All Real Assets articles in September 2011 (Magazine)
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What’s it worth?
A lot depends on accurate valuations of underlying real estate assets, not least the trillions of dollars worth of global asset-backed investments. Steve Williams looks at the current state of the global valuation profession and what needs to change
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An unhelpful stigma?
The experiences of real estate funds that geared their investments at the peak of the market have prompted some investors to reject leverage outright. But, as Ian Whittock explains, debt has a part to play
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Summer Shock
Shayla Walmsley explores what the recent stock market sell-off means for listed real estate investors
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Prime time
Partners Group has raised serious questions over investors’ flight to quality. Claude Angéloz talks to Richard Lowe about investing outside the core markets
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Valued opinions
Opinions on the subject of real estate valuations can be as diverse as the various regimes themselves. Here, industry participants give their views on what continues to be a source of contention
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Money talks
Investors continue to benefit from a growing uptake of INREV guidelines, but is the difficult capital-raising environment proving to be more significant? Shayla Walmsley talks to several investors to find out
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A meeting of two worlds
A growing number of institutional investors are combining REIT portfolios with their non-listed real estate investments. Christine Senior explores the opportunities that arise from such an approach
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Size matters
Prologis just got bigger, following its merger with AMB. European president Philip Dunne talks to Richard Lowe about managing an increased number of mandates and its recent ownership tussle with APG
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Two-storey market
An escalating sovereign debt crisis has triggered the emergence of an increasingly polarised European office market. John Danes looks at the diverging fortunes of north and south
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Searching for the missing link
Sustainable Investment in Real Estate (s-i-r-e) is conducting an empirical study on the financial performance of sustainable European office and retail assets owned by more than 40 fund managers and investment firms. Juerg Bernet, Sarah Sayce, Rupert Ledl and Maarten Vermeulen report on its first findings
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Too late for the office party?
Investors flocking to safety are looking to prime office properties. But with prices rising and bidding wars erupting, are these markets already overheated? Stephanie Schwartz-Driver investigates
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Heat retention
Despite the economic uncertainty, some prime real estate markets remain attractive, says DTZ’s Fair Value Index. Ben Burston and Tony McGough report
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A safe haven?
What better port in the current storm? Michael Cohen assesses the attractiveness of the US for global investors on a sector-by-sector basis
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Get in line
The turnaround in the underlying core real estate market in the US has been mirrored by high demand for open-ended institutional property funds. Stephanie Schwartz-Driver looks at why entry queues have replaced mass redemptions
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Gaining momentum
Commercial real estate transaction volumes in the US surged in the second quarter, with portfolio deals on the rise, according to latest RCA figures. Peter Slatin looks at the details
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From fraud to fund strategy
The reputation of the Dutch real estate industry suffered another blow this year with the disclosure of a large fraud investigation. As Leen Preesman discovered, Dutch pension funds have other property-related matters to contend with
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Looking forward
Institutional investors are starting to provide forward funding for pre-let development projects in the UK. Lynn Strongin Dodds investigates whether it might feasibly fill the financing gap left behind by the banks
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Foiled at the outset
A new generation of CMBS and CDOs has already hit the rocks. Shayla Walmsley asks what this means for the ailing securitised debt market
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Safety first
The fact that PFA Ejendomme is invested in three development projects does not mean it is going all-out for risk. Director Michael Willumsen tells Shayla Walmsley why the pension fund subsidiary is sticking with core
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Fear of heights?
Is now the time to move up the risk curve and consider value-add strategies? Shayla Walmsley talks to a number of investors, managers and advisers
