All Real Assets articles in November 2008 (Magazine) – Page 3

  • Go further
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    Go further

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    Led by retail, Turkey’s investment potential is growing fast but increasingly investors will have to look well beyond Istanbul for the best opportunities, Ermina Topintzi finds

  • Better together
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    Better together

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    The German Property Federation is one of Europe’s younger real estate trade associations, having been set up just two and a half years ago.

  • Boring becomes interesting again
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    Boring becomes interesting again

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    German real estate is often described as an unexciting, stable core market. But with the market correcting, investors are now seeing it as an opportunity. Barbara Ottawa reports

  • Potential unfulfilled
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    Potential unfulfilled

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    If German real estate is an interesting investment story, how do we access it? German Special Funds, Luxemburg Special Funds, G-REITs – a structural comparison for the foreign investor is provided by Thomas Gütle

  • Vastly varied
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    Vastly varied

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    Urbanisation, rising home ownership and ageing populations are strong themes across much of Asia. Another is the huge diversity of performance across the markets of this huge and eclectic continent. These are among the findings of the RICS’s first annual Asian housing market review as Stephen Brown reports

  • Emerging opportunities
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    Emerging opportunities

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    Parts of Asia, particularly at the more developed end, have been hit hard by the downturn. Elsewhere, the economic turmoil is throwing up new possibilities, as Kristen Paech reports

  • Health-giving properties
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    Health-giving properties

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    In a downturn the secure income of healthcare makes it an attractive option for investors but beware political risk, as Christine Senior reports

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    Crisis of confidence

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    The Pension Fund Real Estate Association’s 18th Annual Plan Sponsor Conference, held in Chicago, could not have taken place at a more uncertain time. Richard Lowe reports from what felt like the eye of the storm

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    In perspective

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    Understanding the unpredictability of the future is as important as learning from the past when facing global market upheaval. This was one of the messages at this year’s annual EPRA conference.

  • Time to apply the brakes?
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    Time to apply the brakes?

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    Fund launches and equity raises continued at a fair pace in the third quarter of 2008, but investors may now be holding back until more certainty returns, as Richard Lowe reports