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Senior EMEA changes at CBRE
CBRE has today announced two new appointments to its EMEA senior management team.
Northern Ireland’s flag bearers
Renewed trouble in Northern Ireland has caused concern, but has not scared off all investors. David Hatcher reports
Belfast's Odyssey Pavilion for sale at £10m
The Odyssey Pavilion riverside leisure scheme in Belfast city centre has been put up for sale for £10m.
Sinn Féin tables legislation to end upward-only rents
Irish republican party Sinn Féin has tabled legislation to end upward-only rent clauses in existing leases - labelling the practice “anti-competitive and anti-jobs”.
Henderson's last-minute spending spree
Henderson Global Investors sealed close to £60m in retail deals during the final months of 2011, including the £31.9m purchase of Almondvale Retail Park, in Livingston (pictured).
Regional shopping centres scare off nervous investors
Addington Capital pulls out of Birkenhead malls purchase, as Belfast’s CastleCourt bidders baulk at price
Belfast centre joins retail sale
Westfield and Hermes to offload CastleCourt; further deals in Redditch and Corby bring total to £400m
Housebuilder Carvill in administration
Northern Irish housebuilder Carvill has been put into administration.
SWIP buys £48m Northern Ireland retail park
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has bought a Northern Ireland retail park for £48m.
Metric makes £28.4m debut purchase
Metric Property Investments has bought its first property following its £190m flotation on the London Stock Exchange in March.
Westfield Lisburn inquiry to begin in June
Northern Ireland’s Planning Appeals Commission opens the public inquiry into Westfield’s development of John Lewis and 19 other stores at Sprucefield, Lisburn, on 7 June
LaSalle IM buys Northern Irish retail park
LaSalle Investment Management has bought a Sainsbury’s food store at Braidwater Retail Park in Ballymena for £17.9m on behalf of the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers Superannuation Committee (NILGOSC).
Kennedy Wilson acquires 50% stake in Ireland office
Kennedy Wilson has acquired 50% of an office building in Dublin for €15m, in its first office acquisition in the city.
Hermes buys out Westfield’s stake in £400m shopping centres
Hermes Real Estate Investment Management has taken full ownership of three shopping centres with a combined value of £400m after buying the 50% stakes in them from Westfield.
Medicx takes prophylactic approach to leasebacks
Healthcare property investor Medicx has completed its first transactions since a £55m capital raising
Green Property to head up €1bn Lloyds’ Irish workout vehicle
Lloyds Banking Group has signed an agreement with Stephen Vernon’s Green Property Group to asset manage around €1bn of distressed Irish property loans.
AIB sells landmark US loans
Allied Irish Bank has agreed to sell a portfolio of around $1bn of US commercial property loans to private equity group Blackstone and US bank Wells Fargo
Belfast firms merge
Belfast-based Knight & Co merged with McConnell Chartered Surveyors on 1 May. Shaun Wallace, principal of Knight & Co, joins McConnells as an associate director. He and colleague Andrew Agnew will continue to trade as McConnell Chartered Surveyors.
CBRE Investors buys Belfast M&S
CBRE Investors has bought an 83,000 sq ft Marks & Spencer store in Belfast city centre for £8.75m.
Pumphrey brings experience to Mayfair Capital
Mayfair Capital Investment Management has appointed Ned Pumphrey as investment director and head of transactions
Occupiers are scarce at Belfast’s landmark office hub
Developers are within weeks of completing Belfast’s four landmark office buildings on the banks of the River Lagan (see table) — without a tenant in sight
