All Europe articles – Page 361
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Allianz plans to double real estate portfolio to €30bn
GERMANY – Allianz Real Estate is aiming to sell €1bn in small and secondary assets in Germany within 18 months as part of its ongoing project to double its portfolio to €30bn.
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Go exploring
The largest pension funds are increasing their overseas exposure, finds Gail Moss
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German Spezialfond looks to invest in Belgium, France
GERMANY – HypoVereinsbank's real estate investment subsidy iii-Investment has launched a new Spezialfond, aiming to raise €400m worth of capital.
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Home concerns from abroad
Euro concerns and perceived better prospects elsewhere are hindering foreign investor interest in European product, says Christine Senior
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Dutch real estate survey highlights investor 'sophistication'
NETHERLANDS – The latest Investor Universe Netherlands survey shows the Dutch institutional real estate market is large, sophisticated and with considerable overseas exposure.
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MagazineImproving visibility
What do leading indicators tell us about the future of the real estate market? Quite a lot, as Sotiris Tsolacos reports
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MagazineCold turkey
The case for property as a diversification from equities will be strengthened – one of several consequences the shortage of debt capital will have on real estate investment, which are considered here by Mark Callender
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Waste yields new dividend
UK waste management: a new asset class within the industrial market? Ruth Hollies and Kevin Mofid report
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Hermes Fund Managers appoints real estate head after two-year search
UK – Hermes Fund Managers has appointed Chris Taylor as chief executive of Hermes Real Estate Investment Management.
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MGPA's opportunity fund targets €200m of German retail
GERMANY – MGPA's European opportunistic real estate fund has acquired 140 ALDI SÜD stores in Germany as it seeks to deploy close to €200m of capital in the country's retail sector over the next six months.
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INREV's Carpenter to build up Asia-Pacific cooperation
GLOBAL – The European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) has sent its former acting chief executive Andrea Carpenter to work with its counterpart in the Asia Pacific region, ANREV, on a temporary basis.
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Portfolio deals on the rise as ING sells Canadian industrial fund
GLOBAL – Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), which manages more than CA$70bn (€51.6bn) for Alberta pension schemes, is to acquire a 50% stake in the CA$2bn ING Summit Fund.
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Malaysian pension fund allocates €1.2bn to UK property
GLOBAL – Malaysia's first-pillar pension scheme has allocated £1bn (€1.2bn) to UK real estate in expectation of a long-term annual yield of 6-7%.
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RREEF: Seoul 'safer than London'
GLOBAL – Investors will take refuge in Asian markets from "considerably riskier" developed markets such as London, according to RREEF Germany managing director Clemens Schaefer.
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Merseyside pension scheme tenders for property asset manager
UK – The £4.2bn Merseyside Pension Fund (MPF) is tendering the position of property asset manager for its UK-based direct real estate investments.
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Institutional investors could allocate 25% to open real estate, academics say
GLOBAL – A manager could invest as much as one-quarter of his portfolio into open real estate funds and still boost performance while decreasing risk, according to researchers from the German WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and the Ludwig-Maximilians university in Munich.
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Medicx fund highlights growing investor interest in healthcare
UK – A healthcare fund run by specialist investor and developer Medicx has raised £45m (€55.1m) in capital from a number of institutional investors, the National Grid UK Pension Scheme, the Merseyside Pension Fund, Henderson Global Investors and Prudential.
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Pramerica to take on UBS ground lease fund
UK – Pramerica Real Estate Investors will take over from UBS Global Asset Management as investment adviser for the UBS Secure Income Property fund.
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BA Pensions teams up with Columbus on City office buy
UK – The British Airways Pension Fund has entered into a 50/50 joint venture with the Columbus UK Real Estate Fund to acquire London City office Austin Friars House for £25m (€30.6m).
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New index rates London City offices 'hottest' CRE market
GLOBAL – A new commercial property index launched in London this week found London City offices to be the world's most attractive commercial real estate market, underpriced by 11.6%.
