Uniting the International Property Business

It may be time to change the nickname of London's most talked-about skyscraper from The Gherkin to Die Gurke. Situated in the London Docklands, 30 St Mary Axe, the Norman Foster-designed office complex whose shape led to its nickname was bought on February 5, 2007 by the German property investment firm IVG Immobilien for 907 million euros. On the other side of the world in Taipei, CLSA Capital Partners last year invested 162 million euros in the acquisition of three industrial office …