Latest Office News – Page 161
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Brookfield Properties reinvents self, invests $1.4bn in offices
GLOBAL – Brookfield Properties is planning to invest more than $1.4bn (£885m) in 16 offices across Australia held by Brookfield Asset Management and reposition itself into a "global, pure-play office property company".
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European occupancy markets dragged down by austerity measures
GLOBAL – While occupier demand is rising in the majority of countries across the globe, austerity measures to reduce fiscal deficits are causing a drag on euro-zone and UK real estate markets, according to the latest global report from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
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Valad takes over management of €480m Swedish portfolio
SWEDEN – Valad Europe, the pan-European, multi-let real estate investment management business of Valad Property Group, has been appointed to take over the investment management of a €480m property portfolio in Sweden.
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BT and Royal Mail pension JV sells Brindleyplace assets
UK – A joint venture between the BT and Royal Mail pension funds, developer Argent and fund manager Tritax has sold five office buildings in Birmingham for £190m (€225m).
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Rothschild makes first investment in New York office market
GLOBAL – Rothschild Realty Managers has made its first-ever investment in the New York office market with a $150m (€116m) investment in RXR Realty.
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Warburg-Henderson launches follow-up Austrian fund
AUSTRIA – Warburg-Henderson, the German business of Henderson Global Investors, is seeking to raise capital from German, Austrian and Swiss institutional investors for its second Austria-focused real estate fund.
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Carlyle Group snaps up six landmark assets in UK
UK – Private equity firm The Carlyle Group has acquired six landmark central London office properties – formerly part of the portfolio of assets linked to the troubled White Tower 2006-3 commercial mortgage-backed securitisation (CMBS) – for £671m (€802m).
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Denmark's AP Pension targets UK through Rockspring
EUROPE – Denmark's AP Pension has invested in Rockspring Property Investment Managers' new UK real estate fund.
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Mass PRIM issues request for core separate account manager
GLOBAL – Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management (Mass PRIM) has issued a Request for Proposal for a core, separate account real estate manager.
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PwC survey reveals pressure on London office fundamentals
UK – Activity in the UK financial services in the last three months was lower than expected, despite increasing at the fastest rate since the onset of the credit crunch, prompting concerns over the outlook for the London office market.
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Hermes Real Estate acquires core London office
UK – Hermes Real Estate, the property fund manager owned by the £35.3bn (€42.5bn) BT pension scheme, has acquired an office asset on the outskirts of London for £58m.
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Munich office outlook maintains focus on prime
GERMANY – Munich office rental will pick up slowly in 2010 even if there is a speedy recovery, according to a report published this week by Knight Frank.
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Recovery boosts forecasts for Europe, US
GLOBAL – Economic recovery has upped the prospects for long-lease prime properties in cities such as London, New York, Paris and Hong Kong, according to ING Real Estate Investment Management.
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BVK ‘optimises’ UK portfolio by selling assets
GERMANY/UK – Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), the €43.2bn German pension fund, has sold two UK office blocks for £48m (€56.6m).
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Macro drives Euro growth as UK confidence boosts non-listed funds
EUROPE - Broad recovery in European property markets raises the prospect that markets such as Denmark and the Netherlands could escape the cyclical downturn altogether.
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Investors look past prime to secondary assets
EUROPE - European pension funds will look to secondary assets in search of higher returns as economies recover across the region, according to Simon Mallinson, director of research at Invesco.
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ING REIM steps in to rescue Creed fund
ASIA – ING Real Estate Investment Management has taken over as general partner (GP) at an Asian real estate fund for the second time in 12 months.
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Italian real estate scraped a positive return in 2009
ITALY – Capital values in Italian commercial property suffered the steepest decline in its seven-year history, falling by -4.6% in 2009, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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Tennessee Consolidated nears real estate commingled holdings
UNITED STATES - Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System is getting close to making new investments in two core open-ended commingled funds, in a bid to gain diversification into office and retail real estate.
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London’s iconic Tower 42 is put up for sale
UK – Hermes Real Estate, the wholly owned property fund management arm of the BT pension fund, has put the Tower 42 office building in the City of London on the market for £300m (€342m).
