All Europe articles – Page 373
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Global real estate recovery to slip next year, says Aberdeen
GLOBAL – The global real estate recovery will falter in 2011, leading to a rise in yields, before resuming a stronger trajectory in 2012, according to Aberdeen Asset Management.
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Tesco moves to release value from property portfolio
LONDON – Tesco has agreed a second sale and leaseback of properties with the Tesco Pension Fund Trustees in an effort to release value from its property portfolio.
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New York State Teachers makes $90m investment in shopping centre company
GLOBAL – New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) has made a $90m (€71.6m) investment in Donahue Schriber Realty Group.
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IPE Forum: Retail threatened by internet, austerity and demographics
GLOBAL – Retail property assets have become increasingly popular for institutional investors, but the sector is fraught with challenges, listeners heard during IPE Real Estate's Investor Forum webcast last week.
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Strathclyde drops Aberdeen, makes first global real estate allocation
UK – The Strathclyde Pension fund has replaced the manager of its £750m (€906m) direct UK property portfolio for the first time in 20 years and made its first strategic allocation to global real estate.
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Global real estate transactions faltering, says RCA
GLOBAL – Preliminary data suggests the growth in global real estate transactions slipped significantly in the second quarter of 2010, as the sovereign debt crisis and fears of a double-dip recession took hold, according to Real Capital Analytics (RCA).
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Denmark's AP Pension targets UK through Rockspring
EUROPE – Denmark's AP Pension has invested in Rockspring Property Investment Managers' new UK real estate fund.
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Irish construction workers' scheme to review real estate strategy
IRELAND – The Construction Workers' Pension Scheme (CWPS) in Ireland is undergoing a review of its real estate investment strategy following similar reassessments of its equity and bond investments.
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Austria grants German real estate investors tax-free status
GERMANY/AUSTRIA – Real estate investments made by German pension funds in Austria will be tax-free from now, placing them on an equal footing with their Austrian counterparts, an Austrian financial tribunal has ruled.
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Dexia, Gimv joint venture launches Benelux infrastructure fund
EUROPE – An infrastructure and real estate fund focusing on the Benelux region has been launched following demand from Belgian pension fund and insurance companies for low-risk, non-listed exposure to the sector.
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PwC survey reveals pressure on London office fundamentals
UK – Activity in the UK financial services in the last three months was lower than expected, despite increasing at the fastest rate since the onset of the credit crunch, prompting concerns over the outlook for the London office market.
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Pension funds get on board for Rockspring's UK value drive
UK – Rockspring Property Investment Managers has raised £336m (€409m) in capital commitments for its UK Value fund from 12 pension funds and institutional investors from Europe and Australasia.
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AP3 joint venture with Kungsleden acquires public portfolio
SWEDEN – A joint venture between the €21bn third Swedish pension fund (AP3) and Stockholm-based developer Kungsleden has acquired a public property portfolio for SEK1.1bn (€120.2m).
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Under-supplied CEE region offers 'alternative' to emerging markets
EUROPE – Debt-free investors should view Central and Eastern European (CEE) real estate as a lower-risk alternative to investing in emerging markets, according to Holger Schmidtmayr, board member of Austrian property firm Sparkassen.
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Finland's Veritas offloads residential portfolio to Germany's Patrizia
EUROPE – Finnish pensions insurer Veritas has sold a 113-asset portfolio to German fund manager Patrizia in the first residential deal involving an investor based outside the region.
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Wisconsin State Investment Board drops domestic REIT managers
GLOBAL – The Wisconsin State Investment Board has dropped AEW Capital Management and Heitman as domestic REIT managers to adopt a more "global perspective".
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BPF Bouw opens Dutch portfolio to other pension funds
NETHERLANDS – BPF Bouw, the pension fund for Dutch construction workers, will offer other pension funds access to its €4bn domestic real estate portfolio so it can increase its weighting to global property markets.
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Slovenia's PRVA makes first foray into real estate
SLOVENIA – The €185m PRVA second-pillar fund has bought a property in Ljubljana, making its first foray into real estate.
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Redington, M&G talk up UK social housing debt opportunity
UK – Pension funds in the UK are being encouraged to consider financing social housing as an alternative to inflation-linked bonds.
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Investors back L&G’s tried and tested industrial fund
UK – Legal & General Property (LGP) has raised new equity for its Industrial Property Investment fund (IPIF) following interest from existing investors to increase their exposure.
