All Asia-Pacific articles – Page 106
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MagazineRoom for improvement
As Asia’s markets develop, well-timed value-added opportunities will enable investors to harness the continent’s vast potential when the markets begin to stabilise, says Charlie Duke
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MagazineStill more selective
As the downturn demonstrates the degree to which some Asian markets are coupled to the rest of the world investors are retrenching in markets that offer stability, liquidity, transparency and sound fundamentals, as Kristen Paech reports
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Japan real estate confirmed as falling year-on-year
JAPAN – Japanese real estate has delivered its first negative year-on-year capital returns, according to figures released by the Investment Property Databank (IPD) which run to the end of the third quarter 2008.
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Purdon arrival to drive AREIT growth
MIDDLE EAST – AREIT Management Limited, manager of the Arabian Real Estate Investment Trust (AREIT), has appointed Chris Purdon as chief investment officer (CIO) as part of the firm’s plans to tap iopportunities in the Middle East region.
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Chinese REIT hits the drawing board
CHINA - China’s central bank is drafting proposals to introduce Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) in a bid to lessen liquidity constraints for domestic real estate developers.
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JPM’s Schwab moves to Abu Dhabi
GLOBAL – The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has hired Bill Schwab as global head of real estate, it was announced last week.
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Goodman and L&G raise equity for ABPP
GLOBAL – Australia’s Goodman Group and the UK’s Legal & General have raised £350m (€383m) of equity for real estate fund Arlington Business Park Partnership (ABPP).
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Hypo Real Estate faces claims for damages
GLOBAL – Pension funds are making the first claims for damages against Hypo Real Estate (HRE) for failing to reveal its financial difficulties sooner.
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CBRE trains its eye on Middle East
ASIA - CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) has revealed it is opening an office in Bahrain as part of the development of the company’s Middle Eastern business.
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Dubai acts to shore real estate from market risk
MIDDLE EAST - The Dubai Government has formed a committee to tackle the impact of the financial crisis on its previously affluent property market and to restore investors’ confidence.
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MagazineGo further
Led by retail, Turkey’s investment potential is growing fast but increasingly investors will have to look well beyond Istanbul for the best opportunities, Ermina Topintzi finds
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MagazineVastly varied
Urbanisation, rising home ownership and ageing populations are strong themes across much of Asia. Another is the huge diversity of performance across the markets of this huge and eclectic continent. These are among the findings of the RICS’s first annual Asian housing market review as Stephen Brown reports
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MagazineEmerging opportunities
Parts of Asia, particularly at the more developed end, have been hit hard by the downturn. Elsewhere, the economic turmoil is throwing up new possibilities, as Kristen Paech reports
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Negative rental growth now global
GLOBAL – Rental growth has turned negative on a global scale and the downturn in emerging markets is accelerating, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) finds in its latest quarterly global report.
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Prologis loses chief and halts new developments
GLOBAL – ProLogis, the world’s largest logistics developer, has announced the resignation of chief executive officer Jeffrey Schwartz at a time when the company is halting further developments.
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Foreign investors get smaller piece of the pie
CHINA – Domestic investors took an increasing larger share of the real estate investment market in China in the first half of the year, a report by property consultants DTZ shows.
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Opportunistic funds continue to attract capital – Clerestory
GLOBAL – Capital continues to be raised globally for opportunistic real estate funds, albeit at a slower pace, despite the credit crunch and falling economic growth, according to research from Clerestory Capital Partners.
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Opposing markets halt TKP’s real estate gains
NETHERLANDS – TKP Pensioen has revealed the financial crisis has brought the performance growth of its real estate investments to a standstill.
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Santa Barbara County plans international expansion
UNITED STATES - Santa Barbara County Employees’ Retirement Association is looking at expanding into international real estate for the first time.
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Grosvenor to buy a ride on the Chinese dragon
ASIA/UK – Grosvenor, the London-based group of international property investment, development and fund management businesses, has launched a $600m (€468.7m) China retail fund.
