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ING sells office and retail elements of Prague project
REAL ESTATE – ING Real Estate Development has sold the office and retail section of the A7 Arena Holesovice project in Prague. The €37m sale - 15,500m2 of gross lettable area and 200 parking spaces - was made to FHA Czech, a subsidiary...
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Illinois Teachers to invest $300m in US and European real estate
REAL ESTATE – The Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois has taken action to invest $300m (€226.9m) into new real estate investments. Two of these investments involve committing capital to office buildings, one of …
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Infrastructure boss takes over at Canada’s OMERS
REAL ESTATE – The CA$48bn (€31bn) Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement Scheme (OMERS) has appointed Michael Nobrega, the current head of its infrastructure subsidiary, as its new CEO. Michael Rolland, currently senior vice president...
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ABP, Keva in property private equity move
REAL ESTATE – Finnish local government pension fund Keva and ABP, Europe’s largest pension fund, were among eight initial investors in a pan-European real estate private equity fund launched last week by Spanish property group Neinver....
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Corestate in Zurich recruits Schulte Eistrup from Morgan Stanley
REAL ESTATE – Corestate Capital, a new Zurich-based real estate asset manager, has hired Christian Schulte Eistrup as managing director with responsibility for capital raising and investor relations. The appointment is with immediate effect....
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Shorenstein to buy portion of former EOP portfolio
REAL ESTATE – Shorenstein Properties LLC is working on a transaction that involves acquiring all of the Portland, Oregon, office building assets of the former Equity Office Properties Trust (EOP) portfolio. The properties are now owned by Bl...
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Penwood to consider next commingled fund
REAL ESTATE – Penwood Real Estate Investment Management is looking to start raising money for its next commingled fund. Principal John Hurley said, "We are now at the point in investing in California Select Industrial Partners…We...
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Fidelity launches Asia Pacific property fund
REAL ESTATE – Fidelity International has launched an Asia Pacific property fund, which will invest in real estate companies in both developed and emerging markets in the region, it has announced. "The fund will allow investors to benef...
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More US pension fund capital headed to foreign investment funds
REAL ESTATE – Additional pension fund capital in the United States is being invested in commingled funds with a foreign investment strategy. Two of the most recent examples of this are with Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (L...
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Deka to invest more outside Germany
REAL ESTATE – Germany’s Deka says its real estate funds for institutional investors plan to invest €550m in new properties over the near term, with €250m going to German objects and €300m to those outside of Germany....
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Threadneedle FoF ‘meets European demand’
REAL ESTATE – Threadneedle is to launch a pooled property fund of funds in response to demand for diversified European exposure from UK and continental European pension funds, the fund manager announced last week. The Luxembourg-listed SICA...
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Pennsylvania State fund expands opportunity commitments
REAL ESTATE – Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System is expanding its commitments to placing capital in opportunity real estate funds. The pension fund will be interviewing Angelo Gordon & Co. at its March board meeting for a pos...
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Corio acquires 49% of Italian retail centre
REAL ESTATE – Property owner and manager Corio has reached an agreement on the acquisition of a 49% stake in retail centre Citta Fiera in Udine, Italy, paying €87m. The centre comprises 70,800 square metres of gross lettable area in to...
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SLI abandons caution on Germany
REAL ESTATE – Standard Life Investments has abandoned its long-held caution over the sustainability of Germany’s nascent economic recovery and has made its first investments in the market. The fund manager announced last week that it had ...
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Habas refrains from Nieuwe Steen offer
REAL ESTATE – Israeli property investor Habas HZ Investments will not make a public offer for a stake in the Netherlands based Nieuwe Steen Investments, the Dutch firm has said. At Habas’ request, NSI was investigating a possible strat...
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CalPERS invests $155m in opportunity investments
REAL ESTATE – California Public Employees Retirement System has approved two opportunistic real estate investments totaling $155m (€118m). One of these investments was $80m that was placed into the Fortress Holiday transaction. This i...
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Hermes sells upmarket retail
REAL ESTATE – Hermes, the UK asset manager owned by the BT Pension Scheme, is to sell its 50% stake in the Glaswegian specialist shopping centre Princes Square. The asking price for the centre, which is co-owned by the insurer Clerical Medi...
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Unlisted UK real estate returned 69%in 2006
REAL ESTATE - Unlisted UK real estate funds returned 69% last year, driven by the outperformance of the City and West End, according to the Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF). The association’s newly launched quarterly report claims th...
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DivcoWest buys property in Texas
REAL ESTATE - DivcoWest has closed on the purchase of an office building in Austin, Texas. The real estate fund manager paid $49m (€37.3m) for the Parmer Business Park in Austin. The property was acquired from pension fund manager RREEF....
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Welsh scheme to invest €19m in unlisted property
REAL ESTATE – Welsh local authority Powys County Council is tendering for a multi-manager to handle £13m (€19m) of European (ex. UK) unlisted real estate for its pension fund. An investment panel of five local councillors will ap...
