Latest Residential News – Page 128

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    NY Common adds $200m to affordable housing

    2009-10-27T17:32:00Z

    UNITED STATES - The New York State Common Retirement Fund has made another $200m (€134m) investment with the Community Preservation Corporation to extend its existing relationship.

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    GI Partners fund attracts fresh pension fund assets

    2009-10-27T17:25:00Z

    UNITED STATES - GI Partners has raised $1.9bn (€1.3bn) for its latest commingled fund, GI Partners Fund III, through a mixture of both new and existing pension fund capital, although the firm failed to meet its $2.5bn fundraising target.

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    Savills sets focus on real estate alternatives

    2009-10-27T17:19:00Z

    UK – Savills has launched a series of papers to identify alternative property sectors, in response to unprecedented volatility seen in the mainstream UK commercial real estate market.

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    ING to focus on mixed use real estate projects

    2009-10-19T17:58:00Z

    GLOBAL – Dutch-headquartered real estate investor ING Real Estate Development is planning to invest in and develop projects over the next few years which provide secure but mixed origin revenue.

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    Principal raises $214.4m for green fund

    2009-10-19T17:56:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Principal Real Estate Investors has raised $214.4m (€144.6m) in equity commitments for its Green Property Fund.

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    Oregon tops up distressed debt real estate holdings

    2009-10-05T17:32:00Z

    US – Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has demonstrated its ongoing commitment to Lone Star Funds by committing a further $400m (€273.6m) of capital to the distressed real estate debt specialist.

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    Institutions turning to rented housing

    2009-09-28T16:40:00Z

    EUROPE – Institutional investors are seeking safety in housing real estate as an investment option but not all opportunities are equal, the German real estate company Patrizia has suggested in a study.

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    Progress almost complete on real estate disposal

    2009-09-21T17:47:00Z

    NETHERLANDS – Progress, the Dutch pension fund of food giant Unilever, is close to completing the disposal of its entire directly-held real estate portfolio.

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    Pension funds write off investments in NYC apartment complex

    2009-09-14T17:25:00Z

    UNITED STATES - At least two pension funds in the US have suffered major losses on their investments in the Stuyvestant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment complex in Manhattan.

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    Aviva to invest £1bn in UK rental housing

    2009-07-27T18:07:00Z

    UK – Aviva Investors is intending to launch a real estate fund aimed at pension funds and institutional investors that will invest in UK residential assets.

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    Florida Board of Administration reassigns MS managed assets

    2009-07-21T16:55:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Florida State Board of Administration has signed contracts to transfer 85% of the $2.7bn (€1.93bn) separate account assets previously managed by Morgan Stanley Real Estate to Heitman, L&B Realty Advisors and Invesco Real Estate.

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    SBZ begins direct portfolio sell-off

    2009-07-14T11:48:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - SBZ, the €2.2bn Dutch pension fund for care insurer employees, has made its first two disposals of direct property holdings as part of a transition to a wholly indirect real estate exposure.

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    German investors return home for safety

    2009-07-14T11:21:00Z

    GERMANY – Interest in domestic residential property funds is rising among German institutional investors, according to German real estate fund manager Patrizia Immobilien.

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    Progress continues on real estate sale

    2009-06-22T17:10:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - Progress, the Dutch pension fund of food giant Unilever, has sold three housing complexes in Breda, Groningen and Nijmegen as it continues to divest its directly-held domestic real estate portfolio.

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    Pension funds show interest in UK housing

    2009-06-15T18:03:00Z

    UK – European pension funds who would not traditionally invest in UK rental housing may do so for the first time through an initiative to kick start investment in UK private residential property, according to a UK government body.

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    UK residential may be on the up – index fund manager

    2009-06-15T17:56:00Z

    A real estate investment house has claimed investing in UK residential housing “may have turned a corner”, although physical house price rises are still increasing at a very slow rate.

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    BP pension fund shops for real estate

    2009-05-26T17:07:00Z

    UK - The £20.3bn (€23.1bn) pension fund for BP has bought an out-of-town retail park in the UK and an office building in London, and plans to invest a further £100-150m in its domestic real estate market before the end of the year.

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    Rockwood Capital hits fundraising target

    2009-05-11T17:41:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Rockwood Capital has closed the money raising on its Rockwood Capital Real Estate Partners Fund VIII just shy of its target, at $964m (€720.6m).

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    NYSTRS extends its real estate limits

    2009-05-11T17:29:00Z

    UNITED STATES - New York State Teachers Retirement System has bought a further share in a real estate backed by a European pension fund, as well as extending current management contracts.

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    UK seeks pension fund investment in housing

    2009-05-01T12:00:00Z

    UK - Plans to encourage pension funds to invest in private rented housing have been announced by the UK government’s Housing and Communities Agency (HCA).