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Managers avoid dance with pension fund pests (amended)
GLOBAL - Smaller European pension funds are finding themselves marginalised by property fund managers tired of their requests for special terms, according to a US fund-of-funds manager.
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US-based PE funds struggle after record inflows
UNITED STATES - Investors are abandoning smaller US private equity property funds, and opting instead to commit capital to “megafunds” to avoid navigating a saturated market.
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Berks to increase alternatives exposure
UK – The £1.49bn (€1.88bn) Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund has confirmed its intention to move into infrastructure, with the issue of a new manager tender.
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'Goodnight Europe', as RoW dominates returns ranking
GLOBAL - Europe accounted for only one of the world’s top five-returning property markets, according to the IPD Global Index launched last week.
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East Capital goes it alone in Baltics
BALTIC STATES - Fund manager East Capital has taken sole control of a joint venture set up to manage its Baltic property funds and expressed optimism for their performance despite an economic downturn in their target markets.
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Finnish PFs snap up Sponda bond
FINLAND - Finnish pension funds and insurers will be the primary investors in a €130m hybrid bond issued by Finnish real estate firm Sponda, according to chief executive Kari Inkinen.
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MagazineTough times to raise funds
In a difficult market demand for opportunistic vehicles and funds of funds is rising. Richard Lowe reports
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MagazineHealth of the market
As the climate of risk aversion among banks persists, there is a growing trend for smaller equity financed deals, while borrowers face much stricter lending criteria, says Lynn Strongin Dodds
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MagazineThink goals and goalposts
As performance becomes harder to come by Dutch pension funds are focusing increasingly on manager selection – as well as a number of new areas of investment, as Richard Lowe reports
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Magazine
Unfazed and undeterred
Uncertainty has slowed activity but, despite a poor year for real estate, strategic allocations have not been cut and some have even increased, Gail Moss finds
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PropertyEU Archive
Multi, Meinl's Polish mall nearly fully let
Multi Development and Meinl European Land have said that their 55,000-m[sup]2[/sup] Forum Koszalin project in the Polish city of Koszalin is almost fully let ahead of the planned inauguration of the shopping centre in November. Progress in leasing space in the new shopping centre was revealed at a topping ceremony ...
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PropertyEU Archive
SEB ImmoInvest adds two new properties to its portfolio
German asset manager SEB Asset Management said it has placed two completed development properties in its property fund SEB ImmoInvest. With the addition of the two new properties in the Finnish capital Helsinki and the city of Deventer in the Netherlands SEB ImmoInvest now has a portfolio comprised of ...
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PropertyEU Archive
IPD: Global property returns slowed in 2007
Global property returns in local currency terms stood at 11.5% in 2007, down from a 14.7% peak return delivered globally in 2006, IPD said as it published its first ever global property index.
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PropertyEU Archive
Inrev funds' database universe rises to 484 in Q1
The number of non-listed real funds covered by Inrev's vehicles database hit 484 in the first quarter of 2008, up from 476 in the final quarter of 2007, with 11 new vehicles coming to the market over this period, according to the industry association's latest quarterly research report.
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PropertyEU Archive
ECE to build football stadium-mall in Czech city
Hamburg-based shopping centre developer ECE Projektmanagement has been awarded the contract to build Park Malsovice, an inner-city football stadium with a retail and leisure component, in the historic Czech city of Hradec Kralove.
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PropertyEU Archive
City of London Office vacancy breaks through 10% barrier
Office vacancy rates in the City of London have broken through the 10% barrier to 10.2% in the second quarter, up from 9% in the previous quarter, according to property agency NB Real Estate.
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PropertyEU Archive
Austrians begin work on Poland's largest business park
Austrian companies UBM and CA Immo International have announced the start of construction work on Poleczki Business Park located on the edge of the Mokotow district of Warsaw. The joint venture partners said the facility will be the largest business park in Poland.
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PropertyEU Archive
Fortis Bank sells two buildings for EUR 94m
Belgian property group Befimmo said it has acquired two buildings in Belgium from Fortis Bank for an overall purchase price of EUR 94mln.
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PropertyEU Archive
CLS sells two Central London properties for EUR 72m
real estate investment firm CLS Holdings has sold two properties in Central London to Aziz Family Trust Companies, represented by Criterion Capital, for £57mln (EUR 72mln).
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PropertyEU Archive
Risanamento mulls sale of Falck site, JV on Milano Santa Giulia
Italian property developer Risanamento said on Friday it has been approached by leading international investors in relation to its vast redevelopment of the Falck steel factory in Sesto San Giovanni, and its large redevelopment plan in Milano Santa Giulia.
