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E&Y and Henderson to deliver Spezialfonds
GERMANY - Ernst & Young Real Estate and WarburgβHenderson have joined forces to offer what they describe as an outsourcing service for institutional investors which allows them to transfer their directly-held real estate portfolios into a Speziafonds property fund
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Demand for logistics creates investment potential
EUROPE β Jones Lang LaSalle has identified Europeβs seaports as logistics hotspots for growth on the back of a significant increase in demand.
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Aberdeen sells Belgian real estate operation
BELGIUM - BNP Paribas Real Estate Property Management has announced it is acquiring Aberdeen Property Investors Belgium.
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ING REIM to cut UK jobs
UK - ING Real Estate Investment Management (ING REIM) has announced up to one-fifth of its staff in the United Kingdom face redundancy following a costs review by the firm.
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Investors see shine fade on German property
GERMANY- German investor sentiment in real estate has plummeted and is paralysing the industry, consultancy firm King Sturge has claimed, as economic data continues to fall.
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Pension funds scramble to fly UK airport bids
CANADA/UK - Ontario Teachersβ Pension Fund is working with 3iβs infrastructure fund on a potential bid to buy Gatwick Airport in a deal which could be worth more than Β£1.5bn (β¬1.8bn), but other pension funds are thought to be considering deals too.
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Less call for leverage predicted
GLOBAL - Leverage is likely to become less important to property investors given the financial turmoil, according to Ian Gleeson, chief investment officer of global multi-manager investment at CB Richard Ellis Investors.
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Invista reveals pressures as dividends halted
UK/EUROPE - Invista European Real Estate Trust SICAF is suspending dividend payments in a bid to conserve cash and to deleverage the company.
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UK REITs could turn market liquidity - Deloitte
UK β UK residential Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) will be attractive propositions for institutional investors and could help bring liquidity into the market, according to experts attending an IPD pre-conference meeting in Brighton yesterday.
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UK Reits to struggle but better Europe - managers
UK β UK REITs are entering unprecedented waters and are unlikely to achieve strong investor interest for at least a couple of years, according to Brend Stahli from Merrill Lynch.
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T.Rowe Price turns attention to globe real estate
US/GLOBAL β US-based asset manager T. Rowe Price is launching a global real Estate strategy in a bid to expand its global investment opportunities.
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Empty rates reform are 'empty promise'
UK - UK government proposals to temporarily scrap rate for empty properties with an estimated value of less than Β£250,000 (β¬299,110) are nothing more than empty spin and do little to help the market, according to property experts.
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Real estate derivatives gain fresh impetus
UK - Derivatives offer real estate investors good opportunities to diversify their portfolio, according to property experts at the ING Real Estate Annual Seminar.
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Property sector finally unveiled for UK unlisted market
UK β The Investment Management Association (IMA), trade body to the Β£3.4trn (β¬3.99trn) UK fund management industry, and its Performance Category Review Committee (PCRC) have created a new property sector.
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Grosvenor reviews its business priorities
EUROPE- Grosvenor is planning to concentrate on developing its fund management business in continental Europe.
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Negative rental growth now global
GLOBAL β Rental growth has turned negative on a global scale and the downturn in emerging markets is accelerating, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) finds in its latest quarterly global report.
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UK sets new record for fall in capital values
UK β UK commercial property capital values fell by record levels last month, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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UK will start to recover in 2010 β Schroders
UK β The UK commercial real estate market will not stabilise until the latter part of 2009 but should begin to recover in 2010 according to Schroder Property.
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PME looks for global opportunities
NETHERLANDS β Pensioenfonds van de Metalektro (PME) is diversifying its real estate exposure by investing opportunistically on a global basis.
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Europe to produce βacceptableβ returns in the medium-term
EUROPE β Investors can generate βacceptable or attractiveβ returns from most of the European markets over the medium-term, according to a report by Invesco Real Estate.
