Real Estate News – Page 717
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Santa Barbara County to redeem investment in RREEF America II
GLOBAL – The Santa Barbara County Employees Retirement System has taken its first real estate action since hiring ORG Real Property as its real estate consultant in June.
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EPRA urges property company exemption from derivatives regulations
EUROPE – The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) has urged the EU to prevent property companies from getting caught up in derivatives regulations designed to combat speculators.
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UK leads European real estate recovery, says CBRE
EUROPE – European real estate values continued to show improvement during the third quarter, particularly in core western Europe, according to CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
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Investor tenders European private real estate mandate
IPE QUEST – An institutional investor is looking to commit €25m-50m to private real estate investments in Europe.
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New Jersey returns to real estate after two-year hiatus
GLOBAL – The New Jersey Division of Investment has made its first investment in real estate since June of 2008 with a $100m (€74.4m) allocation to the Lubert-Adler Real Estate Fund VI-B.
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Washington State allocates $500m to Evergreen Real Estate Partners
GLOBAL – The Washington State Investment Board has approved a follow-on investment of $500m (€366.1m) into Evergreen Real Estate Partners.
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German institutional investors seeking stability in core, core-plus
GERMANY – The majority of German institutional investors are employing a core or core-plus investment style for their indirect real estate portfolios and increasing risk management for those investments, according to a survey by kommalpha.
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PKA acquires €79m office, retail project in Copenhagen
DENMARK – Denmark's PKA has bought an office and retail construction project in the country's capital for DKK588m (€79m), with provisional leases already secured for around a quarter of units.
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APG joint venture in €1bn Olympic retail venture
GLOBAL – A joint venture between Dutch pension fund manager APG and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has acquired retail real estate worth £870.5m (€1bn) on the East London 2012 Olympics site.
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Pension funds mop up Finnish property sale
EUROPE – Finnish pension funds Ilmarinen and Varma have mopped up shares in partly state-owned property firm Sponda following the sale by state investment firm Solidium Oy of shares worth €176m.
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Texas Teachers-backed apartment fund makes first investments in two years
GLOBAL – The Camden Multifamily Value Add fund, 80% owned by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, has closed on its first two apartment deals in more than two years.
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Nebraska moves capital from REITs into private real estate
GLOBAL – Nebraska Investment Council has taken some of its capital invested in REITs and had it cover a portion of its private real estate investment programme.
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ATP Real Estate calls for manager 'early-warning' system
EUROPE – At a panel discussion at this year's INREV CFO/COO conference in Copenhagen, speakers discussed how to balance the need for managers to communicate with investors at a time when they were also being asked to charge less for their services.
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Funds of funds require more transparency on fees, says INREV
GLOBAL – Managers of funds of funds require greater transparency on fees from the funds in which they invest, according to Lonneke Löwik, INREV's director of research and market information.
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Multi-family sector leading US recovery, says IPD
GLOBAL – The residential sector continues to lead the real estate recovery in the US, with capital values up 12.3% since the start of the year, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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UK investors to target Asia Pacific, says Aviva Investors
GLOBAL – Most UK investors are looking to increase their exposure to Asia Pacific real estate markets in the next three years, according to a survey conducted by Aviva Investors.
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Maryland pension scheme moves in core real estate
GLOBAL – The Maryland State Retirement System is set to add core real estate holdings to its portfolio to give investors an alternative to fixed-income investments.
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San Francisco City and County postpones separate account search
GLOBAL – The San Francisco City and County Employees' Retirement System has decided to withdraw a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) search for a new separate account real estate manager.
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Blended real estate portfolios perform best, says NAREIT
GLOBAL – A blended real estate portfolio that combines REITs and private equity real estate with core holdings outperformed portfolios that contained either REITs or private equity real estate funds alone, according to a study by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT).
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Sampension to return to property market with first US investment
GLOBAL – Sampension, which manages three Danish labour-market pension funds, is to return to active property investing next year for the first time since 2008.
