Real Estate – Page 67
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Bundestag passes G-REITs bill
REAL ESTATE – Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, has approved draft law legalising German real estate investments trusts (G-REITs) retroactively from 1 January.
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Finland central bank issues real estate tender
FINLAND - The €460m pension fund of Finland’s central bank, Suomen Pankki, is seeking an investment manager to handle its €25m indirect real estate portfolio.
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West Midlands seeks direct property manager
UK – The West Midlands pension fund is looking for a manager for its £560m (€824.6m) direct UK property portfolio.
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European property market turnover hits €227bn in 2006
REAL ESTATE - The European commercial real estate market has doubled over the past two years, According to a CB Richard Ellis report just published, turnover increased 46% last year to €227bn, following an increase of 47% the previous year.
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Protection fund appoints five new asset managers
UK – The London-based Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has diversified its portfolio and appointed five new fund managers for its £305m (€446.3m) investment fund, set to grow to £5bn by 2009.
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Moving mountains overnight
With a career spanning more than 23 years in all real estate disciplines ING Real Estate Investment Management CEO David Blight knows as well as anyone the challenges facing institutional investors in real estate today. Speed of reaction is one of them, as he explains to Martin Hurst
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How pure is your real estate?
The real estate market is growing in complexity, but how far do the various options actually reflect the underlying market? Nick Duff investigates
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Swings and roundabouts
Open-ended funds flaunt their liquidity and performance, but how far can they actually deliver both? Michael Clarke investigates
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Stay focused
A US perspective on real estate investing comes from Townsend’s Terry Ahern who argues that the issues of pricing, and the decline in opportunities can be tackled using a few basic principles
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Retail therapy
The UK goes into Europe; other Europeans move to Asia; everyone goes shopping
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Location, location, location
Given widely varying market fundamentals, investors in outperforming US office must choose their city carefully. Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports
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A close second
Secondary cities such as Munich are mopping up the excess of investor cash as prices rise in mainstream European capitals. However, there is little to bind them together as an asset sub-class, Shayla Walmsley finds
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Confidence and commitment
Information gathering and setting out clear terms and conditions from the beginning will help maintain a successful partnership with a fund manager, Shayla Walmsley reports
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LPFA scouts global property manager
UK - The £3.6bn (€5.3bn) London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) is looking for an external investment manager to expand its £150m real estate portfolio outside the UK.
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CSAM UK property team defects to Aberdeen (updated)
UK – Glenn Newson, former head of UK property at Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), has defected to Aberdeen Property Investors. He has taken his six-person team with him. (updates with comments from Credit Suisse)
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CalPERS narrows search for CalWest buyers
REAL ESTATE – The $230bn (€175bn) California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has narrowed the list of candidates to buy the CalWest industrial portfolio.
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Norwegian fund seeks real estate tax advice
NORWAY – The Norwegian finance ministry has issued a tender for a company to draft a report on tax issues relating to investments in real estate and infrastructure in 32 markets outside Norway.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund seeks property manager
NETHERLANDS – An industrywide Dutch pension fund is looking for a manager for a €75m active pan-Europe core real estate portfolio using IPE-QUEST (QN727).
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ABP, Keva in property private equity move
REAL ESTATE – Finnish local government pension fund Keva and ABP, Europe’s largest pension fund, were among eight initial investors in a pan-European real estate private equity fund launched last week by Spanish property group Neinver.
