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Britain's Biggest Pub Chain Greene King Bought By Li Ka-shing's CK Asset Holdings for $5 billion  Forbes

Hong Kong-based investors CK Asset Holdings struck a $5.59 billion (£4.6 billion) deal for Britain's largest pub and brewery company Greene King.

‘He locked me out of my own home’: readers’ tales of nightmare letting agents  The Guardian

As Stath Lets Flats returns to Channel 4, Guardian readers share their own stories of inept agents and dodgy practices.

Harrison Street Raises $1.6 Billion for Seventh U.S. Opportunistic Real Estate Fund  Yahoo Finance

Harrison Street, one of the largest alternative real asset investment firms dedicated to the Education, Healthcare and Storage sectors, today announced the final ...

Technology a key theme at upcoming funds events  Funds Europe Magazine

New technologies and geo-politics will be high on the agenda at key funds industry events in the coming weeks, including at the London conference of Jersey ...

Aviation Week Network Expands Urban Air Mobility Conferences to Asia and Europe Starting Next Month  Yahoo Finance

NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2019 -- Aviation Week Network has expanded its Urban Air Mobility conference series to include Urban Air Mobility Asia-Pacific (#UAMAP) ...

Alexandria and Arlington, both in Virginia, boast the two most competitive markets in the country, above Grand Rapids, and Tacoma, according to Redfin.

Will German slowdown hit Eastern Europe economies?  DW (English)

Central and Eastern Europe's economies are said to be decoupling from Western Europe as consumption-led growth replaces the export-driven model. But will ...

Will German slowdown hit Eastern Europe economies?  Deutsche Welle

Central and Eastern Europe's economies are said to be decoupling from Western Europe as consumption-led growth replaces the export-driven model. But will ...

Real estate giant acquires Finnish residential assets  Funds Europe Magazine

Real estate asset manager AEW has acquired two modern residential apartment blocks in the prime residential Helsinki metropolitan area.

Atterbury Europe, Iulius launch Romania's first mixed-use development  Creamer Media's Engineering News

Romania's first mixed-use development, Iulius Town Timisoara, developed by real estate investment trusts Atterbury Europe and Romania-based Iulius, will ...

BT to sell £100m of Dutch infrastructure  Capacity Media

BT Group's CEO Philip Jasen plans to sell more than £100 million in telecoms infrastructure in Holland, as he attempts to simplify the company.

Oxford Properties appoints new Europe head, h...  PropertyEU

Oxford Properties, the global real estate arm of the OMERS pension fund, has announced a series of changes to its leadership team, including the appointment ...

Better.com, a fintech startup that aims to digitize and streamline the entire mortgage process, announced Monday, it's raised $160 million for its Series C funding round. The startup has raised $254 million to date, and its latest investor round included financial sector heavy hitters like Citi, Goldman Sachs, Ally Financial and American Express Ventures.

Wall St. rallies on stimulus cheer, trade optimism  Reuters UK

U.S. stocks surged on Monday, building on previous session's rally, fueled by growing hopes that major economies would act to prop up slowing growth, while ...

German economy could continue to shrink: Bundesbank  The Australian Financial Review

Frankfurt | The German economy could have continued to shrink over the summer as industrial production drops amid a dearth of orders, the Bundesbank said ...

Breed 2018 campaign probed for possible campaign finance violations  San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Ethics Commission investigators are probing London Breed's 2018 mayoral bid for possible campaign finance violations, according to documents ...

Toronto Real Estate Investor Says Buyers Want Security—Physical and Financial—Above All Else  Mansion Global

When David Hofstedter, president and CEO of Davpart Inc., unveiled plans earlier this year to turn the Maclean Publishing Co./Maclean-Hunter Building in ...

Business Live: Greene King sold  BBC News

Pub group and brewer Greene King has agreed a £2.7bn sale to Hong Kong real estate firm CKA.

Greenland - Trump 'it's a large real estate deal' labelled 'absurd', by Denmark's PM  The London Economic

Denmark's prime minister has said US President Donald Trump's idea of buying Greenland from Denmark is “an absurd discussion”. Mette Frederiksen ...

Netflix inks Uxbridge property deal for production space  Evening Standard

Netflix has signed a London property deal to secure more production space ahead of opening its huge new home at the world-famous Shepperton studios.