Tag: Savills Investment Management

UBS Acquires The Outlet Stores in San Vicente for €34 Million

8 October 2019 – Savills Investment Management announced that it had sold The Outlet Stores shopping centre in San Vicente, Alicante, to a fund controlled by UBS for approximately 34 million euros.

The Outlet Stores complex is located next to the campus of the University of Alicante. ING Real Estate Development built the centre in 2004 and subsequently sold it to Savills Investment in 2013. The firm invested in an expansion, and it currently has a gross leasable area of ​​about 35,000 meters and an occupancy rate of almost 100%.

The Outlet Stores has tenants including Mango, Guess, El Corte Inglés, Nike and Puma, along with restaurants, cinemas, a gym, bowling alley and a Carrefour supermarket.

Original Story: Diário Información – David Navarro

Adaptation/Translation: Richard D. K. Turner

 

 

Savills Investment Management Acquires Logistics Platform in Zaragoza for €40MM

30 July 2019 – Richard D. K. Turner

Savills Investment Management (SIM), has acquired a logistics platform in the Plaza Logística park in Zaragoza, for 40 million euros. The asset is currently leased to the French company Decathlon. SIM acquired the asset through the Savills IM European Logistics Fund 2 (ELF-2) fund.

The property has a gross leasable area of 50,520 square meters and occupies a 90,000-m2 plot of land.

Original Story: Eje Prime

Blackstone Negotiates Sale of Helios Building to a South Korean Fund for €200M

10 June 2019 – Eje Prime

The British real estate manager Savills Investment Management (IM) is looking to buy the Helios office building from Blackstone on behalf of an unidentified South Korean investor.

The property, which is currently under construction, will have ING as its main tenant and the sales price could reach €200 million.

The largest investor in South Korea is the National Pension Service (NPS) and the next largest is the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC). Other possible investors include the country’s banks, the manager IGIS and Samsung Securities.

Original story: Eje Prime 

Translation/Summary: Carmel Drake

Meridia Capital Sell’s Nestle’s HQ in Barcelona for €87M

6 October 2018 – Real Estate Press

Savills Investment Management, the international real estate investment manager, has brokered the sale of Nestle’s headquarters in Barcelona by the manager Meridia Capital. The buyer in the operation is the Korean manager IGIS Asset Management. The value of the transaction has not been revealed, but sources close to the operation claim that it amounts to €87 million.

The complex, which includes 5 office buildings with a total surface area of almost 50,000 m2 and a GLA of 27,607 m2, is located in Esplugues de Llobregat, close to Avenida Diagonal in Barcelona. It is a prime location, where other large multinational companies also have their offices including Bayer, Cobega and Codorniu. The complex, which has been home to Nestle’s headquarters in Spain since the 1970s, has almost 600 parking spaces. Building 1 has a LEED 1 Platinum certificate and Building 2 and the common areas have a LEED Gold certificate.

Fernando Ramírez de Haro, Director General of Savills Investment Management for Spain and Portugal, said: “Our client has managed to access a complex with unique characteristics. At Savills IM, we are delighted to have been able to accompany them in this operation, which will undoubtedly mark a milestone in the real estate market during the second half of this year”.

In reference to Savills IM’s objectives in Spain, Ramírez de Haro added, “after closing this investment, which follows others recently completed in Spain and Portugal, we are close to recording total acquisitions of €500 million in 2018”.

Ashurst, Cushman & Wakefield, KPMG and Colliers advised the purchaser whilst the law firm Uría Menéndez and Valliance Real Estate Advisors acted as advisors to the vendor.

Original story: Real Estate Press

Translation: Carmel Drake

Savills IM Buys a Hypermarket in San Sebastián for €48M

23 May 2018 – Expansión

The fund manager Savills Investment Management (Savills IM) has purchased a hypermarket in the Garbera shopping centre in San Sebastián for €48 million.

The agreement, closed with an international institutional investor, has been completed in an off-market operation.

The investment, made by Savills IM on behalf of the European investment fund European Retail Fund (ERF) reflects a net yield of approximately 5%.

The hypermarket has a total surface area of 14,200 m2 and is operated by Eroski.

Specifically, the hypermarket is located on the ground floor of the Garbera shopping centre, which is owned by Unibail Rodamco. It is the dominant shopping centre in the region, according to the fund manager.

Fernando Ramírez de Haro, Director General at Savills Investment Management for Spain and Portugal, said that, with this operation, the fund manager is growing its footprint in the Iberian Peninsula, with a regional portfolio of assets under management amounting to almost €500 million.

“Spain and Portugal are a strategic priority for 2018 and the next few years, both for Savills IM and for its clients and strategic partners. To that end, we are going to continue studying the market in an active way and we are convinced that we will be able to bring to fruition several investment opportunities over the coming months”, added Ramírez de Haro.

Savills IM, with offices in almost twenty cities around the world, was managing assets with a total value of approximately €16.6 billion at the end of last year.

Original story: Expansión (by R. Arroyo)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Madrid & Valencia Led The Logistics Market In October

6 November 2017 – Cadena de Suministro

The month of October was marked by the developments carried out by Mercadona, Grupo Lar and Inditex in the Community of Valencia; as well as by the transfer of DB Schenker’s operations in Madrid, Invesco’s new development in Getafe and Neinver’s purchase of a 40,000 m2 site (also in Madrid).

The Spanish logistics market is continuing to perform well, as demonstrated by the increase in demand in Madrid (+57%) and Valencia (+35%) during the 9 months to September. It is precisely in Valencia where, in October, TH Real Estate acquired the logistics platform that serves Carrefour.

Meanwhile, in the Spanish capital, Neinver incorporated 40,000 m2 of logistics space into its portfolio, located in an industrial estate in the town of Getafe; and in Zaragoza, Ibercaja sold two warehouses, measuring 15,926 m² and 11,170 m² in PlaZa to Savills Investment Management.

At the international level, one of the most noteworthy operations last month was the purchase of IDI Gazeley by Global Logistics Properties for €2,400 million. The acquisition of Logicor also pushed ahead, for which China Investment will pay €12,250 million, in a deal that has finally been approved by the European Union.

New developments

In terms of new developments, Madrid and the Community of Valencia headed up the leaderboard once again. Mercadona formalised its purchase of a 358,270 m2 plot in Parc Sagunt, where it is going to build its largest logistics centre in Spain, whilst Lar España committed to starting work soon on the construction of its logistics park in the Valencian town of Cheste.

Meanwhile, Inditex plans to expand its facilities in the Alicante town of Elche, where it has a platform dedicated to footwear. In the same way, it plans to open a new centre in Marchamalo, in the Corredor del Henares area, at the end of 2018.

In Madrid, the operator DB Schenker moved and unified the operations of all of its divisions into a new location in Vicálvaro, where the Port Authority of Valencia is considering establishing an intermodal logistics platform.

Meanwhile, Invesco started building new facilities on the Puerta Mayor Los Gavilanes Business Park, in the town of Getafe. In terms of Barcelona, which saw less activity in the logistics market in October, Kiabi announced it is about to start operations at its new centre in La Bisbal de Panadés.

In other geographic regions, the Ministry of Development found a definitive location for the logistics platform in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo. Moreover, the Junta de Andalucía announced that it will spend some of its budget for 2018 on turning the autonomous region into a logistics hub, capable of leveraging the traffic that connects Europe with the North of Africa and America.

Operations involving logistics clients

One of the most important developments undertaken by the business sector in Spain in October was the opening of Elektro 3’s logistics platform in Tarragona, with a surface area of 16,000 m2, and of Covestro’s platform in the same province. Moreover, the Construction Platform was opened in the Madrilenian town of Pinto, spanning 33,000 m2 and the equivalent version was opened in Froiz, Vigo, measuring 1,700 m2.

Construction work also started at Berlys’ new plant for frozen products in the Navarran town of Tajonar as well as on the plant for Frutas E. Sánchez in Mercamadrid, which will be operative from Q1 2018 and November 2018, respectively.

In this context, the spare parts distributor Diesel Technic announced that it will move its warehouse from Alcalá de Henares to the Casablanca II de Rockspring platform in Torrejón de Ardoz; and the Zaragoza-based company Casa Matachín said that is planning to invest €21 million on the construction of a logistics platform in PlaZa.

Original story: Cadena de Suministro

Translation: Carmel Drake

Ibercaja Sells 2 Logistics Warehouses In Plaza For €19M

26 October 2017 – Heraldo.es

Ibercaja has sold a logistics complex measuring 27,096 m2 in Plaza (Plataforma Logística de Zaragoza) to the fund manager Savills Investment Management for €19 million. The sale, closed last week, represents the highest price paid per square metre in an individual operation in the history of the logistics platform.

The complex that Ibercaja has divested comprises two large warehouses with long-term leases to Mercadona and the German operator Kuehne Nagel, respectively. Sources familiar with the transaction explain that the objective of the new buyer is to maintain these uses, given that it was precisely the long-term rental agreements over both warehouses that raised their interest in the first place.

The competitive process for the sale, in which more than 25 possible buyers expressed an interest, was coordinated by the portal specialising in real estate auctions addmeet.com, which has now managed several important sales in Zaragoza and Aragón.

The move by Ibercaja sees it deepen its commitment to the divestment of its non-strategic assets, as it seeks to focus all of its efforts and resources on boosting the banking business and the digital transformation, whereby fulfilling the roadmap that the entity set itself for the strategic cycle 2015-2017.

The buyer, the Savills Investment Management group, plans to integrate its new assets into the European Logistic Fund II fund, aimed at acquiring top-quality logistics products around Europe. Savills Investment has 18 offices in Europe and Asia and manages properties around the world worth €16,000 million. “We are very happy with the completion of this operation in a very competitive market. It is a high-quality asset in Plaza, which provides the fund with a solid and defensive distribution platform”, said Michael Reinmuth, Director of Savills in Spain.

Plaza has seen investments worth €140 million so far this year

This new sale, at a price of €701/m2, is the most significant in Plaza’s history in terms of an operation involving real estate assets only. Previously, higher prices per square metre have been paid in other transactions but only when they also included the purchase of companies, according to local sources in the sector.

With this latest deal for €19 million, Plaza has recorded investments from various operations amounting to €140 million so far this year, an amount that helps consolidate the position of the logistics platform in Zaragoza (…).

Original story: Heraldo.es (by V. M.)

Translation: Carmel Drake