European investors – Page 247
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London & Stamford to make REIT conversion
UK – AIM-listed real estate company London & Stamford Property (LSP) is seeking to convert to a real estate investment trust (REIT) and bring its external management team in-house.
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UK real estate recovery to stall, says IPD
UK – The rally in the UK real estate market appears to have run its course, according to latest figures from Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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Union Investment sells prime UK office building after 12 months
UK – Union Investment has sold a prime London City office building to Hammerson and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) after buying it only 12 months ago, netting more than £34m (€41m) in capital appreciation in the process.
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Luxembourg Fund Partners to launch high-tech fund for CEE region
EUROPE – Luxembourg Fund Partners is set to launch a fund focusing on high-tech real estate in central and eastern Europe (CEE).
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Valuable insight
A new set of measurement indices for the Romanian residential market could lead the way for other emerging south-eastern European markets, says Fotis Mouzakis
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Back on a different track
Post crisis, the CEE is once again presenting itself as major growth market, Barbara Ottawa finds at this year’s Real Vienna
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Viewpoint: Interesting times in CEE
Investing in central and eastern Europe (CEE) is attractive because real estate is driven by strong fundamentals, making it a mainstream investment with an emerging market upside.
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Spain's BBVA offloads second round of bank branches
EUROPE – Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) has offloaded a second tranche of property assets to the group of RREEF Europe, Area Property Partners and Europa Capital for €364m.
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European office fundamentals remain strong, says Jones Lang LaSalle
EUROPE – Take-up of office space in Europe increased marginally in the second quarter despite growing economic uncertainty over austerity measures and concerns surrounding sovereign debt, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
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Henderson targets local interest with German retail fund
GERMANY – Henderson Global Investors is seeking to tap demand from German institutional investors for exposure to their domestic retail sector.
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Brookfield Properties reinvents self, invests $1.4bn in offices
GLOBAL – Brookfield Properties is planning to invest more than $1.4bn (£885m) in 16 offices across Australia held by Brookfield Asset Management and reposition itself into a "global, pure-play office property company".
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Withdrawal of open-ended German funds will 'level playing field', says Invesco
EUROPE – Less investment activity on the part of German open-ended funds (GOEFs) would effectively level the playing field for other institutional investors in the European real estate markets, according to Invesco Real Estate.
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European institutional investors thinking twice about US
GLOBAL – Concerns over the fragility of the US economic recovery have caused European institutional investors to reassess the attractiveness of the country's real estate market.
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INREV tweaks investor due diligence checklist
EUROPE – INREV has revised its due diligence questionnaire to address investors' latest concerns when selecting fund managers in the current investment environment.
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German-owned Hypo Real Estate fails stress test
GERMANY – Government-owned Hypo Real Estate has failed a stress test by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS).
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European occupancy markets dragged down by austerity measures
GLOBAL – While occupier demand is rising in the majority of countries across the globe, austerity measures to reduce fiscal deficits are causing a drag on euro-zone and UK real estate markets, according to the latest global report from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
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Valad takes over management of €480m Swedish portfolio
SWEDEN – Valad Europe, the pan-European, multi-let real estate investment management business of Valad Property Group, has been appointed to take over the investment management of a €480m property portfolio in Sweden.
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BT and Royal Mail pension JV sells Brindleyplace assets
UK – A joint venture between the BT and Royal Mail pension funds, developer Argent and fund manager Tritax has sold five office buildings in Birmingham for £190m (€225m).
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Germany leads uptick in European occupier demand, says JPMAM
EUROPE – The decline in European commercial property rents is coming to an end, and tenants are responding by committing to new space, according to JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM).
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Specialist funds outperforming market in UK, says IPD
UK – Pooled UK real estate funds have delivered returns of more than 20% over the past 12 months, but only those with specialist and niche strategies outperformed the underlying direct market, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
