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US pension funds target listed, but remain wary of direct investment
Less than one-quarter of US public pension funds have direct exposure to real estate, says Preqin.
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M&G provides Round Hill loan to acquire Blackstone property portfolio
Offers £266m in senior debt, while US hedge fund Och-Ziff provides further £80m in mezzanine debt.
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APG acquires stake in Indian hotel group, enters real estate JV
Dutch asset manager acquires minority stake in Delhi-based Lemon Tree Hotels.
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UK parliament urges 'radical rethink' of private finance initiative projects
Report claims PFI equity investors get 'eye-wateringly' high rewards for minimal risk.
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Niam recruits director to portfolio management team
Nordic private equity firm Niam said on Wednesday that it has hired Erik Rydström as director to its portfolio management team.
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European debt space becoming more 'finely divided'
As the European real estate debt market continues to develop, more sophisticated strategies will evolve, according to Dale Lattanzio, managing partner of DRC Capital, the London-based real estate debt investment platform which was spun out last month from US private equity firm Duet.
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Rockspring, Vencom acquire Swedish retail portfolio
Rockspring Property Investment Managers has acquired a 45,000 m[sup]2[/sup] portfolio of retail assets in Sweden, with Vencom Property Partners acting as the local operating partner. The assets were sold by Redevco Sweden and the financial details were not disclosed.
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GSW raises EUR 190m in capital increase for acquisitions
GSW Immobilien has raised net proceeds of EUR 190 mln from a capital increase. Existing shareholders of the listed Berlin-based residential property company purchased almost all of the 9.5 million shares offered at EUR 21.3 per share. The gross proceeds came to EUR 201 mln.
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Invesco picks up two Berlin hotels for EUR 60m
Invesco Real Estate (IRE) has acquired two newly built four-star hotels on Berlin's Alexanderplatz for about EUR 60 mln in a sale-and-leaseback acquisition with Azure Property Group.
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Union Investment tops Dutch investor ranking
Union Investment Real Estate was the top German investor in the Netherlands in 2011 thanks to its acquisition of the first building of the Monarch project in The Hague for EUR 70 mln. The Hamburg-based manager of open-ended and special funds also purchased the Crowne Plaza hotel in the Dutch ...
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C&W adds to London markets team
Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Sharon French as partner in the property & asset management team within its London Markets group with effect from 30 April.
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French hedge funds give AIFMD a qualified thumbs up
French hedge funds and the securities regulator AMF believe the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) will - more than UCITS fund vehicles - boost investor confidence in hedge funds and pave the way for potentially significant asset growth. But they caution that further steps are required to fully gain ...
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Brazilian billionaire seals EUR 616m deal in London
Brazilian billionaire Moise Yacoub Safra is reportedly paying £500 mln (EUR 616 mln) to acquire the Plantation Place office scheme in the City of London in a loan-to-own strategy. The office scheme was tied up in a commercial mortgage-backed security (CMBS) which breached its loan-to-value conditions in 2008.
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CBRE Global Investors fails to halt new Capgemini office
CBRE Global Investors, the landlord of CapGemini's current Dutch office in the Papendorp business park near the city of Utrecht, has lost a court battle to halt construction of a new office building for the ICT services company.
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Union Investment strikes another deal in central Berlin
Union Investment Real Estate has carried out its second investment in central Berlin in a matter of weeks. In the latest deal, the Hamburg-based investor acquired Neue Promenade 6, a 3,140 m[sup]2[/sup] office and retail property, from a private investor. The financial details were not disclosed.
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Real I.S. buys German shopping centre for EUR 76m
German fund manager Real I.S. has acquired the Schlössle Galerie shopping centre in the south-western German town of Pforzheim from Deka Immobilien for EUR 76 mln.
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OVG wins CoreNet award for TNT building
CoreNet Global - the association for corporate real estate - has named Rotterdam-based developer OVG Real Estate as the winner of the annual Sustainable Leadership Award. The award was presented during the opening session of the CoreNet Global Summit at the San Diego Convention Center earlier this week.
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CBRE hires Chris Vydra from Knight Frank
CBRE has appointed Chris Vydra as an executive director to their Central London business. Vydra worked at CBRE until 2005, when he joined Knight Frank as a partner.
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Colliers strengthens Serbian office
Colliers International has announced the appointment of Jovan Tatalovic as Office Agency director in Serbia. Tatalovic has over eight years of experience on the Serbian office market. Having spent 6 years in Colliers International, Tatalovic joined Forton International, an alliance member of Cushman & Wakefield in 2010
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Non-listed funds suffer drop in returns and capital raising
Non-listed real estate funds witnessed a significant drop in returns and the level of capital raised in 2011, according to new reports issued by the European sector organisation INREV.
