European investors – Page 258
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French property market 'must adapt to survive'
FRANCE – Property experts have predicted the French real estate industry is set to deteriorate even further in 2009 as a result of the financial crisis and will have to adapt itself to investors’ demands in order to recover.
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Push to reduce climate change on property values
GLOBAL – The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change has issued a report encouraging pension fund trustees to seek advice on ways of reducing the negative impact of climate change on property values.
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Real estate recovery predicted for 2011
GLOBAL – Institutional investors believe the ongoing financial crisis will be a major obstacle for investors looking to allocate to non-listed real estate funds this year and do not expect property markets to start recovering until 2011, according to the INREV Investment Intentions Survey 2009.
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BNP Paribas confirms real estate rebranding
FRANCE – BNP Paribas is uniting all of its real estate subsidiary businesses under the BNP Paribas Real Estate brand as part of a change in strategy, it was confirmed at the Atisreal Année Immobiliere meeting on Tuesday.
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Investors sets their sights on the UK
UK – The United Kingdom is the most attractive country for institutional investors and pension funds looking to invest in real estate in 2009, according to property analysts at the Atisreal Année Immobiliere conference in Paris this week.
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Six years of UK growth wiped out - IPD
UK - The entire capital growth made over the last six years in the UK commercial real estate market has been eroded in only 18 months, according to the IPD UK Quarterly Property Index Q4 2008 published this week.
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Cabot Properties expands into Europe
EUROPE/UNITED STATES - Cabot Properties is planning to expand its industrial acquisition efforts into Europe for the first time.
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Danish Engineers sell €65m portfolio to Aberdeen
DENMARK – DIP, the DKK24bn (€3.22bn) pension fund for Danish engineers, has sold a €65m commercial property portfolio to Aberdeen Property Investors and taken a stake in its Danish fund as part of a shift in its investment strategy.
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Cohen & Steers predicts “outstanding” returns…in time
GLOBAL – Cohen & Steers, the US investment firm specialising in real estate, remains confident that the majority of global listed real estate companies will weather the economic crisis despite the poor lending environment, according to its latest Review and outlook for the international real estate markets.
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Spain to see second property giant collapse
SPAIN – Nozar, a major property company in Spain, is on the brink of going into administration with debts of over €4bn, which could make it the second- largest corporate default in the country.
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Pramerica expands mezzanine position
EUROPE – Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI) has hired a team of real estate financers to build a commercial property mezzanine platform in Europe to take advantage of immediate opportunities created by the volatile markets.
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UK local government pays tax on its own empty buildings
UK – British councils are paying a whopping £690m (€745m) in business rates on their empty properties, the Business Centre Association revealed this week.
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Hermes' Evans moves into new role
GLOBAL – Hermes, the pension fund manager owned by the BT Pension Scheme, has reshuffled its property team as part of a new strategy that will focus on investing in debt and listed company shares.
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Warburg-Henderson grows institutional client base
GERMANY – German real estate company Warburg-Henderson has launched a Master KAG subsidiary and already won its first client.
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Inflows see DEGI alter redemptions ban
GLOBAL – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immobilienfonds mbH (DEGI), the German-based property investors, has announced it will end the suspension of redemptions from its DEGI International Fund at the end of this month following new capital inflows into the fund.
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Central London property presents a challenge - JLL
UK – Investment levels across Central London fell by 66% last year and could lead to “one of the most challenging years on record” for real estate take-up in the capital, according to Jones Lang LaSalle’s latest Central London report.
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MagazineDistant lights
Investor mettle is being severely tested as the gloom around London office deepens. It is not all bad news, but timing will be critical, says Andy Schofield
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MagazineBeyond the Square Mile
Investors claim to be peering at the bottom of the London property market. Some are already looking for sane prices for sparse assets – and they include pension funds as well as opportunists. Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineLimited ambition
In Italy real estate is out of favour among institutional investors. The older-established funds are reducing their allocations and the new-style funds have limited opportunities to invest in property. Christine Senior reports
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