Real Estate News – Page 762

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    EC sustainability still a long way off real estate

    2008-11-06T17:57:00Z

    EUROPE – The European Commission has revealed draft proposals for an EU-wide Energy and Water Performance of Buildings Directive this week in a bid to encourage sustainability and more energy efficiency in buildings across Europe, but experts maintain the EC still has a long way to go before achieving a ...

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    Tennessee Consolidated extends manager relations

    2008-11-06T17:56:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System is beefing up the range of separate account real estate managers it invests with.

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    Study presents fresh call for EU REITs

    2008-11-05T15:05:00Z

    GLOBAL - Real estate experts have today unveiled the first blueprint of how an EU Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) might work and insisted now is the time to push the proposal through the Commission in Brussels.

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    CPPIB invests fresh CA$1.4bn in real estate

    2008-11-03T16:31:00Z

    CANADA – The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has expanded its real estate portfolio with $1.4bn worth of new investments, bringing the fund’s total real estate commitments to $8.4bn.

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    Irish property falls on hard times

    2008-11-03T16:28:00Z

    IRELAND - Irish commercial property repricing has set in hard, as the total return on the SCS/IPD Irish quarterly index fell by 13.9% over three months to end of September, making it the lowest quarterly return in the index history.

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    Avon signs Partners to work on global property

    2008-11-03T16:17:00Z

    UK - Partners Group, the Swiss-based global alternative asset manager with over CHF25bn (€16.8bn) in assets under management, has been chosen to manage Avon Pension Fund’s overseas real estate portfolio.

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    Survey finds investors still want to tap real estate

    2008-11-03T16:09:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Investors are ready to make the most of a predicted decline in value of commercial real estate, the results of Ernst & Young ‘s “Reality Check Survey” suggest.

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    Netherlands tightens measures against property fraud

    2008-11-03T15:55:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - The Dutch government is stepping up its efforts to prevent property fraud by tightening rules for notaries, surveyors and brokers.

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    Texas Teachers commits €200m to Europe

    2008-10-30T18:29:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of Texas has approved a €200m commitment to the Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe III commingled fund.

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    Santa Barbara County plans international expansion

    2008-10-30T18:28:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Santa Barbara County Employees’ Retirement Association is looking at expanding into international real estate for the first time.

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    CalSTRS to stick with changing First Industrial

    2008-10-30T18:27:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System anticipates its relationship with First Industrial Realty Trust will not be affected by a major change in the firm’s upper management.

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    CBRE trust widens into UK retail

    2008-10-27T17:51:00Z

    UK - The CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust has expanded its property holdings outside of the United States after purchasing a second major UK retail park.

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    'Flat' review sparks talk over UK housing potential

    2008-10-27T17:21:00Z

    UK – A government-commissioned report on proposed reforms for UK rented housing has sparked a debate which suggests the country’s top property experts disagree on the best way to help investors tap opportunities in the UK’s residential marketplace.

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    Grosvenor to buy a ride on the Chinese dragon

    2008-10-27T17:19:00Z

    ASIA/UK – Grosvenor, the London-based group of international property investment, development and fund management businesses, has launched a $600m (€468.7m) China retail fund.

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    Alameda County opts out of JP Morgan commingled fund

    2008-10-23T17:59:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Alameda County Employees Retirement Association has decided it wants to pull out of its commitment to JP Morgan’s Alternative Property Fund.

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    Ohio PERS grabs opportunity to look beyond the value-add

    2008-10-23T17:57:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Ohio Public Employees Retirement System will be shifting some of its investment capital in real estate to an opportunistic strategy in a bid to tap the little investment likely to surface over coming months.

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    CalPERS reserves $400m for hotel fund

    2008-10-23T17:56:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System has made a $400m (€300.4m) commitment to the Starwood Capital Hospitality Fund II, following earlier success with an first version of Starwood’s specialist fund.

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    California Uni puts real estate on ice

    2008-10-23T17:54:00Z

    UNITED STATES - The University of California Retirement Plan has put plans to increase its real estate target allocation on hold until markets turbulence and returns have calmed.

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    US managers begin switch from deals to strategy

    2008-10-20T17:16:00Z

    UNITED STATES - US real estate investment managers are shifting their focus away from deal-specific research to strategic portfolio analysis, more in line with their European counterparts, as a side effect of the current market uncertainty, according to the International Property Databank (IPD).

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    Prupim phases sustainability push beyond the UK

    2008-10-20T17:12:00Z

    UK/GLOBAL – Prupim, the real estate investment manager, is planning to expand its approach towards sustainability worldwide and address the performance of its international portfolio, with research due to start in North America next month.