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    NY Teachers in €77m Texas retail venture

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The New York State Teachers Retirement System has put together a $100m (€77.2m) joint venture with Inland Real Estate Corp. to invest in retail properties in Texas. The fund was the driving force behind the venture as it had a ...

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    AMF Pension still on real estate buy-side

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Swedish pensions manager AMF has sold its Stockholm Wenner-Gren complex to property company Fabege for €68m – but says it remains on the “buy side” in the sector. Mats Hederos, head of real estate at the Swed...

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    Wisconsin to invest in non-core assets

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The $70.4bn (€54.4bn) Wisconsin State Investment Board is to look at placing some capital into the marketplace this year with a non-core investment strategy. These will be done in a mixture of strategies on both the commingle...

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    IPE Real Estate Awards: the winners

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Pension funds’ adoption of new models for new markets paid off at the IPE Real Estate Awards last night as investors collected prizes for geographical diversification and the move into indirect investment. The awards, announce...

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    Dutch rail fund questions real estate boom

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds will ditch bricks for funds, according to Peter van Gool, deputy director of real estate at Dutch pension fund SPF Beheer. Describing recent market performance as “unsustainable”, he told the IPE Real ...

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    IPE Real Estate Conference Report

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The second annual IPE Real Estate Conference – held alongside the magazine’s inaugural Awards Gala – drew a heavyweight collection of pension fund investors and consultants to the Amsterdam Hilton last week. Confer...

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    Pirelli Real Estate’s Spazio to list in London

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE – Pirelli & C. Real Estate SpA’s Spazio Industriale Investments I BV is to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market in a listing aimed solely at institutional investors. “The Italian industrial real es...

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    AEW raises €532m from schemes, endowments

    2006-05-30T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE- AEW Capital Management has closed its money raising for its latest commingled fund, AEW Partners V. It attracted equity capital from both pension funds and endowments totaling $686m (€532m). AEW portfolio manager Mark David...

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    Share issue funds warehouse acquisition

    2006-05-30T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Macquarie Goodman, the Australian investment trust, last week issued $264m in shares to institutional investors to part-pay for its €352m acquisition of Luxembourg-based warehouse developer Eurinpro. The 8.8% Macquarie-owned t...

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    Credit Suisse real estate arm gets new MD

    2006-05-30T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Beat Schwab is to replace Alois Weibel as managing director of Credit Suisse’s Swiss real estate services arm Wincasa. Weibel is to retire from January 1 next year, the firm said in a release. The firm employs around 300 peo...

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    London & Capital restructures, plans new funds

    2006-05-30T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Boutique investment firm London & Capital will boost its real estate investment team under a new head of real estate funds. The appointments come as part of a restructuring effort that will see Iain Keys assume overall responsibi...

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    Pramerica creates first venture with ProLogis

    2006-05-30T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE- Pramerica Real Estate Investors has established a joint venture for the first time with ProLogis to develop industrial properties near Denver in Colorado. Pramerica made a $40m (€31m) investment in the venture, which gets the pe...

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    Quinlan leads Spain’s largest property deal

    2006-05-30T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Irish property group Quinlan Private last week announced that it had led a group of unnamed investors in the acquisition of a Barcelona shopping centre from Deka, the German open-ended fund. A spokesman for Quinlan would not disclos...

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    Pennsylvania to invest in real estate finance firm

    2006-05-30T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE – The Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System has chosen to invest up to $150m (€116m) into a new real estate finance company being created by Apollo Real Estate Advisors. The name of the new company is Apoll...

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    US REITS fall as interest rate fears rise

    2006-05-30T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The value of US Real Estate Investment Trusts tumbled last week amid a fall in equity share prices across global markets and investors’ anticipation of an interest rate rise. In a commentary, Royal Institution of Chartered Surv...

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    LaSalle's Ryall joins Gellatly at MLIM

    2006-05-30T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Merrill Lynch Investment Managers has hired LaSalle Investment Management's Matthew Ryall. MLIM said Ryall would be a director in its real estate research and strategy team - "with particular responsibility as fund manager for t...

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    Rodamco’s direct investment returns 11.4%

    2006-05-22T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The direct investment returns on real estate of Rodamco Europe have risen by 11.4% to €93.7m during the first quarter, it announced. Its triple net asset value per share increased by 5.9% to €64.02. Rodamco’s indire...

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    Texas Teachers invests $400m

    2006-05-22T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The $100bn (€77.8bn) Teacher Retirement System of Texas has decided to place $400m of its real estate allocation into three commingled funds. The Austin-based fund chose to invest into two opportunity funds. It has made a ...

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    €50bn German REITs market seen

    2006-05-22T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE – German Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) will bring huge benefits for Frankfurt’s financial centre – including creating a new €50bn property market that would put it on par with London and ahead of Paris, a n...

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    German investors hint at more acquisitions

    2006-05-22T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Eurocastle, the largest listed owner of German commercial real estate, has hinted at imminent acquisitions in its new annual report. The offshore company, which is managed by US investment firm Fortress, said it was looking at R...