Landmark Blue Tower in Brussels sold (BE) Blue Tower. The property is a prime asset in Brussels’ Louise office district, located in Av. Louise 326 in the city’s CBD. More »

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing acquires Metropolis Mall in Moscow (RU) Metropolis mixed-use complex in Moscow Developed by Capital Partners, Metropolis opened in 2009 and provides 82,000 m² of fully enclosed retail accommodation and 2,900 parking spaces. More »

Madison acquires 56.95% stake in Frankfurt's Trianon office tower (DE/US) The property is 85% leased. The 47-floor office tower at Mainzer... More »

Wainbridge and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners form Partnership (UK) The first project in the partnership will be the completion of FC200, the 164,000 ft² (approx. 15,200 m²) West London office development... More »

Savills: Three Munich offices sold (DE) The assets are located at Elsenheimerstrasse 41-43, Charles-de-Gaulle-Strasse 2/3 and Nymphenburger Strasse 92 and include 350 car parking spaces between them. More »

Aareal Bank and Morgan Stanley jointly arrange financing of €210 mln. for Défense Plaza office building (DE/FR) Aareal Bank acquired the €195 million senior tranche, initially provided by Morgan Stanley, with a junior lender contributing a further €15 million to the deal. More »

Savills concludes €62.6 million Sydney CBD office sale (AU) Michael Andrews, Savills New South Wales Managing Director, says the 60 Martin Place deal was the result of maintaining a strong relationship with the vendor over the past 18 months. More »

Pirelli and Morgan Stanley sell Mercado in Hamburg to Union Investment for €164 mln. (DE) With a sale price of €164 million this represents the largest single deal in Germany this year. More »

International real estate faces future at MIPIM (FR) With the €15 trillion international property industry feeling the effects of the on-going global economic downturn, MIPIM 2009 will bring... More »

AFIRE draws top industry executives to Amsterdam (NL) Flight to simplicity FLTR: Andrew S. Cooper (Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank AG), Kim S. More »

Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Unibail-Rodamco create the 'Real Estate Chair' at HEC (FR) The HEC Foundation, HEC Paris, Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Unibail-Rodamco announced a partnership to create the 'Real Estate Chair'... More »

ABP and ING Real Estate enter into the Netherlands' largest real estate transaction (NL) Under the terms of the transaction the KFN portfolio will be held by two investment funds initiated and managed by ING Real Estate. More »

Morgan Stanley presents European Housing report In its ‘Financial Innovation and European Housing and Mortgage Markets’ report, that was published earlier this week, Morgan Stanley analyzes... More »

Morgan Stanley Real Estate announces first investment in Poland (PL/UK) Special Situations made this investment through a dedicated capital increase and through the acquisition of existing shares from current shareholders. More »

Morgan Stanley RE and Altarea make new Investment in RosEvroDevlopment (RU) Special Situations will contribute to the joint venture its existing approximately 10 percent stake in RED and the joint venture will subscribe to a dedicated capital increase in RED. More »

Second investment in Russia for Morgan Stanley Real Estate (UK/RU) Commenting on the transaction, John Carrafiell, Global Co-Head of Morgan Stanley Real Estate, said: “The RGI investment illustrates Morgan... More »

DIC and Morgan Stanley purchase property from the FALK-Fonds 80 (DE) The holdings consist of office and service industry properties in München, Heilbronn, Würzburg, Nürnberg and Mainz with a total usable area of around 105,000 m². More »

Morgan Stanley Real Estate announces first investment in Russia (RU) This transaction is Morgan Stanley Real Estate’s first investment in Russia. Morgan Stanley has had a continuous investment banking presence in Russia since 1994. More »

BAM and MSREF intend to acquire AM (NL) BAM, MSREF and AM have already reached agreement on the sale of the entire issued share capital of AM Development to MSREF for an amount of €479 million immediately upon the intended offer being declared unconditional by BAM. More »