Latest Real Estate News – Page 776
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CA Immo postpones G-Reit
AUSTRIA/GERMANY – The €3.5bn Austrian real estate company CA Immo has decided to postpone the launch of a German Reit because of current market conditions.
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Orange County adopts commingled strategy
UNITED STATES - Orange County Employees Retirement System is adopting a real estate investment strategy which will see it only invest in commingled funds.
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Pramerica widens LatAm operations
UNITED STATES - Pramerica Real Estate Investors has extended its real estate investment area into South America and made its first investment in Argentina, but the firm is looking for its first deal in Chile.
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Ohio Police & Fire shifts direct property into core fund
UNITED STATES - Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund has made a $200m (€135.4m) investment with Invesco, as part of a deal which sees some of its properties move into its core real estate fund.
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LACERA commits to pan-European fund
UNITED STATES - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has approved a $25m (€16.9m) commitment into the Europa fund III commingled fund, which is also expected to contribute to Nordic and Swiss property deals.
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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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New Jersey eyes $2bn in real estate
UNITED STATES - New Jersey Division of Investment will be looking at investing as much as $2bn (€1.38bn) in real estate for 2008.
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UK rally 'will be short-lived'
UK - Property shares will rally by up to 20% between now and mid-year before halving in value over the subsequent 18 months as the economy slides into recession, according to a research note from Morgan Stanley, the investment bank.
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AP Pension makes first direct Asia property bet
DENMARK -- AP Pension, the Danish occupational pension scheme, haschannelled DKK130m (€17.4m) into an Asian property fund with aportfolio of shopping centres – its first direct foray into Asian realestate funds.
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Serbia: 'the new Poland'
EUROPE - Investors will target Balkan states for returns fast disappearing from Central and Eastern European (CEE) property markets, judging by an Serb acquisition announced last week by Merrill Lynch.
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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.
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Washington State commits to Brazil
UNITED STATES - Washington State Investment Board has decided to allocate $100m (€68.4m) into a commingled fund providing debt and equity investments in Brazilian real estate.
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RV Kuhns adds real estate presence
UNITED STATES - RV Kuhns & Associates has become the latest general investment consultant in the United States to have its own real estate team.
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US pension funds see new opportunity
UNITED STATES – Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas are two of the latest US pension funds to place capital into opportunity funds.
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JP Morgan creates $726m apartment JV
UNITED STATES - JP Morgan Asset Management has setup a $726m (€498.6m) joint venture with Apartment Investment and Management Company to gain a co-ownership of three apartment complexes in West Los Angeles.
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ABP to move back into listed
NETHERLANDS – ABP is to up its investment in listed property, just months after the €215bn Dutch pension scheme divested part of its listed portfolio in Europe and US.
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Segro deal to realise Berlin airport city
GERMANY - Berlin Airport Authority and Segro have agreed the development of a 38-hectare business and logistics park next to Berlin’s Schönefeld airport after the London-listed property investor acquired the land for €34m.
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French institutions to diversify real estate
FRANCE – As much as 60% of French institutional investors will diversify their real estate portfolios either geographically or into different investment strategies, the ratings firm MultiRatings has found.
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CalSTRS expands industrial JV to Europe
UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System CalSTRS) and First Industrial Realty Trust have moved their industrial joint venture program to Europe for the first time.
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'Mid-sized funds charge more' - INREV
GLOBAL - The larger the fund, the lower the management fee is the conclusion of an INREV survey of fees charged by 160 European non-listed real estate funds, except in funds with assets of €100—299m, as they levy the highest fees.
