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For the third consecutive year, CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) is supporting World Wildlife Fund\'s (WWF) Earth Hour 2010, which will take place around the world on Saturday, March 27, 8:30 - 9:30 pm local time. Earth Hour unites businesses and individuals across the globe by turning out lights for one hour in a symbolic and unified call for action on climate change. Last year the event involved nearly a...

Investors confirm appetite for international investment, with interest in all three core global regions demonstrating that the market remains firmly global MIPIM, Cannes, 17 March 2010 – European investors’ intentions for 2010 show striking similarities with the intentions expressed by investors elsewhere in the world, according to the results of a new survey by CB Richard Ellis, announced at the...

270 European investors reveal their target markets and sectors, and key fears for the future of the emerging real estate recovery MIPIM, Cannes, 17 March 2010 – CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. (CBRE) today announced the results of a survey of more than 270 European real estate investors, revealing their intentions for the timing and focus of their investment activity over the coming years. The findin...

According to CB Richard Ellis’ (CBRE) European Commercial Real Estate Debt ViewPoint, issued today, €970 billion of European commercial real estate debt was outstanding at the end of 2009. Mirroring their typical share of European commercial real estate investment activity, Germany and the UK account for over half of the €970 billion total, with 24 per cent and 34 per cent respectively. Although a...

Scot Holland | CBRE has announced the closing of a deal for securing new office premises with a total area of more than 3,000 sqm for NCPOC in Atyrau. The JV North Caspian Production Operating Company BV, to be jointly owned by Shell and KMG, will manage production operations on behalf of NCOC. The ‘North Caspian Production Operating Company’ (NCPOC) acts on behalf of 7 co-venture consortium partn...

Los Angeles, March 3, 2010 – CB Richard Ellis has been named the premier global brand in commercial real estate, according to a survey of worldwide real estate professionals by The Lipsey Company. CB Richard Ellis has topped Lipsey’s annual ranking of commercial real estate brands for nine consecutive years.The Lipsey survey measures commercial real estate professionals’ perceptions of the industr...

According to CB Richard Ellis\' new Global Office Rental Cycle report almost all real estate markets in Europe and Asia are now seeing rents falling at a slower rate and in some cases stabilising, a trend which is expected to continue as take-up improves and vacancy moderates in 2010. In contrast, most US office markets, with the exception of New York, are further back in the rental cycle and are...

There is improving sentiment among European banks in lending for prime real estate, according to CB Richard Ellis’ latest Capital Markets Report.Following the recovery in the European real estate investment market in the latter half of 2009, driven predominantly by increased appetite from equity buyers and an improvement in capital values, banks now find themselves in a more confident position to...

CBRE prepared a Comparative Analysis of Office Markets in 4 International Financial Centers (New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo).The markets in New York and London were hit harder and more directly by the global banking crisis than the two Asian cities. In Hong Kong and Tokyo, the ensuing global recession, with sharply falling production and trade, caused the most damage to occupier demand.Occu...