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Savills Investment Management has entered into an agreement to acquire six fully let residential assets in Sweden for c. €100 million for its European Living platform. The seller of the assets was the Swedish listed developer and property company K2A Knaust & Andersson Fastigheter AB, and the deal was sourced off market. The portfolio of acquisitions is located in the university cities Uppsala, Västerås and Gävle in Sweden, and is built with a strong ESG profile. This includes attributes such...

M&G Real Estate, part of M&G plc’s £76.7 billion Private & Alternative Assets business, has acquired 67 social housing apartments in Blackrock, Dublin, for €31.3 million. The deal, which was made by the M&G European Secured Property Income Fund (the Fund), increases exposure to the residential sector and offers investors long dated, inflation-linked cash flows secured by local council-backed income. Located close to the city centre on the ‘The Dart’ tram network, The Butter Yard is at the heart of...

Commerz Real is making further progress with the expansion of the European portfolio for its Klimavest impact fund with the purchase of a new wind farm in Finland. The asset has an installed capacity of 39.9 megawatts and is being sold as a turnkey plant by the company Energiequelle. This is already the second successful transaction with the international project developer, whose track record encompasses a project volume of more than 1,500 megawatts. “Finland is an extremely attractive location for...

Global real estate investment manager LaSalle Investment Management said on Wednesday that its debt investment platform has expanded its senior-secured debt strategies to include a dedicated sustainable lending focus. In the last year, the platform has provided over €350 million of green loans across Europe. LaSalle Debt Investments has grown its capacity to support borrowers in retrofitting existing assets to improve their energy performance and fund the construction of the next generation of energy-efficient buildings across the UK and continental...

UK property group Grosvenor has announced the creation of a £120 million (€136 million) residential development debt strategy. Led by the investment team in its UK property business, the strategy will further diversify Grosvenor’s £800 million regional investment portfolio, by financing projects across a broad range of residential tenures. Its first transaction, a senior loan facility of £33 million to DWS Group, is supporting the delivery of 316 homes to rent in Bath. Grosvenor will make funding available to developers...

Henrike Waldburg has been appointed head of Union Investment Real Estate's asset management division as of 1 July, taking over from Volker Noack. Subject to the approval of Germany's competitions authority, BaFin, Waldburg will then join the management board of Union Investment Real Estate. Noack, who has headed asset management at the firm for almost a decade, will take over management board responsibility for expert appraisals, fund support, corporate investment management, risk management, and compliance and anti-money laundering Source: https://propertyeu.info/Nieuws/Waldburg-takes-over-as-asset-management-chief-at-Union-Investment/d1f9093a-d1be-412d-bb7a-76bbe2666c1e...

Pan-European real assets business Kajima has appointed Philip McLaughlin as project director in its London-based team. McLaughlin joins Kajima from Bloomberg and will be directly responsible for overseeing delivery of Kajima's development projects. In addition to managing the company’s central London development pipeline, he will also oversee the construction of developments across the business' European portfolio, focusing on logistics and student accommodation. McLaughlin brings extensive project management experience in the EMEA region from his previous roles. He undertook multiple leadership...

Global real estate advisor CBRE has appointed Martin Thom as its new head of hotel valuations, Europe, effective immediately. Thom has been at CBRE since 2006 and has held several roles spanning multiple markets across Europe. He is a RICS registered valuer with more than 20 years of experience in real estate valuation, including 15 years specifically in hotel valuations. He is currently the head of hotel valuations in Germany, and in his expanded role will oversee the firm’s European...

US-based developer-investor Tishman Speyer confirmed this week that Rodrigo Cortés has joined the firm as a managing director and will lead the firm’s capital partner relationships across the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Southern Europe and Israel. The appointment, which was reported by PropertyEU in February, will see Cortés join the US group from Azora Capital where he was the head of Fundraising & Client Development. Prior to this he worked for 13 years at Goldman Sachs in London. There he...