Real Estate News – Page 732
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Mass PRIM rebuilds timber portfolio
UNITED STATES - Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (Mass PRIM) is to invest a further $500m ($376m euros) in US timber after selling a $700m section of its portfolio approximately three years ago.
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European pension funds retrench as Korea looks westward
ASIA-PACIFIC – Local investors will replace US and European pension funds in Asia within 10 years, the Asian Public Real Estate Association (APREA) conference heard last week.
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Local authority funds urged to invest in housing
UK – A real estate debt specialist has slated UK local authority pension funds for failing to invest in domestic social housing.
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Germany’s BVK signals fresh interest in Polish real estate
GERMANY – Invesco Real Estate has invested in a logistics development in Poland on behalf of pension fund BVK, and says there is growing interest in the market from other German institutional investors.
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ING REIM steps in to rescue Creed fund
ASIA – ING Real Estate Investment Management has taken over as general partner (GP) at an Asian real estate fund for the second time in 12 months.
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CalPERS takes social action to protect rent rates for lower-income households
UNITED STATES – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is seeking to prohibit excessive rent increases and involuntary displacement of low-income households in its US multi-family residential investments.
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Non-listed real estate funds see capital raising fall by 60%
EUROPE – The volume of capital raised through European non-listed real estate funds fell by 60% in 2009, according to the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate (INREV).
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Italian real estate scraped a positive return in 2009
ITALY – Capital values in Italian commercial property suffered the steepest decline in its seven-year history, falling by -4.6% in 2009, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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Tennessee Consolidated nears real estate commingled holdings
UNITED STATES - Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System is getting close to making new investments in two core open-ended commingled funds, in a bid to gain diversification into office and retail real estate.
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Texas Teachers seeks value in UK property
UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of Texas has agreed to invest approximately £81m (€93.7m) or $125m into the UK-focused Brockton Capital Fund II.
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Ash cloud forces INREV to cancel Venice conference
EUROPE – INREV, the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles, has been forced to cancel its annual conference, which was scheduled to take place later this week.
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UK pension funds hit by Fitch downgrade to real estate debt
UK – MEPC, a specialist business park investment company wholly-owned by BT and Royal Mail pension funds, has had its debt financing downgraded by Fitch.
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Aberdeen shoots down growth of pension fund JVs
GLOBAL – Aberdeen Property Investors has defended the indirect real estate investment approach and predicts the recent popularity of joint ventures among large institutional investors will be a short-term phenomenon.
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Knight Frank service to deliver pension funds the VIP treatment
UK – Real estate agency Knight Frank has launched a new segregated investment management business for pension funds and other institutional investors seeking to invest in UK real estate.
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Concerns over offshore vehicles drive demand for local real estate structures
EUROPE – Cross-border investors in Germany, France and Italy are increasingly looking to locally- regulated structures for their international real estate investments, according to Schroder Property.
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UK residential returns outperformed commercial property - IPD
UK – Investment grade residential real estate in the UK has outperformed commercial property in the country over the past three, five and nine years, and delivered a double digit total return of 11% in 2009, according to International Property Databank (IPD).
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London’s iconic Tower 42 is put up for sale
UK – Hermes Real Estate, the wholly owned property fund management arm of the BT pension fund, has put the Tower 42 office building in the City of London on the market for £300m (€342m).
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BVK expects to tap opportunistic real estate growth
SWITZERLAND – Swiss pension fund BVK is confident that opportunistic fund managers it has committed capital to will soon begin to see more opportunities in the global real estate markets.
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Nebraska to tap discounted real estate secondary market
UNITED STATES - Nebraska Investment Council has approved a $40m (€29.4m) investment into the Landmark Real Estate Partners VI commingled fund.
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Oklahoma Teachers to make core first play in real estate
UNITED STATES - Teachers’ Retirement System of Oklahoma will make an investment in core open-ended commingled funds as its first ever move into real estate.
