News, Views, and Analysis from the German Commercial and Capital Real Estate Markets

May 16, 2008

PlasmaSelect AG's head offices are moving at the beginning of 2009 to the new ATMOS office building in Munich's Arnulfpark®. The international healthcare holding company has signed a rental agreement with Vivico for around 2,500 square metres of office space in the building next to Hackerbrücke.
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News

International contracts boost new orders at Hochtief

New orders were up 33.8% in Q1 2008 compared with the previous year, mostly from major contracts in the Asia-Pacific region
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Weak office take-up in Berlin halts fall in vacancies

CBRE's research shows that the very low level of take-up in Q1 2008 (only 79,800 sq m) means that the vacancy rate has stabilised at 9.3%
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Savills Germany reaches Rhine Ruhr

Savills Germany has opened an office in Düsseldorf on 14th May through the acquisition of the White GmbH team. The new office is located at Am Werhahn 50, 40211 Düsseldorf and will be rebranded Savills with immediate effect
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Deutsche EuroShop consolidated profit up 61% in Q1

Shopping center investor Deutsche EuroShop AG reported a 19% increase in revenue year on year, from EUR 22.7m to EUR 26.9m, and is optimistic that it will meet its investment target of EUR 150m to EUR 200m by the end of the year
14.05.2008 - More ›››

Land Securities forms partnership with Lindner Group

Land Securities Trillium, part of Land Securities Group PLC, London and the Düsseldorf based funds management company Lindner Group, have formed a partnership to move into Germany’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) market
13.05.2008 - More ›››

Lingerie retailer Princesse tam.tam expands in Berlin und Cologne

The French Lingerie chain Princesse tam.tam is expanding its business in Germany by opening its own shops. A new store in Hamburg, on Mönckebergstrasse, has been followed by the opening of a new 75 sq m shop in Berlin-Mitte, at Neue Schönhauser Strasse 16, at the end of April. A new 100 sq m unit will open in a prime location in Cologne, at Mittelstrasse 12-14 on 16 May
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DuPont consolidates business units in the Rhine-Main region and expands production

Starting at the end of September 2008, the world's leading technological company, DuPont de Nemours (Germany) GmbH, as one of the most important subsidiaries of the globally-active DuPont Corporation, will concentrate all of its activities in the Rhine-Main region in Neu-Isenburg
07.05.2008 - More ›››

Features

Dynamic growth in Factory Outlet Centres in Europe is hindered in Germany by restrictive planning permission

Germany with only five FOCs is nevertheless of great interest to operators, according to the Wiesbaden research institute ecostra
15.05.2008 - More ›››

Strong cash inflows to German open-ended real estate funds

More favourable prices and lack of competition from other buyers has put the funds in a strong bargaining position, according to CB Richard Ellis Research
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Scandinavian real estate investment in Germany continues at brisk pace

According to Thomas Kaiser-Stockmann, Nordics in 2007 invested a total of EUR 4bn in German real estate. This accounts for some 10% of all property investments in Germany last year
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Poles apart in the German office real estate market

Colliers Trombello Kölbel reports about a phenomenon appearing at the German real estate market. Office locations are increasingly developing in contrary directions. Both the letting and the investment market are equally affected by this polarisation
07.05.2008 - More ›››

Global sports events - an event or a means to develop property on a sustainable basis?

Thomas Beyerle, head of research at DEGI, reports that major sports events – such as the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and, of course, anything to do with football – have now taken on quantitative and qualitative dimensions in which property investment interests play an important role.
05.05.2008 - More ›››

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