Latest Office News – Page 159
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Dutch pension funds offload Rotterdam courts to GBA
NETHERLANDS – A group including Dutch pension funds KPN and TNT has sold the Wilhelminahof offices and courts complex in Rotterdam for €220m to the Dutch Government Buildings Agency (GBA).
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Switzerland's AFIAA takes profits from Canadian investments
GLOBAL – AFIAA, the foundation owned by 20 Swiss pension funds, has sold three assets in Canada as part of an optimisation of its global real estate portfolio.
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Investors should branch into developing economies - LaSalle
GLOBAL – Institutional investors looking to guarantee strong returns in 2011 cannot rely on portfolios consisting purely of cities in developed markets, LaSalle Investment Management has warned.
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Virginia makes $150m commitment to CIM urban fund
GLOBAL - Virginia Retirement System has approved a $150m (€113.8m) commitment to the CIM VI Urban REIT Fund. Pension fund officials stated that this commitment will be funded over the next four and a half years.
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Virginia makes $150m commitment to CIM urban fund
GLOBAL - Virginia Retirement System has approved a $150m (€113.8m) commitment to the CIM VI Urban REIT Fund. Pension fund officials stated that this commitment will be funded over the next four and a half years.
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JP Morgan acquires its own London offices for more than €1bn
UK – Investment bank JP Morgan has taken ownership of 25 Bank Street in Canary Wharf, which will become its new European headquarters in 2012, and another London office housing its treasury and securities services division for close to £850m (€1.01bn).
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LACERA receives 28 responses to debt manager search
GLOBAL - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has received 28 responses to its search for real estate debt managers.
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F&C REIT raises €240m for German retail acquisitions
GERMANY – F&C REIT Asset Management in Germany is looking to invest as much as €240m in German retail properties having raised capital for a new real estate fund and a segregated account with a German pension fund.
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Ohio Police & Fire approves $30m commitment to opportunity fund
GLOBAL – The Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund has approved a $30m (€23.1m) commitment into the Savanna Real Estate Fund II.
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PKA acquires €79m office, retail project in Copenhagen
DENMARK – Denmark's PKA has bought an office and retail construction project in the country's capital for DKK588m (€79m), with provisional leases already secured for around a quarter of units.
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UK real estate values to fall in 2011, offset by income returns, says Invista
UK – The recovery in capital values in the UK real estate market slowed to a crawl in October and is expected to see a reversal in fortunes over 2011.
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Investors flock to DIC Asset's German office fund
GERMANY – DIC Asset has secured more than three-quarters of the €117m capital raising target for its inaugural special investment fund.
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Germany's BVK sells Paris office after 10 years of ownership
EUROPE – German pension fund Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK) has sold a Paris office building that it has owned for 10 years.
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Texas Employees commits $60m to value-added fund
GLOBAL – The Employees Retirement System of Texas has made a $60m (€43m) commitment to the Madison International Real Estate Liquidity Fund IV.
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Texas Teachers-backed property fund makes first investment
GLOBAL – An office building investment fund backed by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas has completed its first investment.
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UK commercial rally running out of steam, says IPD
UK – Investment Property Databank (IPD) has warned that the rally in the UK commercial real estate market is all but over, with the third quarter seeing the shallowest period of capital growth in 2010.
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Norway's Pension Fund Global Fund makes first foray into real estate
EUROPE – Norges Bank has made its first real estate investment for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, acquiring a 25% stake in The Crown Estate's Regent Street portfolio in London.
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Irish commercial real estate continues to slide, IPD says
IRELAND – The commercial real estate market in Ireland continued to see declines in capital values in the third quarter, meaning the market has been falling for more than three years, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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Lack of European prime stock slows global transactional recovery
GLOBAL – The recovery in global real estate transactions has levelled off, driven by a constrained availability of prime properties in Europe, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
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OMERS, British Land team up to develop London's Cheesegrater
UK – Oxford Properties, the real estate division of Canadian pension fund OMERS, has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with British Land to develop the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, otherwise known as the Cheesegrater.
