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Rockspring buys 21 Spanish supermarkets through Savills (ES)
Rockspring, advised by Savills, has completed the purchase of 21 Eroski supermarkets through a sale and leaseback transaction. The purchase price was €45 million. One of the 21 Eroski supermarkets purchased by Roc

IPD: UK residential on track to deliver 9.6% return in 2010 (UK)
Investment grade market let residential property delivered a solid 4.7% six-month total return to June, according to the inaugural IPD UK Biannual Residential Investment Indicator.

INREV: Dutch real estate investor universe very big, highly sophisticated and looking abroad (NL)
Dutch investors lead the field in terms of non-listed investing in Europe, according to a survey from INREV. The Investor Universe Netherlands Survey reports that the Dutch institutional real estate market is €121.7 billion, of which €41.6 billion is invested in non-listed, forming an integral part of their investing strategy. Lonneke Löwik, Director of Research and Market Information, INREV, said: “Dutch investors are highly sophisticated in their strategies for real estate. They have use

EPRA: European real estate firms more reactive than strategic in capital budget decisions (EU)
Many European listed property companies appear to be more reactive than strategic in their major capital budget decisions when acquiring investment properties and undertaking development projects and aren’t making full use of the sophisticated analytical tools available to them, the preliminary findings of the European Public Real Estate Association’s (EPRA) first Capital Structure Survey indicate. Colin Lizieri, Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance at the UK’s Cambridge University and

Olaf Petersen leaves GfK GeoMarketing (DE)
Olaf Petersen, long-standing member of the management board of GfK GeoMarketing GmbH and manager of the predecessor company GfK PRISMA GmbH & Co. KG, will leave the company after more than 12 years of service. He is leaving of his own accord in order to pursue a new professional challenge. Petersen played a pivotal role in the merging of PRISMA and GfK Standortforschung and later in the managing of additional GfK divisions. As the Head of the Real Estate Consulting division for many years,

Emília Tarró appointed Head of Industrial at Cushman & Wakefield (HU)
The Budapest office of global real estate consultant Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) has recently promoted Emília Tarró (28) Negotiator to Head of Industrial Department. Emília Tarró Emília joined C&

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