Japanese consumer electronics group Sony is selling its European headquarters in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz to a consortium of US merchant bank Morgan Stanley, Germany's Corpus Sireo and Chicago-based The John Buck Company for an undisclosed amount. Market sources say the trio paid EUR 600 mln, significantly lower than the original asking price of EUR 800-850 mln.
Swiss real estate group Investis has boosted its real estate holdings with the CHF 139 mln (€149 mln) purchase of prime residential properties in Vaud canton.
