Europe – Page 479
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US pension fund capital flows to Europe
UNITED STATES - A significant amount of pension fund capital in the United States is still moving towards Europe as California State Teachers Retirement System and Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association made new investments.
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New Jersey tries on separates
UNITED STATES - The New Jersey Division of Investment is shifting into the use of real estate separate accounts and has hired General Motors Investment Management for a $150m (€106.4m) equity mandate.
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Ex-army ‘new town’ set for sale
UK - The UK government is to sell off decommissioned land earmarked for the development of a new town in southeast England.
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INREV data 'will make fees more transparent'
EUROPE - New guidelines have been published which are expected to increase the transparency of management fees for private property funds.
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IPD reveals global property outshone Europe
GLOBAL - Global real estate performed well last year, according to IPD figures published, delivering returns only slightly down on their 2005 peak.
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UK hotel buy bucks prime trend
UK - Deutsche Bank real estate subsidiary RREEF has bucked a trend towards international prime hotel acquisition by acquiring the Four Pillars Hotel Group, which has five mid-sector assets in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
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Berkshire trades direct property for fund
UK - The £1.4bn (€2.1bn) Berkshire pension fund has made a £15m investment into BlackRock's UK property fund.
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MagazineTwo cheers for the Europhiles
We see a refocus on Europe-specific markets; investors show a preference for German commercial; Belgium makes a blip on the radar, and Asia’s further interest is shown in strategic potential
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MagazineVenturing beyond the homestead
Founded in 1926, Zurich civil servants’ pension fund BVK now caters for nearly 90,000 members.
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Sustainability to split real estate pricing - DTZ
EUROPE – Real estate manager DTZ is predicting Europe will eventually develop into a two-tier property market which prices less energy-efficient real estate at a discount.
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F&C property trust to decide whether to quit
UK - Negative investor sentiment towards UK property has driven the F&C Commercial Property trust to convene an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to decide on its own future.
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REITs ‘waiting for long-term investors’
UK - Critics of the poor performance of UK REITs since their launch in January are failing to understand they’re a long-term investment, according to Dave Butler, programme coordinator at UK-based campaigning group REITA.
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Investors turn to active management
EUROPE - Investors will increasingly opt for active management as “indiscriminate yield compression” in Europe ends, according to Aberdeen Property Investors.
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MagazineAll abroad
Continental European real estate offers a natural second home for UK money scouting for real estate to invest in. But with continental Europe following the same trend, some UK funds are opting to go global. Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineSafety first
A number of obstacles face Hungarian pension funds investing or seeking to invest in real estate but the outlook is improving, as Krystyna Krzyzak reports
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The rough and the smooth
The way in which German open-ended real estate funds are valued is under scrutiny, but is there a case to answer? Sally Hodge reports
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MagazineTime to be fair to Germany...
Is the German real estate sector failing as a destination for foreign investment? Ute Geipel-Faber and Ellen Schwemmlein look at the facts
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Safe as Warehouses
A rapidly expanding sector, logistics offers a more secure investment and higher income return than more mainstream sectors. But there are concerns for investors, as Christine Senior reports
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MagazineFurther growth in store
The success of the European logistics sector is driving capital well beyond the continent’s prime locations, as Monika Bukowska reports
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MagazineTake the high road
With greater globalisation no sector is likely to be more affected by the drive to sustainability than logistics. Ljiljana Grubovic and Ali Nassiri report
