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  • Windows of opportunity
    Magazine

    Windows of opportunity

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    Fund terminations loom large, with implications for the range of strategic and tactical investor requirements. Against this backdrop the secondary market provides an opening.

  • Tax efficiency or tax risk?
    Magazine

    Tax efficiency or tax risk?

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    Growing international diversification and demand for more tailored investment solutions presents challenges to investors concerned with minimising the tax burden.

  • Constrained optimisation
    Magazine

    Constrained optimisation

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    In spite of recent market developments the case for both private and public real estate remains strong. They continue to complement other asset classes, although investors may be limiting scope.

  • Magazine

    Coalition…consensus…confusion

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    Industry leaders have waxed lyrical about the EU-REIT. But is this ambition a road to nowhere?

  • Correlations under Scrutiny
    Magazine

    Correlations under Scrutiny

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    Current market conditions may mean that listed and unlisted are becoming more similar, but there is still plenty of scope for the two to work effectively together.

  • Academic conundrum or investment opportunity?
    Magazine

    Academic conundrum or investment opportunity?

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    The UK listed sector provides clear discounts over NAV. This includes REITs but the most skilled REIT investors will also consider funds from operations.

  • A question of priority
    Magazine

    A question of priority

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    Despite radical changes in market conditions, the respective arguments for listed and unlisted real estate have not changed significantly.

  • REITs: a better trade-off
    Magazine

    REITs: a better trade-off

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    Unlike other listed property companies, most REITs do not usually trade at a discount to NAV. And why should they? It is time for European REITs to fulfil their potential.

  • 20:20 hindsight
    Magazine

    20:20 hindsight

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    The bubble has burst. Once again property investors only have themselves to blame, right? Not necessarily, says Nick Axford

  • Common sense and discipline
    Magazine

    Common sense and discipline

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    Much of what is currently happening in the capital markets is no longer explicable solely in terms of a market efficiency thesis, as Thomas Beyerle reports

  • Bucking the investment trend
    Magazine

    Bucking the investment trend

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    Market neutral alternative real estate funds: they are new, but what makes them special, especially in these somewhat stressed investment times?

  • The challenge of uniformity
    Magazine

    The challenge of uniformity

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    There are significant variations in the standards of governance of listed real estate across Asia. Family ownership is among the challenges facing regulators and industry bodies.

  • Raise your game
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    Raise your game

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    A recent corporate governance study by the European Public Real Estate Association uncovered wide variances in standards, as Steve Hays reports

  • Better times ahead
    Magazine

    Better times ahead

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    As structures are refined and markets improve, UK, Italian and German REIT prospects look brighter, say Paul van der Vaart and Luke Powell

  • News

    APG reshuffles Asian real estate team

    2008-06-06T10:13:00Z

    NETHERLANDS – Dutch APG Investments, the wholly-owned division of ABP created to manage the assets and administration of the pension fund, has reshuffled its Asian real estate team.

  • Magazine

    The Latin attraction

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    Mexico and Brazil have Latin America’s biggest economies and the region’s most mature real estate markets. Richard Gwilliam reports

  • Confidence and capacity
    Magazine

    Confidence and capacity

    June 2008 (Magazine)

    The risks to the US economy are primarily downside but unlike previous downturns at least there is no overbuilding problem. In this special report on the US Bret Wilkerson and Jeff Havsy look at what has happened in the US and consider the outlook for this year

  • PropertyEU Archive

    PIK shops in the Republic of Udmurtia

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    London-listed residential property developer PIK Group said on Thursday it has signed an agreement to purchase a 229 hectare plot of land for development in the city of Izhevsk, Republic of Udmurtia, a sovereign republic within the Russian Federation. The site is situated in the Western part of the Middle ...

  • PropertyEU Archive

    CBRE completes Copenhagen's largest office let in 2008

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Global property advisor CB Richard Ellis has let a landmark 24,000 m[sup]2[/sup] office tower in TV-Byen in Soborg, near Copenhagen, to global professional services provider Ernst & Young. Ernst & Young will relocate its current Danish headquarters to the building, leasing all 15 storeys in the largest office letting deal ...

  • PropertyEU Archive

    ICSC: Outlet centres booming in economic slowdown

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) said on Thursday that designer outlet centres in the USA and across Europe are bucking the downturn seen in the general retail trade. Brendon O’Reilly, Development Director at property consultants GVA Grimley, said the upward trend for designer outlet centres is continuing in ...