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Round Hill Capital, a leading global specialist real estate investor, developer and manager has today announced its latest acquisition, a new 506-bed asset in Maastricht, the Netherlands, as it continues its rapid expansion of investing in student accommodation across Europe. The project will be developed by Urban Developers and comprises 506 student beds, all of which will provide affordable housing options for students. The new residence will help to address the growing shortage of available student accommodation in Maastricht, with...

Commerz Real has sold the commercial property “Charles Square Center”, which is located in Prague’s New Town quarter, to KGAL Investment Management. The building was erected in 2002 and had been in the portfolio of the Commerz Real open-ended real estate fund Hausinvest since 2007. “Following a successful repositioning and full leasing we have utilised the ongoing demand for core properties to attain a very good result for our investors thanks to a sale,” explains Mario Schüttauf, the fund manager...

LaSalle Investment Management (“LaSalle”) has acquired Verona DC1, a fulfilment centre located in Verona, Italy, a centre of strategic importance connecting northern and southern Europe. The asset was acquired on behalf of Encore+, LaSalle’s flagship pan-European fund, from DeA Capital Real Estate SGR, through Fondo Logita, on behalf of SEGRO European Logistics Partnership (“SELP”). The state-of-the-art e-commerce distribution hub was built in 2019 by Vailog (a SEGRO Group Company) and comprises a lettable area of 128,000 square metres split across...

M7 Real Estate (“M7”), the pan-European investor and asset manager specialising in multi-tenanted properties, announces the sale of a retail warehouse in Madeira, on behalf of the Portuguese Industrial Fund (“PIF”), a joint venture with a major global private equity firm. The asset has been sold to an affiliate of Portugal Yield Fund, FCR, managed by Portuguese private equity firm Iberis Capital. Situated in Funchal, the property comprises 2,500 square metres and is fully occupied by Hôma, the home decor...

PATRIZIA AG, a leading partner for global real assets, has acquired two logistics assets in western Germany for c. EUR139 million, on behalf of one of its dedicated Pan European logistic funds “PATRIZIA Logistik-Invest Europa III”. The assets, one of which is a major pre-let development project, will together provide c. 100,600 square metres of modern, sustainability-led space with a combined WALT of almost 10 years. The first asset is a logistics development in Hamm, North Rhine Westphalia, comprising 72,600...

CCP 5 L.L, a fund managed by Tristan Capital Partners, has acquired the iconic Ateliers du Parc office campus located in the city centre of Clichy, in Paris’ Northwest first ring, from Deka Immobilien Investment for c. EUR175 million. The property, located on its own street block, comprises four office buildings delivering 32,600 square metres of grade A workspace, situated opposite an attractive 6-acre park/square. The buildings, which sit on a 9,000 square metres land plot, feature notably Eiffel style...

DTZ Investors (DTZI) has completed the sale of a multi-let industrial and trade counter estate in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, toMirastar/KKRJV for circa EUR45.5 million (GBP38 million). Fairfield Trade Park, which has a total floor area of 75,376 square feet, was sold by DTZI on behalf of the Plumbing Pension Fund to the JV managed by Mirastar, the leading pan-European developer, investor, and manager of logistics & industrial real estate assets. The property, which contains six units, is currently...

Commerz Real has sold the office ensemble “Siebenburgen” in Cologne from the portfolio of its open-ended real estate fund Hausinvest to AEW Invest, the latter acting on behalf of a pension fund. As part of the so-called “Millennium Portfolio” the property was acquired in 2019 from the former Generali Versicherung, and according to statements by Commerz Real it was no longer one of the strategic properties in the portfolio in the meantime. “With our active asset management we were able...

Franklin Templeton today announced the acquisition of five new assets for its diversified social infrastructure impact platform (the Platform). The Platform, managed by Franklin Real Assets Advisors (FRAA) has acquired 22 assets for a total value in excess of EUR560 million2 since its launch in July 2018. In addition to the previously announced social infrastructure assets, the Platform has acquired five new assets in the healthcare, education, housing and civic sectors in Spain, Germany, the UK and Denmark. The new...