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M7 Real Estate, the pan-European investor and asset manager specialising in multi-tenanted properties, announces that it has fully invested its sixth value add European investment fund, M7 European Real Estate Investment Partners VI (“M7 EREIP VI” or the “Fund”). In total, the Fund has completed €160 million of acquisitions in the office and industrial sectors across key regional markets in the Netherlands and Ireland. The portfolio comprises 20 assets totalling 62,000 square metres of industrial properties, and 73,000 square metres...

HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH (“HIH Invest”) just acquired a storage and manufacturing warehouse of 6,193 square metres, located at Bordeaux-Strasse 3 in Bremen. The property was sold by KBK Immobilien UG & Co. KG, a management company owned by Emotion Warenhandels GmbH, the trading company which rented the building on a twelve-year lease that includes a renewal option. The acquisition took the form of an asset deal on behalf of “HIH Deutschland+ Core Logistik Invest,” an open-ended special AIF...

CAERUS Debt Investments AG has facilitated a property acquisition by EPISO 6, a fund managed by Tristan Capital Partners (Tristan Capital), by providing a senior loan of €13 million. With the funding, Tristan Capital is acquiring an established and diversified business park in Heerlen, Netherlands, for its EPISO 6 fund. The property mainly comprises light industrial buildings, complemented by office uses. It has a total lettable area of 35,800 square metres, occupied by over 110 tenants. Among other things, the...

Pensioenfonds ING joined the ASR Dutch Farmland Fund on 1 January 2023. Pensioenfonds ING, alongside existing investors a.s.r, BPL Pensioen and DELA, will invest in this unlisted real estate fund of a.s.r. real estate for a total amount of € 100 million. The ASR Dutch Farmland Fund manages 36,000 hectares of Dutch farmland worth € 1.8 billion. The ASR Dutch Farmland Fund’s agricultural portfolio has been built up over more than a century. The fund invests in agricultural land in...

Northern Horizon Capital, the management company of Finland's closed-end Baltic Horizon Fund, has executed a number of management changes. Edvinas Karbauskas has been elected as a new member of the management board of Northern Horizon Capital, starting 3 January for a period of four years. Karbauskas is also appointed as co-fund manager of Baltic Horizon Fund together with Tarmo Karotam, the current fund manager. Algirdas Vaitiekunas, a long term member of the management board of Northern Horizon Capital, will resign...

Rental housing specialist Greystar Real Estate Partners has appointed Thomas Charvet as managing director of Greystar France. Charvet takes over from Hideki Kurata as head of Greystar France who has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Charvet will be tasked with the overall management of Greystar's French business, including investment strategy, acquisitions and the growth of the development business, mainly high-quality residential properties, student and young professionals residences in Paris, the Ile-de-France and all major French cities. The senior...

Logistics and industrial property investor The Accolade Group has appointed Jarek Wnuk as managing director for Poland. Vaunting over 21 years of experience in the industry, Wnuk has previously worked for international real estate agency and global investment and development companies. In his role as managing director, he will be responsible for managing Accolade‘s activity in Poland as well as the development of the project portfolio, plus the preparation and implementation of fundraising activities. Source: https://propertyeu.info/Nieuws/Wnuk-joins-Accolade-as-a-new-managing-director-for-Poland/e34fff06-4733-4526-b917-ca1e39a81125, on 12.01.2023

NREP, the urban investment specialist, has promoted Toke Clausen to partner as it continues to bolster its leadership team to support the business’ growth. Clausen’s promotion follows a pivotal period of expansion for NREP, which has entered new geographies and business areas in recent years. Clausen has been with NREP since 2015, serving in various senior investment roles over the past eight years, the latest of which has seen him head up the business’ newest real estate segment, office. Clausen...

Prologis Europe has promoted Sander Breugelmans to head of capital deployment, Europe, effective 1 January. Joseph Ghazal, who now leads global capital deployment for Prologis, previously served as head of Capital Deployment for Europe. In this role, Breugelmans will oversee all teams responsible for capital deployment spanning amongst other things land, development, acquisitions, dispositions and fund contributions across the 12 European countries Prologis operates in. With Prologis since 2006, Breugelmans has successfully led the Benelux team through growth as country...