at Gallagher Retail Park in Cheltenham (UK)

The Gibraltar Limited Partnership (which is 50% owned by the Hercules Unit Trust (HUT) and 50% owned by The Crown Estate) is pleased to announce six new lettings at Galla ...

M&G Real Estate purchase Aldgate office for €46 million (UK)

M&G Real Estate has purchased a city office building for £36.7 mln (approx. €46 mln) this week on behalf of the M&G Property Portfolio managed by Fiona Rowley ...

Rockspring’s UK Value 2 fund acquiries €59 mln retail & office properties (UK)

Rockspring Property Investment Managers (“Rockspring”), announced the third close of UK Value 2 LP (“UK Value 2” or the “Fund”), bringing total equity commitm ...

TIAA Henderson Real Estate secures €54.7 million debt facility in Austria (AT)

TIAA Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate) has secured a new €54.7 million debt financing on behalf of its European Outlet Mall Fund. The new five year facility ...

Hibernia acquires Riverside Development site in Dublin’s South Docks for €17.75 mln (IE)

Hibernia REIT plc announced it has exchanged contracts to acquire a 3035 m² freehold site at 1-6 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2 for €17.75 mln in an off-market t ...

British Land lets 36,000 ft² at Wheatley Retail Park, Doncaster (UK)

British Land is pleased to announce that Next, and Marks & Spencer Simply Food have agreed terms for two new units at Wheatley Retail Park, Doncaster, further enhanci ...

JLL brings Treveria Silo E Portfolio to the market (DE)

JLL has been instructed with the sale of 127 properties in the Treveria Silo E Portfolio. The decision to market the Portfolio was driven by the recommendation of loan se ...

Orchard Street acquires Debenhams department store in Leeds for €47.5 million (UK)

Orchard Street Investment Management, the specialist commercial property investment manager, announces that it has completed the acquisition of 115-126 Briggate in Leeds ...

AXA Real Estate completes 18,500 ft² letting to Matalan on Oxford Street, London (UK)

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, the leading real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe, confirms that it has signed, on behalf of one of its clients, a new 15 ...

UKCPT acquires €51.2 million Swindon supermarket and leisure scheme (UK)

UK Commercial Property Trust Limited (UKCPT) announces that it has exchanged contracts to acquire Regent Circus in Swindon for a consideration of £40.48 million (approx. ...

ECE & ATP start Restructuring and refurbishing Rosengårdcentret in Odense, Denmark (DK)

Rosengårdcentret, the second-largest shopping center in Denmark, has just started the most ambitious refurbishment it has ever experienced. Opened in Odense (the third l ...

CBRE Global Investors acquires retail office for €18.9 million (UK)

CBRE Global Investors has completed the purchase of the Great Western Arcade and 10 Colmore Row in Birmingham for £15.1 mln (approx. €18.9 mln). The vendor was Aviva I ...

REC to handle project monitoring at Forum Diyarbakir (TR/DE)

REC Real Estate Consultancy, a German company specializing in technical consultancy-related services for real estate companies, has been contracted by Multi Turkey to man ...

Theresie building complex secured for €257 million from Ivanhoé Cambridge (DE/CA)

Deka Immobilien GmbH has signed the purchasing rights to the Theresie building complex in Munich for approximately €257 million, with a subsidiary of Canadian real esta ...

AXA Real Estate acquires 50% stake in Cabot Circus shopping center in Bristol for €335.5 million(UK)

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers (AXA Real Estate), announces that, on behalf of its clients, it has agreed the acquisition of a 50% stake in Cabot Circus, Quakers Fri ...

British Land and Tesco fully pre-let extension at Clifton Moor Shopping Park (UK)

British Land and Tesco announced that they have fully pre-let the new £19 million (approx. €24 million) extension at Clifton Moor Shopping Park in York, increasing the ...

M&G purchases South Wales premier retail park for €190.5 million (UK)

M&G Real Estate announced the acquisition of Parc Trostre, Llanelli for £156 million (approx. € 190.5 mln), reflecting a net initial yield of 5.07%. This off mark ...

Allianz buys Isartor City in the heart of Munich (DE)

Allianz has purchased the Isartor City office and retail property in the center of Munich. The property, which is home to shops, restaurants, a large cinema complex and o ...

Selfridges chooses Synthesio to enhance customer experience (UK)

Synthesio announced a new addition to their growing roster of global enterprise level clients. Leading retail brand, Selfridges, recently chose Synthesio to be their glob ...

Russia dominates shopping center development pipeline with more than 5 million m² under construction

A staggering 1.88 million m² of new shopping center space has been developed across the European market in the first six months of 2014. Shopping center development acti ...

Sonae Sierra records net profit of €47.8 million and continues international growth in the first half of 2014

Sonae Sierra, the international shopping center specialist, achieved a net profit of €47.8 million in the first half of the year. In addition to this positive result, t ...

Valad acquires Five Ways Leisure Park for £34.68 million (UK)

UK & European Investments, on behalf of Blue Coast Commercial Investments LP, has completed on the sale of Five Ways Leisure Park in Birmingham to the Valad European ...

WealthCap buys multi-use Munich facility at Arnulfpark (DE)

Munich based WealthCap buys Business Center with mall, event area and Central Bus Station. HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung has sold Munich’s Business Center with ...

Canada Life Investments in £24 million loan deal with Mayfair Capital’s PITCH Fund (UK)

Canada Life Investments and Mayfair Capital Investment Management announced the completion of a second loan of £24 mln (approx. €30 million) for a seven-year facility ...

Norges Bank Investment Management invest in a €425.6 million property in Paris (FR)

Norges Bank Investment Management has acquired a 100% interest in "Le Madeleine", a 31,500 m² mixed-use property on Boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris. The agreem ...

Hines' Pan-European core fund acquires Caleido in Stuttgart, Germany (DE)

Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today that its Pan-European Core Fund (HECF) has aquired Caleido in the CBD of Stuttgart, from Hochtief Projektentwic ...

Vastned invests €30 million in premium city high-street shops in Ghent and Lyons Copy (EU)

Vastned, the listed European retail property company focusing on venues for premium shopping, expands its presence in Ghent (Belgium) and Lyons (France), which is fully i ...

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank provides €72 million financing for Cerberus (DE)

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a €72 million loan to affiliated companies of Cerberus Capital Management L.P. These affiliates will use the funds to purchase ...

Klépierre and Corio to create the leading pure play retail property company in Europe (NL/FR)

Klépierre S.A. and Corio N.V. announce that they have reached conditional agreement to create the leading pure play retail property company in Europe. The transac ...

La Salle acquires building in Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam for €80 million (NL)

La Salle, on behalf of Bayerische Ärzteversorgung (BÄV - Bavarian doctors’ pension fund), has acquired a mixed use and retail building located at the Jodenbreestraat ...

Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) signs two long-term lease agreements with CBRE Global Investors (NL)

Hennes & Mauritz (“H&M”) has chosen two assets managed by CBRE Global Investors to open its largest store in Europe and the largest store in the southern part ...

Greenman Investments receives approval for its Greenman Income PRO fund from Luxemborg financial regulator CSSF (EU)

Greenman Investments, an Irish real estate investment company, received approval for its fund Greeman Income PRO from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF. Through ...

SEB Asset Management lets over 22,740 m² of space in Bratislava (SK)

The computer company Dell has signed a new lease with SEB Asset Management for a total of around 19,800 m² of space in the city center office building on Fazulová stree ...

UK Commercial Property Trust Limited secures two new lettings at Junction 27 Retail Park, Leeds (UK)

UK Commercial Property Trust Limited (UKCPT), the largest Guernsey based, UK focused commercial property trust, announces that it has signed leases with Multiyork Furnitu ...

Terrace Hill acquires strategic site in Burnley for major leisure development (UK)

Experienced leisure and retail developers, Terrace Hill, part of Urban&Civic plc, has acquired a major town center site from Burnley Borough Council for a new leisure ...

Rockspring buys Maskew Retail Park for £37 mln as first investment for UK Value 2 (UK)

Rockspring Property Investment Managers (“Rockspring”), on behalf of UK Value 2 LP (“UK Value 2” or the “Fund”), announces that it has completed the acquisiti ...

Raiffeisen Polbank to become tenant of PRIME Corporate Center in the largest office lease in Poland for 2014 (PL)

Investor and developer Golub GetHouse together with Raiffeisen Polbank finalized a lease agreement in PRIME Corporate Center building, currently under development at Grzy ...

Aareal and pbb provide €228 million refinancing to Ærium Cardinal fund (EU)

Aareal Bank AG and pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank have jointly underwritten a €228 mln senior acquisition facility, to refinance a 23 prime asset portfolio mainly located ...

DIC Asset launches new fund and invests in retail properties (DE)

DIC Asset AG just launched its third institutional real estate fund (open-ended special AIF), “DIC Office Balance II.” The fund will commit itself in office propertie ...

Rockspring acquires prime retail asset in central London for £19.7mln

Rockspring Property Investment Managers (“Rockspring”), on behalf of a separate account client, announced that it has completed the acquisition of 154/162 Tottenham C ...

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AXA Belgium acquires “Galerie Kons” project in Luxembourg (LU)

IMMOBEL, BESIX RED and CLI sell the company that owns “Galerie Kons” project in Luxembourg to AXA Belgium. The project comprises 20,500 m² above ground, inclu ...

Redevco’s €105 million shopping center regeneration project attracts retailers before 2015 opening (FR)

Redevco, one of the largest investors in European high street properties, has attracted six new high-profile retailers to its €105 million Promenade Sainte-Catherine re ...

Tristan Episo 3 Fund has acquired Birmingham’s landmark Fort Dunlop building (UK)

A fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners has acquired the landmark mixed-use Fort Dunlop building near Birmingham from award ...

Lothbury purchases on Trafford Park, Manchester for £19.25 mln (UK)

Lothbury Investment Management has completed the purchase of Premier Park, the most recently built multi-let estate of its size on Trafford Park in Manchester, for £19.2 ...

Carrefour Express and LUKOIL expand cooperation in Poland (PL)

Carrefour Poland and Polish LUKOIL develop cooperation. The last couple of months they created another 4 stores Carrefour Express stations LUKOIL, which means that the in ...

Benson Elliot extends Spanish investment programme with shopping center acquisition (ES)

Benson Elliot, the UK-based private equity real estate fund manager, announces the acquisition of the Imaginalia shopping center in Albacete, Spain from funds managed by ...

Mayfair Capital’s "PITCH" fund continues to grow with £22.6 million of acquisitions (UK)

Mayfair Capital Investment Management today announces that the Property Income Trust for Charities (“PITCH”), has completed £22.6 million (€28.5 million) of acquis ...

Allianz Italy invests in the Italian shopping and leisure center in Genoa (IT)

Allianz Real Estate, on behalf of the Italian Allianz insurance companies, has taken the majority stake in the "Fiumara" shopping and leisure center in the port city of G ...

Revetas Fund I acquires City Center Sofia (BG)

Revetas Capital Advisors LLP, a specialist real estate investment advisor focused on value added and opportunistic investments in Central and Eastern Europe, announced th ...

AXA Real Estate launches 6 Bevis Marks, a 14,864 m² office development in London (UK)

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, the leading real estate portfolio in Europe, announces the completion of its latest development, 6 Bevis Marks. Comprising 160,000 ft ...

New leases at FASHION HOUSE Outlet Centre Moscow (RU)

FASHION HOUSE Outlet Centre Moscow has six new tenants: Lanmoll, Sesto Meucci, Gerard Darel, LTB Jeans, Home & Cook and Kanz. They have leased a total of nearly 1,000 ...

Clearbell acquires The Gates Shopping Centre in Durham (UK)

Clearbell Capital LLP, a leading private real estate fund management business, has bought The Gates Shopping Centre in the historic cathedral and university city of Durha ...

INTERNOS acquires two retail parks in Germany (DE)

INTERNOS Global Investors Limited has acquired two retail parks for a total of €15.9 million in Rottenburg and Moosburg (Bavaria), Germany. The assets were sold by BGP ...

ÆRIUM sells retail warehouse portfolio to GLL Real Estate (DE)

Ærium, the European real estate fund manager, is pleased to announce that it has sold a portfolio of eight German retail warehouses to German fund manager GLL Real Estat ...

ECE starts construction of Holsten-Galerie worth €145 mln (DE)

ECE announced that the preparatory work for the Holsten-Galerie in Neumünster has been completed and construction can commence. With a convenient location, between the I ...

Michael Kors and Abercrombie & Fitch join The Style Outlets family (EU)

NEINVER continues to add the finest international brands to its European outlet platform The Style Outlets. The latest additions are the well-known brands Michael Kors ...

LondonMetric Property's MIPP acquires Retail Park for £12.8 million (UK)

LondonMetric Property Plc announced that the Metric Income Plus Limited Partnership (“MIPP”), its joint venture with Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd. has excha ...

Silk & Cashmere to open its first direct boutique in Russia (RU)

Silk & Cashmere, one of the world’s largest cashmere retail distributors, leased 61.6 m² space on the 1st floor of METROPOLIS mall for its first direct store in Ru ...

Sonae Sierra and ING sell 90% of Le Terrazze shopping center to Union Investment (IT)

Sonae Sierra, the international shopping centre specialist, and ING, the global financial institution, have sold 90% of their interest in Le Terrazze Shopping centre to U ...

Tristan’s EPISO 3 Fund acquired mixed portfolio of U.K. properties for £153 million (UK)

EPISO 3, the fund advised by pan-European real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners, has agreed the £153.15 million (approx. €192 million) purchase of a ...

Michael Kors to open flagship store on Regent Street (UK)

The Crown Estate announced that they have signed a lease with Michael Kors to open its first flagship store in England, on London’s renowned Regent Street, in autumn 20 ...

Pramerica acquires landmark building in Paris (FR)

Pramerica Real Estate Investors announces that is has completed the acquisition of a 5,265 m² (56,672 ft²) grade-A retail and office building, 49/51 avenue George V Par ...

ECE starts modification of Marstall Ludwigsburg (DE)

Construction work on and around Marstall shopping center in the German city of Ludwigsburg is progressing rapidly. ECE is starting the modification of the building. The i ...

St. Modwen to commence work at Longbridge, Birmingham (UK)

St. Modwen has announced it will shortly begin work on the second phase of retail development on its 468 acre former MG Rover site at Longbridge, including a landmark 1 ...

RBS brings £90mln Silverbird portfolio to market (UK)

RBS Real Estate Asset Management (“RBS”) is bringing a portfolio of 26 UK regional commercial property assets to the market seeking offers over £87.65 million (appro ...

CBRE & Savills bring a €123 million portfolio to Dublin market (UK/IE)

Property advisors CBRE and Savills have brought a collection of retail and office buildings in the greater Dublin area to the market for a guide price of €123.4 million ...

NEINVER appoints Thomas Immelmann as Retail Director

NEINVER, the second-largest operator of outlet centers in Europe, has appointed Thomas Immelmann as Retail Director, whose main role is the strategic orientation of all E ...

Mayfair Capital Property Unit Trust asset value increases to £140 million (UK)

The Mayfair Capital Property Unit Trust, a fund managed by Schroder Property with Mayfair Capital the property advisor, has increased its portfolio size to more than £14 ...

Land Securities sells The Bridges, Sunderland for £152 million(approx.€190 million) (UK)

Land Securities has exchanged contracts to sell The Bridges shopping centre, Sunderland to clients of AEW Europe for £152 million (approx.€190 million), reflecting a n ...

AFI Europe signs largest financing agreement in the CEE worth 220 million (RO)

AFI Europe, a member of “AFI Group”, has signed the largest real estate financing agreement, totaling €220 million, with the consortium of banks comprised of Deutsc ...

C&W advises Redevco in the sale of the headquarters of Carrefour Belgium (BE)

Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) has advised Redevco for the sale of its holdings in the headquarters building of Carrefour Belgium–better known under the name of  � ...

Natixis Pfandbriegbank AG arranges a €75 million facility for Blackstone (DE)

Natixis Pfandbriefbank AG has arranged a €75 million senior debt facility for funds managed by Blackstone to finance the acquisition of a mixed-use asset located in the ...

Intu Watford signs Cineworld as anchor tenant for €125 million retail and leisure development (UK)

Intu has signed leading cinema operator Cineworld as the leisure anchor for its £100 million (approx. €125 million) retail and leisure development in Watford town cent ...

ACI EUROPE: Best Airport Award winners for 2014 announced

The 10th Annual ACI EUROPE Best Airport Awards were announced during the gala dinner of the 24th ACI EUROPE Annual Congress hosted by Fraport. The award ceremony marked t ...

HB Reavis completes River Garden office complex (CZ)

The River Garden II/III office complex follows the HB Reavis development group’s first office project, River Garden I, which was completed in 2012 and has been fully le ...

TriGranit Development Wins RLI Developer 2014 Award

TriGranit Development Corporation was awarded the highly commended RLI Developer Award 2014 at the Retail and Leisure International (RLI) Award Gala 2014 in London. ...

Pramerica Real Estate Investors and AP3 form joint venture to invest in German retail properties (DE)

Pramerica Real Estate Investors and the Third Swedish National Pension Fund, AP3 announced they have formed a joint venture to invest in retail properties throughout Germ ...

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World Retail Congress has grown to be the most significant global annual meeting of the retail calendar. The Congress has seen a consistent increase in international atte ...

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The World Retail Congress will meet at a point where the retail industry believes it is moving out of the tough economic climate of the last seven years, but now facing t ...

World Retail Awards-WRC

The World Retail Awards gather over 500 of the retail elite, industry experts and global media to recognize innovation and success. The World Retail Awards are the only ...

CBRE: Paris is the world’s hottest global retail market

Paris is the world’s hottest global retail market attracting 50 new brands last year, while France is ranked as the leading country for new entrants, according to the l ...

NCC to construct logistics building for SEK 300 million (SE)

NCC has been commissioned to construct a logistics building on behalf of Varner Retail. The project, at Trestad in Vänersborg, is worth SEK 300 million (approx. €33.4 ...

Capital & Regional sells Lübeck Retail Park for €47.9 mln (DE)

Capital & Regional plc announced that its German joint venture has unconditionally exchanged contracts for the sale of its Lübeck property to clients of Invesco Real ...

British Land sells £78 million of Retail Parks (UK)

British Land announced the sale of two retail parks in Dumbarton and Cwmbran for £78 million (approx. €94.65 million): - St James Retail Park in Dumbarton has bee ...

Kungsleden selling five properties and leaving three locations (SE)

Listed Swedish property company Kungsleden AB (publ) is continuing to focus and optimise its property portfolio consistent with its new strategy, and is selling five smal ...

C&W represents Millennium Partners in landmark retail lease to Primark (US)

Cushman & Wakefield announced today that it represented Millennium Partners in a long-term retail lease with Primark, a leading European fashion retailer, at the Mill ...

World Retail Expo - WRC

The World Retail Expo provides a dual platform of dedicated content and a showcase of the most pioneering technology, solutions and products to inspire and engage retaile ...

Skanska sells commercial property in Stockholm for SEK 104 mln (SE)

Skanska anounced that it sold a commercial property in Sundbyberg, Stockholm, Sweden, for SEK 104 mln (approx. €11.5 million). The transaction will be recorded in the f ...

Helaba refinances Elisenhof in Munich for Tishman Speyer (DE)

Helaba is providing €124 million in funds to refinance the Elisenhof building in Munich, an office and retail property with a total rentable area of around 46,000 m² o ...

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French fashion label IRO arrives in London (FR/UK)

Cushman & Wakefield has advised premium French fashion brand IRO on its first UK store at Brompton Cross in west London.  When the 1,500 ft² store opens this s ...

Futureal acquires full ownership of the Nova Park shopping center (PL)

Futureal Group has acquired full ownership of the NoVa Park shopping center in Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland. The project was developed as a joint venture between Caelum De ...

Development Securities sells Winchester foodstore scheme for £23.3 million (UK)

Development Securities has sold Weeke local shopping center in Winchester, anchored by a Waitrose foodstore, for £23.3 million (approx. €28 million) to AMEC Staff Pens ...

i2i Events

i2i Events Group is an international events company dedicated to enhancing customer value, extending its international footprint and exploring every available growth op ...

Sierra Portugal Fund acquires full ownership of two new shopping centers (PT)

Sierra Portugal Fund (SPF) has reached an agreement with GREP II, a fund managed by Grosvenor Fund Management, for the acquisition of its 50% stake in AlbufeiraShopping ...

High-street heavyweight River Island opens first Swedish store (UK/SE)

On March 15, leading British retailer River Island opened its first Swedish store in Stockholm City’s premier shopping mall, Gallerian. The internationally renowned bra ...

Henderson opens second phase at McArthurGlen Designer Outlet Barberino (IT)

Henderson Global Investors and McArthurGlen have opened the second retail phase at Barberino Designer Outlet in Tuscany, Italy. The second phase of Barberino Designer ...

Intu acquires stakes in two Westfield shopping centers and a retail park (UK)

Intu has entered into agreements to acquire a 50% interest in Westfield Merry Hill shopping center, a 100% interest in Westfield Derby shopping center and a 100% interest ...

Gazeley announces largest UK pre-let in two years with Waitrose (UK)

Gazeley has announced a deal signed with leading UK grocery retailer Waitrose to develop a new 940,000 ft² (approx. 87,326 m²) national distribution center. The bu ...

Atrium opens 75,000 m² Atrium Felicity shopping center in Lublin (PL)

Atrium European Real Estate’s major greenfield development, Atrium Felicity, opens today in Lublin, Poland. The 172,000 m² building is the largest and most modern s ...

Hannover Leasing acquires office property Die Direktion in Münster (DE)

Hannover Leasing has acquired Die Direktion in Münster from aurelis Asset GmbH. The office complex with integrated retail uses is located in the center of Münster, in t ...

Ted Baker prepares for further expansion in France (UK/FR)

The London high-end fashion brand, Ted Baker, has instructed Cushman & Wakefield to act as exclusive lettings agent for its expansion in France. Founded in 1988 by ...

TfL to introduce new pop-up shops across its retail estate (UK)

Transport for London (TfL) customers will soon be able to shop at a variety of new and innovative retailers as TfL announced the appointment of Appear Here, the largest o ...

Ahold agrees strategic acquisition in the Czech Republic (CZ)

Ahold is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SPAR’s business in the Czech Republic for an enterprise value of CZK 5,245 million (approx ...

Ikea Shopping Centres Russia unveils plans to upgrade its MEGA malls (RU)

IKEA Shopping Centres Russia (IKEA SCR) has announced details of its brand new food court concept and mall extension plans, which are set to attract a raft of retailers a ...

The Meadows Retail Park added to SPF portfolio (UK)

Schroder UK Property Fund (SPF) is today announced the completion of The Meadows Retail Park,  Springfield Road in Chelmsford for £19.7 million (approx. €24 million), ...

XXXLutz buys 13 retail stores from insolvent DIY retailer Max Bahr (AT/DE)

According to a report on der Standard, Austrian furniture retailer XXXLutz has acquired 13 stores from insolvent German DIY chain Max Bahr. The spokesman of XXXLutz sa ...

Last call for ICSC's Retail Connections and European Outlet Conference in London

ICSC Europe’s Retail Connections event, Europe’s most successful retail property leasing fair, is being held at The Business Design Centre, Islington, London next Tue ...

Crédit Mutuel has appointed Cushman & Wakefield to manage its 100,000 m² retail portfolio (FR)

Crédit Mutuel has awarded a Property/Asset management mandate for a portfolio of retail assets to Cushman & Wakefield France. The portfolio, which comprises 200 sho ...

Mixed-use Marengo building in Paris sold to CBRE Global Investors (FR)

The Marengo building in Paris, France, has been sold by a fund managed by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, advised by international real estate advisor Savills in a ...

Hines and HSBC acquire majority interest in Liffey Valley shopping center (IE)

A joint venture between Hines and HSBC Alternative Investments Limited has acquired Aviva's 72.8% interest in the Liffey Valley regional shopping center in Dublin. The ot ...

CBRE: European retail investment in 2013 at highest level since 2007 (EU)

European retail investment jumped to €15.5 billion in Q4 2013 - the highest quarterly total since Q4 2006 and almost double the Q3 2013 total, according to the latest r ...

Deka Immobilien acquires office and retail complex in Berlin (DE)

Deka Immobilien GmbH has acquired the building complex Hackesches Quartier Berlin for its open-ended property fund West InterSelect. The seller is a specialized real esta ...

IGD sells Fonti del Corallo in Livorno to a private real estate fund managed by BNP Paribas REIM (IT)

IGD - Immobiliare Grande Distribuzione SIIQ S.p.A. signed a preliminary agreement for the sale of the Fonti del Corallo shopping center in Livorno to a private real estat ...

Europa Capital and Ediston Real Estate purchase Pallion Retail Park for £18.95 million (UK)

Europa Capital and Ediston have acquired Pallion Retail Park for £18.95 million (approx. €22.82 million) , reflecting a net initial yield of 7.29%. Pallion Retail ...

DSquared2 opens first flagship store in London (IT/UK)

Aerium has agreed a lease with Italian luxury clothing designer Dsquared2 for its debut London store. The flagship unit comprises lower ground, ground and first floors an ...

Vastned sells retail portfolio in Spain for €160 million (ES)

Vastned has sold seven Spanish shopping centers/galleries and a retail park in Alicante for €160 million. The buyer is a consortium of investors including The Baupost ...

Lidl looking for new UK headquarters (UK)

According to the Telegraph, Lidl has announced that it is looking to move into new headquarters in the UK, which could be more than three times the size of its current on ...

Major Italian Retail Park appoints Pradera as manager (IT)

Specialist retail sector fund and asset manager, Pradera, has been awarded a coveted asset management contract at the 37,000 m² Meraville Retail Park in Bologna, followi ...

Reed Midem

Reed Midem Real Estate  portfolio includes the world’s leading property trade show, MIPIM, and its sister market, MIPIM Asia, held in Hong Kong, which focuses on the A ...

Ellandi acquires Lathe Investments to create £300 million portfolio (UK)

Ellandi has agreed to acquire competitor Lathe Investments that will result in a combined portfolio under management of nearly £300 million, comprising 11 value-oriented ...

CBRE Global Investors sells Shopping Center 17 in Vienna (AT)

CBRE Global Investors has sold the Shopping Center 17 retail park located in Brunn am Gebirge, Vienna, Austria for ca. €22 million. The buyer of the property was an int ...

Corio sold 10 assets in the Netherlands and 1 in France for €213 million (NL/FR)

In line with its strategy, Corio has sold 10 retail properties in the Netherlands to one buyer and one in France for a total amount of €213 mln in January 2014. The dis ...

Meyer Bergman sells prime building to fashion giant Mango (UK/ES)

Meyer Bergman, the investment manager specialized in European retail properties, has agreed to sell a former bank office located on Calle Serrano, on Madrid’s “Golden ...

Neocity Group sells City Park Mall in Constanta for €81 million (RO)

Advised by Colliers International, Neocity Group has sold their app. 29,000 m² Shopping Center in the city of Constanta, Romania to New Europe Property Investors (NEPI) ...

Invesco finalizes acquisition of Galeria Kazimierz for €180 million (PL)

CBRE announced today that Invesco has signed a final Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of Galeria Kazimierz in Kraków, Poland.  Galeria Kazimierz was sold by ...

Westfield introduces new click-and-collect service at Westfield London (UK)

Westfield London has introduced CollectPlus, a new click-and-collect service, allowing customers to pick up and try on purchases made online. When selecting the Collec ...

Carrefour acquires portfolio of 129 Coop Alsace stores (FR)

The Board of Directors of Coop Alsace has approved the sale of 129 Coop Alsace stores to Carrefour, only days after Carrefour signed an agreement with Klepierre for the a ...