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M7 Real Estate (“M7”), the pan-European investor and asset manager, announces that it has sold Old Mill Trade Park, Kirkintilloch on behalf of M7 Real Estate Investment Partners III (“M7 REIP III” or the “Fund”) M7 REIP III acquired the 11,225 sq ft industrial asset in December 2015 let to the occupier Howdens Joinery Properties Limited thereby providing solid rental income for the Fund.  The property is located within Old Mill Trade Park, Kirkintilloch, Scotland and benefits from excellent frontage…

M7 Real Estate (“M7”), the pan European investor and asset manager, has undertaken its first acquisition on behalf of M7 CEREF II (the “Fund”), its value-add opportunities fund focused on offices and logistics / industrial properties in key Central European markets, including Poland, Hungary, Croatia and Czech Republic. M7 CEREF II has held its first close and is targeting further closes to raise up to €100 million during Q3 2020. The target size of the Fund is circa €150 -…

M7 Real Estate (“M7”), the pan-European investor and asset manager, announces that it has agreed a new c. 3,700 sq m letting to Homeworks, a specialist tile manufacturer, at its warehouse building in Combs-La-Ville, South East of Paris, on behalf of the M7 French Active Fund (“M7 FAF”). Homeworks has agreed to let a 2,945 sq m warehouse unit and 723 sq m of office space on a 3/6/9 year lease, increasing the occupancy of the c. 7,300 sq m…

How might financing real estate change post Covid-19? There is no doubt that as we emerge from Covid 19, there is the need to get the economy up and running again and having more options to finance real estate assets and get projects moving is going to be crucial. Paul Norman Editor of CoStar News discusses this together with IPSX (including M7's Executive Chairman Richard Croft who is also a Non-Executive Director of IPSX), Mishcon De Reya and Macfarlanes as they consider…

Kamco Invest and M7 Real Estate (“M7”), the pan-European investor and asset manager, have completed the acquisition of three office buildings in three separate transactions across primary regional UK cities. The transactions are supported by Aviva Investors, who have provided a newly originated senior debt facility towards the purchase of the office assets. The transactions are structured and distributed as a single transaction of Grade A regional UK office assets. The transaction comprises three high specification office properties in three…

Dublin office opening expands M7’s pan-European network M7 Real Estate (“M7”), the pan-European investor and asset manager, continues its growth in Ireland with the appointment of James Smith as Asset Manager. M7 has also taken space at 15 – 17 Percy Place, Dublin 4. M7 will continue to focus on the acquisition and asset management of industrial, logistics and office assets in the greater Dublin area. Dublin will be M7’s 16th office location and will expand its pan-European network to…

Designed as an interactive new channel for M7, the main aim of the M7 Monthly webinar series is to communicate M7’s key post-pandemic and ongoing investment themes in a high quality and engaging way. We hope to encourage conversation between external partners and M7 teams in a more sustainable way, given the current situation. Thank you to all those who joined our first M7 Monthly webinar on Thursday, 2 July. Moderated by Richard Banks, the webinar featured M7's Executive Chairman,…

M7 Real Estate (“M7”), the pan European investor and asset manager announces that it has agreed 26 lease re-gears with Danske Bank throughout Denmark. Danske Bank has agreed to lease each unit, which together comprise a total of c.37,000 sq m, on a 5.75 year term, whilst also extending a further seven leases on a rolling basis, totalling an additional c. 3,100 sq m. Across the MBAY DK Fund (the “Fund”), over two thirds of the total annual rent has…