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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...

Swiss Life Asset Managers has set up its first open-ended private infrastructure fund to target investment opportunities across OECD countries. The manager has launched the Swiss Life Funds LUX Privado Infrastructure fund, which alongside its insurer parent, will target infrastructure investments in sectors including renewable energy, energy and utilities, communications, transport and social infrastructure. IPE Real Assets understands that Swiss Life AM expects the fund to reach €750 million, with an initial closing planned for April 2024. The fund invests...

Octopus Real Estate is investing £35 million (€41 million), on behalf of its UK healthcare property fund, to finance three elderly care homes as part of a partnership with operator Acacia Care. The homes, located across sites in Leicestershire and Norfolk, will provide over 200 beds to Octopus Healthcare Fund’s (OHF) portfolio of more than 100 homes. Two of the homes, which are currently being constructed by Synergy Care Developments are due to complete in 2025, when Acacia Care will...

Savills Investment Management has expanded its European Logistics & Industrial Fund (EULIF) with two new French assets, its second acquisition for the fund. The international real estate investment manager has invested an unspecified amount on behalf of EULIF to buy the fully-let 11,822 square metres assets in Amiens and Valence from French developer 6e Sens Immobilier. EULIF, an open-ended core-plus fund, was launched in January 2023 to target urban logistics and light industrial properties in “supply-constrained” European logistics markets. The...

Invesco Real Estate is adding a 31,000 square metres logistics hub in Austria to its European value-add fund. The fund manager has invested an undisclosed sum on behalf of its European Value Add Fund II (EVAF II) to buy a 45,000 square metres site in Traiskirchen for the logistics facility which will be developed with developer Propel Industrial. The project, comprising four independent units, is set to complete in the fourth quarter of 2024, Invesco Real Estate said. Source: realassets.ipe.com...

Barings has acquired a 70,000 square metres site in Italy from a private Italian company to speculatively develop a logistics project. The fund manager has invested an undisclosed amount through an Italian real estate fund managed by Savills IM SGR to acquire the site in San Giorgio Bigarello in Mantua (Mantova), on behalf of its second European value-add real estate fund, BREEVA II. Barings expects to develop a 37,000 square metres logistics warehousing which is expected to be completed in...

Aviva Investors has acquired a newly-developed 12,000 square metres logistics hub located in Germany from Scannell Properties. The manager said the fully-let asset located in the ConneKT Logistics Park in the Kitzingen region of Bavaria was acquired on behalf of its perpetual capital portfolio. Source: realassets.ipe.com on the 12th of February https://realassets.ipe.com/news/aviva-investors-adds-12000sqm-german-logistics-asset/10071563.article

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...

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...