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Qatar eyeing towers in Frankfurt, London
By Courtney Trenwith
Qatar’s ruling Al Thani family is reportedly in talks to buy a massive Frankfurt Airport office complex and one of London’s most famous office towers, the Gherkin, for a combined €1.55bn ($2.05bn).
The properties are owned by insolvent German company IVG Immobilien AG (IVG), which is seeking to sell off equity to pay down €3.2bn worth of debt accumulated during a massive expansion.
The Frankfurt office block, The Squaire, has a price tag of €850m, while the company’s trophy tower the Gherkin is worth €700m, according to Property Investor Europe magazine, which quoted German weekly business magazine WirtschaftsWoche.
IVG was once Germany’s biggest publicly held property company, with about €5bn worth of office buildings across Europe and about €15bn worth of real estate it manages for private and institutional clients, including a fund that owns 50 percent of the Gherkin tower, according to Bloomberg.
Qatar already owns several prominent European properties, including Harrod’s department store and Chelsea Barracks in London.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/qatar...on-516356.html
London's Gherkin building.
By Courtney Trenwith
- Tuesday, 3 September 2013 10:07 AM
Qatar’s ruling Al Thani family is reportedly in talks to buy a massive Frankfurt Airport office complex and one of London’s most famous office towers, the Gherkin, for a combined €1.55bn ($2.05bn).
The properties are owned by insolvent German company IVG Immobilien AG (IVG), which is seeking to sell off equity to pay down €3.2bn worth of debt accumulated during a massive expansion.
The Frankfurt office block, The Squaire, has a price tag of €850m, while the company’s trophy tower the Gherkin is worth €700m, according to Property Investor Europe magazine, which quoted German weekly business magazine WirtschaftsWoche.
IVG was once Germany’s biggest publicly held property company, with about €5bn worth of office buildings across Europe and about €15bn worth of real estate it manages for private and institutional clients, including a fund that owns 50 percent of the Gherkin tower, according to Bloomberg.
Qatar already owns several prominent European properties, including Harrod’s department store and Chelsea Barracks in London.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/qatar...on-516356.html
London's Gherkin building.