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  • Magazine

    Time to refocus

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    Belgian investors play safe. Now the priority is to de-risk and rebalance, says Shayla Walmsley

  • Keeping faith
    Magazine

    Keeping faith

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    Is there a need to rebuild trust between investors and fund managers? As Richard Lowe discovers, good, professional managers invariably still have the trust of their investors, but are doing everything in their power to maintain it

  • Long-term momentum
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    Long-term momentum

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    PREA’s investor survey finds a rise in larger target allocations and an increase to value and opportunistic strategies. Jack Nowakowski reports

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Union Investment acquires office building in Paris for EUR 177m

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate has acquired the office building 'A4C' in Paris Rive Gauche from asset manager Standard Life Investments for EUR 177 mln.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    DTZ coordinates projects for Zlote Tarasy

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    DTZ said that its project and building consultancy team in Poland had again been appointed to coordinate tenants and to provide project management for rearrangement of retail space at Zlote Tarasy in Warsaw.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    RREEF consortium completes EUR 1.1bn acquisition of BBVA assets

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    A consortium led by of Deutsche Bank's property fund RREEF has completed the sale-and-leaseback of the majority of the Spanish assets of BBVA bank for EUR 1.15 bn.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    SWIP, C&W Investors to launch European retail fund

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) is teaming up with Cushman & Wakefield Investors (CWI) to launch a diversified pan European urban retail property fund, PURetail. Aimed at institutional investors, the fund’s focus will be on core city centres across Europe.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Deutsche Pfandbriefbank provides finance for Aurelis deal

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has agreed an investment finance facility in excess of EUR 900 mln with Hochtief Projektentwicklung and Redwood Grove International.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    IVG fully places Protect fund for institutional investors

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    German firm IVG announced on Friday that its EUR 300 mln IVG Protect Fund has been fully placed. Protect is an open-ended, specialised real estate fund for institutional investors.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Orco bondholders reject restructuring plan

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Orco Property Group has been forced back to the drawing board after bondholders rejected the ailing CEE investor-developer's debt restructuring plan. The bondholders voted down an enhanced proposal in relation to a debt-for-equity swap on 24 September.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Equest Balkan suffers EUR 71m loss

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Equest Balkan Properties (EBP) has seen its loss widen to EUR 71 mln in the first six months of 2009 from EUR 9 mln a year ago. The company attributed the higher losses to 'a severe deepening in the decline of the commercial property values in South East Europe'.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    LaSalle completes major new development in Slough

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    LaSalle Investment Management has opened Windsor House, a 9,100-m[sup]2[/sup] HQ office proeprty in the centre of Slough, UK.

  • Magazine

    Strategy in brief

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    IPE Real Estate asked some of the leading managers for their views on some current issues facing investors and the market in general...

  • Magazine

    Win-win

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    The INREV guidelines continue to gain traction throughout the European unlisted industry and beyond. In today’s challenging market the logic of compliance is clearer than ever – but there are exceptions, as Richard Lowe reports

  • Interesting times
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    Interesting times

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    Sustainability is catching on fast in the likes of India and China, which bears witness to the considerable progress that is being made in Asia’s vast and diverse property investment landscape. But you can still taste the pollution when you wake in Shanghai and HK, and although many parts of ...

  • Magazine

    Milestone on a long road

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    A new index makes it possible to monitor the performance of sustainable property. The industry now needs to target smoother access to the raw data. Louise Ellison and Christina Cudworth report

  • ...but fog on the journey
    Magazine

    ...but fog on the journey

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    Universal standards are key if investors are to make headway in greening their portfolios, says Steve Smith

  • How open is open?
    Magazine

    How open is open?

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    Open ended funds are available in a variety of flavours depending on your need for liquidity relative to your need for real estate returns. In future funds must build in the capacity to withstand mass redemptions, as Robin Goodchild reports

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Trigranit resumes construction of Polus Center Constanta

    2009-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Hungarian property company Trigranit said it is resuming construction of its Romanian shopping centre project, Polus Center Constanta, after halting the development at the end of 2008 due to the credit crunch. The CEE real estate builder, which slashed its development pipeline in half last year, will invest around EUR ...

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Peach Property buys into German real estate

    2009-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Switzerland's Peach Property Group has boosted its presence in the German real estate market with the acquisition of two residential and commercial projects from Germany's Vivacon. The company has acquired two developments in Hamburg and Berlin with total development costs of roughly CHF 253 mln (EUR 166 mln). The financial ...