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US investors are feeling the pressure - PwC
US – Investor sentiment around North American commercial real estate has plummeted following further weakening of the industry, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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REITs still look attractive, claims EPRA
GLOBAL – Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) will continue to be attractive investment vehicles for institutional investors and grow internationally despite the sharp economic downturn, according to the European Public Real Estate Association’s (EPRA’s) latest survey.
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Pru relocates its real estate divisions
US - Prudential Financial is integrating its Real Estate and Relocation businesses as Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services Inc, in a bid to streamline the firm’s business and operational services.
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UBS halts property fund redemptions
SWITZERLAND – Swiss bank UBS has frozen its $6bn (€4.4bn) global property fund because it could no longer handle the high number of redemption requests.
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Icade REIT considers residential sale
FRANCE - Icade, a subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) in France, is considering selling its entire housing unit.
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European property to bottom out in 2010
EUROPE - The continental European real estate market will reach its lowest level In 2010 but will then encourage fund managers to raise equity again to tap property bargain property, according to research by the Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP).
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MPL taps buy-to-let repossessions
UK – Managing Partners Limited's British Property Opportunities Fund is expecting to return over 10% in its first year by snapping up bargain repossessed UK properties from banks at 30%-discounted prices.
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Protego concludes merger into Threadneedle PUT
UK – Protego Real Estate Investors and Threadneedle Asset Management have completed the merger of their respective UK property funds, the Protego UK Property Fund and the Threadneedle Property Unit Trust.
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Venice mulls pension money for local infrastructure
ITALY – The local government of the Veneto region in the North-East of Italy is considering using the resources of its local pension funds to finance regional infrastructure projects.
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Pension funds gain improved fee position
GLOBAL - The dynamic between managers and investors has shifted in favour of investors for the time being, according to Allen Smith, CEO of US-based investment manager Prudential Real Estate Investors (which operates under the name of Pramerica Real Estate investors outside the US).
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AP1 seeks real estate advice
SWEDEN - Första AP-Fonden (First Swedish National Pension Fund AP1) has announced it is looking to appoint investment managers as part of its new international real estate strategy.
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Morgan Stanley exits separate accounts
UNITED STATES - Morgan Stanley Real Estate is pulling out of the separate account business.
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UK commercial sees investment halve
UK – Jones Lang LaSalle has predicted direct investment in UK commercial real estate will have dropped by approximately 55% year-on-year by the end of 2008, to stand at around £21bn (€24bn).
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Chicago Teachers to redeem commingled real estate
UNITED STATES - Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago is issuing redemption queues on all of its open-ended commingled funds.
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IVSB appoints its first chair
UK/GLOBAL – Chris Thorne, technical head of valuation at property consultants Atisreal, has been appointed the chairman of a new International Valuation Standards Board (IVSB).
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CBRE reveals new face in Poland
POLAND – CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. (CBRE) has appointed Charles Wardroper as the managing director of its business in Poland.
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Pension funds can still find good deals - Aberdeen
UK/GLOBAL – Pension funds can still find good short-term property investment opportunities over the coming months but the overriding priority will be to rebalance their portfolios, according to Alessandro Bronda, head of property investment strategy for Aberdeen Property Investors.
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Surveyors predict further 25% UK drop
UK – Commercial property capital values are predicted to fall a further 25% over the next two years, according to the latest forecast issued by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
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E&Y and Henderson to deliver Spezialfonds
GERMANY - Ernst & Young Real Estate and Warburg–Henderson have joined forces to offer what they describe as an outsourcing service for institutional investors which allows them to transfer their directly-held real estate portfolios into a Speziafonds property fund
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Real estate returns add to Harvard woes
US - Harvard University’s endowment has lost $8bn (€6.3bn) of investments in the first four months of the university’s fiscal year and is expected to deliver the worst annual returns in 40 years, officials have announced.
