Real Estate News – Page 728
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Irish construction workers' scheme to review real estate strategy
IRELAND – The Construction Workers' Pension Scheme (CWPS) in Ireland is undergoing a review of its real estate investment strategy following similar reassessments of its equity and bond investments.
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Austria grants German real estate investors tax-free status
GERMANY/AUSTRIA – Real estate investments made by German pension funds in Austria will be tax-free from now, placing them on an equal footing with their Austrian counterparts, an Austrian financial tribunal has ruled.
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APG backs Pramerica debt strategy
EUROPE – APG Asset Management, the wholly-owned investment manager of the ABP pension fund, is one of a number of investors to have invested in a European real estate debt strategy run by Pramerica Real Estate Investors.
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Progress to reinvest direct capital in Dutch ING REIM funds
NETHERLANDS – Progress, the Unilever pension fund, has decided to invest in two Dutch real estate funds managed by ING Real Estate Investment Management following the disposal of its directly held domestic portfolio.
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Dexia, Gimv joint venture launches Benelux infrastructure fund
EUROPE – An infrastructure and real estate fund focusing on the Benelux region has been launched following demand from Belgian pension fund and insurance companies for low-risk, non-listed exposure to the sector.
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PwC survey reveals pressure on London office fundamentals
UK – Activity in the UK financial services in the last three months was lower than expected, despite increasing at the fastest rate since the onset of the credit crunch, prompting concerns over the outlook for the London office market.
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Pension funds get on board for Rockspring's UK value drive
UK – Rockspring Property Investment Managers has raised £336m (€409m) in capital commitments for its UK Value fund from 12 pension funds and institutional investors from Europe and Australasia.
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Investors in PE funds mark shift in 'balance of power'
GLOBAL – Institutional investors believe the concessions they have rung from private equity real estate managers in the past year represent a permanent change in the balance of power, according to private equity data firm Preqin.
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AP3 joint venture with Kungsleden acquires public portfolio
SWEDEN – A joint venture between the €21bn third Swedish pension fund (AP3) and Stockholm-based developer Kungsleden has acquired a public property portfolio for SEK1.1bn (€120.2m).
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Under-supplied CEE region offers 'alternative' to emerging markets
EUROPE – Debt-free investors should view Central and Eastern European (CEE) real estate as a lower-risk alternative to investing in emerging markets, according to Holger Schmidtmayr, board member of Austrian property firm Sparkassen.
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Finland's Veritas offloads residential portfolio to Germany's Patrizia
EUROPE – Finnish pensions insurer Veritas has sold a 113-asset portfolio to German fund manager Patrizia in the first residential deal involving an investor based outside the region.
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Wisconsin State Investment Board drops domestic REIT managers
GLOBAL – The Wisconsin State Investment Board has dropped AEW Capital Management and Heitman as domestic REIT managers to adopt a more "global perspective".
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Texas Teachers commits $800m to real estate investment
GLOBAL – The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has made more than $800m (€650.5m) in real estate investment – a mixture of core, value-added and infrastructure strategies – in the last month.
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BPF Bouw opens Dutch portfolio to other pension funds
NETHERLANDS – BPF Bouw, the pension fund for Dutch construction workers, will offer other pension funds access to its €4bn domestic real estate portfolio so it can increase its weighting to global property markets.
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Slovenia's PRVA makes first foray into real estate
SLOVENIA – The €185m PRVA second-pillar fund has bought a property in Ljubljana, making its first foray into real estate.
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Redington, M&G talk up UK social housing debt opportunity
UK – Pension funds in the UK are being encouraged to consider financing social housing as an alternative to inflation-linked bonds.
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Investors back L&G’s tried and tested industrial fund
UK – Legal & General Property (LGP) has raised new equity for its Industrial Property Investment fund (IPIF) following interest from existing investors to increase their exposure.
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CalPERS acquires 12.7% stake in London Gatwick Airport
GLOBAL – The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has acquired a 12.7% stake in London Gatwick Airport from Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP).
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Czech investors and foreign institutions go separate ways
CZECH REPUBLIC – Property transaction volumes in the Czech Republic have picked up in the first quarter of 2010 relative to the same period last year, as cross border and local investors targeted different ends of the market, according to DTZ.
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No risk of major crash in Chinese property market, says Henderson
GLOBAL – The Chinese real estate market may be surging, but it is at no risk of crashing and burning, according to Henderson Global Investors.
