Real Estate Business Issue 7-8/2014

News

• Biel: Agglolac one step ahead
• Motel One: Expansion in Switzerland
• Personalia: CS REF Hospitality/VSGU/ Zug Estates
• Speicher: Start of construction for Berit Clinic
• Thun: Ruag plans high-rise building
• Wincasa: Major mandate
• Zurich: Metropolitans on the right track
• Basel: A lighthouse project
• Weil: New Vitra building
• Berlin: Mosse Center sold
• Monaco: Most expensive residential area
• Vienna: Millennium Tower before sale
• London: Bilfinger RE takes over GVA
• London: Colliers buys H2SO

Trends

• Time for alternatives Alternative uses are in demand, but also entail risks
• A touch of wanderlust
• Pension funds increasingly looking abroad
• German insurance industry: shift to B-locations

Markets and Investment

• Real estate financing New providers are entering the market
• Bank stress test Show event for the capital market

Asset and portfolio management

• The key to hotel investments

Architecture and site development

• Mall of Switzerland at the start Construction of a mega project begins in Ebikon

Projects and objects

• A black zero in the heating energy balance sheet
• First projects certified with Minergie-A "administrations" are setting a precedent

Cover story

• The 100 heads of the Swiss real estate industry
• IMMOBILIEN Business presents the most important "movers and shakers" of the Swiss real estate market

Service

• Column Breiner's View
• Agenda
• Asking rents
• New Contaminated Sites Act - many unanswered questions

Foreign markets

• Holland in need Foreign investors wanted for residential property in the Netherlands
• London: Most expensive office market
• JLL Transparency Index: Switzerland in 10th place

Real Estate Financial Markets

• Interview of the Month Andreas Pohl, Spokesman of the Board of Managing Directors Deutsche Hypo
• Fundamenta/IST: New fund
• AXA Immovation Residential: New issue
• Real I.S.: New Germany fund
• Rabo Farm: Second agricultural fund
• Union Investment RE: Deal in Asia
• SEB AM: Fund without Fortune
• LaSalle IM: Successful deal
• Züblin Immobilien: New management
• Corestate: Topdeal in Germany
• Orascom: Back on track
• CS REF Hospitality: Debacle in Davos
• Savills: On course for US expansion
• Immofinanz: Change in the top management
• Aareal Bank: financing in the UK
• Final Performer Real Estate Investors Discover Convertible Bonds

Condominium ownership

• The right cards in interest rate poker