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MEAG has acquired the World Port Center (worldportcenter.com) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for a special real estate fund in which Munich Re Group investors are invested. The seller of the property is a Joint Venture between a fund affiliated with MCAP Global Finance (UK) LLP (the UK affiliate of New York based global asset manager Marathon Asset Management L.P.) and Unifore Real Estate B.V. The building is let on long term leases, with major tenants being the Port of Rotterdam...

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) is investing €438 million in majority shares of two large office and retail properties in central Paris and Berlin, via a new joint venture with Swiss Life. Swiss Life said an investment vehicle targeting core, mainly commercial, real estate assets in Berlin and Paris, had been established for the two partners to invest in, which would be managed by Swiss Life Asset Managers. A spokeswoman for NBIM, which runs Norway’s NOK 12 trillion (€1.2 trillion)...

Deutsche Finance International (DFI) has acquired a €100 million development in Copenhagen on behalf of a newly created micro-living real estate investment strategy in Denmark. The pan-European private equity real estate investor said the Danish micro-living strategy, which targets a €300 million portfolio, has agreed to forward fund the 350 rental unit project scheduled for completion in the second half of 2024. The strategy will target purpose-built small, self-contained homes for rent. Orofino said: ‘The Danish living sector benefits from...

PATRIZIA, a leading partner for global real assets, has invested c. €70 million in the forward purchase of a new-build purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Turin, on behalf of one of its international institutional clients. The site is strategically located in Via Frejus to the west of the city centre, which is within 1 km of Politecnico di Torino, home to c. 33,000 students, and 3.5 kilometers from the University of Turin, which has c. 81,000 students. The modern...

Real estate investor Altera Vastgoed NV (hereinafter: Altera) and MN (on behalf of the Pension Fund for Metalworking and Mechanical Engineering (PMT) have sold Stadshart Zoetermeer shopping centre to PingProperties. It is an inner-city comparison centre, including 48 apartments located above it, with a surface area of 22,500 square meters, where many non-food shops are located. This includes 831 parking spaces with shared ownership (45%) in four parking garages. Erwin Wessels, CIO of Altera: “By selling Stadshart in Zoetermeer, our...

Pictet and Brunswick have divested Vanda 3, a 63,000 square meters mixed-use property in Akalla, Stockholm to Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers, which has acquired the asset on behalf of a pan-European core property strategy. Brunswick will continue to manage the property on behalf of Barings. Vanda 3 is a 63,000 square meters high-quality and flexible mixed-use property in Akalla, Stockholm, which includes data centre, printing, warehouse and office premises. The property is well...

Ardian, one of the world's leading private equity houses, acquired a 70% stake in the 53,000 square meters Pointe Amont de l'Île Seguin project, located on the Seine in Boulogne-Billancourt, in close vicinity to Paris. This is one of Ardian’s largest property investments to date. The project will be co-developed with Emerige, a developer committed to urban transformation, and AOG, a private investment company. The large-scale development will create a fully integrated, mixed-use environment in the heart of the Vallée...

AIF Capital has acquired an underground car park in Spain on behalf of its open-ended parking lots and garages fund. The Stuttgart-based investment manager said it has bought the Princesa underground car park in a central downtown location in Barcelona on behalf of the Parking Fund Europa fund. Financial details were undisclosed. The Princesa, located at Vía Laietana 20 in the Ciutat Vella district, has been leased to one of the top 3 parking operators in Spain. Princesa is the...

GARBE Institutional Capital has acquired “The Lab” in Berlin for the GARBE Science and Technology Real Estate Fund 1 (GARBE STREF#1). The fund was launched together with the capital management company (KVG) INTREAL and is structured as a club deal of institutional investors. Through this asset acquisition, GARBE Institutional Capital has secured for its fund investors a property under long-term lease to a tenant with a strong credit rating in the Adlershof Technology Park, an established innovation cluster in the...