Latest reports – Page 3558
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MagazineLumpy asset – liquid needs?
Do we need liquidity in a real estate portfolio? The nature of real estate often makes it challenging to achieve and there are varying opinions as to whether it really is crucial in the real estate part of a multi-asset portfolio. Richard Lowe talked to three pension funds about their ...
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MagazineIn need of a tonic
Investors have been struggling with their real estate allocations, but a new development should boost the flow. Richard Lowe reports
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Ferrovial to relaunch £1 bn BAA property
Spanish infrastructure group Ferrovial is resurrecting its plan to sell its part of a property portfolio worth £1 bn around London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports, according to Spanish newspaper Cinco Dias. The news follows earlier media reports that Ferrovial had lost interest in the sale after the frontrunner in the ...
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PropertyEU Archive
ING Real Estate, GIC carry out largest ever single Italian retail property deal
Dutch real estate company ING Real Estate has teamed up with the property investment arm of GIC, one of the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, to buy the new Roma Est shopping centre near Rome from Italian food-retailing chain Gruppo PAM for EUR 400 mln.
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Bouwfonds Asset Management to open an office in Paris
Bouwfonds Asset Management, part of the Dutch Rabobank Group, said on Tuesday that it is to open an office in Paris on 20 February. Bouwfonds will be active in the country under the name of Rabo Bouwfonds REIM France.
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PropertyEU Archive
Catella KAG's Focus Nordic Cities grows with record pace
Catella KAG's Focus Nordic Cities has become one of the fastest growing property funds in Germany. Since the launch in September 2007 the fund has experienced a constant inflow of equity, growing from EUR 33 mln to close to EUR 270 mln in six months.
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ULI goes in search of the Super Cities of tomorrow
Identifying the cities that have got what it takes to lead Europe and the world into the next century is one of the key topics at the Urban Land Institute's European conference in Paris on Wednesday.
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CAAM RE invests EUR 45m in development project
CAAM RE, the real estate asset management arm of French banking group Credit Agricole, has acquired an office development in the French city of Lyon for EUR 45 mln from developers ING Real Estate Development France and Atemi. The Monolithe project is earmarked for CAAM RE's SCPI investment vehicle Edissimo, ...
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Grupo Evemarina sells Park Hyatt Casares hotel for EUR 70m
Spanish property developer Grupo Evemarina has sold the five-star Park Hyatt Casares Golf & Spa Resort near Marbella in southern Spain to an unnamed Middle Eastern investment fund for some EUR 70 mln. Irea advised the seller on this transaction.
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Savills: Green agenda to impact on European logistics market
Global property consultant Savills has warned that a plan backed by the EU Commission to increase sustainability in the warehousing sector will pose some medium-term challenges for the industry that accounts for almost 15% of the EU's Gross Domestic Product.
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Cushman & Wakefield opens office in Vietnam
Property advisor Cushman & Wakefield has announced its expansion into Vietnam with the opening of an office in Ho Chi Minh City. The new office is Cushman & Wakefield's 30th location in Asia-Pacific region. Cushman & Wakefield celebrated its 90th anniversary last year, and used the occasion to launch an ...
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PropertyEU Archive
Real IS buys logistics centre for EUR 45m
Real IS, a Munich-based subsidiary of Bayern LB, has bought a logistics property in the central German region of Nordhessen for EUR 45 mln. Developed by ECE, the property is entirely leased to the Hermes Group and consists of 20,000 m[sup]2[/sup] of logistics space.
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Rezidor to open third Park Inn hotel in St Petersburg
Brussels-based hospitality group Rezidor has announced it is developing a new Park Inn hotel in St Petersburg. The Park Inn Nevsky Prospekt will be Rezidor's fourth hotel in the Russian city. The new hotel will provide 246 rooms and is expected to open in February 2009. Rezidor said it plans ...
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West End rents forecast to continue rising - Knight Frank
West End office rents are set to continue increasing, with investment yields across Central London softening by the end of Q4 2008, according to Knight Frank. The UK property advisor predicted that prime headline rents in the West End office market will increase by 5% to £115.50 per sq ft ...
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Canada scheme bags prime office
CANADA - CPP Investment Board (CPPIB), the investment arm of Canada’s CA$121.3bn (€82bn) public pension fund, has upped its exposure to domestic prime commercial with the CA$64m (€43m) investment in an Edmonton office block.
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Ireland returns 10% despite Q4 slide
IRELAND - Irish property returned just under 10% in 1007, despite dropping 2.3 percentage points to 1% in Q4, according to IPD data published last week.
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German 2nd tier delivers 7.5%
GERMANY - Investment in secondary German commercial is paying off, according to Swiss private equity investor Corestate Capital.
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MagazineThe new French revolution
It has taken investors by storm. The new regulated non-listed investment vehicle, OPCI, should boost property allocations. Nicolas Simon reports
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GIC’s Russian venture comes with promise of disclosure
RUSSIA - The real estate subsidiary of GIC, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund (SWF), is to develop a new suburb outside Moscow via a joint venture with Russian residential developer PIK.
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AXA latest to lock in fund investors
EUROPE - AXA last week became the latest manager to halt investor withdrawals when it imposed a six-month deferral on “switches out, surrenders from and transfers out of” its AXA Pension property fund.
