Latest Real Estate News – Page 730
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Indiana PERF sees potential in real estate debt
UNITED STATES - Indiana Public Employees’ Retirement Fund has approved two investments in real estate debt totalling $230m (€169.9m).
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Aegon AM launches fund targeting smaller properties
UK – AEGON Asset Management is the latest fund management group to launch a fund targeting smaller real estate assets in the UK, as the market for prime property becomes increasingly competitive.
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Europe's biggest pension fund given top-line real estate guidelines
NORWAY - The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has today revealed the Government Pension Fund-Global fund will in future be invested in real estate as planned, albeit investments will be made over a long period of time, in a bid to reduce risk.
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CalSTRS loses $83m as Fairfield moves to Chapter 11
UNITED STATES- California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) has taken an $82.9m (€61.2m) hit in its real estate portfolio as one of its investments, Fairfield Residential LLC, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Lack of purchasing stocks shifts attention to secondaries
EUROPE – A lack of prime real estate being placed on the market is forcing investors to consider secondary assets or to focus on opportunities arising from banks.
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Responsible investment fund to develop UK care homes
UK – A new socially-responsible real estate fund backed by local authority pension funds has invested in the UK care home sector.
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Aberdeen claims core European real estate has bottomed
EUROPE – Aberdeen Property Investors has begun buying real estate again for its core pan-European institutional fund now that it believes many of the continent’s prime markets have bottomed out.
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Kansas PERS turns attention to core real estate
UNITED STATES - Kansas Public Employees Retirement System has made a $100m (€73.5m) allocation to the LaSalle core commingled US Property Fund.
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L&S makes 36% gain on 9-mth investment
UK – London & Stamford Property, the listed company managed by Raymond Mould and Patrick Vaughan, has sold a UK office building for £51.3m (€56.6m), nine months after buying it for £37.6m
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Mn presses funding extension talks for PME and PMT
NETHERLANDS – Mn Services is in discussions with 25 global real estate fund managers, on behalf of Pensioenfonds Metaal en Techniek (PMT) and Pensioenfonds van de Metalektro (PME), about an extension to fund investment periods.
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ING Clarion deal signals market re-entry
UNITED STATES- ING Clarion Partners has shown its belief in the comeback of the real estate market and made its first acquisition in over two years for the Clarion Development Ventures III commingled fund.
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Wisconsin eyes debt as part of $250m signing
UNITED STATES – The State of Wisconsin Investment Board is in process with making new investments in real estate totalling $250m (€183.9m).
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Manchester pension fund to rebuild office eyesore as beauty
UK – The £7.39bn (€8.48bn) Greater Manchester Pension Fund, the largest local authority scheme in the UK, has been given the green light for a major office redevelopment project in Manchester city centre.
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German property faces fresh freeze
GERMANY – Open-ended real estate funds in Germany have suffered another bout of redemption freezes following writedowns in property valuations.
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Mass PRIM to invest $1bn in 2010
UNITED STATES - Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board has approved its 2010 annual real estate investment plan and could allocate as much as $1bn (€729.7m) to the asset class over the next 12 months.
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COP says US real estate could bring TARP downturn
US – Real estate loan failures at a large number of small and medium-sized US banks could destabilise the country’s financial system and derail its economy recovery, according to the government body set up to monitor the unwinding of toxic assets.
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LGP is latest to drive inflation-linking real estate
UK – Legal & General Property (LGP) has become the latest fund manager to offer defined benefit pension funds access to real estate providing inflation-linked income.
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Ohio PERS eyes apartments and mortgages
UNITED STATES – The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System has issued Requests for Information (RFI) concerning separate account managers working in the residential apartments and first mortgage loan portfolios space.
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Pension funds pile into UK property
UK – Pension funds and other institutional investors poured more capital into the UK real estate market in the fourth quarter of 2009 than during any other three-month period on record, according to the Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF).
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UK pension funds to tap smaller property deals
UK – A number of large UK corporate pension funds will take advantage of a neglected segment of the real estate market through a new fund managed by First Property Asset Management (FPAM), a subsidiary of First Property Group.
