All articles by Ashley Nield
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IPE Real Estate Conference Report
REAL ESTATE - The second annual IPE Real Estate Conference – held alongside the magazine’s inaugural Awards Gala – drew a heavyweight collection of pension fund investors and consultants to the Amsterdam Hilton last week. Confer...
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Investors shun Norwegian military land sale
REAL ESTATE – The Norwegian ministry of defence is inviting tenders for the valuation of land and buildings across Norway amounting to 1.5m sq m – but investors are wary. The assets include offices, forest storage facilities, shoreline...
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MIPIM: deals getting done behind the glitz
REAL ESTATE – Behind the glitz of the recent MIPIM annual real estate industry event in Cannes, there were global real estate asset managers imbued with renewed zeal to pursue relationships and deals with investors and suppliers. Talk of MI...
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ABP details global real estate strategy
REAL ESTATE – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the €200bn Dutch civil Service scheme, has decided not to invest in Russian real estate but is currently enacting deals in Mexico and Brazil. Speaking at the PropInvest Europe conference in B...
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Dutch funds eye UK property derivatives
REAL ESTATE - Dutch investment institutions are being targeted to come to the aid of the emerging property-based derivatives market in London. Industry sources believe the Dutch institutions could boost the sector because of their greater sophist...
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APUT enters INREV territory
REAL ESTATE - The Association of Property Unit Trusts (APUT) is to embrace the entire UK unlisted fund sector and has changed its name to the Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF). New chairman Nick Cooper (who is also managing director of ING ...
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Investors scramble for London assets
Real Estate investors are showing no loss of appetite for London-based assets, according to a Jones Lang LaSalle market report. Last year exceeded all records with £15.38 billion of real estate traded – a 41% increase on 2004’s figur...
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Industry in wait-and-see stance on UK REITS
UK - Reaction to the outline real estate investment trust proposals last week has been muted - with many industry specialists adopting a wait-and-see approach. Gareth Lewis, director of finance and investment at the British Property Federation (BP...
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Deutsche facing DB Real Estate lawsuits
GERMANY – Deutsche Bank was last Friday scrambling to contain the dual threat of damage to its image and lawsuits following an unprecedented closing of its €6.1bn German real estate fund earlier in the week. According to Deutsche, inve...
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Canada Pension Plan makes €600m retail buy
CANADA - The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has bought two large shopping centres in Quebec: the Galeries de la Capitale in Quebec City and Carrefour de L'Estrie in Sherbrooke. The value of the deal was confidential but Land Regist...
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€242m Arlington sells to Macquarie Goodman
UK - The Australian Macquarie Goodman group is acquiring UK-based Arlington Securities in a deal to be completed on December 23. The transaction values the Arlington business at £163m (€242m). A spokesman claimed the companies were att...
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NAEV wins IPE award for property investment
A medical pension fund from North Rhine Westphalia in Germany has won the themed award for property investments at the fifth annual IPE Awards in Berlin. Nordrheinische Aerzteversorgung (NAEV) triumphed amid a strong field of contenders for the a...
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Schroders global property fund set to open
UK - Schroders’ Global Property Securities Fund will be opened to investors on December 9. As its name suggests, it will be seeking to reward investors by investing in listed property companies and real estate investment trusts (REITs) in Asia,...
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Ex-ATP team at Sparinvest in fund launch
DENMARK - Kresten Dahl Juelner and Mads Rude’s move from the real estate department of pension fund ATP to Sparinvest Property Investors is about to bear fruit for the boutique investment manager. The partners will soon announce the first cl...
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Global direct market ‘to reach $550bn’
GLOBAL – Global direct real estate investment will jump to an all-time high of $550bn (€468.9bn) this year if Jones Lang LaSalle’s latest study is proved correct. The property specialist recorded an 18% jump in global direct real es...
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IPD looking for research chief as Callender quits
EUROPE - Real estate data firm IPD's research chief Mark Callender has quit to join Schroders as head of international property research. Callender has been IPD's research director since 2001 and has 19 years' experience in the property industry. ...
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IPD rescued in €16m deal
UK - Investment Property Databank (IPD) became the biggest news at its own annual conference last week when it announced its independence had been guaranteed by a "white knight" consortium of investment managers and developers. Hermes, M...
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Protego in €120m buy for UBS fund
UK - Protego Real Estate Investors has made two UK property acquisitions with a combined value of £81.2m (€120.7m) on behalf of UBS' Wealth Management UK Property Fund. The acquisitions are comprised of the Newlands Shopping Centre in...
