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US Colony seeks infrastructure with Challenger
UNITED STATES - Australian-based Challenger Financial Services Group Limited has formed a strategic relationship with Los Angeles-based Colony Capital to invest in real estate and infrastructure in the US, Europe and Asia.
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Indiana State seeks overseas opportunities
UNITED STATES - Indiana State Teachers Retirement System will be looking at investing around $200m (€147m) into a new real estate strategy that will include international and opportunistic investments.
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Closed-end real estate feels UK pricing pressure
UK – Investment trust managers predict UK investors will increasingly turn to overseas real estate to seek diversification in a weakening domestic market.
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EU institutions drive Brussels boost
BELGIUM - Brussels is the new Berlin, International Real Estate (IRE) indicated when it announced a sharper focus on value-added opportunities in Brussels real estate.
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Carrefour to spin off property
FRANCE - French retailer Carrefour is to offer 20% of its €24bn property portfolio to “strategic institutional real estate partners” and other investors, including pension funds.
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Corio to divest office and industrial portfolios
EUROPE - The €6bn property investment company Corio has decided to explore the divestment of a major part of its offices and industrial portfolios, and to further focus on its retail activities.
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UK schemes wake up to residential
UK - UK pension funds need to catch up with their continental counterparts and ditch outmoded perceptions of domestic residential, according to Quinton Hill-Lines, managing director of fund management at Grainger.
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ABP to sell office fund KFN
NETHERLANDS - The €211bn civil service scheme ABP is considering selling at least part of its offices investment fund KFN, in order to further diversify its overall portfolio.
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Unibail-Rodamco prepares post-merger management
NETHERLANDS - Unibail-Rodamco is almost ready to announce its top 50 management structure as its integration efforts are now on track, the €23.9bn property investor has said.
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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.
