A week after announcing its intentions to launch an €8 bn last mile logistics platform in Europe, Mileway, private equity giant Blackstone has confirmed it is acquiring Colony Capital's US-focused industrial arm for $5.9 bn (€5.4 bn).
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A fund advised by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI), in a joint venture with David Hay, former CEO of AFI Europe Romania, has acquired an office building in the Romanian capital from a fund managed by AEW Europe.
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UK-focused property investment firm Ashby Capital has acquired Abbotsinch Retail Park in Paisley, Scotland, from retail REIT Hammerson for £67 mln (€75 mln).
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UBS Asset Management's real estate & private markets (UBS AM-REPM) business announces that it has appointed Jonathan Hollick to the newly created role of chief investment officer (CIO) of its real estate platform in EMEA (excluding Switzerland) alongside a number of other senior appointments.
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Global investment firm AEW has acquired New Eastside, a substantially pre-let office development in Munich, from local developer Optima-Aegidius Firmengruppe.
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New York-based investment fund Highbrook Investors and local developer REB Projects have inked their fifth Amsterdam deal in the last 60 days, acquiring a former warehouse property in an off-market transaction.
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Real IS, the property arm of German lender BayernLB, has acquired a brace of assets in Brussels from AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets (AXA IMRA).
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Germany's Garbe Group has unveiled plans to launch a €600 mln initial public offering (IPO) for a logistics company dubbed Logistrial, with a €768 mln seed portfolio.
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Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe has acquired five Greek hotel businesses from the Eastern Mediterranean's Louis Group, for €178.6 mln.
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Two years after divesting its logistics platform Logicor for a record €12.25 bn to China Investment Corporation (CIC), private equity giant Blackstone has launched a pan-European last mile logistics company called Mileway.
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Belgian REIT Xior announced on Wednesday that it has made €171 mln of new investments in Spain and Portugal as part of its expansion strategy in the Iberian region.
