Real Estate News – Page 734

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    BRIC-built recovery expected - JLL

    2010-03-25T16:38:00Z

    GLOBAL – The BRIC countries will lead the global real estate market recovery as their economic expansion boosts occupier demand across all sectors and cross-border investment returns, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

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    Value emerging in industrials - Hansteen

    2010-03-25T16:36:00Z

    UK – European industrial real estate investment trust (REIT) Hansteen has purchased an industrial estate and is in due diligence on three others for its new UK fund backed by institutional investors.

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    Investors seek Nordic expansion

    2010-03-25T16:33:00Z

    GERMANY/NORDICS – Institutional investors in Germany have asked Schroders to increase the size of their fully invested Nordic fund and given permission to the fund manager to raise additional equity from new investors.

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    CalPERS to invest $1.3bn in infrastructure in 2010

    2010-03-25T16:22:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System wants to invest as much as $1.3bn (€961.5bn) in infrastructure during 2010.

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    APG and Corio to invest €1.3bn in European retail

    2010-03-25T16:19:00Z

    EUROPE – Pension fund asset manager APG has agreed to help listed real estate company Corio raise enough capital to acquire more than €1.3bn worth of retail assets in Europe.

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    Aviva's AIPL investments near €290m

    2010-03-22T17:15:00Z

    UK – Aviva Investors has acquired more than £260m (€289m) of UK real estate over the last six months for its AIPL vehicle, a low-risk real estate fund for institutional corporate and local authority pension schemes.

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    Investor strategy prompts IVG Spezialfonds rethink

    2010-03-22T15:57:00Z

    GERMANY – IVG Immobilien, Germany's largest provider of institutional open-ended real estate funds, is to dissolve three of its Spezialfonds, which together hold approximately €2bn in real estate assets.

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    German open-ended funds continue growth despite downturn

    2010-03-22T15:29:00Z

    GERMANY - Germany’s open-ended real estate funds returned strong growth in 2009 and well into 2010, a new survey revealed today.

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    West Midlands bags UK shopping centre

    2010-03-22T15:06:00Z

    UK – Property company and fund manager Delancey has sold a UK shopping centre for more than £70m (€78m) to the West Midlands Pension Fund.

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    Morgan Stanley launches secondaries fund

    2010-03-22T14:53:00Z

    GLOBAL – Morgan Stanley has launched the first real estate fund of funds vehicle dedicated specifically to acquiring secondary interests in existing funds.

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    Strathclyde to increase focus on RI in property review

    2010-03-22T12:24:00Z

    UK – Strathclyde Pension Fund's current review of its property portfolio will include 'further consideration' of the application of its responsible investment (RI) strategy.

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    INREV predicts UK institutional investors to tap real estate growth

    2010-03-18T17:35:00Z

    UK – The total volume of capital invested in real estate by UK institutional investors is set to grow by 20% over the next three years as pension funds increase their allocations to the asset class and move out of underweight positions, according to new a survey.

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    Germany and UK at greatest risk from 'problem' loans

    2010-03-18T17:33:00Z

    EUROPE – Germany and the UK are more exposed to more than the €200bn pool of real estate loans identified by CB Richard Ellis as “problematic” than any other markets in Europe.

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    Texas Teachers seeks growth in agriculture

    2010-03-18T17:32:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System has made its first ever investment in agriculture with a $250m (€145.9m) commitment into the AG Real Value Fund, managed by Teay’s River Investments.

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    British Steel pension moves into music store

    2010-03-18T17:21:00Z

    UK – The British Steel Pension Fund has acquired an HMV music store in Manchester from a private investor for £18.9m (€21.14m) and plans to make further acquisitions over the next 18 months.

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    Inflation worries bring closer scrutiny of Asian real estate

    2010-03-18T17:20:00Z

    ASIA-PACIFIC – There is a growing concern over the prospect of inflation rising too quickly in the main economies of Asia, but Aberdeen Property Investors believes the respective authorities have sought to tackle the issue pre-emptively and in a positive manner.

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    Arizona Public Safety takes opportunistic strategy in real estate

    2010-03-18T17:17:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Arizona Public Safety Retirement System intends to make at least two more real estate commitments to commingled funds by investing through a US opportunistic strategy in 2010.

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    IPE Real Estate’s Top 100 finds Swiss investors favour property

    2010-03-16T18:11:00Z

    EUROPE – Four Dutch pension funds are among the top 10 institutional real estate investors but Swiss pension funds tend to have the highest allocation to the sector, according to IPE Real Estate’s inaugural Top 100 institutional real estate investors.

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    German pension funds find a way to tap core US real estate

    2010-03-16T18:10:00Z

    US/GERMANY – Invesco Real Estate has raised $120m (€87m) from four German institutional investors to invest in core US real estate.

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    Asian investors eye real estate fund-of-funds

    2010-03-16T18:07:00Z

    ASIA-PACIFIC – Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors (FTREA) has identified a new generation of local real estate managers in Asia Pacific, which the fund of funds manager is currently assessing for its second vehicle targeting the region.