All articles by Richard Lowe – Page 77
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Henderson targets local interest with German retail fund
GERMANY – Henderson Global Investors is seeking to tap demand from German institutional investors for exposure to their domestic retail sector.
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Withdrawal of open-ended German funds will 'level playing field', says Invesco
EUROPE – Less investment activity on the part of German open-ended funds (GOEFs) would effectively level the playing field for other institutional investors in the European real estate markets, according to Invesco Real Estate.
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European institutional investors thinking twice about US
GLOBAL – Concerns over the fragility of the US economic recovery have caused European institutional investors to reassess the attractiveness of the country's real estate market.
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INREV tweaks investor due diligence checklist
EUROPE – INREV has revised its due diligence questionnaire to address investors' latest concerns when selecting fund managers in the current investment environment.
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German-owned Hypo Real Estate fails stress test
GERMANY – Government-owned Hypo Real Estate has failed a stress test by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS).
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European occupancy markets dragged down by austerity measures
GLOBAL – While occupier demand is rising in the majority of countries across the globe, austerity measures to reduce fiscal deficits are causing a drag on euro-zone and UK real estate markets, according to the latest global report from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
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Valad takes over management of €480m Swedish portfolio
SWEDEN – Valad Europe, the pan-European, multi-let real estate investment management business of Valad Property Group, has been appointed to take over the investment management of a €480m property portfolio in Sweden.
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Switzerland's Partners Group to manage Korean sovereign money
GLOBAL – Partners Group will help Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) invest in recapitalising opportunities in the real estate markets as part of the sovereign wealth fund's drive to double its exposure to alternative investments.
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BT and Royal Mail pension JV sells Brindleyplace assets
UK – A joint venture between the BT and Royal Mail pension funds, developer Argent and fund manager Tritax has sold five office buildings in Birmingham for £190m (€225m).
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Germany leads uptick in European occupier demand, says JPMAM
EUROPE – The decline in European commercial property rents is coming to an end, and tenants are responding by committing to new space, according to JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM).
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Specialist funds outperforming market in UK, says IPD
UK – Pooled UK real estate funds have delivered returns of more than 20% over the past 12 months, but only those with specialist and niche strategies outperformed the underlying direct market, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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Income returns continue to drive European performance, says Invista
EUROPE – Income returns will continue to drive real estate investment performance despite an uncertain outlook for rental growth, according to Invista Real Estate Investment Management.
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Real estate transactions grow in Europe despite sovereign debt crisis
EUROPE – The growth in European real estate transactions continued to rise in the second quarter despite investor uncertainty over the sovereign debt crisis.
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CEE transactions triple as German funds return to real estate
EUROPE – A resurgence of investment activity in the real estate markets of central and eastern Europe (CEE) saw transactions triple in the first half of 2010 compared with a year ago, according to CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
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Schroders backs Palmer's new Mayfair venture
UK – Schroder Property's multi-manager business has agreed to seed a new UK real estate fund managed by Mayfair Capital Investment Management.
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Real estate fundraising plummets to 2004 levels: Preqin
GLOBAL – Capital raised by private equity real estate fund managers has fallen to the lowest level since 2004, according to data providers Preqin.
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Shopping centre fund opens doors to £1bn CMBS restructure
UK – One of the biggest restructurings of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) since the start of the financial crisis has been given the go-ahead for a leading UK shopping centre fund.
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UK recovery slows to a crawl, says IPD
UK – Investors in the UK commercial real estate market are hoping for an end to the recent period of extreme volatility, which saw capital values fall by 44.2% in the two years following the credit crunch, before recovering by 15.2% over the 11 months to June 2010.
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Transactions on the rise globally, but down in Asia: JLL
GLOBAL – The volume of global real estate transactions in the first half of this year is almost double that of the same period in 2009, but deals in Asia-Pacific dropped by more than a third between the first and second quarters, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
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European institutional investors regaining appetite for risk
EUROPE – European transaction volumes in 2010 are expected to exceed those of last year following results from a survey that finds risk appetite has increased among institutional investors in the UK, Germany and France.
