All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 12

  • News

    Real estate future still uncertain for CEE

    2009-10-19T17:52:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Invesco predicts equity/property correlation will lessen

    2009-10-05T17:45:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Institutions turning to rented housing

    2009-09-28T16:40:00Z

    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.

  • News

    IVG stays in the red as Patrizia gains

    2009-08-17T17:35:00Z

    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.

  • News

    C&W sees German investor return to real estate

    2009-07-27T17:34:00Z

    GERMANY – Real estate consultant Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) is convinced the slowdown in real estate investment among German institutional investors is over.

  • News

    German investors return home for safety

    2009-07-14T11:21:00Z

    GERMANY – Interest in domestic residential property funds is rising among German institutional investors, according to German real estate fund manager Patrizia Immobilien.

  • Magazine

    After the storm

    March 2009 (Magazine)

    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

  • News

    Pension funds to raise real estate holdings to over 10%

    2009-03-02T16:38:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Warburg-Henderson grows institutional client base

    2009-01-26T16:20:00Z

    GERMANY – German real estate company Warburg-Henderson has launched a Master KAG subsidiary and already won its first client.

  • News

    Pension fund potential in CEE infrastructure

    2009-01-22T12:00:00Z

    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.

  • Boring becomes interesting again
    Magazine

    Boring becomes interesting again

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    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

  • News

    German rail IPO hits the buffers

    2008-11-03T16:32:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Swiss cut real estate investment limit

    2008-09-22T16:37:00Z

    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.

  • News

    REIT changes demanded

    2008-09-18T14:21:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Institutional inflows raise IVG assets to 2007 level

    2008-08-18T17:13:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Immofinanz and Immoeast buy parent's property

    2008-07-07T16:21:00Z

    AUSTRIA – Constantia private bank is giving up its real estate business and selling to its sister firms, Immofinanz and Immoeast, for €440m.

  • News

    Russian infrastructure spending to soar

    2008-06-16T16:34:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Subprime crisis 'took heat out of CEE'

    2008-05-29T18:10:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Swiss property exposure hits all-time high

    2008-04-29T11:45:00Z

    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.

  • News

    €91m spring clean at IVG

    2008-04-21T11:00:00Z

    GERMANY – German real estate asset manager IVG has sold €91m in German property to London-based real estate private equity investor CIT Europe.