All Property Week articles in Global May 2009
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Shanghai vacancy rate Rises
Colliers International reports that the vacancy rate in Shanghai’s top office buildings rose to its highest since 2005 in the first quarter of 2009 after supply increased
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Kenmore sells villas
Kenmore European Industrial Fund has sold the Villas Portfolio of six multi-let office and light industrial buildings in Paris to a private investor for €14.5m (£13m)
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NewsMan in the news: Jeff Pulsford
When Lehman collapsed last September, Jeff Pulsford was at home, watching the chaos unfold on TV.
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Union invests in Monza
Union Investment has bought the Auchan Monza mall in Italy for €142m (£128m)
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NewsInvestors out, occupiers in
Budapest’s investment market is suffering, but the occupier market has outperformed others in the region
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NewsGoing to the Poles
Demand from domestic retailers is helping to bring about a mini development boom in Polish malls. But will it last?
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NewsGeneral hospitalised
The $27bn collapse of debt-ridden shopping centre owner General Growth is America’s biggest-ever property company failure
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Santander to liquidate fund
Santander has hired CB Richard Ellis to liquidate its €3.4bn (£3.1bn) Banif Inmobiliario property fund
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Frankfurt Not hit as hard
Frankfurt will be less severely hit by the financial crisis than the other main global financial centres.
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NewsTrigranit trims down
Hungary’s development giant has managed to secure €100m of funding, but has had to scale back its plans across the region
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NewsDead weight
The latest figures from Real Capital Analytics show an alarming rise in the amount of distressed assets across the world
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Crisis of identity
When two central European prime ministers resign within a week, and the International Monetary Fund dictates terms to Hungary and Romania in exchange for bailing out their economies, commentators conclude that central Europe is the 21st-century equivalent of Latin America in the 1980s.
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General Growth and the creditor crunch
The failure of General Growth, America’s biggest-ever property company collapse, is a pivotal moment in this real estate downturn
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Commerzbank shares rally as it prepares to cut losses and sell Eurohypo
German bank may sell real estate lending arm, as equity markets predict more pain in European property
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NewsING Real Estate chief says institutions will shun global funds for ‘years’
Jautze says investors are avoiding global property funds and seeking smaller regional vehicles with no debt
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NewsRealty check
Speakers at the European Distressed Real Estate Symposium provided a dose of hard reality for cross-border investors
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