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ÆRIUM targets France for first opportunistic strategy

2010-11-15T14:30:00Z

FRANCE – ÆRIUM is seeking to raise €50-60m in third-party equity to invest in prime retail real estate opportunities in France.

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US apartment market in early period of recovery, says Pramerica

2010-11-15T11:30:00Z

GLOBAL – The US apartment market is in the early parts of a recovery, according to Pramerica Real Estate Investors.

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UK real estate values to fall in 2011, offset by income returns, says Invista

2010-11-15T11:15:00Z

UK – The recovery in capital values in the UK real estate market slowed to a crawl in October and is expected to see a reversal in fortunes over 2011.

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Texas Employees commits $60m to value-added fund

2010-11-11T12:00:00Z

GLOBAL – The Employees Retirement System of Texas has made a $60m (€43m) commitment to the Madison International Real Estate Liquidity Fund IV.

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VastNed Retail builds up Turkish portfolio to €90m

2010-11-08T15:00:00Z

TURKEY – Pan-European retail property fund VastNed Retail has acquired its seventh prime high street shop in the heart of Istanbul, taking its total investment in Turkey to €90m.

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Pradera begins raising capital for UK retail park 'club fund'

2010-11-04T15:00:00Z

UK – Pradera UK has secured £75m (€85.6m) from a European pension fund to invest in UK retail parks and is hoping to raise a further £175m from several other investors currently undertaking due diligence.

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UK commercial rally running out of steam, says IPD

2010-11-04T13:00:00Z

UK – Investment Property Databank (IPD) has warned that the rally in the UK commercial real estate market is all but over, with the third quarter seeing the shallowest period of capital growth in 2010.

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Norway's Pension Fund Global Fund makes first foray into real estate

2010-11-04T12:45:00Z

EUROPE – Norges Bank has made its first real estate investment for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, acquiring a 25% stake in The Crown Estate's Regent Street portfolio in London.

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Irish commercial real estate continues to slide, IPD says

2010-11-01T14:15:00Z

IRELAND – The commercial real estate market in Ireland continued to see declines in capital values in the third quarter, meaning the market has been falling for more than three years, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).

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CPPIB, LaSalle join forces on German shopping centre

2010-11-01T14:00:00Z

GLOBAL – DEGI Europa, the open-ended real estate fund in the process of liquidating its assets, has sold a shopping centre in Germany for €157.3m to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and LaSalle Investment Management.

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Lack of European prime stock slows global transactional recovery

2010-10-25T15:30:00Z

GLOBAL – The recovery in global real estate transactions has levelled off, driven by a constrained availability of prime properties in Europe, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

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OMERS, British Land team up to develop London's Cheesegrater

2010-10-25T13:15:00Z

UK – Oxford Properties, the real estate division of Canadian pension fund OMERS, has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with British Land to develop the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, otherwise known as the Cheesegrater.

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Real estate markets failing to recover in Italy, Japan

2010-10-21T14:15:00Z

GLOBAL – The Italian commercial real estate market has continued its gradual decline in capital values in the first half of 2010, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).

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BP Pension Fund's Cubemaker joint venture buys ITV assets

2010-10-18T14:45:00Z

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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Global investors flocking to German real estate market

2010-10-11T13:30:00Z

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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Hermes seeks to increase liquidity for BT Pension Fund

2010-10-07T12:30:00Z

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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Carlyle combines buyout, real estate capital to fund B&B Hotel purchase

2010-09-30T14:30:00Z

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.

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French commercial real estate returns to positive territory, says IPD

2010-09-30T13:45:00Z

FRANCE – Commercial real estate in France has emerged from a two-year slump to record a six-month 1.6% capital appreciation, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).

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AMF makes largest Swedish transaction in over two years

2010-09-30T13:00:00Z

SWEDEN – Swedish pension provider AMF and German open fund manager DEKA Immobilien Investment have executed the largest single real estate deal in the city of Stockholm for more than two years.

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Texas Teachers approves $500m investment in retail REIT

2010-09-30T11:15:00Z

GLOBAL – The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has approved a $500m (€371m) investment into General Growth Properties (GGP).