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Bouwinvest has appointed Maya Savelkoul as director of Dutch Impact Investments to oversee the launch of the Bouwinvest Community Impact Fund. The fund’s main goal is to create sustainable real estate that also has a positive social impact by improving community well-being, for example through affordable, suitable, and healthy (care)homes and public amenities. After joining Bouwinvest in 2021, Savelkoul managed the company’s Paris- Proof programme to ensure that all the assets in the Dutch funds are energyneutral and solely reliant...

Based in London, David will report to Melanie Collett, Managing Director, Asset Management, Real Assets, at Aviva Investors. He will be responsible for providing strategic research leadership across the full breadth of Aviva Investors’ £43 billion Real Assets platform ensuring research continues to play a critical role in informing and shaping the firm’s investment decisions and delivery of its commercial strategy. Source: https://www.avivainvestors.com/en-nl/about/company-news/2022/11/aviva-investors-appoints-david-hedalen-as-head-of-assets-research/, on 7 December 2022

Blackstone veteran Paul M. Kelly has been tapped to lead DWS’s alternatives business globally. Kelly becomes global head of its €126 billion alternatives franchise, which includes its €75 bn real estate platform, infrastructure in which it has €16 billion, liquid real assets (€32 billion) and a footprint in sustainable investments. Kelly was a senior managing director and COO of Blackstone’s credit division. Prior to Blackstone, he spent nearly 20 years at JPMorgan. Source: https://propertyeu.info/Nieuws/DWS-creates-new-position-as-firm-seeks-to-accelerate-growth-of-alternatives/1e7614c6-28af-4bb4-b696-d945bcc371e6, on 6.12.2022

KanAm Grund Real Estate Asset Management (REAM) is expanding its management team with the addition of Sascha Schadly and Anthony Bull-Diamond to the management board with effect from 1 January 2023. They will be joining Olivier Catusse and Hans-Joachim Kleinert in the management team starting from the new year. Sascha Schadly will be responsible for REAM’s relationship management with German investors and Anthony Bull-Diamond is to head the division in charge of corporate real estate investments in Europe (ex France...

Europa Capital, the pan-European real estate investment manager, has appointed Gwendal Kalkofen to the newly created role of head of real estate finance, reflecting the growth ambitions and increasing scale of Europa Capital’s pan-European investment platform. With over 15 years of experience in the real estate sector, Kalkofen will primarily be responsible for sourcing, executing and managing debt financing for Europa Capital’s real estate investments in Europe, leveraging his experience to manage new and existing relationships with the traditional and...

Advisor Colliers has completed its previously announces acquisition of a controlling interest in Pangea Property Partners, a major capital markets advisor in Sweden and Norway. Following the deal, Pangea becomes Colliers’ new company-owned operation in Norway and will merge with Colliers’ existing company-owned operations in Sweden. Source: https://propertyeu.info/Nieuws/Colliers-completes-acquisition-of-Pangea/ef703312-388f-434f-aa79-84b4ce7d232d, on 6.12.2022

Global alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital Management has provided a €200 million-plus senior secured loan to leisure hospitality platform Beaumier, underscoring its confidence in the European lifestyle hotel market. The loan will be used to refinance Beaumier’s existing bank facilities and support an ambitious capital expenditure programme, Cheyne said. Owned by KSL Capital, the Beaumier platform consists of 12 lifestyle hotels in France (the Alps, the Luberon/Provence, and the Cote d’Azur), Switzerland (the Alps) and Spain (the Balearic Islands). The...

CBRE Investment Management has sold neighbourhood shopping centre Lurup Center in the German city of Hamburg to investment and asset manager Captiva and fund services provider Universal Investment. The fully leased asset had been held on behalf a separate account mandate. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The asset at Eckhoffplatz 1 offers around 13.300 sqm of leasable space as well as 410 parking spaces. Anchor tenants include a Kaufland supermarket, drug store Rossman and non-food discount chain...

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of insurer Aviva, has completed a €92.7 million investment in Cross Keys Homes, a social housing association based in Peterborough, the UK. The investment has been made on behalf of Aviva UK Life’s annuity business and means Aviva Investors has now invested almost £360 million in social housing providers across the UK in 2022. Cross Keys Homes will use the funding to support its ongoing growth and development plans, including the building of...