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a.s.r. real estate launches ASR Dutch Science Park Fund

On 1 March 2019, a.s.r. real estate launched the ASR Dutch Science Park Fund. The fund will invest in real estate on science parks in the Netherlands. Through the deployment of this strategy a.s.r. real ...

a.s.r. real estate buys not just offices but homes at Wonderwoods in Utrecht

On behalf of the ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund, a.s.r. real estate has purchased 254 homes, a gym and a restaurant in the green, multifunctional real estate project Wonderwoods, located on Jaarbeursboulevard ...

ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund acquires Wonderwoods office in Utrecht

On behalf of the ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund, a.s.r. real estate has bought the site of the future Wonderwoods offices on Jaarbeursboulevard in Utrecht from G&S Real Estate and KondorWessels Projects. ...

Italian insurer invests in ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund

An Italian insurance company has entered as a participant in the ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund on 1 July. It is investing approximately € 30 million. This takes the total external equity raised by the ...

ASR Dutch Prime Retail Fund raises over € 275 million

As of 1 July, Pensioenfonds Vervoer, the Dutch pension scheme for employees working in the transport sector, Stichting Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds voor de Detailhandel, the Dutch pension scheme for employees ...

a.s.r. acquires country estate Junne from Delta Lloyd

a.s.r. acquires the country estate Junne from Delta Lloyd, which was acquired by NN Group in 2017. Landgoed Junne is located in the municipality of Ommen in the province of Overijssel and, with an area ...

a.s.r. real estate investment management acquires Castellum shopping centre in Houten

a.s.r. real estate investment management has acquired the Castellum shopping centre in Houten for ASR Dutch Prime Retail Fund from Syntrus Achmea Real Estate & Finance, which represented two Dutch ...

a.s.r. real estate investment management wins JLL’s Golden Brick at Realwise

a.s.r. real estate investment management has been awarded JLL’s Golden Brick (Gouden Baksteen) 2017. The award was presented to Dick Gort, CEO of a.s.r. real estate investment management, during the third ...

ARKET to open first store in the Netherlands

ARKET will open its first store in the Netherlands on Koningsplein 20 in Amsterdam. The spring 2018 opening follows ARKET's launch in autumn 2017 with openings in London, Brussels, Copenhagen and Munich, ...

Higher GRESB scores for all a.s.r. Real Estate Investment Management funds

Four stars for ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund This year, all a.s.r. Real Estate Investment Management (a.s.r. REIM) funds have improved on last year's scores on the Global Real Estate Sustainability ...

ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund raises € 150 million in first six months

a.s.r. Real Estate Investment Management (a.s.r. REIM), has completed its second close for the ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund (“the Fund”), established in December 2016. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, ...

First placement of ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund

Pension fund for the Dutch retailsector (Stichting Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds voor de Detailhandel) joins Fund a.s.r. Real Estate Investment Management has completed the first placement of the ASR Dutch ...

a.s.r. Real Estate Investment Management sells six office properties to Cairn Real Estate

a.s.r. Real Estate Investment Management (a.s.r. REIM) has sold six offices from the office portfolio of the Basisfonds Stationslocaties C.V. to investment manager Cairn Real Estate. In December 2016 a.s.r. ...

IVBN presents paper: Investment in Office Property in the Netherlands, a European Perspective

This morning in London IVBN presented the paper "Investment in Office Property in the Netherlands, a European Perspective. Read the press release or download the research rapport. Income Return Main Driver ...

Pieter Vandeginste appointed as Fund Director ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund

Pieter Vandeginste (45) joined a.s.r. real estate investment management as senior acquisition and sales manager seven years ago. In his previous career, Mr Vandeginste was a member of the executive board ...

a.s.r. Real Estate Investment Management acquires offices portfolio of Basisfonds Stationslocaties C.V.

Prime real estate transferred to new ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund a.s.r. Real Estate Investment Management (a.s.r. REIM) buys the offices portfolio of Basisfonds Stationslocaties C.V. The portfolio ...

Hudson's Bay Company store to open in Amstelveen

Hudson’s Bay Company announced today that it has finalized leases for two new store locations in the Netherlands (Amstelveen and Almere), in addition to the eleven locations previously announced. In aggregate, ...

Participants increase share in ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund

Participants in the ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund (ASR DCRF) have underlined their confidence in the Fund by investing an additional € 60 million. The extra investment can be made thanks to the strong ...

Hudson's Bay Company reached three lease agreements with a.s.r. real estate investment management

Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) annouced today that it has finalized leases for seven new store locations in the Netherlands, including three lease agreements with a.s.r. real estate investment management for ...

ASR Dutch Core Residentail Fund acquires Hoogvliet Residential Portfolio

Hoogvliet Beheer B.V. and the ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund have reached agreement about the acquisition of the Hoogvliet Residential Portfolio by ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund. The Hoogvliet Residential ...

a.s.r. real estate investment management acquires Lijnbaan shopping centre in Vianen

a.s.r. real estate investment management has acquired the Lijnbaan shopping centre for the ASR Dutch Prime Retail Fund. The shopping centre is home to supermarkets AH and Jumbo, an Etos drug store, off-licence ...

Union acquires De Klanderij shopping centre in Enschede

Union Investment has acquired its first shopping centre in the Netherlands for its institutional open-ended real estate fund UII Shopping Nr. 1. Completed in 2004, De Klanderij in Enschede comprises approximately ...

a.s.r. real estate investment management purchases 36 apartments in Nieuw Mariënpark development in Leidschendam

On behalf of the ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund, a.s.r. real estate investment management has recently signed a contact of sale with property developer Blauwhoed for the purchase of 36 apartments in the ...

Sustainability performance of a.s.r. property funds rewarded with higher GRESB score

All three property funds of a.s.r. real estate investment management, namely ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund, ASR Dutch Prime Retail Fund and ASR Property Fund, were this year rewarded by Global Real Estate ...

Edwin van de Woestijne appointed Managing Director of Commercial Real Estate at a.s.r. real estate investment management

Edwin van de Woestijne has been appointed Managing Director of Commercial Real Estate and Fund Director of the ASR Dutch Prime Retail Fund at a.s.r. real estate investment management with effect from 1 ...

Fifth successful equity raise for ASR Dutch Prime Retail Fund

- Retail Fund goes global with €250m from Asia -a.s.r. real estate investment management, “a.s.r. reim”, has completed its fifth close for the ASR Dutch Prime Retail Fund (“the Fund”). An Asian institution ...

The Hague Mayor Jozias van Aartsen opens ‘Nieuwe Haagse Passage’

New retail formats and hotel concept make The Hague city centre even more appealing The Hague Mayor Jozias van Aartsen performed the official opening of ‘Nieuwe Haagse Passage’ on Thursday, 18 September. ...

A fresh impetus for The Passage heritage building in The Hague

Retailers such as Apple and the Miele Experience Center are giving a fresh impetus to the historic shopping arcade that is De Passage. The strategy to attract new tenants and to upgrade existing formats ...

Successful a.s.r. real estate retaillounge

The a.s.r. real estate retaillounge, an event targeting Dutch and internationally based retailers initiated by a.s.r. vastgoed vermogensbeheer and a.s.r. vastgoed ontwikkeling, was held in The Hague on ...

Amadeus in The Hague fully let

Van Stockum booksellers returns to The Hague city centre Property development company Kalvermarkt (a joint venture between Provast and a.s.r. vastgoed ontwikkeling) has managed to let all retail space ...

De Klanderij first shopping centre in the Netherlands to be awarded BREEAM certificate for entire mall, including tenanted areas

De Klanderij is the first existing multi-tenanted shopping centre in the Netherlands to be awarded the BREEAM certificate for the entire mall, including tenanted areas. a.s.r. vastgoed vermogensbeheer ...

7 new tenants for De Klanderij shopping centre

On behalf of the ASR Dutch Prime Retail Fund (DPRF), a.s.r. vastgoed vermogensbeheer has contracted 7 new tenants (approx. 1275 m²) for De Klanderij Shopping Centre in Enschede, the Netherlands in 2013. ...