Real Estate News – Page 720
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Former WP Carey colleagues launch global sale-and-leaseback venture
GLOBAL – Gordon DuGan and three other former W P Carey executives have launched a new investment company that will specialise in sale-and-leaseback real estate deals.
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Unilever Progress selects core Aberdeen product as it moves into funds
NETHERLANDS – Progress, the Dutch Unilever pension fund, has committed €35m to a core pan-European real estate fund managed by Aberdeen Property Investors.
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Mass PRIM hires AEW to take over RREEF separate account
GLOBAL – The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board has selected AEW Capital Management as its fifth core separate account manager.
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Alaska Retirement to hold back on real estate investments
GLOBAL – The Alaska Retirement Management Board has no plans to increase investment in real estate over the next 12 months.
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Pramerica targets Polish warehouse developments with Panattoni
EUROPE – Pramerica Real Estate Investors has entered into a joint venture with Panattoni Europe to develop a portfolio of as much as €100m of logistics warehouses in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Investors moderate their return expectations for US real estate, says ULI/PwC
GLOBAL – Investors have lowered their return expectations for investing in US real estate over the next few years, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
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BP Pension Fund's Cubemaker joint venture buys ITV assets
UK – Cubemaker Partnership, the joint venture between the BP Pension Fund and Cube Real Estate, has acquired three commercial real estate assets from television company ITV for £11.3m (€12.9m).
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Rockspring enters student housing through counter-cyclical strategy
UK – Rockspring Property Investment Managers has entered the student accommodation market for the first time with the acquisition of 123 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, in a joint venture with Mansion Group.
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Pension funds targeting US multi-family housing
GLOBAL – Multi-family housing has been identified as the favoured sector for investment in the US by a number of European pension funds, a position backed up by new research from Pramerica Real Estate Investors.
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Capital flows to US real estate set to double, says DTZ
GLOBAL – Global investment capital targeting US real estate is set to double in 2011 as the outlook for the market completes a dramatic improvement over the past 12 months, according to DTZ.
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Poland back on the agenda for Germany's NAEV
EUROPE – German pension fund Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung (NAEV) is considering returning to the Polish real estate market after having divested and taken profits from the region in recent years.
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Ohio scheme to invest $400m in real estate funds
GLOBAL – The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System is conducting due diligence on investments into two new commingled funds totalling $400m (€287.4m).
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Los Angeles tenders RFI for separate account manager
GLOBAL – The Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System (LACERS) has approved a request for information (RFI) to hire a real estate manager for a separate account.
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First Property wraps up USS mandate, returns to Poland
POLAND – First Property Group has returned to its previous business model of launching successive Polish opportunity funds, having concluded its mandate with the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
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German institutions swapping bonds for real estate, says Greenwich Associates
GERMANY – German institutional investors, in their search for stable returns without increasing risk, are turning away from European fixed income to real estate, while faith in external managers and consultants remains low, according to a survey by Greenwich Associates.
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Aberdeen, ING REIM see capital inflows for core property
EUROPE – European institutional investors have committed close to €200m of capital to a number of core real estate funds managed by Aberdeen Asset Management and ING Real Estate Investment Management, respectively.
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ABP, PGGM invest Dutch telecommunications networks
NETHERLANDS – The €220bn Dutch civil service scheme ABP and PGGM, the asset manager for the €91bn healthcare scheme PFZW, have committed to large investments in telecommunications infrastructure in the Netherlands.
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Global investors flocking to German real estate market
GERMANY – The German commercial real estate market has seen in influx of international investors in 2010, accounting for 40% of all transactions in the first half of the year, according to Savills.
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Invesco Real Estate backs hotels with second European fund
EUROPE – Invesco Real Estate has identified a €168m seed portfolio of hotels to help raise capital for its new pan-European hotel fund.
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Scottish minister calls on pension funds to invest in affordable housing
GLOBAL – Pension funds have been called upon to invest as much as £1bn (€1.1bn) into affordable housing in Scotland in an effort to meet the growing demand in the sector.
