European investors – Page 285

  • News

    EU institutions drive Brussels boost

    2007-09-03T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Carrefour to spin off property

    2007-09-03T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Corio to divest office and industrial portfolios

    2007-09-03T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    UK schemes wake up to residential

    2007-09-03T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    ABP to sell office fund KFN

    2007-09-03T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Unibail-Rodamco prepares post-merger management

    2007-08-27T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Milan buys flags future for Euro-office

    2007-08-27T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Austrian property "like the UK, but cheaper"

    2007-08-27T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    CPP acquires Euro logistics

    2007-08-27T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    UK property investors divest €8bn

    2007-08-27T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Protego taps Almquist to head Nordic growth

    2007-08-27T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Schroder hires ABP’s Bingen

    2007-08-27T17:00:00Z

    EUROPE - Former ABP portfolio manager Rob Bingen will join Schroder Property in October as head of its €2.2bn European property multi-manager operation.

  • News

    CalPERS considers major real estate emigration

    2007-08-21T17:31:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Morley set for European growth

    2007-08-21T17:29:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Neste scheme may invest abroad

    2007-08-21T17:27:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Brussels yields remaining deals

    2007-08-21T17:23:00Z

    BELGIUM - ING Real Estate has entered the Brussels office market with the €22m acquisition of two recently refurbished and fully-let prime office buildings.

  • News

    'Strategic' greenfields tap into residential potential

    2007-08-21T17:00:00Z

    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.

  • Magazine

    Something for everyone

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Recent fund launches suggest that if fund managers are running out of big ideas, they aren't short of big ambitions

  • Don’t invest for the sake of investing
    Magazine

    Don’t invest for the sake of investing

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    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

  • Opportunity in diversity
    Magazine

    Opportunity in diversity

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Kate Medlicott suggests some top city destinations for this summer in the eclectic world of European commercial real estate