All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 12
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Real estate future still uncertain for CEE
CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE – While Poland and the Czech Republic are showing signs of recovery, other CEE real estate markets are still suffering from a major investment withdrawal of assets over the last 12 months, according to Austria’s Erste Group.
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Invesco predicts equity/property correlation will lessen
GLOBAL – Real estate will go back to offering full diversification effects, having lost some of its credibility as a decorrelated asset class, research from Invesco has predicted.
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Institutions turning to rented housing
EUROPE – Institutional investors are seeking safety in housing real estate as an investment option but not all opportunities are equal, the German real estate company Patrizia has suggested in a study.
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IVG stays in the red as Patrizia gains
GERMANY – German real estate company IVG posted another net loss in the second quarter of this year, but competitor Patrizia has reported a small net profit.
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C&W sees German investor return to real estate
GERMANY – Real estate consultant Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) is convinced the slowdown in real estate investment among German institutional investors is over.
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German investors return home for safety
GERMANY – Interest in domestic residential property funds is rising among German institutional investors, according to German real estate fund manager Patrizia Immobilien.
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After the storm
Austrian investors remain cautious when it comes to re-investing their money into any asset class, including real estate. But some see opportunities arising from the crisis and hope it served as a ‘cleansing thunderstorm’. Barbara Ottawa reports
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Pension funds to raise real estate holdings to over 10%
GERMANY – German retirement vehicles are among the institutional investors planning the largest increase in their real estate holdings over the next two years, according to research conducted by Feri Advisors.
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Warburg-Henderson grows institutional client base
GERMANY – German real estate company Warburg-Henderson has launched a Master KAG subsidiary and already won its first client.
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Pension fund potential in CEE infrastructure
CEE – Local investors should take the chance to grab stable investment opportunities ino Central and Eastern Europe while many foreign investors remain wary, according to Werner Weihs-Raabl, head of group infrastructure finance and public sector at Erste Group.
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MagazineBoring becomes interesting again
German real estate is often described as an unexciting, stable core market. But with the market correcting, investors are now seeing it as an opportunity. Barbara Ottawa reports
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German rail IPO hits the buffers
GERMANY – The German government has halted plans to list parts of the federal railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) on the stock exchange because of market turbulence.
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Swiss cut real estate investment limit
SWITZERLAND – The Swiss government has passed new investment regulations for Pensionskassen which put more emphasis on the prudent person principle and the responsibility of heads of Pensionskassen but which also lower the investment limits on assets such as real estate.
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REIT changes demanded
GERMANY – German REIT companies have a long list of demands on how to change the REIT legislation, according to the online information portal www.reits-in-deutschland.de.
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Institutional inflows raise IVG assets to 2007 level
GERMANY – German real estate company IVG has refilled its assets under management basket after a slump in the first quarter of 2008, thanks to institutional interest in indirect real estate.
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Immofinanz and Immoeast buy parent's property
AUSTRIA – Constantia private bank is giving up its real estate business and selling to its sister firms, Immofinanz and Immoeast, for €440m.
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Russian infrastructure spending to soar
RUSSIA –The Russian government has decided to increase infrastructure spending to over $1trn (€650bn) over the next 10-15 years, creating attractive investment opportunities in the Russian infrastructure market, suggests Pictet, the Swiss private bank.
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Subprime crisis 'took heat out of CEE'
VIENNA/CEE – The impact of the subprime crisis on stock markets helped reduce overpricing and overheating in the Central and Eastern European real estate markets, delegates at the Vienna Real have agreed.
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Swiss property exposure hits all-time high
SWITZERLAND– Swiss pension funds increased their average real estate allocation by 1.48 percentage points to a new record high of 17.2% over the lastquarter, despite the continuing financial crisis, the Credit SuissePensionskassenindex shows.
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€91m spring clean at IVG
GERMANY – German real estate asset manager IVG has sold €91m in German property to London-based real estate private equity investor CIT Europe.
