Berlin Capital Investments, the International Branch of Zabel Immobilien KG, Have Been Awarded Two of the Most Important Awards of the Real Estate Business

September 29th, 2009 BETHESDA, Maryland - American Capital Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACAS), parent company of European Capital Financial Services Ltd.

September 26th, 2009 DALLAS - Behringer Harvard announced today the appointment of Mr. Dawoud Salman Al-ani as Managing Director, Middle East Investment Relations - Real Estate.

September 16th, 2009 LONDON - PMM Partners is pleased to announce that, on behalf of its investors, it has successfully managed a major German property exit. The sale of the company St Clemens Höfe Liegenschaften GmbH, advised by PMM Partners, to an international property fund was completed on 15th September generating a 101% pre-tax return on investment for its Sterling based investors.

August 12th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - Total Environment Building Systems Private Limited, a real estate design & construction firm from India has won 2 prestigious awards at the CNBC Asia Pacific Residential Property Awards 2009. 'Windmills Of Your Mind' by Total Environment was adjudged Winner in Best Residential Architecture for Asia Pacific Region and also the Best Development in India.

June 28th, 2009 MCLEAN, Virginia - - J.E. Robert Companies Appoints First New CEO In 28 Years J.E.

June 28th, 2009 WARSAW, Poland - - Sells Office Building in Warsaw, Poland for euro 117 Million Colliers International has arranged Central & Eastern Europe's largest commercial real estate transaction to-date in 2009 -- the sale of the Deloitte House for euro 117 million. The newly constructed, 21,000-square-meter, Class A office building -- located in the central business district of Warsaw, Poland -- is also the city's first certified green building.

June 21st, 2009 WIESBADEN, Germany - EBS Real Estate Management Institute and Aareal Bank Again Offer the Research Prize for Scholarly Work in Real Estate Economics WIESBADEN, Germany, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Aareal Bank AG and the Real Estate Management Institute (REMI) of the European Business School (EBS) are offering the Aareal Award of Excellence in Real Estate Research for the third time. The annual research prize honours academically-outstanding work in real estate research and is again worth 12,000 Euro.

June 7th, 2009 MANCHESTER, England - Emerging Real Estate, one of the UK's leading emerging property-investment consultancies, has just launched its latest investor offering in Berlin. The development, Mitte Life, has a selection of benefits designed specifically for the UK investor market, with prices starting at euro 138,000.

May 19th, 2009 BERLIN - Germany's second largest airline is expanding its route network and will be flying from Israel to Berlin for the first time this summer. From 7th July 2009 onwards, Air Berlin passengers will have a choice of two non-stop flights a week from Tel Aviv to Berlin.

April 28th, 2009 FRANKFURT, Germany - On May 1, 2009, Ingeborg Warschke will be taking over as head of Helaba's real estate finance department in its London branch. The highly experienced banker has been working since 1995 in Helaba's international real estate finance, most recently for the Bank's real estate financing activities in Western and Southern Europe and for internationally active closed-end and open-end real estate funds.

June 8th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Police are investigating if arrested conman Ashok Jadeja, who is accused of duping thousands of people across India of millions of rupees by posing as a godman, made investments in the stock market and real estate last year. Jadeja and his wife Neetu were arrested by police May 31 while trying to flee with Rs.1.98 crore (Rs.19.8 million).

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rajasthan attracted investments worth Rs.69,052 crore, the highest among northern states, during 2008-09, a business chamber report released here Wednesday said. The report, 'Investment Prospects in Indian Economy 2008-09' by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham), said Haryana, which attracted investments worth Rs.52,852 crore, came second, followed by Uttarakhand with Rs.36,059 crore.

September 23rd, 2009 German far-right party's offices searchedBERLIN — German police say they have searched the headquarters of a far-right party in an investigation of letters it sent to politicians of foreign descent. Berlin police say in a statement Wednesday that they searched the National Democratic Party's national headquarters, along with the home of the head of its local branch in the capital.

August 24th, 2009 Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE CHENNAI - Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) and its associates will hold a majority stake in the real estate venture capital fund to be floated by LIC Housing Finance Ltd, says a top company official. "The majority stake will be with the LIC group.

September 24th, 2009 Colony Financial prices initial public offeringLOS ANGELES — Colony Financial Inc. said it priced an initial public offering of 12.5 million shares of its common stock at $20 per share.

June 22nd, 2009 Inter-Arab investments up despite financial crisisBEIRUT — Direct foreign investments to the Arab world increased 20 percent in 2008 compared to the previous year, even as the region grappled with the impact of the global economic meltdown, the head of an Arab investment body said Monday. The gains, which came even as regional and global equity markets saw an exodus of capital, were largely tied to inter-Arab investments, said Fahad Al-Ibrahim, the director-general of the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation, a Kuwait-based autonomous Arab regional organization that aims to promote Arab capital mobility.

June 16th, 2009 Commercial real-estate loans draw no interestWASHINGTON — Investors showed no appetite for a government plan intended to boost the availability of commercial real-estate loans. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says it received no investor requests for loans by Tuesday's deadline.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - About 7000 prisoners have been awarded the death sentence in Pakistan, among which 36 were awarded the capital punishment last year alone, the international human rights organization, Amnesty International has said. The international organization, its annual report for the year 2009, said that a total of 236 prisoners were awarded death sentences, but only 36 of them could be actually hanged to death, The News reports.

January 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - Tapan Sinha, the much awarded maker of critically acclaimed films like 'Uphaar' and 'Sagina Mahato', died here Thursday after a prolonged illness. He was 84. Sinha, who won 19 National Awards in various categories and was conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for lifetime achievement last year, passed away at the Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI) in south Kolkata where he had been admitted Dec 6.

June 22nd, 2009 Hypo Real Estate warns of hefty 2Q burdensBERLIN — Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, the troubled lender in which the German government has taken a majority stake, said Monday that risk provisions will again lead to a "significant" burden on earnings in the second quarter. Munich-based Hypo Real Estate said in a statement that it "anticipates significant burdens on income for the second quarter ...