Karl Tomusk
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Aviva Investors adds to team
Aviva Investors has made five hires to its real estate teams in the UK and Germany.
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ICG-Longbow fund has £1bn final close
ICG-Longbow’s fourth UK real estate debt investments fund has had a final close at £1bn
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Lone Star completes £800m Quintain refinancing
Lone Star’s Quintain has completed one of the largest development financing deals this cycle, bringing in £800m of fresh debt to build out its Wembley project.
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Finance news in brief
French private equity firm Ardian is raising money for its first continental European commercial real estate fund
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Damaged duo bury Brexit jitters
Derwent London and Workspace, two of the hardest-hit REITs in the FTSE 350 following the EU referendum, defied an apprehensive stock market with strong business updates this week
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Blackstone to retain OfficeFirst management after takeover
IVG has agreed to sell its OfficeFirst portfolio of German offices to Blackstone for €3.3bn (£2.9bn), but it will retain its management team
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Thor chief optimistic about Trump
Donald Trump will likely be a “more measured decision maker” than his campaign implied, says chief executive of Thor Equities
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Allianz: ‘UK is natural next step’
LISTEN: Allianz head of European real estate finance Roland Fuchs tells EG why the UK is the lender’s ‘natural’ next step
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Partners buy Northants shed space
Frogmore and Mulberry Developments have bought 300 acres near Corby, Northamptonshire for their Midlands Logistics Park scheme
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IVG office portfolio sold to Blackstone for €3.3bn
IVG has sold its OfficeFirst portfolio to Blackstone for about €3.3bn after cancelling its IPO last month.
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CR and Oxane to team up
Pan-European real estate adviser CR has teamed up with Oxane, a specialised services firm, to provide technical support to CR’s asset and loan management business
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Competiiton forces slip in real estate AUM
The world’s 500 biggest fund managers reported a fall of 13.2% in real estate assets under management in 2015, according to a study by Willis Towers Watson.