Latest Real Estate News – Page 780
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Smaller schemes opt for Asian fund-of-funds
EUROPE - The European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) has launched a directory of 36 unlisted funds of property funds to meet demand from smaller pension funds and niche-hungry major funds.
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NYSTRS turns $525m to non-core investing
UNITED STATES - New York State Teachers Retirement System is looking at investing up to $525m (€356m) in non-core real state through commingled funds and a separate account.
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MacFarlane raises $1bn for urban investment
UNITED STATES - MacFarlane Partners has raised $1bn (€683.6m) for Urban Real Estate Fund II, making this one of the largest urban commingled funds ever to be created in the United States.
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Ohio School Employees places capital into non-core property
UNITED STATES - School Employees Retirement System of Ohio has approved commitments totaling $100m (€67.2m) into two non-core commingled funds, as its investment strategy for 2008 is to ignore the core real estate market.
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Duopoly to define logistics fund market
EUROPE - The European logistics market will diverge into ‘blockbuster’ and ‘niche’ funds, with specialist nous and tenant relationships determining asset managers’ survival in a shaken-out market, claims Peter Davies, fund director of the Goodman European Logistics Fund (GELF).
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Arizona State to take real estate over the border
UNITED STATES - Arizona State Retirement System has decided to open its real estate investment program to the international stage on both the private and public side.
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Reits design described as “wrong”
GLOBAL - European Reits are being formulated to appeal to the “wrong audience”, according to Europroperty Consulting.
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CEE pricing 'still a concern'
EUROPE - Central and Eastern Europe is still too overpriced to be worth investing in, despite greater differentiation between prime and secondary real estate pricing, according to Scottish Widows Investment Partnership’s head of property Malcolm Naish.
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French study suggests derivatives 'over-hyped'
EUROPE - European institutional investors have little appetite for property derivatives, despite claims from investment banks suggesting they offer an effective hedge against inflation, suggests academic research.
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CalPERS drops RREEF after key staff losses
UNITED STATES – RREEF has lost the contract to manage California Public Employees Retirement System’s CalWest Industrial Investors LLC separate account following the departure of several key officials earlier this year.
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Corio to divest office and industrial portfolios
NETHERLANDS - The €6bn property investment and management company Corio has decided to go ahead with divesting the major part of its offices and industrial portfolios, and to further focus on its retail activities.
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Washington State ups real estate allocation
UNITED STATES - Washington State Investment Board has decided to boost its real estate allocation from 12% to 13%.
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Texas Teachers invest in land banking
UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of Texas has approved a commitment of $150m ($101.4m euros) into the Stratford Land Fund III commingled fund, as there is now less appetite for building physical developments.
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Apartments hit most by market shift – Pramerica
UNITED STATES - Pramerica Real Estate Investors is predicting the apartment market will be the most affected of all major property types by the recent changes in the residential housing and credit markets.
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US pensions shift further into structured finance
UNITED STATES – Increased pension fund capital in the United States is expected to flow into structured finance over the coming months, following moves by two schemes to invest in the sector.
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Director arrested in Philips pensions fraud
NETHERLANDS - Dutch fraud police have arrested the former and current directors of real estate at PREIM, the real estate arm of the €14.5bn Philips pension fund, as part of their investigation into fraud connected with the scheme’s property portfolio.
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BNL fund to outsource real estate
ITALY – The €970m pension fund of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is looking to outsource the management of its real estate portfolio.
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NY State Teachers to pull out of two core funds
UNITED STATES - New York State Teachers Retirement System is thinking of withdrawing $225m (€153m) from two US core open-ended commingled funds.
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Lehman Brothers creates retail JV in Italy
UNITED STATES - Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners has formed a new joint venture with B Consulting for the development of new retail properties in Italy.
