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Sirius Real Estate has invested €40 million in acquiring two German business parks and is in talks to buy additional assets in the UK and Germany. The owner and operator of branded business and industrial parks in Germany and the UK said it has acquired an asset in Cologne and another in Göppingen, in deals that add close to 55,000 square metres of primarily light industrial and production space to the group’s 1.9 million square metres German portfolio. The business...

Swedish private equity firm Niam has acquired a 7300 square metres office property, situated in Greater Copenhagen, with Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company as the exclusive tenant. The seller is Danish pension fund Industriens Pension and the acquisition price is DKK 130 million (€17.4 million). Source: propertyeu.info on the 19th of February https://propertyeu.info/Nieuws/Niam-buys-Copenhagen-office-from-Industriens-Pension/78c6c2b7-8b62-48e9-9391-5eef589ad102

Advisory firm Savills has announced the appointment of Britt Habermann as new head of the industrial agency team in Berlin. Rainer Bornfleth has joined her as an associate director in her team. This follows the establishment of the business line at the company’s offices in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. Britt Habermann has over 25 years’ experience in the real estate industry and joins from Cushman & Wakefield. She has also worked at CBRE and JLL. Rainer Bornfleth also joins from...

BNP Paribas Real Estate, part of the BNP Paribas Group, has appointed Aman Panesar as director within its Central London investment team. Panesar joins after a decade at Cushman & Wakefield where he held roles within its London capital markets, valuation and advisory teams. He has previously advised on iconic London buildings such as the Walkie Talkie and The Shard, and on recent transactions including 12 Conduit Street (W1), 94 New Bond Street (W1), and 3-8 Whitehall Place (SW1). In...

JLL has appointed Nick Winter as head of project & development services (PDS) EMEA as part of a wider reshaping of the firm's global PDS business. The firm's PDS services arm includes managing the construction, development, design and branding of commercial real estate projects. The division works with businesses including corporations, educational institutions, public jurisdictions, healthcare organisations, industrial facilities, and retailers. Source: propertyeu.info on the 13th of February https://propertyeu.info/Nieuws/JLL-appoints-head-of-project--development-services-EMEA/085cf209-f165-446b-982a-160fa42ab1c7

Professional services and investment management company Colliers has promoted Andrzej Gutowski to environmental, social and governance (ESG) chief officer in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. Gutowski was formerly ESG director of Colliers in Poland, advising on and coordinating the green and wellbeing certification processes of commercial properties in CEE countries. To date, Gutowski has consulted on the certification processes of over 100 properties, including new and existing buildings and commercial interiors...

Catella Residential Investment Management (CRIM) has acquired a second residential asset in France from Elithis Groupe. The property fund manager said it has invested around €29 million on behalf of an institutional mandate to buy the “energy-positive” Elithis residential tower and attached low-rise building development in the city of Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France. Source: realassets.ipe.com on the 15th of February https://realassets.ipe.com/news/catella-snaps-up-29m-energy-positive-residential-tower-in-french-city/10071618.article

Abrdn has invested £123 million (€144 million) in a UK student housing project on behalf of its strategic partner Phoenix Group and clients. The fund manager has backed the University of Sussex and Balfour Beatty Investments’ West Slope Residencies Finance project partnership, by investing £110 million on behalf of UK savings and retirement business Phoenix and £13 million on behalf of the Inflation-Linked Infrastructure Debt Fund, Abrdn’s evergreen UK-focused fund. The West Slope partnership will design, construct and maintain 1,900...

Civitas Investment Management Limited (“Civitas”), the U.K.’s largest provider of community healthcare and specialist education facilities with £3.5 billion of assets under advisory, announces that following £73 million of acquisitions in December, it deployed £113 million of equity in the second half of 2023, acquiring or forward funding 22 UK specialist healthcare assets across 14 transactions. Representing a continuation of the first half of 2023, the activity furthered Civitas’ commitment to the high growth and specialist sector with strong social...