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Lloyds Bank Affordable Cities Review: Oxford is UK’s least affordable city; home affordability worsens in the last 12 months

Home affordability in UK cities deteriorates to 2009 levels •    Affordability 15% better than in 2008 •    Oxford is the UK’s least affordable city; Stirling is the most affordable •    Aberdeen records highest house price growth since 2005; London since … Read the full press release

HSBC confirms the head office of its UK ring-fenced bank, serving HSBC UK’s personal and business customers, will be located in Birmingham

LONDON, 26-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — HSBC has confirmed today that the head office of its UK ring-fenced bank, serving HSBC UK’s personal and business customers, will be located in Birmingham. As a result, around 1,000 head office roles will move … Read the full press release

The European Central Bank (ECB) inaugurated its new premises on the site of the Grossmarkthalle, Frankfurt’s former wholesale market hall

Frankfurt am Main, 19-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Central Bank (ECB) today inaugurated its new premises on the site of the Grossmarkthalle – Frankfurt’s former wholesale market hall – alongside regular meetings of the Governing Council and General Council. … Read the full press release

Bank of Greece publishes its commercial property price and rent indices

ATHENS, 4-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — In the context of its systematic effort to monitor and analyse developments and prospects in the Greek real estate market, the Bank of Greece publishes today, for the first time, its commercial property price and … Read the full press release

Oxford University Professor Danny Dorling findings reveal house prices in Oxford during 2014 even out-paced London once the average income is also taken into account

OXFORD, 2-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Average house prices in the South East, and especially London, rose even faster during 2014 (January to December) than in the same period of 2013, says new research by Professor Danny Dorling of Oxford University. … Read the full press release

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers acquires 22 Bishopsgate, London EC2 from Pinnacle No 1 Limited to develop new building partnering Lipton Rogers Developments

AXA Real Estate and Lipton Rogers Developments to develop landmark City of London tower LONDON, 23-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — AXA Real Estate Investment Managers (“AXA Real Estate”), the leading real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe(1) , announces that … Read the full press release

Icade Chairman and CEO Serge Grzybowski to resign

PARIS, 20-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — As Chairman and CEO of Icade, Serge Grzybowski has completed two terms during which the company has been brought to a leading commercial REIT. His current term was to expire at the next shareholders’ meeting … Read the full press release

Komerční banka cuts the rates for all of its mortgage loans

PRAGUE, 20-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Komerční banka has cut the rates for all of its mortgage loans. Depending on the type of loan and the duration of the fixed-rate period, interest rates have been cut by 0.1 to 0.5 pp. … Read the full press release

Helaba Invest increased its Spezialfonds assets under management to over EUR 100 billion for the first time ever

FRANKFURT, 20-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — For the first time ever, Helaba Invest managed to increase its Spezialfonds assets under management to over EUR 100 billion at the end of 2014. Since 2012, Helaba Invest has been pursuing a business strategy … Read the full press release

HRE hat am Dienstag mit der öffentlichen Ausschreibung eines Bieterverfahrens den nächsten wichtigen Schritt für die Reprivatisierung ihrer Tochtergesellschaft pbb getan

pbb schließt das Jahr 2014 mit mehr als 10 Mrd. € Neugeschäft und starkem Vorsteuerergebnis ab Möglicher Börsengang wird als Alternative zum Bieterverfahren vorbereitet München, 20-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Die Hypo Real Estate Holding AG (HRE) hat am Dienstag mit der … Read the full press release

Eesti Pank selects Colliers International Advisors OÜ to help with the sale of Maardu manor estate

Tallinn, Estonia, 5-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Eesti Pank executive board has decided to put the Maardu manor estate up for sale at a starting price of two million euros. The real estate company Colliers International Advisors OÜ has been chosen … Read the full press release

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers completed acquisition of office buildings in Brussels, Belgium through sale and lease back operation for €34.8 million

PARIS, 2-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — AXA Real Estate Investment Managers (“AXA Real Estate”), the leading real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe(1), announces that it has completed the acquisition of office buildings in Brussels, Belgium, through a sale and … Read the full press release

VESTEDA SELECTEERT TBI-ONDERNEMING COMFORT PARTNERS ALS STRATEGISCH PARTNER

Rotterdam, 2-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Comfort Partners heeft per 1 januari 2015 voor onbepaalde tijd het CV- en ventilatie onderhoud toegewezen gekregen voor 11.400 woningen. Comfort Partners werkt al diverse jaren voor Vesteda en ziet deze overeenkomst als een bevestiging … Read the full press release

Société Foncière Lyonnaise appointed Nicolas Reynaud as CEO and Dimitri Boulte as Managing Director

PARIS, 29-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Board of Directors of the Société Foncière Lyonnaise met today and appointed Nicolas Reynaud as Chief Executive Officer of the company. He will exercise his functions alongside Juan-José Brugera, who retains his position as … Read the full press release

Barclays makes purchasing Buy-To-Let property more accessible

LONDON, 28-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — From today (26 January), purchasing a Buy-To-Let property with Barclays is made more accessible for many would-be landlords thanks to the introduction of a new approach that allows personal income to be accepted when assessing … Read the full press release

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers completed the acquisition of core office building in the Kirchberg area of Luxembourg from Deka Immobilien GmbH for €32.2 million

PARIS, 09-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — AXA Real Estate Investment Managers (“AXA Real Estate”), the leading real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe(1), announces that it has completed the acquisition of all the shares of a company owning a core … Read the full press release

Italy’s leading real estate management firm IDeA FIMIT sgr selected CACEIS as the depositary for its new closed-end real estate fund, Armonia

PARIS, 09-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — IDeA FIMIT sgr, the leading real estate management company in Italy with € 10 billion in AuM, has selected CACEIS as the depositary for its new closed-end real estate fund, Armonia. The Armonia fund has assets of … Read the full press release

ThyssenKrupp selected the building at Wasserstrasse 223 in Bochum-Wiemelhausen for its new Global Shared Services (GSS) organization

ESSEN, 09-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — For its new Global Shared Services (GSS) organization, which already has operations in Essen, ThyssenKrupp has decided on a further location in the Ruhr area, in Bochum. Having examined various possible sites in Bochum in terms … Read the full press release

Icade: French governmental agency France Domaine to buy “Le Garance” building in the 20th district of Paris

PARIS, 08-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — On behalf of the Ministry of the Interior, the French governmental agency France Domaine exercised its option to buy “Le Garance” in the 20th district of Paris, an option attached to the off-plan lease it had signed … Read the full press release

En partenariat avec CSA, le Crédit Foncier lance un baromètre inédit sur le moral des professionnels de l’immobilier

PARIS, 07-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Réalisé avec l’institut de sondage CSA, ce nouveau baromètre* du Crédit Foncier est dédié au moral des professionnels de l’immobilier. Il mesure leur perception du marché du logement au cours des quatre derniers mois (fin … Read the full press release