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Nuveen Real Estate, one of the largest investment managers in the world, announces the appointment of Randy Giraldo to the role of Head of Europe, overseeing the expansion of Nuveen’s global platform in the region and working alongside regional and global sector heads to generate a pipeline of investment opportunities across the market. Randy will be based in Nuveen’s London office and brings over 25 years of industry experience in leadership roles spanning acquisitions, asset and portfolio management. Most recently...

BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) UK has appointed Swati Srivastava as Head of Institutional Sales & Investor Relations (UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Nordics, and International Clients) in its London office from 1st Nov 2022. Swati brings over 21 years of institutional client experience, strategy and capital raising in FTSE 100, as well as boutique firms. Previously, she worked at Frogmore, Aviva Investors, Fitch Ratings and Lloyds TSB. She has researched and published on corporate strategy and brand transformation as...

JLL has today announced that Sandra Ludwig has been appointed as Head of Retail Capital Markets EMEA, starting on 1 March. Ludwig returns to JLL having worked at the firm from 2010 – 2020 where she previously held the role of Head of Retail Investment for Germany. Ludwig returns from a Hamburg-based real estate advisor, where she has been responsible for commercial and residential investments as Managing Director since the beginning of 2021. In her new role, Ludwig will be...

Schroders Capital’s real estate team has made Hideki Kurata head of France. Hideki, who has been with Greystar since 2018, will start in his new role on 1 March 2023, and will also be part of Schroders Capital’s global real estate management team. He will also assume the newly-created role of Head of Living to source new strategic capital and investment opportunities in the residential property space. In particular, he will target ‘operationally intense’ residential strategies encompassing senior, student and...

CBRE Investment Management (“CBRE IM”) has appointed Antonio Tarroc to Retail Property Platform Lead EMEA. In this newly created role, Antonio will help deliver on CBRE IM’s ambition to create a market-leading EMEA retail operator platform. Antonio’s appointment completes CBRE IM’s operating model evolution in EMEA regarding Property Platform Leads as each sector now has in place a dedicated Lead for retail, logistics, offices and residential. As part of this evolution, the business also has fully empowered local sector asset...

Fiera Capital Corporation, a leading independent asset management firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Wenzel Hoberg as Global Head of Real Estate, effective January 16, 2023. Wenzel will be based in Toronto. Bringing over 25 years of experience in the real estate industry, Wenzel will lead the growth of Fiera Real Estate's Canadian and UK platforms in key markets, with a focus on bringing best-in-class strategies to investors and efficiently allocating capital. Building on the firm's existing footprint...

Sienna Investment Managers (“Sienna IM”), GBL’s alternative investment platform, has appointed Floris Van Maanen as the new CEO of Sienna Real Estate. Floris will lead Sienna Real Estate Group, which has offices in Paris, Hamburg, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Seoul, Zurich, and Amsterdam. As of the first of January, Floris has taken over the CEO position from founding partner Didier Unglik. Didier Unglik, Founding Partner of Sienna Real Estate, will leave his duties as Chief Executive Officer and will bring his...

Hines, a global real estate investment, development, and property manager, together with an institutional investment partner, has acquired 502,800 square metres of land to develop a three-phase best in class logistics facilities park, Hub 65, located in Kolding, Denmark. In response to continued global demand from occupiers for prime logistics space in the Nordics, the partnership will fund the development of state-of-the-art warehousing in Kolding currently expected to comprise three phases with flexibility to accommodate customer demand. Each stage will...

Clarion Partners Europe is pushing ahead with its significant development pipeline in Spain, constructing c. 65,000 square metres of Grade A logistics space across three schemes in and around Barcelona. In Esparreguera, a prime Barcelona logistics location 41 kilometres west of the city centre, Clarion Partners Europe has started construction of a 22,000 square metres, Grade A logistics warehouse, due to complete in Q2 2023. The BREEAM Excellent targeted property will have clear heights of 11m, 25x dock doors and...