Retail – Page 121

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    Apartments hit most by market shift – Pramerica

    2007-11-26T10:30:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Pramerica Real Estate Investors is predicting the apartment market will be the most affected of all major property types by the recent changes in the residential housing and credit markets.

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    Lehman Brothers creates retail JV in Italy

    2007-11-19T17:21:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners has formed a new joint venture with B Consulting for the development of new retail properties in Italy.

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    UK property delivers negative return

    2007-11-05T17:54:00Z

    UK - Real estate delivered a negative return of 1.1% in Q3, according to the IPD UK Quarterly Index – the first in its history – but real estate still outperformed property equities, which had a negative return of –10.3% for the three months to September.

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    LACERA trades property for commingled fund

    2007-11-05T17:47:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has sold a shopping centre in Los Angeles and traded it for an investment into a commingled fund with the same real estate manager.

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    CalSTRS sets up retail JV

    2007-11-05T17:39:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System has established a new joint venture with Urban Retail Properties Company to invest in retail properties.

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    Macro growth boosts Nordic retail

    2007-10-29T17:30:00Z

    NORDICS - Pension funds have an irrational attachment to office real estate when they should be looking to outperforming retail, according to fund manager Cordea Savills.

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    CalPERS places fresh $600m in real estate

    2007-10-29T17:00:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System has placed $600m (€424.5m) into a combination of commingled funds, co-investments and separate accounts for international and opportunistic strategies.

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    UK, Spanish banks in sale-and-leaseback deals

    2007-10-22T17:15:00Z

    UK/SPAIN - Two banks involved in the acquisition of ABN Amro are selling off most of their remaining property assets in a series of sale-and-leaseback deals.

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    Oslo property market is ‘the new Helsinki’

    2007-10-22T17:15:00Z

    NORWAY – Europe is good but Norway is better, according to a property market report published by Close, the independent merchant bank.

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    US pension fund capital heads back to core

    2007-10-22T17:05:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Some pension fund capital in the United States is flowing against the tide and being reallocated to a core investment strategy.

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    Strategies switched amid lower Romanian returns

    2007-10-15T13:30:00Z

    ROMANIA - Charlemagne Capital’s €110.5m sale of three Romanian property assets last week indicates a significant shift in that market, according to investors.

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    BT pension fund to sell £240m portfolio

    2007-10-15T10:00:00Z

    UK – Hermes Real Estate has placed 10 property vehicles on the market, in the hope of generating £240m (€346m) for the BT Pension Scheme.

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    Stunted supply boosts European retail

    2007-10-08T17:36:00Z

    EUROPE - European pension funds are on a regional shopping spree motivated by a limited supply of new assets in low-risk markets, according to Aberdeen fund manager Nico Tates.

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    Indiana PERF searches for core and REIT managers

    2007-10-08T17:29:00Z

    UNITED STATES - The Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund is now searching for real estate managers for core and REIT strategies through new RFPs.

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    San Diego City targets non-US real estate

    2007-10-08T17:23:00Z

    UNITED STATES - San Diego City Employees Retirement System has approved its first ever targeted allocation for non-United States real estate investments.

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    Pension funds "ready for Russian real estate"

    2007-10-01T16:00:00Z

    RUSSIA - Pension funds – at least Nordic ones – are ready to invest in Russian real estate, having overcome earlier reluctance concerning the complexity of the market, according to Ole Dall-Hansen, chief executive of Aberdeen Property Investors Eastern Europe.

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    Pension funds show distressed debt interest

    2007-09-28T10:00:00Z

    UNITED STATES – US pension funds are considering placing real estate capital into debt strategies on the back of recent market turbulence.

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    New Jersey tries on separates

    2007-09-27T17:00:00Z

    UNITED STATES - The New Jersey Division of Investment is shifting into the use of real estate separate accounts and has hired General Motors Investment Management for a $150m (€106.4m) equity mandate.

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    RREEF expects US cap rates to climb

    2007-09-26T17:00:00Z

    UNITED STATES – RREEF has predicted cap rates on the purchase of existing US properties will rise by 50 basis points by the end of 2007.

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    US pension funds buy opportunity

    2007-09-24T16:35:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Pension funds in the United States are investing more capital into commingled funds with opportunistic investment strategies.