European investors – Page 285
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Milan buys flags future for Euro-office
ITALY - Segro, the serviced office firm, has acquired a Milan business park for €84.5m from fund manager Europa Capital Partners – a beachhead in a market segment known for the difficulty of cross-border investment.
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Austrian property "like the UK, but cheaper"
AUSTRIA - Austrian property firms will largely escape the sub-prime crisis and remain immune to interest rate rises, according to a report from Raiffeisen bank.
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CPP acquires Euro logistics
CANADA - The C$120bn (€83.5bn) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has invested €400m in European distribution via a fund set up by US logistics firm ProLogis.
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UK property investors divest €8bn
UK - Institutional investors continued the exodus out of the UK domestic market in the first half of 2007, and became net sellers with divestments worth €8.7bn.
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Protego taps Almquist to head Nordic growth
SWEDEN - Protego Real Estate Investors has revealed it is expanding into the Nordic market with the appointment of Lars Almquist to head its new Stockholm office.
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Schroder hires ABP’s Bingen
EUROPE - Former ABP portfolio manager Rob Bingen will join Schroder Property in October as head of its €2.2bn European property multi-manager operation.
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CalPERS considers major real estate emigration
UNITED STATES – The California Public Employees Retirement System is thinking of expanding overseas and moving its international real estate allocation from its current 20% level to a 50% weighting.
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Morley set for European growth
EUROPE – Morley is looking to boost its business in Europe further with 'more people on the ground' and a potential eastward expansion of its property business.
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Neste scheme may invest abroad
FINLAND - The Finnish Neste Oil pension fund said it is considering investing outside its domestic property market as it looks towards completion of three new buildings in Keilaniemi, Espoo, to house its sponsor.
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Brussels yields remaining deals
BELGIUM - ING Real Estate has entered the Brussels office market with the €22m acquisition of two recently refurbished and fully-let prime office buildings.
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'Strategic' greenfields tap into residential potential
UK – Pension funds seeking slightly higher returns on real estate portfolios are being encouraged to turn their attention to ‘strategic land’ investments in greenfield developments.
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Magazine
Something for everyone
Recent fund launches suggest that if fund managers are running out of big ideas, they aren't short of big ambitions
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MagazineDon’t invest for the sake of investing
Founded in 1990, Austrian multi-employer pension fund APK today has €2.6bn in assets under management. Investment in real estate is driven by opportunity rather than allocation, as APK’s head of investments, Günther Schiendl, explains to Martin Hurst
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MagazineOpportunity in diversity
Kate Medlicott suggests some top city destinations for this summer in the eclectic world of European commercial real estate
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MagazineFirst brave steps
Growing supply pressures in the domestic market are forcing home-loving Swiss pension funds to venture abroad, but the learning curve will be steep. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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MagazineResidential rethink required
Current regulations and a keen local property ownership culture are holding back Spanish institutional investment in real estate, as Adrienne Margolis reports
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MagazineEmbracing the wider world
Portugal’s institutional investors have long been content to invest domestically because of strong returns. Now things are changing, as Adrienne Margolis reports
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MagazineMove right in
A patchy market, major project delays and market fragmentation do little to reassure potential investors about serviced office.
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MagazineEurope’s rising giant: Istanbul
Exciting demographics have propelled Turkey up the league of investment appeal in spite of a shortage of stock and nagging political uncertainties, as Paul Strohm discovers
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MagazineRetail delight
Neville Moss looks at the emerging shopping centre market in Istanbul where exceptional fundamentals present a solid long-term outlook
