Industrial – Page 151

  • News

    AEW widens its logistical holdings

    2009-05-18T18:02:00Z

    EUROPE - AEW Europe has made a number of logistics investments across Europe for two of its closed-ended funds.

  • News

    UK logistics traffic to hit a go-slow

    2009-02-19T17:47:00Z

    UK – Demand for UK logistics could reach a record low this year and will remain subdued until at least 2010, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

  • News

    Property investment slumped €335bn last year

    2009-02-12T18:09:00Z

    GLOBAL - Global investment in commercial property plummeted 59% to $435bn (€335bn) in 2008 and is likely to fall further in 2009, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s Investment Atlas 2009 analysis.

  • News

    French property market 'must adapt to survive'

    2009-02-09T17:33:00Z

    FRANCE – Property experts have predicted the French real estate industry is set to deteriorate even further in 2009 as a result of the financial crisis and will have to adapt itself to investors’ demands in order to recover.

  • News

    Goodman and L&G raise equity for ABPP

    2009-01-06T15:45:00Z

    GLOBAL – Australia’s Goodman Group and the UK’s Legal & General have raised £350m (€383m) of equity for real estate fund Arlington Business Park Partnership (ABPP).

  • News

    CalSTRS joint venture gains new financing

    2008-12-22T17:41:00Z

    US – First Industrial, the North American Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), has arranged a new $110m (€78.6m) debt facility for its ventures with the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS).

  • News

    Demand for logistics creates investment potential

    2008-12-04T16:58:00Z

    EUROPE – Jones Lang LaSalle has identified Europe’s seaports as logistics hotspots for growth on the back of a significant increase in demand.

  • News

    Prologis loses chief and halts new developments

    2008-11-13T16:35:00Z

    GLOBAL – ProLogis, the world’s largest logistics developer, has announced the resignation of chief executive officer Jeffrey Schwartz at a time when the company is halting further developments.

  • News

    Ohio PERS grabs opportunity to look beyond the value-add

    2008-10-23T17:57:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Ohio Public Employees Retirement System will be shifting some of its investment capital in real estate to an opportunistic strategy in a bid to tap the little investment likely to surface over coming months.

  • News

    Opt for Reading over Riyadh - fund manager

    2008-07-28T16:53:00Z

    MIDDLE EAST – Pension fund real estate investors should steer clear of the Middle East property, use debt if you can get it, and wait for a property market turnaround in the UK, according to asset managers.

  • News

    Choose carefully, says SEB, after UK re-entry

    2008-07-21T15:25:00Z

    UK/GERMANY - Investors are investing cautiously in UK logistics as they wait for the market to fall further, according to SEB, the German fund management arm of the Swedish bank.

  • News

    Sponda sticks with Russia despite Finnish optimism

    2008-05-12T16:56:00Z

    RUSSIA – Sponda’s chief executive Kari Inkinen said the Finnish property firm was on course for its planned Russian expansion despite a fall in interim profits from the same period last year.

  • News

    European property returns hit by currency pressure

    2008-04-24T15:09:00Z

    EUROPE – Unlisted European real estate funds saw a negative return on their investments of –3.9% in 2007, driven by the very poor performance of the UK property market as well as currency conversion pressures attached to the dollar and euro.

  • News

    Sponda goes to the docks

    2008-04-14T16:58:00Z

    FINLAND - Finnish property firm Sponda has agreed a €12m deal with the Port of Helsinki to build a harbour service centre at Vuosaari.

  • News

    San Diego City expands its international focus

    2008-04-03T17:31:00Z

    UNITED STATES - San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System is growing its international real estate investment program by investing in a commingled fund and moving its domestic REIT program to a global stage.

  • News

    Logistics remains strong, except in UK

    2008-03-31T16:59:00Z

    EUROPE - Logistics is still outperforming other European sectors despite a 12% fall in direct investment last year compared with 2006.

  • News

    Spanish spread boosts logistics

    2008-02-25T16:49:00Z

    SPAIN - Spanish logistics markets are expanding as urban sectoral growth continues at above the national average, according to a Savills report on the country’s warehousing market.

  • News

    UK pension funds look east for storage

    2008-02-18T16:50:00Z

    UK - UK pension funds see continued traction in Central and Eastern European (CEE) logistics despite concerns over pricing in other segments of those markets.

  • Opportunity by the shed load
    Magazine

    Opportunity by the shed load

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    With foreign investment continuing to flow into Asia, logistics is emerging as a serious growth opportunity for providers, with Vietnam attracting most attention. Michael Grimes reports

  • Market view: India – a competitive advantage
    Magazine

    Market view: India – a competitive advantage

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Logistics is increasingly becoming a strategic source of competitive advantage with the increase in the global outsourcing of production, shortening of product life cycles and intensification of global competition.