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  • PropertyEU Archive

    Atrium, CBRE launch EUR 250m property fund

    2007-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Lisbon-based Atrium Investimentos, an independent asset manager specialising in alternative investments, has teamed up with CBRE Investors to launch 'GREFF' (Global Real Estate Fund of Funds). GREFF is primarily aimed at offering institutional investors exposure to a portfolio of 10-20 selected property funds with a main focus on European and ...

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    Catalyst buys portfolio, opens new office in Poland

    2007-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Catalyst Capital has acquired a mixed-use portfolio in Poland on behalf of its WCC Europe Fund from Echo Investments for a total of EUR 69 mln. The portfolio, covering some 37,900 m[sup]2[/sup] of space, comprises two shopping centres and two office properties in the cities of Kielce and Lodz. The ...

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    Kingfisher seeks stronger presence in Russia

    2007-07-16T00:00:00Z

    UK-based Kingfisher plans to open 50 stores in Russia over the next few years in a move aimed at boosting its position in the country, where a construction boom is fuelling demand for DIY goods. The British DIY group, which already opened four stores in Russia in 2006 under the ...

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    CBRE Investors raises EUR 542m for pan-European fund

    2007-07-16T00:00:00Z

    CBRE Investors Global Multi Manager (GMM) has raised EUR 542 mln of equity from 22 UK pension funds for its continental European Alpha Fund. GMM is a division of CBRE Investors that invests in unlisted funds worldwide and has mandates totalling $3.5 bn (over EUR 2.5 bn). GMM hopes that ...

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    WDP acquires Univeg, targets new investments in Romania

    2007-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Belgian logistics property investor Warehouses De Pauw (WDP) has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Univeg real estate portfolio, rounding off the second phase of its strategic growth plan. In the third phase of the plan, WDP has added Romania as a key region for investment.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    IPD plans new pan-European real estate index

    2007-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Property market index maker Investment Property Databank (IPD) wants to establish a pan-European index standard to improve the quality of property valuations. At a seminar hosted by Reuters on Friday, IPD's managing director in Germany, Matthias Thomas, said the move was designed to define best practice within European property valuations.

  • PropertyEU Archive

    Derwent London sellls three properties for EUR 258m

    2007-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Derwent London is selling three non-core assets which were acquired through the merger with London Merchant Securities last February. The transaction price comes to £175 mln (EUR 258 mln), before disposal costs. Derwent said 'the deal achieved £91.8 mln above the properties' book value of £83.2 mln.'

  • Magazine

    Something for everyone

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Recent fund launches suggest that if fund managers are running out of big ideas, they aren't short of big ambitions

  • Don’t invest for the sake of investing
    Magazine

    Don’t invest for the sake of investing

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Founded in 1990, Austrian multi-employer pension fund APK today has €2.6bn in assets under management. Investment in real estate is driven by opportunity rather than allocation, as APK’s head of investments, Günther Schiendl, explains to Martin Hurst

  • Everyone’s a winner
    Magazine

    Everyone’s a winner

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    The required improvements to non-listed fund data and benchmarking are in managers’ own interests as, Lisette van Doorn explains

  • Opportunity in diversity
    Magazine

    Opportunity in diversity

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Kate Medlicott suggests some top city destinations for this summer in the eclectic world of European commercial real estate

  • Strength in breadth
    Magazine

    Strength in breadth

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Property ETFs can be a flexible and inexpensive way to benefit from the positive characteristics of property as an asset. Jennifer Grancio reports

  • A close call
    Magazine

    A close call

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Does trading increase real estate portfolio performance? Piet Eichholtz finds the case in favour to be far from overwhelming

  • Friend or foe?
    Magazine

    Friend or foe?

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Do consultants benefit investors or merely hinder managers? Sally Hodge investigates

  • First brave steps
    Magazine

    First brave steps

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Growing supply pressures in the domestic market are forcing home-loving Swiss pension funds to venture abroad, but the learning curve will be steep. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports

  • Residential rethink required
    Magazine

    Residential rethink required

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Current regulations and a keen local property ownership culture are holding back Spanish institutional investment in real estate, as Adrienne Margolis reports

  • Embracing the wider world
    Magazine

    Embracing the wider world

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Portugal’s institutional investors have long been content to invest domestically because of strong returns. Now things are changing, as Adrienne Margolis reports

  • Move right in
    Magazine

    Move right in

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    A patchy market, major project delays and market fragmentation do little to reassure potential investors about serviced office.

  • Europe’s rising giant: Istanbul
    Magazine

    Europe’s rising giant: Istanbul

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Exciting demographics have propelled Turkey up the league of investment appeal in spite of a shortage of stock and nagging political uncertainties, as Paul Strohm discovers

  • Retail delight
    Magazine

    Retail delight

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Neville Moss looks at the emerging shopping centre market in Istanbul where exceptional fundamentals present a solid long-term outlook