European investors – Page 248
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Income returns continue to drive European performance, says Invista
EUROPE – Income returns will continue to drive real estate investment performance despite an uncertain outlook for rental growth, according to Invista Real Estate Investment Management.
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Real estate transactions grow in Europe despite sovereign debt crisis
EUROPE – The growth in European real estate transactions continued to rise in the second quarter despite investor uncertainty over the sovereign debt crisis.
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CEE transactions triple as German funds return to real estate
EUROPE – A resurgence of investment activity in the real estate markets of central and eastern Europe (CEE) saw transactions triple in the first half of 2010 compared with a year ago, according to CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
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Schroders backs Palmer's new Mayfair venture
UK – Schroder Property's multi-manager business has agreed to seed a new UK real estate fund managed by Mayfair Capital Investment Management.
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Shopping centre fund opens doors to £1bn CMBS restructure
UK – One of the biggest restructurings of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) since the start of the financial crisis has been given the go-ahead for a leading UK shopping centre fund.
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UK recovery slows to a crawl, says IPD
UK – Investors in the UK commercial real estate market are hoping for an end to the recent period of extreme volatility, which saw capital values fall by 44.2% in the two years following the credit crunch, before recovering by 15.2% over the 11 months to June 2010.
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Transactions on the rise globally, but down in Asia: JLL
GLOBAL – The volume of global real estate transactions in the first half of this year is almost double that of the same period in 2009, but deals in Asia-Pacific dropped by more than a third between the first and second quarters, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
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European institutional investors regaining appetite for risk
EUROPE – European transaction volumes in 2010 are expected to exceed those of last year following results from a survey that finds risk appetite has increased among institutional investors in the UK, Germany and France.
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AXA REIM returns with development strategy
EUROPE – AXA Real Estate Investment Managers has attracted strong interest in its first European real estate development fund in six years and expects to be able to raise at least €600m by September.
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Birmingham airport secures credit facility from Santander, RBS
GLOBAL – A UK airport part-owned by the CA$96.4bn (€74bn) Ontario Teachers Pension Plan has won promises of more than €50m in short-term funding for an ongoing expansion programme.
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Bouwinvest converts direct property investment into funds
NETHERLANDS – Bouwinvest, the property manager of the €26bn pension fund for the Dutch building industry bpfBouw, has converted all of its direct property investment into property funds in a bid to increase flexibility and spread risk.
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Warburg-Henderson launches follow-up Austrian fund
AUSTRIA – Warburg-Henderson, the German business of Henderson Global Investors, is seeking to raise capital from German, Austrian and Swiss institutional investors for its second Austria-focused real estate fund.
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Carlyle Group snaps up six landmark assets in UK
UK – Private equity firm The Carlyle Group has acquired six landmark central London office properties – formerly part of the portfolio of assets linked to the troubled White Tower 2006-3 commercial mortgage-backed securitisation (CMBS) – for £671m (€802m).
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European governments under pressure to sell real estate, says CBRE
EUROPE – European governments will be forced to sell real estate assets to balance public finance in the next 12 months, according to CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
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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).
