European investors – Page 286
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MagazineTake a step back
Germany’s impressive economic outlook bodes well for investment in its real estate market, but investors need to consider the options carefully, as Jan Wagner reports
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Driving the common interest
Founded in 2004, the Pan European Property Common Interest Group (PEPCIG), whose membership comprises senior property researchers from about 50 organisations across Europe
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MagazineGoing with the flow
Over the last three years the German real estate sector has grown closer than ever to the capital markets and the trend is set to continue, as Claudio Lagemann reports
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MagazineHome advantage
Despite its initial aim to encourage foreign investment the German government’s new tax legislation now appears to discriminate against foreign funds investing in Germany, as Uwe Stoschek, Sven Behrends and Christina Foth explain
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MagazineEnable transparency
Questions have been raised about the quality of IPD’s German data. Their man on the ground, Daniel Piazolo, explains the challenges of establishing a property market index in Germany
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MagazineService provision plays catch-up
A surge in interest in German real estate raises the stakes for investors. Christian Schulz-Wulkow reports
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MagazineWhat’s bred in the bone
Hard’ factors such as regulation and liquidity only partly define the contours of real estate markets. The cultural stuff can be harder to negotiate. Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineDegrees of influence
Rockspring PIM was established in 2004 through a management buy-out of Prudential PIM from Prudential Financial.
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MagazineCrossing the divide
Raymond Satumalaij left Blue Sky, where he was responsible for the real estate portfolio, in May this year to join Bouwfonds Asset Management, a subsidiary of the real estate arm of Rabobank.
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Consensus building
EPRA sees a global real estate coalition emerging over accounting rules, as Steve Hays reports
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MagazineThe long and short of it
REITs have very specific characteristics that place them in a class apart from other forms of real estate investing, as Steve Smith explains
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MagazineSitting on a tax break
SICAVs have long been the investible UCITs structure of choice for property fund managers. Now some pension funds are finding a new use for them. Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineUK residential unlocked
A huge pool of potential investment could become accessible for the first time through the application of financial tools honed in the capital markets, as Steve Hays reports
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MagazineInspiring views
Global investment was a strong theme at this year’s IPD European property investment conference, alongside the central need for more and better information. Martin Hurst reports
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Europe rides the CMBS wave
The crisis in the US sub-prime sector has given the whole industry a jolt, but Europe has not been affected. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
