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The Globus hypermarket chain bought a warehouse in Medvedkovo in the north-east of Moscow for redevelopment: a huge store will appear here. The retailer will need about 4 billion rubles for this project. taking into account the cost of the site and new construction.

The Russian division of the Societe Generale group is negotiating the lease of offices in the Oko complex in Moscow-City for its banks. Annually renting space here will cost 400-500 million rubles.

“Negotiations in the final stage, an agreement of intent was signed. The group is already holding tenders among designers and contractors for repair work in the office, ”says one of RBC's interlocutors, adding that the company plans to sign a long-term lease agreement for up to ten years.

The owner of Christian Dior, LVMH holding, will launch perfumery and cosmetic monobrand stores of the famous brand in Russia. A monobrand bet is an opportunity to offer more additional products and options.

Rostelecom's subsidiary, Central Telegraph, PJSC, closed a deal to sell an office building of 12,000 square meters between Nikitsky and Gazetny Lane. The amount of the transaction amounted to 2 billion rubles.

From the message of the Central Telegraph it is known that the complex was bought by LLC “First”. It belongs to the family of the founder of one of the largest Siberian retailers - Maria-Ra, Alexander Rakshin.

Business fears have come true - from 2019 the property tax rate will increase by almost a third. The rate of 2% will be applied, a representative of the Moscow Economic Policy and Development Department told Vedomosti.

Most companies were expecting a rate hike, but less significant, and only budgeted 0.1–0.2 pp in the next year’s budget, says Margarita Trofimova, ILM Evaluation and Consulting Director.

Source: https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2018/12/06/788544-stavka-naloga-uvelichitsya

The WeWork Coworking Network leased almost 5,900 square metersin the business center "White Square" next to the "Belarusskaya” metro station. The lease agreement is concluded for a period of seven years with the possibility of renewal, the opening will take place in mid-2019.

WeWork was created by Americans Adam Neuman and Miguel McKelvey in 2010. It is one of the largest co-working networks in the world: it has 335 offices in 83 cities in 24 countries. According to this indicator, it is second only to Regus, which has about 3,000 offices around the world.

Class A office building 300 meters from the Kremlin can go to Vnesheconombank. Business center at Znamenka, 7, with an area of ​​20,000 square meters, among the tenants of which there are large companies, can go into the portfolio of the bank's assets in payment of debt on the loan. VEB units may move there.

“The building on Znamenka belongs to a VEB client. VEB does not comment on the relations with its clients. Indeed, we are considering placing part of our employees in these premises, ”the VEB press service told Forbes.

The Federal Grid Company (PJSC FGC UES) leased the Novion business center, owned by the Safmar group and located opposite the Olimpiysky sports complex on street Samara, 1.

The Federal Grid Company leased the business center almost completely, removing 16 thousand square meters with a total rental area of 19.6 thousand square meters.

Dmitry Ananyev's holding is negotiating with a development company to sell the site on the 1st street of the Yamskoye Pole, according to Vedomosti. This territory is quite suitable for locating a business center, a hotel or an apartment complex with an area of up to 30 thousand square meters. Representatives of the parties confirmed the fact of negotiations without specifying the date of the proposed closure and the amount of the transaction.

The X5 Retail Group project to open passenger service centers with shops, cafes and pharmacies at the railway station paused.  For the year, no center has ever opened. X5 explains this problem with effective locations.

Egor Levchenko, director of the retail real estate department at ILM, says that the refusal to open a passenger service centers may be related to the fact that rental rates at railway stations were unusually high for X5 Retail Group.