Latest reports – Page 3561
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MagazineLeap of faith
Achieving the right balance between a competitive EU law-compliant REIT regime and the appropriate level of protection of the local tax base is within the grasp of European governments, say Ronald Wijs, Roderik Beckers and Fraser Hughes
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MagazineFinding the right mix
Inflows into Germany’s so-called real estate Spezialfonds are slowing; the new G-REIT has been disappointing. Meanwhile changes to the investment law can’t come soon enough. Barbara Ottawa reports
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MagazinePay and display
Car parks offer investors good potential for growth says Christine Senior, and they have more commercial potential than first meets the eye
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MagazineThe domino effect
The CDO market has bounced back before but the impact of the current crisis could be more severe, as Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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MagazineTaking the indirect route
How consistent is outperformance? How relevant is NAV? These were themes at IPD/IPF’s 2007 conference. Richard Lowe reports
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MagazineHappy decoupling
The Asia Pacific region is not as threatened by the current market jitters arising from the sub-prime crisis as it might have been 10 years ago, as Michael Grimes reports
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PropertyEU Archive
'Sale-and-leaseback trend to continue in Europe'
Sale-and-leaseback deals are no longer confined to the UK and the US, they are also increasingly finding favour in Europe, claims Adolfo Ramírez-Escudero, capital markets executive director at CB Richard Ellis. Ramírez-Escudero was involved as advisor in the recent sale of Banco Santander’s EUR 1.9 bn headquarters to UK-based Propinvest ...
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PropertyEU Archive
Foruminvest to open second Italian shopping centre
Foruminvest Italia, the Italian arm of Dutch commercial property investor Foruminvest, said it is set to inaugurate its second Italian shopping centre on March 1 in Molfetta in the southern Italian region of Apulia.
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PropertyEU Archive
IPD Index Property Derivatives soars to new record in Q4
Trading volumes for IPD Index Property Derivatives hit a new record in the fourth quarter of 2007, with the total of 236 trades eclipsing the previous record of 164 trades set in the first quarter of the year, according to figures published by Investment Property Databank (IPD). A total ...
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PropertyEU Archive
GE Money Banks lets 5.500 m[sup]2[/sup] in Gdansk office project
Property adviser Jones Lang LaSalle said the Polish arm of GE Money Bank will let 5,500 m[sup]2[/sup] of office space in the Arkonska Business Park in Gdansk. The bank will move to the new offices in July 2008. The project is being developed by Polish firm Torus.
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PropertyEU Archive
GE RE pulls out of Colonial bidding
GE Real Estate Iberia, the property arm of General Electric in Spain, said on Friday it is pulling out of the bidding for troubled Spanish real estate firm Colonial. In a statement to the Spanish stock market regulator CNMV, GE said that the two companies 'were not able to reach ...
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PropertyEU Archive
C&W Investors retained by West Sussex County Council
Cushman & Wakefield Investors has been reappointed by UK West Sussex County Council pension fund as its property investment manager. The new appointment, covering both direct and indirect property, is for an initial period of four years. The property portfolio currently constitutes 7% of the pension fund's total assets, with ...
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PropertyEU Archive
King Sturge launches luxury residential sales in Prague, Bratislava
International property consultancy King Sturge said it has launched the sale of luxury residential schemes in the cities of Prague and Bratislava.
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PropertyEU Archive
CB Richard Ellis strengthens presence in Scotland
CB Richard Ellis announced on Friday the acquisition of Paul Gee & Co, a privately-owned commercial property services company based in Aberdeen, Scotland. The global property consultant said the acquisition will allow it to expand its leadership position in Scotland by combining Paul Gee & Co with CB Richard Ellis' ...
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PropertyEU Archive
Slowdown in total returns on SCS/IPD Irish Quarterly Index in Q4
The total return on the SCS/IPD Irish Quarterly Index fell to 1.0% in the fourth quarter of 2007 from the previous quarter, according to figures from Investment Property Databank (IPD). While the total return for 2007 was a robust 9.9% on the previous year, it was well below ...
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PropertyEU Archive
AMB adds logistics centre near Amsterdam to Europe Fund
AMB Property Europe said it has contributed the AMB Fokker Logistics Center 4A near Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to AMB Europe Fund I, FCP-FIS. The 10,300 m[sup]2[/sup] facility is fully leased to international integrated logistics services company Schenker.
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PropertyEU Archive
NSI in second acquisition in Switzerland
Dutch investor Nieuwe Steen Investments has reached an agreement with a subsidiary of Credit Suisse for the acquisition of the Silvergate office building in Thalwil, Switzerland, for a total amount of CHF 44 mln (EUR 27 mln). The deal is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2008.
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PropertyEU Archive
Grainger buys Germany's FranconoRheinMain
UK listed residential property owner Grainger said it has agreed to acquire German residential property firm FranconoRheinMain for up to EUR 45.8 mln in cash.
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News
CA Immo postpones G-Reit
AUSTRIA/GERMANY – The €3.5bn Austrian real estate company CA Immo has decided to postpone the launch of a German Reit because of current market conditions.
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News
Orange County adopts commingled strategy
UNITED STATES - Orange County Employees Retirement System is adopting a real estate investment strategy which will see it only invest in commingled funds.
