All Europe articles – Page 357

  • News

    Insurance companies creep into European real estate lending market

    2010-11-29T12:45:00Z

    EUROPE – Insurance companies are beginning to enter the European real estate debt market, although it may take some time before they are as active as their counterparts in the US.

  • News

    EPRA urges property company exemption from derivatives regulations

    2010-11-25T14:30:00Z

    EUROPE – The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) has urged the EU to prevent property companies from getting caught up in derivatives regulations designed to combat speculators.

  • News

    UK leads European real estate recovery, says CBRE

    2010-11-25T13:45:00Z

    EUROPE – European real estate values continued to show improvement during the third quarter, particularly in core western Europe, according to CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).

  • News

    Investor tenders European private real estate mandate

    2010-11-25T13:30:00Z

    IPE QUEST – An institutional investor is looking to commit €25m-50m to private real estate investments in Europe.

  • News

    New Jersey returns to real estate after two-year hiatus

    2010-11-25T13:15:00Z

    GLOBAL – The New Jersey Division of Investment has made its first investment in real estate since June of 2008 with a $100m (€74.4m) allocation to the Lubert-Adler Real Estate Fund VI-B.

  • News

    German institutional investors seeking stability in core, core-plus

    2010-11-25T11:45:00Z

    GERMANY – The majority of German institutional investors are employing a core or core-plus investment style for their indirect real estate portfolios and increasing risk management for those investments, according to a survey by kommalpha.

  • News

    PKA acquires €79m office, retail project in Copenhagen

    2010-11-25T11:00:00Z

    DENMARK – Denmark's PKA has bought an office and retail construction project in the country's capital for DKK588m (€79m), with provisional leases already secured for around a quarter of units.

  • Magazine

    Back on the up

    November 2010 (Magazine)

    Having significantly reduced its exposure to real estate in recent years, German pension fund WPV is in a position to make new investments. Managing director Hans-Wilhelm Korfmacher tells Richard Lowe how he wants to use the opportunity to invest in the Americas for the first time

  • News

    APG joint venture in €1bn Olympic retail venture

    2010-11-22T15:00:00Z

    GLOBAL – A joint venture between Dutch pension fund manager APG and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has acquired retail real estate worth £870.5m (€1bn) on the East London 2012 Olympics site.

  • News

    Pension funds mop up Finnish property sale

    2010-11-22T14:45:00Z

    EUROPE – Finnish pension funds Ilmarinen and Varma have mopped up shares in partly state-owned property firm Sponda following the sale by state investment firm Solidium Oy of shares worth €176m.

  • News

    ATP Real Estate calls for manager 'early-warning' system

    2010-11-22T11:45:00Z

    EUROPE – At a panel discussion at this year's INREV CFO/COO conference in Copenhagen, speakers discussed how to balance the need for managers to communicate with investors at a time when they were also being asked to charge less for their services.

  • Magazine

    Fee structures compared

    November 2010 (Magazine)

    Studies by INREV and PREA reveal significant differences in fee structures between European and US non-listed funds, as Lonneke Löwik reports

  • News

    UK investors to target Asia Pacific, says Aviva Investors

    2010-11-18T14:15:00Z

    GLOBAL – Most UK investors are looking to increase their exposure to Asia Pacific real estate markets in the next three years, according to a survey conducted by Aviva Investors.

  • Magazine

    Confidence returning?

    November 2010 (Magazine)

    Borrowing is easier, deal volumes are up and the diversity of funds launched is increasing. Even non-core is on the rise, as Christine Senior reports

  • Magazine

    Core and debt

    November 2010 (Magazine)

    The economic prospects for Europe remain divergent, but it is now clear that fears over Greek solvency were overly alarmist. However, fiscal weakness in Greece, Ireland and Portugal in particular will continue to cast a cloud over the future of the Eurozone in its current form. Despite the original intentions ...

  • News

    Real estate remains sluggish compared with other asset classes - IPE survey

    2010-11-18T11:45:00Z

    GLOBAL – The assets of the top 100 real estate investment managers fell by 4.1% – or some €44bn – to just over €1trn as at 31 December 2009 compared with a year earlier, according to the latest IP Real Estate investment managers survey, which will appear in the next ...

  • News

    Liquidity specialist Madison to set up shop in London

    2010-11-18T11:15:00Z

    Madison International Realty, the US-based investment manager that specialises in injecting capital into existing real estate investments, is establishing an office in London and has hired former Lehman Brothers professional Sean Kelly-Rand.

  • News

    ÆRIUM targets France for first opportunistic strategy

    2010-11-15T14:30:00Z

    FRANCE – ÆRIUM is seeking to raise €50-60m in third-party equity to invest in prime retail real estate opportunities in France.

  • News

    Apollo takes over Citi's global real estate funds platform

    2010-11-15T14:15:00Z

    GLOBAL – Apollo Global Real Estate Management (AGRE) has completed its acquisition of City Property Investors (CPI), the real estate investment management group of Citigroup investment bank.

  • News

    UK real estate values to fall in 2011, offset by income returns, says Invista

    2010-11-15T11:15:00Z

    UK – The recovery in capital values in the UK real estate market slowed to a crawl in October and is expected to see a reversal in fortunes over 2011.