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MagazineHere comes the sun
Could infrastructure be the silver lining in the tumult that is the global financial crisis? Ian Cundell explores the opportunities for investors at a time when traditional asset classes are clouded in pessimism
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MagazineGo further
Led by retail, Turkey’s investment potential is growing fast but increasingly investors will have to look well beyond Istanbul for the best opportunities, Ermina Topintzi finds
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MagazineBetter together
The German Property Federation is one of Europe’s younger real estate trade associations, having been set up just two and a half years ago.
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MagazineBoring becomes interesting again
German real estate is often described as an unexciting, stable core market. But with the market correcting, investors are now seeing it as an opportunity. Barbara Ottawa reports
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MagazinePotential unfulfilled
If German real estate is an interesting investment story, how do we access it? German Special Funds, Luxemburg Special Funds, G-REITs – a structural comparison for the foreign investor is provided by Thomas Gütle
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MagazineVastly varied
Urbanisation, rising home ownership and ageing populations are strong themes across much of Asia. Another is the huge diversity of performance across the markets of this huge and eclectic continent. These are among the findings of the RICS’s first annual Asian housing market review as Stephen Brown reports
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MagazineEmerging opportunities
Parts of Asia, particularly at the more developed end, have been hit hard by the downturn. Elsewhere, the economic turmoil is throwing up new possibilities, as Kristen Paech reports
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MagazineHealth-giving properties
In a downturn the secure income of healthcare makes it an attractive option for investors but beware political risk, as Christine Senior reports
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PropertyEU Archive
Valad's Marcus Shepherd joins Aviva as CFO
International asset manager Aviva Investors has announced the appointment of Marcus Shepherd as real estate finance director. Shepherd will join Aviva Investors in January from Valad Property Group where he was chief financial officer for Europe.
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PropertyEU Archive
GPT Halverton appoints new managing director for Germany
GPT Halverton, a pan-European real estate investment manager, has appointed Joachim Mozoni-Frosconi as the firm's new managing director for Germany. Mozoni-Frosconi has more than 16 years experience in the management of real estate through various senior management positions at major German banks and financial institutions. Prior to joining GPT ...
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PropertyEU Archive
Redevco acquires 2nd stage of Vienna retail warehouse park
Redevco Central Europe has announced the acquisition of the second phase of the Seyringer Spitz retail warehouse park in the north of Vienna from Austrian developer MID. The purchase price for the second phase, totalling 3,345 m2, was EUR 6.6 mln.
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PropertyEU Archive
World's main shopping streets 'resilient' to global squeeze
The world's main shopping streets are proving largely resilient to the global economic downturn, according to Cushman & Wakefield. In its 23rd annual Main Streets Across the World report - published on the first day of the Mapic retail real estate fair in Cannes on Wednesday - the broker revealed ...
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PropertyEU Archive
Woolworths shares plunge as it confirms talks to sell stores
UK high street retail chain Woolworths saw its shares fall by almost 40% on Wednesday as already nervous investors were further spooked by the rumour that the company may be ready to sell off its 815 stores in the country for a nominal fee of £1.
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PropertyEU Archive
Retail chains dominate Dutch high streets, but rents stagnate
New international entrants are helping to bolster demand for space in Dutch cities, and up to 90% of all stores in high streets across the country belong to retail groups, broker Savills has said in its latest retail report on the Netherlands.
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PropertyEU Archive
PwC Legal expands real estate team
PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal has recruited four professionals to strengthen its real estate unit. The 10-strong real estate team will be led by Simon Hardwick with Adam Perry, Tim Hart and Amanda Crowe, who have all joined PwC Legal as partners from Halliwells.
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PropertyEU Archive
Fewer firms willing to pay extra for green space now - CoreNet/JLL
More corporate real estate executives see energy and sustainability as a business priority but are less likely to pay a premium for green office space than they were a year ago, according to a new survey conducted by CoreNet Global and Jones Lang LaSalle.
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PropertyEU Archive
High-streets to dominate German market this year - JLL
High-street retail deals will dominate the German investment market this year as liquidity shortages in the country impact on the average transaction size, says Gerhard Kemper, international director at Kemper's Jones Lang LaSalle Retail in an interview with PropertyEU. 'The investment market is very much dependent on the financing climate ...
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PropertyEU Archive
McArthurGlen to add 126,000 m[sup]2[/sup] by end 2010
McArthurGlen Group plans to open a further five new schemes in Europe over the next two years, adding 126,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of gross leasable area (GLA) to its existing portfolio of 17 outlets covering more than 400,000 m[sup]2[/sup]. The new schemes are planned for Venice, Berlin, Salzburg, Naples and Athens.
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PropertyEU Archive
AMB curtails development to strengthen liquidity
AMB, a global developer and owner of industrial property, is trimming its $1.6 bn development pipeline amid the global financial crisis. New York-listed AMB said this week that it will only proceed with fully committed projects or previously negotiated build-to-suit agreements until the financial markets stabilise.
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PropertyEU Archive
Raven Russia confirms Smith as executive director and COO
AIM-listed warehouse investor Raven Russia has confirmed the appointment of Colin Andrew Smith as executive director and chief operating officer. The move was originally signalled at end-July as part of the internalisation of Raven Russia's property management company.
