All articles by Richard Lowe – Page 74
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Monday people roundup
GLOBAL – Tristan Capital Partners, Segro, AXA Real Estate, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors
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BP Pension Fund's Cubemaker joint venture buys ITV assets
UK – Cubemaker Partnership, the joint venture between the BP Pension Fund and Cube Real Estate, has acquired three commercial real estate assets from television company ITV for £11.3m (€12.9m).
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Rockspring enters student housing through counter-cyclical strategy
UK – Rockspring Property Investment Managers has entered the student accommodation market for the first time with the acquisition of 123 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, in a joint venture with Mansion Group.
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Pension funds targeting US multi-family housing
GLOBAL – Multi-family housing has been identified as the favoured sector for investment in the US by a number of European pension funds, a position backed up by new research from Pramerica Real Estate Investors.
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Capital flows to US real estate set to double, says DTZ
GLOBAL – Global investment capital targeting US real estate is set to double in 2011 as the outlook for the market completes a dramatic improvement over the past 12 months, according to DTZ.
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Poland back on the agenda for Germany's NAEV
EUROPE – German pension fund Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung (NAEV) is considering returning to the Polish real estate market after having divested and taken profits from the region in recent years.
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First Property wraps up USS mandate, returns to Poland
POLAND – First Property Group has returned to its previous business model of launching successive Polish opportunity funds, having concluded its mandate with the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
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Aberdeen, ING REIM see capital inflows for core property
EUROPE – European institutional investors have committed close to €200m of capital to a number of core real estate funds managed by Aberdeen Asset Management and ING Real Estate Investment Management, respectively.
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Global investors flocking to German real estate market
GERMANY – The German commercial real estate market has seen in influx of international investors in 2010, accounting for 40% of all transactions in the first half of the year, according to Savills.
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Invesco Real Estate backs hotels with second European fund
EUROPE – Invesco Real Estate has identified a €168m seed portfolio of hotels to help raise capital for its new pan-European hotel fund.
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GID takes over CalPERS apartment portfolio from BlackRock
GLOBAL – GID Investment Advisers has taken over the management of a core multi-family residential portfolio from BlackRock Realty Advisors on behalf of the $212bn (€152bn) California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS).
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Institutional capital to desert German open-ended funds, says CBRE
GERMANY – Incoming regulations in Germany will see institutional capital leave open-ended funds and be reinvested in Spezialfonds, according to a report by CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
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Hermes seeks to increase liquidity for BT Pension Fund
UK – Hermes Real Estate is to sell the BT Pension Scheme's interest in the Bluewater Shopping Centre as part of a wider rebalancing of the portfolio away from "less liquid" indirect and joint venture holdings in the UK.
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Denmark's ATP returns to real estate market
DENMARK – Denmark's largest pension fund ATP has made its first direct real estate acquisition in two years, acquiring a high-profile office block in central Copenhagen.
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L&G annuities arm gets first real estate exposure
UK – Legal & General Pensions (LGPL) is to invest in UK real estate for the first time on behalf of its £23bn (€26.6bn) annuity business.
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BNP Paribas Real Estate takes over AEW Europe subsidiaries
EUROPE – BNP Paribas Real Estate Property Management has acquired the central European real estate management business of AEW Europe.
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Property derivatives fund backed by major fund managers
UK – The first pure property derivatives fund, offering cheap exposure to the UK real estate market index, has been launched with backing from a number of institutional real estate fund managers.
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APREA study urges pension funds to boost real estate allocations
GLOBAL – Asian pension funds are being urged by a new report to follow the lead of their US and European counterparts by allocating more to real estate.
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Institutional investors back AEGON healthcare strategy
UK – AEGON Asset Management has secured two more institutional investors, through DTZ Investment Management, for its new healthcare real estate fund.
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Carlyle combines buyout, real estate capital to fund B&B Hotel purchase
EUROPE – The Carlyle Group has acquired B&B Hotel Group, operator of 223 hotels across France, Germany and France, with equity from one of its private equity buyout funds and one if its real estate vehicles.
