Real Estate News – Page 726
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INREV tweaks investor due diligence checklist
EUROPE – INREV has revised its due diligence questionnaire to address investors' latest concerns when selecting fund managers in the current investment environment.
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Texas Teachers earmarks $1.1bn for real estate investment
GLOBAL – The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has approved $1.1bn (€849.5bn) worth of new commitments to real estate.
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Kansas PERS invests $30m in Harrison Street fund
GLOBAL – The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System has approved a $30m (€23.1m) commitment to the Harrison Street Real Estate Partners III commingled fund.
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German-owned Hypo Real Estate fails stress test
GERMANY – Government-owned Hypo Real Estate has failed a stress test by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS).
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European occupancy markets dragged down by austerity measures
GLOBAL – While occupier demand is rising in the majority of countries across the globe, austerity measures to reduce fiscal deficits are causing a drag on euro-zone and UK real estate markets, according to the latest global report from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
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Valad takes over management of €480m Swedish portfolio
SWEDEN – Valad Europe, the pan-European, multi-let real estate investment management business of Valad Property Group, has been appointed to take over the investment management of a €480m property portfolio in Sweden.
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BT and Royal Mail pension JV sells Brindleyplace assets
UK – A joint venture between the BT and Royal Mail pension funds, developer Argent and fund manager Tritax has sold five office buildings in Birmingham for £190m (€225m).
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Germany leads uptick in European occupier demand, says JPMAM
EUROPE – The decline in European commercial property rents is coming to an end, and tenants are responding by committing to new space, according to JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM).
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Specialist funds outperforming market in UK, says IPD
UK – Pooled UK real estate funds have delivered returns of more than 20% over the past 12 months, but only those with specialist and niche strategies outperformed the underlying direct market, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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Income returns continue to drive European performance, says Invista
EUROPE – Income returns will continue to drive real estate investment performance despite an uncertain outlook for rental growth, according to Invista Real Estate Investment Management.
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Real estate transactions grow in Europe despite sovereign debt crisis
EUROPE – The growth in European real estate transactions continued to rise in the second quarter despite investor uncertainty over the sovereign debt crisis.
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Ohio School Employees to invest as much as $125m over next 12 months
GLOBAL – The School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is aiming to invest as much as $125m in real estate over the next 12 months.
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Rothschild makes first investment in New York office market
GLOBAL – Rothschild Realty Managers has made its first-ever investment in the New York office market with a $150m (€116m) investment in RXR Realty.
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CEE transactions triple as German funds return to real estate
EUROPE – A resurgence of investment activity in the real estate markets of central and eastern Europe (CEE) saw transactions triple in the first half of 2010 compared with a year ago, according to CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
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Schroders backs Palmer's new Mayfair venture
UK – Schroder Property's multi-manager business has agreed to seed a new UK real estate fund managed by Mayfair Capital Investment Management.
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Real estate fundraising plummets to 2004 levels: Preqin
GLOBAL – Capital raised by private equity real estate fund managers has fallen to the lowest level since 2004, according to data providers Preqin.
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Shopping centre fund opens doors to £1bn CMBS restructure
UK – One of the biggest restructurings of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) since the start of the financial crisis has been given the go-ahead for a leading UK shopping centre fund.
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UK recovery slows to a crawl, says IPD
UK – Investors in the UK commercial real estate market are hoping for an end to the recent period of extreme volatility, which saw capital values fall by 44.2% in the two years following the credit crunch, before recovering by 15.2% over the 11 months to June 2010.
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Transactions on the rise globally, but down in Asia: JLL
GLOBAL – The volume of global real estate transactions in the first half of this year is almost double that of the same period in 2009, but deals in Asia-Pacific dropped by more than a third between the first and second quarters, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
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European institutional investors regaining appetite for risk
EUROPE – European transaction volumes in 2010 are expected to exceed those of last year following results from a survey that finds risk appetite has increased among institutional investors in the UK, Germany and France.