Tag: industrial estate

Junta de Andalucía Sells 45,000 m2 of Land in Jaén for €3.8M

8 January 2018 – La Vanguardia

The four offers that were submitted relating to the sale of the properties owned by the Junta de Andalucía, which the Ministry of Development and Housing convened in 2017 through the Agency for Housing and Rehabilitation in Andalucía (AVRA), have allowed it to award plots with a total surface area of 45,780 m2 for a value of €3.89 million in the province of Jaén.

The Minister for Development and Housing, Felipe López, stressed that most of the public land that has been sold in the province has been assigned for industrial use. “This is allowing us to contribute to boosting the economy and to creating jobs in the towns in which the plots are located, through the companies that are opening facilities on those plots”, he said on Monday in a statement.

He underlined the importance of this initiative, promoted by the Junta, with the aim of placing public assets at the disposal of the business community to boost the development of new projects and business initiatives that foster economic activity and employment.

The industrial plots sold in the province of Jaén during 2017 are mainly located in the towns of Alcalá la Real, whose Los Llanos del Mazuelo industrial estate recorded a significant increase in activity last year, and Martos, on the Cañada de la Fuente industrial estate.

Plots were also disposed of in the ZI-2 production area of Torredonjimeno, on the industrial estate on the Carretera de Los Arquillos, in Villacarrillo; in Los Rubiales (Linares) and on the Los Retiros industrial estate, in Huelma.

Moreover, other premises, parking spaces and storerooms were awarded in several towns in the province of Jaén, including in Andújar, Cazorla and Jaén, which generated revenues amounting to €385,061.

Most of the plots of land sold were owned by the Agency for Housing and Rehabilitation in Andalucía, which, according to López took the decision to make land sales one of its strategic lines at the beginning of this legislature, after that activity had slowed down in previous years, during the toughest period of the crisis.

By contrast, some of the awarded plots belonged to the Junta de Andalucía, which engaged AVRA to manage its assets.

The Board said that the decision to recover this activity was taken in light of the fact that the markets are starting to show signs of recovery in terms of real estate activity and “with the aim of obtaining revenues to allow us to resume other activities pertinent to the Agency, such as the promotion of social housing for families with housing needs and scarce or no possibilities of accessing a home in the private rental market” (…).

The land sale activity resumed by AVRA at the beginning of this legislature has permitted the award of almost 300,000 m2 of land allocated to different uses for a total amount of €50.7 million over the last 3 years (…).

Original story: La Vanguardia

Translation: Carmel Drake

Forcadell Advises Purchase of Industrial Warehouse in Barcelona

21 December 2017 – Forcadell

Forcadell, the real estate consultancy firm, has advised a company dedicated to the maintenance of lift equipment with more than 35 years of experience, on the purchase of an industrial warehouse measuring 2,300 m2. The company has undertaken this operation with the aim of expanding and improving its existing facilities.

The warehouse is located on the Bon Pastor industrial estate, in the district of Sant Andreu in Barcelona. This industrial estate, which is home to 350 modern and technological SMEs from various sectors, has become one of the stars of the Sant Andreu Economic Plan for 2017-2021: the Town Hall has spent €1.5 million on the initiative with the aim of boosting economic activity on the industrial estate.

According to Gerard Plana, Director of the Industrial-Logistics Department at Forcadell, “during the course of 2017, demand for industrial warehouses has recorded a very significant increase in terms of requests by companies. According to Forcadell’s Industrial-Logistics Market Report for H1 2017, the increase has represented a YoY variation of 136.9%, which means that we have seen more than twice as much demand as during the same period last year”.

Original story: Forcadell 

Translation: Carmel Drake

La Once Sells Industrial Warehouse In Barcelona For €1.2M

7 November 2017 – Eje Prime

The industrial sector is continuing to see the completion of new operations during the final stretch of the year. Ilunion, La Once group’s job placement subsidiary, has signed the sale of an industrial warehouse measuring 3,088 m2 in Barcelona to the Metauto Motor group for €1.2 million. Moreover, the company has allocated a further €400,000 to spend on the complete renovation of the property to adapt it to its needs.

The warehouse is located on the Fonollar Norte industrial estate, in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona. Thanks to this operation, advised by NCI Asesores Inmobiliarios, the Metauto Motor group will launch a new establishment for second-hand vehicles, as well as a service for the cleaning, maintenance and rental of cars.

NCI has become a very active player in terms of operations in the industrial sector in Cataluña. Led by Carles Torres, the real estate consultancy firm has closed several operations in the autonomous region in recent months, including the acquisition of a 2,500 m2 asset on the La Post industrial estate for the company Litografía Roses, next to the Barnasaud shopping centre.

One of the most important operations that the group has led in the last year has been the one that it signed with the cosmetics company Markwins International. The construction firm Byco de Inbisa is responsible for completing the turnkey construction of the group’s logistics warehouse, which is located in Montornès de Vallés, Barcelona, and which will have a surface area of 9,500 m2. The land where the warehouse will be built measures 13,000 m2 and was also acquired by Markwins International in the same operation.

That operation required an investment of €6 million for the group, which until now has been undertaking its activity on the Mas Galí de Gurb industrial estate. From the new warehouse located in Montornès de Vallés, one of the main logistics enclaves in Barcelona, it will receive products from its factories in Asia to distribute them across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Moreover, Inbisa Construcción has already built a logistics warehouse for Goodman, one of the main operators in the ownership, management and development of investments in the industrial real estate sector, and another one for Decathlon, which specialises in the distribution of sports equipment, clothing and footwear.

In addition, in April, the company carried out the lease of a warehouse, measuring almost 1,500 m2, and of new offices in Barcelona for the Swiss company Alfa Metalcraft Corporation (AMC), a multi-national firm specialising in the manufacture of saucepans.

AMC then went on to occupy an industrial warehouse on the La Torre industrial estate, with a surface area of 1,387 m2, for use by the quality control department. Additional outdoor space measuring 1,000 m2 was added to that warehouse to allow trucks to manoeuvre, load and unload.

Finally, the group leased offices measuring 450 m2 in Sant Cugat, in the Testa building, located at number 64 Avenida Alcalde Barnils. A large number of domestic and international companies have their offices in that area, such as Hewlett Packard, Emagister, Omega Pharma and the current offices of Schibsted, although that firm is actually going to move its operations to Barcelona’s 22@ district within the next few months.

Original story: Eje Prime (by C. Pareja)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Mercadona Signs Purchase Of Giant Plot In Parc Sagunt, Valencia

9 October 2017 – Eje Prime

Mercadona has finally got a foothold in Sagunto. The food distribution chain is continuing to shake up the logistics business in the country with the purchase of a plot of land measuring 358,270 m2 in the Sagunto Business Park (Valencia).

Although the agreement was announced almost a year ago, it was not until last week that the deal was actually signed. Now, Mercadona will have to wait another nine months before work starts on the construction of the logistics centre that it plans to build on the site, according to Expansión.

This is the first of three plots that the firm has acquired on the industrial estate: 600,000 m2 of land in total for €41.31 million. This means that one third of the Parc Sagunt industrial area is now owned by the group led by Juan Roig.

The positioning of Mercadona in Sagunto has attracted other companies to the sector, as evidenced by the purchase of two other plots on the industrial estate by Vostok and Inlet Seafish, which spent €1.43 million and €620,000 on their sites, respectively.

Original story: Eje Prime

Translation: Carmel Drake

Kronos To Build A New Shopping Centre In Galicia For €35M

28 September 2017 – La Región

Kronos, a company that develops and manages both residential and commercial assets and that has projects all over Spain, is going to embark on an important operation on the San Cibrao das Viñas industrial estate (in Ourense). The firm is going to build a large retail park on a plot of land measuring 40,000 m2, of which 18,100 m2 will constitute the net sales area. The park will be located on the site of the former Muebles Calvo factory, on the main road of the industrial estate, next to the access roundabout, by the Reboredo exit. The property’s façade overlooks the road, along which more than 20,000 vehicles travel per day (…).

Kronos has been looking for a site for this retail park for a year and a half “in areas where the market is interesting, and Ourense undoubtedly appealed to us for that reason”, says Manuel Holgado, Partner at the property developer. In addition to the 18,100 m2 of sales space, the retail park will have 750 parking spaces and the total investment is expected to amount to around €34.5 million. The company calculates that 250 direct jobs will be created as a result of the operation, as well as 96 indirect roles.

The largest store will be occupied by a DIY company

Enrique Feduchy, Partner at Kronos, says that the names of the commercial brands that are going to move into the park cannot be confirmed yet “because we are still holding negotiations”, but he did reveal that the largest retail space, around 8,000 m2, will be reserved for a DIY company.

In addition, there will be a food space, which will occupy 2,000 m2; another space measuring 1,500 m2 for domestic appliances; and the rest of the stores will house retail, sportswear, household goods, textiles and leisure goods, according to the first version of the plans “which may be subject to changes”, according to the company.

Feduchy specifies that the model that they are going to introduce in San Cibrao “does not exist in Ourense, because it is going to be a retail park with specialist stores, serving a sector of the public that will travel from Vigo, Santiago and A Coruña”. According to the developer’s plans, the first phase of the construction work will be undertaken during the first half of next year (…) and the park is expected to be open by the end of 2019 (…).

In terms of other opportunities, Manuel Holgado says that “we are looking at other options in Galicia for residential and commercial operations, but we have not signed anything yet” (…).

Original story: La Región

Translation: Carmel Drake

Amazon To Open Logistics Centre In Martorelles

7 April 2017 – Press Release

Amazon’s commitment to Cataluña continues to grow. The e-commerce giant is going to open its new headquarters in Martorelles, specifically, in the Martorelles Logistic Park. Sources at the town hall assure that this new facility in Martorelles will result in the creation of 650 new jobs over the next three years. “Amazon plans to launch operations in the autumn with 200 people”, explained the mayor of Martorelles, Marc Candela.

Amazon will take over the four warehouses in the logistics park, which cover a surface area of 30,000 m2, equivalent to four football pitches. This is Amazon’s fourth investment in Cataluña after it confirmed the creation of a logistics macro-centre in El Prat in June; in September, it will inaugurate a warehouse in the centre of Barcelona from where it will ship products for delivery in less than one hour; and in October, it will build another logistics centre in Castellbisbal.

Warehouses A and B at the Martorelles Logistic Park, the logistics platform developed by the investor group Segro on the grounds of the former Domar-New Pol, on the Martorelles industrial estate, are about to begin operating. Currently, half of the facilities are ready and construction is beginning on the second phase of the logistics complex, warehouses C and D.

Original story: Press Release

Translation: Carmel Drake

Aragón Creates Logistics Group To Unify Sale Of 240 Ha

6 April 2017 – El Periódico de Aragón

Land covering 2,400,000 m2 (240 hectares) in total, a surface area that resembles the Zaragoza neighbourhood of Delicias. That is the volume of land that Aragón Plataforma Logística (APL), the new public company being created by the regional government, is going to sell. The objectives of the future company APL will be to unify the management, promotion and sale of assets that are currently owned by a variety of regional companies.

Specifically, it will group together three large industrial estates in Zaragoza (Plaza), Huesca (Plhus) and Teruel (Platea), as well as Zaragoza Expo Empresarial, la Sociedad para el Desarrollo de Calamocha (Sodecasa) and Plaza Desarrollos Logísticos (PDL, the property developer behind Caladero). With this supply of spaces, to which the Fraga platform (Plfraga) will likely be added soon, the region is looking to strengthen its position as the largest logistics market in the south of Europe.

APL, which should be constituted within the next few weeks through a decree, will be entirely owned by the regional government, specifically, the Corporación Empresarial Pública de Aragón, which will own 100%. The new management team at the Government of Aragón is seeking to optimise and streamline the operation of logistics, industrial and tertiary assets at all levels. (…).

The logistics sector accounts for 5.5% of the region’s GDP and has secured private investment amounting to more than €3,000 million since 2005 when the first phase of Plaza was launched. (…).

Original story: El Periódico de Aragón (by Jorge Heras Pastor)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Logic Spain KCRE Buys 15,252m2 Logistics Platform

30 March 2017 – Mis Naves

The company Logic Spain KCRE, a joint venture created by Brunswick Invest (the main investment arm of Brunswick Real Estate), the international real estate group Grosvenor, and the Spanish investment company Kefren Capital, has completed the acquisition of a logistic platform located in La Bisbal de Penedés (Tarragona).

The platform was constructed in 2005 on a plot of land measuring 25,000 m2. The total constructed surface area is 15,252 m2, including almost 500 m2 of office space and it is leased to Applus Idiada, a subsidiary of the Applus group and market leader in the design, engineering, testing and provision of homologation services for the automobile industry.

The logistics platform is located 5 minutes from the intersection of the AP-2 (Madrid-Barcelona) and AP-7 (Mediterranean Corridor) motorways and is 40 minutes from the port of Barcelona and 20 minutes from the port of Tarragona. The industrial estate where the warehouse is located has direct access to the Applus Idiada test circuit, where the company carries out its vehicle trials and tests.

Logic Spain KCRE is led by the real estate asset manager Kefren Capital Real Estate (KCRE) and has been advised by Bufete Buigas on the legal-side and by Mace regarding technical matters. The operation has been financed by Kutxabank.

JLL advised the vendor during the process.

The logistics platform in La Bisbal represents Logic Spain KCRE’s second investment. The entity plans to invest more than €100 million in logistics assets in the Spanish market. Kefren Capital Real Estate will take responsibility for managing the assets in order to generate value using its extensive experience in the sector.

Original story: Mis Naves

Translation: Carmel Drake

Prologis Invests €11M In A Logistics Project In Madrid

20 February 2017 – Expansión

Prologis, the world leader in real estate assets, has decided to launch two logistics projects in Spain. “Our most recent project involved a 14,000 m2 distribution warehouse, which we built for TNT in the Puerta de Madrid industrial estate in San Fernando de Henares. That was completed in 2015. Prior to that, our next most recent development was initiated at the beginning of 2008”, explains Gustavo Cardozo, Senior Vice President at Prologis Iberia.

Now, Prologis has decided to launch a 23,000 m2 industrial complex in Valencia, which it initiated at the end of 2016, and it is also starting a new 21,000 m2 development in Madrid.

The latter is a logistics building in Prologis Park San Fernando de Henares, a 90,000 m2 industrial complex that Prologis started to develop a year and a half ago, with urbanisation and infrastructure works.

Prologis will invest €11 million in the new building in Madrid, including the cost of buying the land. “The logistics market in Madrid lacks modern and efficient warehouses in the metropolitan area and we think that demand for large spaces is going to grow over the next few months”.

Prologis Spain owns 38 logistics properties covering more than 800,000 m2.

Original story: Expansión (by Rocío Ruiz)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Gesvalt: Madrid’s Logistics Sector Grows For First Time Since 2009

13 February 2017 – Observatorio Inmobiliario

The leasing of industrial warehouses in the Community of Madrid increased in 2016 for the first time in eight years following a recession in the logistics sector. The evolution of the market in the region last year confirms the positive forecasts that experts predicted at the end of 2015. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that this increase in the volume of space leased in the logistics sector was mild and gradual over the whole period, according to the conclusions of the latest report from Gesvalt, a consultancy and asset valuation company.

Sandra Daza, Director General at Gesvalt, considers that “these are noteworthy figures because they are evidence of the reactivation of the sector, which will also undergo more changes over the next few years, due to the reactivation of consumption and the evolution of e-commerce”. In this sense, Daza forecasts that “we are going to see an increase in the supply of these types of industrial warehouses, especially in Madrid and Barcelona”.

In the province of Madrid, which has 43 industrial estate areas, the distribution of industrial space is divided as follows: 32% production, 22% storage, 12% logistics, 7% commercial and 27% business parks.

The extractive and manufacturing sectors are giving way to the drive from the storage and distribution sectors. Large firms dedicated to this activity are moving into the region and are demanding large surface areas, close to large populations and with access to fast roads. Nowadays, these types of assets are the star product in the logistics and industrial sector in Madrid. By contrast, investors have lost interest in smaller warehouses on old industrial estates and the few operations that are taking place are being closed at almost cost prices.

In 2017, the aforementioned change is expected to be consolidated, with slight increases in rents. Returns could reach 7% and a minimal increase is expected in the volume of operations.

Almost 50% of the investors that are operating in the industrial market in the region are domestic and international institutions, whilst the other half comprise Socimis and family offices. By contrast, large financial institutions are the main vendors of these types of products.

80% of the operations in the Community of Madrid in 2016 were located in the Corredor del Henares, although the volume of surface area leased was still low (150,000 m2).

The interest in the market for rental over sale, the scarcity of land in really attractive areas and the relative low rates of return (6%) confirm that although the recovery of the sector is underway, it still has a long way to go.

Within the Community of Madrid, the municipality with the greatest volume of industrial activity is Fuenlabrada, which accounts for 25% of the total and is home to 21 industrial estate areas.

The large Mercamadrid industrial estate, located in the industrial area of Villa de Vallecas, is the largest in the Community of Madrid (1,8000,000/2,000,0000 m²), followed by the Vicálvaro industrial estate, which is as big as the Cobo Calleja de Fuenlabrada estate (1,750,000/1,800,000 m²). (…).

Original story: Observatorio Inmobiliario

Translation: Carmel Drake