All articles by Julie Henderson – Page 5
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Aberdeen buys real estate rival Goodman for £109m
GLOBAL – Aberdeen Asset Management’s real estate subsidiary Aberdeen Property Investors has snapped up a deal to buy its rival Goodman Property Investors for £109m (€140m).
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ATP buys a harbour view
DENMARK - ATP Real Estate, the property arm of Denmark’s DKK350bn (bn) labour market supplementary fund, is investing DKK700m in a “ground-breaking” office block development in Copenhagen’s harbour area.
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INREV follows for the fashion for style
EUROPE – INREV, the European Association for investors in non-listed real estate funds, has introduced a ‘style’ index to help pension funds and institutional investors can benchmark their funds by investment style.
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Real estate sector pressed to embrace 'professionalisation'
GLOBAL – Fund managers in the real estate investment market will face increasing calls for the transparency, standardisation and ‘beta-matching’ lower fees which investors now expect in other asset classes, speakers at the INREV annual conference have suggested.
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OUTSTANDING INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTION - the final vote
IPE REAL ESTATE AWARDS - The nominations are in and you now have the chance to select who you think should win the IPE Real Estate Award for Outstanding Industry Contribution
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European property returns hit by currency pressure
EUROPE – Unlisted European real estate funds saw a negative return on their investments of –3.9% in 2007, driven by the very poor performance of the UK property market as well as currency conversion pressures attached to the dollar and euro.
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IPE Real Estate Awards seeks outstanding contributions
There's only a few days to tell us who YOU think should be rewarded for their outstanding work in Europe’s Real Estate Industry over the last 18 months.
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IPE Real Estate Forum & Awards- few sponsored placed left
IPE still has a few sponsored places left for capital owners (pension funds, insurance companies, foundations,) to attend this year’s IPE Real Estate Investor Forum & Awards in Berlin on 22-23 May, Berlin.
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ING Clarion pays $116.2m for apartments
UNITED STATES - ING Clarion Partners has closed one of the largest single apartment investments in some time and purchased a 217-unit in Hoboken, New Jersey, for $116.2m (€75.5m).
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EC pursues UK and Belgium over EPC status
EUROPE – The Belgian and UK governments are being taken to task by the European Commission for their failure to implement EU requirements stating how energy performance in buildings is measured.
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Environment code to calculate property’s carbon emissions
GLOBAL - The Investment Property Databank (IPD) has launched a majorglobal initiative to help real estate owners measure and understand theenvironmental impact their buildings have, as officials believe suchdata will become a component of future real estate pricing andlegislation.
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Join us in Berlin for IPE Real Estate Awards 2008
EUROPE - The 4th IPE Real Estate Investor Forum & Awards will take place in Berlin on Thursday 22 & Friday 23 May 2008, and pension funds are now being invited to join us for this important gathering.
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UK pension funds look east for storage
UK - UK pension funds see continued traction in Central and Eastern European (CEE) logistics despite concerns over pricing in other segments of those markets.
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KBC Pensioenfonds shifts real estate for LDI
BELGIUM – KBC Pensioenfonds has significantly diversified its real estate allocation within the last eight months, in a bid to match the scheme's liability-driven investment (LDI) strategy.
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Credit crunch cost $3-4trn – JP Morgan
GLOBAL – JP Morgan officials say investment market turbulence sparked by the US subprime housing crisis may already have cost in excess of $3trn (€2.04trn) in lost credit and warn there could be more to come under tightened credit pricing.
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Avon PF to place 1/8th in multi-manager property
UK – Bath and North East Somerset Council is looking to alter the asset allocation strategy and passive equity holdings of the Avon pension fund, to accommodate diversification into UK and global real estate.
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Investor confidence sinks UK property
UK – The UK commercial property market saw its biggest fall in value for more than a decade in 2007, according to the Investment Property Database, but experts warn there could be more to come as investors have been selling more liquid, prime real estate.
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Valuations lack supporting evidence - Segro
EUROPE - Valuers are being urged by an increasingly desperate industry to make valuations despite a dearth of market evidence, according to Segro.
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RREEF heads for Hyderabad homes
INDIA - Deutsche Bank property subsidiary RREEF has entered the Indian market with a $70m (€47.6m) indirect investment in residential developer Golden Gate Properties.
