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  • Look to the East
    Magazine

    Look to the East

    March 2010 (Magazine)

    The size and maturity of Asia make it very attractive market to investors. But where to begin? Stephen Ryan and Jennifer Kaiser explain

  • Proceed with caution
    Magazine

    Proceed with caution

    March 2010 (Magazine)

    Improving economic fundamentals and low consumer indebtedness are positives for Asian markets, but the outlook isn’t all rosy, says Thomas Au

  • Shoppers choose to touch and feel
    Magazine

    Shoppers choose to touch and feel

    March 2010 (Magazine)

    For the best part of a decade doomsters have been predicting the end of shopping as we know it. Someone forgot to tell shoppers, says Shayla Walmsley

  • New eyes
    Magazine

    New eyes

    March 2010 (Magazine)

    Asset managers should find out what consumers really want fro m a shopping centre in order to ramp up performance, says Karl Kalcher

  • PropertyEU Archive

    German retail investment down 43% in 2009: CBRE

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Investment in the German retail property sector amounted to EUR 3.47 bn in 2009, down 43% on the previous year, according to figures published on Tuesday by CB Richard Ellis Germany. The decline, which was in line with expectations, was primarily due to more difficult financing conditions and an accompanying ...

  • PropertyEU Archive

    BBVA set to sell 92 properties across Spain

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Spanish lender BBVA is seeking to divest 92 vacant commercial properties across Spain in an auction process to be completed later this month. The bank hopes to fetch a minimum of EUR 63 mln from the sale of the portfolio, which comprises office and retail properties in Andalucía, Aragón, Baleares, ...

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Cosgrave Group appoints CBRE to sell Oxford St.assets

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Irish developer Cosgrave Property Group has appointed CB Richard Ellis as the sole selling agent for two assets it owns on Oxford Street in London after a number of prospective purchasers expressed an interest.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Verena Brueller joins JLL to head German desk

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Jones Lang LaSalle announced on Monday that it has appointed Verena Brueller to lead its London-based German desk. Brueller joins from Commerz Real where she was responsible for UK and Ireland acquisitions.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Rockspring acquires EUR 44m of property in UK

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Rockspring Property Investment Managers has announced that it has acquired two properties in Milton Keynes in England and Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The acquisitions with a total investment volume of almost £40 mln (EUR 44 mln) were carried out on behalf of the Rockspring UK Value Fund (RUKV) and the Rockspring ...

  • PropertyEU Archive

    C&W receives industrial mandates in Spain, Portugal

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) and MAF Inmuebles have been appointed to lease or sell the industrial portfolio of Spain's real estate group Anfora in the south of the country. The portfolio consists of two assets in Polinyà and Llinars del Vallès near Barcelona with a total surface of 65,000 m[sup]2[/sup] ...

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Stockholm mayor to outline holistic sustainability approach at Mipim

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Stockholm mayor Sten Nordin is to outline his vision of a 'holistic approach' for sustainable urban development during a keynote address at the Mipim property fair on 17 March. He will also explain the importance of identifying the synergies between urban functions and the best-adapted technical solutions.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    'Commerz Real in talks on Bonarka centre'

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    German fund manager Commerz Real is in exclusive talks with CEE property developer Trigranit to buy a stake in its Bonarka shopping centre in the Polish city of Krakow, according to reliable sources. In an interview with PropertyEU, Trigranit's Chief Investment Officer Zsolt Szabo declined to comment on the report. ...

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Global property markets on the up: C&W

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Global investment volumes are forecast to rise 30% this year, hitting EUR 362 bn, led by a reviving US market, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s 2010 Global Investment Atlas which monitors investment flows in commercial property in 56 countries,

  • PropertyEU Archive

    King Sturge joins Polish Council of Shopping Centres

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    King Sturge's Warsaw office has joined the Polish Council of Shopping Centres (PRCH), a move the property adviser says will enable it to become even more involved in the country's retail property sector and open the door to valuable new relationships.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    German open-ended funds see strong rise in January inflows

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Germany's open-ended property funds witnessed net average capital inflows of EUR 1.7 bn in January, nearly three times the figure for December 2009 and a sharp increase on the EUR 789 mln recorded in January 2009, according to new figures from industry body BVI.

  • News

    German property redemptions could carry two-year waiting period

    2010-03-08T17:50:00Z

    GERMANY – Investors in German open-ended real estate funds will have to abide by a two-year holding period before redeeming their shares, if government plans come to fruition.

  • News

    Pension funds outperformed with property investments

    2010-03-08T17:48:00Z

    UK – Pension funds outperformed the International Property Databank’s (IPD) benchmark of 3% for all participating UK funds in 2009, because they owned prime property and bought largely ahead of the market rally in the second half of the year.

  • News

    Danish pension funds take on sustainable office development

    2010-03-08T17:45:00Z

    DENMARK - Danish pension funds PensionDanmark and Lægernes Pensionskasse, and Swedish financial group Nordea Life have purchased a sustainable office development in Denmark through a joint venture.

  • News

    Washington State creates its own real estate benchmark

    2010-03-08T17:43:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Washington State Investment Board has dropped the NCREIF Property Index as the return benchmark it applied to its real estate portfolio.

  • News

    Indiana PERF sees potential in real estate debt

    2010-03-08T17:41:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Indiana Public Employees’ Retirement Fund has approved two investments in real estate debt totalling $230m (€169.9m).