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...German insurers including Munich Re and Allianz have amassed more than €3bn of exposure to the struggling property empire owned by real estate billionaire René Benko....
...The KaDeWe building is Signa’s single most valuable piece of real estate and has long been regarded as its jewel in the crown....
...Benko, the company’s founder and largest shareholder, has spent much of the last year trying to raise cash for the group, as hundreds of millions of euros of debt has come due at a time of falling real estate...
...Rules on access to the non-public areas of the Bundestag’s parliamentary estate are notably loose compared with those in the institutions of other major democratic powers....
...The FT reported on Tuesday how creditors to one arm of the Signa conglomerate — which has fractured into several competing bankruptcy estates since its collapse late last year — believe hundreds of millions...
...FTX’s caretaker chief executive has branded Sam Bankman-Fried a deluded criminal who masterminded a “colossal fraud”, and accused the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange’s founder of lying about the losses...
...Far from revealing the limitations of the department store business model, as claimed by Sam Jones (“Travails of luxury department stores reveal a story of decline”, Inside Business, February 2), the cases...
...Stephen Navarro, a South Carolina real estate investor, told the FT that a fundraiser he co-hosted for her this week was a “big success,” raising $250,000....
...(Current bid €110) Furnishings by Vitra and Noguchi, e-bikes, two European Real Estate Brand awards, beanbags, pre-filled wastepaper bins, sales brochures and a snowglobe also feature across the auction...
...Sam Jones A lot of banks are worried about what this means for commercial real estate in Europe as a whole, and whether Signa is a sort of canary in the coal mine....
...sam.jones@ft.com Letter in response to this column:Blame real estate owners for the woes of department stores / From Christopher Knee, Honorary Adviser, International Association of Department Stores, Paris...
...in New York, as well as dozens of other high-profile pieces of luxury real estate....
...cities, and some of the most valuable real estate in Vienna....
...Tom Barrack — the real estate investor and early financial backer of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential run — was acquitted last November of illegal lobbying charges after he managed to portray himself as...
...Billionaire property developer René Benko has been ousted from his real estate empire Signa amid a cash crunch that threatens to hit European lenders exposed to the indebted Austrian group....
...Its finances have deteriorated sharply in the face of falling commercial real estate values, consumer caution and rising interest rates....
...The involvement of S&C, which represents the FTX estate, has been controversial from the start....
...“Everyone does have a will, it’s just that if you die without writing your own you’re governed by the laws of intestate,” said Sam Grice, chief executive of Octopus Legacy, an estate planning company....
...Signa, which owns a real estate portfolio worth €27bn including stakes in Selfridges, KaDeWe and the Chrysler building, has been facing financial difficulties for the past year....
...Signa Sports and Signa Real Estate Management Germany The financial tremors began at the extremities....
...The Schwarzenbergs, courtiers of the Habsburg monarchs for centuries, had many of their sprawling estates confiscated by the new Nazi regime....
...On an industrial estate in Warrington, in the north of England, is the National Gas Archive. Among its records dating back more than a century, are hundreds of advertisements for central heating....
...Sir Keir Starmer, Labour leader, has vowed to oppose a cut in inheritance tax cut — paid by fewer than 4 per cent of estates — with Labour insiders saying the party would reallocate the lost revenues to...
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