All Europe articles – Page 428
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Hewitt urges caution on Irish property
IRELAND – Consultants have urged pension fund trustees to diversify away from Irish property in the medium term, despite property funds averaging 6.9% returns in 2007.
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MagazineIn need of a tonic
Investors have been struggling with their real estate allocations, but a new development should boost the flow. Richard Lowe reports
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Ireland returns 10% despite Q4 slide
IRELAND - Irish property returned just under 10% in 1007, despite dropping 2.3 percentage points to 1% in Q4, according to IPD data published last week.
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German 2nd tier delivers 7.5%
GERMANY - Investment in secondary German commercial is paying off, according to Swiss private equity investor Corestate Capital.
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MagazineThe new French revolution
It has taken investors by storm. The new regulated non-listed investment vehicle, OPCI, should boost property allocations. Nicolas Simon reports
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GIC’s Russian venture comes with promise of disclosure
RUSSIA - The real estate subsidiary of GIC, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund (SWF), is to develop a new suburb outside Moscow via a joint venture with Russian residential developer PIK.
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AXA latest to lock in fund investors
EUROPE - AXA last week became the latest manager to halt investor withdrawals when it imposed a six-month deferral on “switches out, surrenders from and transfers out of” its AXA Pension property fund.
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Investor confidence sinks UK property
UK – The UK commercial property market saw its biggest fall in value for more than a decade in 2007, according to the Investment Property Database, but experts warn there could be more to come as investors have been selling more liquid, prime real estate.
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Vervoer invests in RaboBouw infrastructure
NETHERLANDS –Vervoer, the €6.4bn industry-wide pension fund for the private transport sector, has been cited as one of the main investors for a new infrastructure investment fund created by Rabobank’s subsidiary Rabo Bouwfonds.
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MagazineTime it right
Uncertainty abounds in the London real estate market, not least due to financial sector worries. However, overall interest remains keen. Richard Lowe reports
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MagazineMarket view: The key questions
Will the occupier market hold? With UK commercial property returns falling on the back of a repricing of cash flows, the question is how far the occupier market will hold up and partly offset deteriorating investor sentiment.
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MagazineGreater than the sum of its parts
The larger the REIT regime the more it can focus – just look at the US. So where is Europe? Cue the EU-REIT. Piet Eichholtz and Nils Kok report
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MagazineLeap of faith
Achieving the right balance between a competitive EU law-compliant REIT regime and the appropriate level of protection of the local tax base is within the grasp of European governments, say Ronald Wijs, Roderik Beckers and Fraser Hughes
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CA Immo postpones G-Reit
AUSTRIA/GERMANY – The €3.5bn Austrian real estate company CA Immo has decided to postpone the launch of a German Reit because of current market conditions.
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LACERA commits to pan-European fund
UNITED STATES - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has approved a $25m (€16.9m) commitment into the Europa fund III commingled fund, which is also expected to contribute to Nordic and Swiss property deals.
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Valuations lack supporting evidence - Segro
EUROPE - Valuers are being urged by an increasingly desperate industry to make valuations despite a dearth of market evidence, according to Segro.
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UK rally 'will be short-lived'
UK - Property shares will rally by up to 20% between now and mid-year before halving in value over the subsequent 18 months as the economy slides into recession, according to a research note from Morgan Stanley, the investment bank.
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ABP to move back into listed
NETHERLANDS – ABP is to up its investment in listed property, just months after the €215bn Dutch pension scheme divested part of its listed portfolio in Europe and US.
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Segro deal to realise Berlin airport city
GERMANY - Berlin Airport Authority and Segro have agreed the development of a 38-hectare business and logistics park next to Berlin’s Schönefeld airport after the London-listed property investor acquired the land for €34m.
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French institutions to diversify real estate
FRANCE – As much as 60% of French institutional investors will diversify their real estate portfolios either geographically or into different investment strategies, the ratings firm MultiRatings has found.
