All Commentary articles – Page 163
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UK real estate market commentary – September 2015
After a strong 18 months, Schroders expects the UK economy to experience a mid-cycle slowdown with GDP growth of around 2.25% in 2016.
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Market Report: Office Space Germany 2Q15
BERLIN 2.0: Office properties sought after as never before in Germany’s capital city
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US Economic Outlook: Q2 2015
July’s economic data for the US, to a large extent, represented more of the same with some mixed economic news.
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Insights: Quarterly market views from our fund managers - Q2 2015
The Asia Pacific real estate market is expanding rapidly – invested stock in the region rose by 10% in dollar terms over the past year to $5.1 trillion, moving further ahead of Europe and North America. This growth has helped to further broaden the pool of opportunities, with new markets meeting the transparency and maturity criteria for core investment.
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Research Blast: Beginning of a recovery?!
Behind the headlines of the crisis in Greece, the eurozone economy has produced some encouraging indicators in 2Q15, which suggests that it is moving into a phase of sustainable economic growth.
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Market Report: Retail Germany H1 2015
The investment climate on the German real estate market could not be better: The positive overall economic situation, low interest rates and low energy prices have created a bullish market sentiment.
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What QE in Europe Means for Real Estate Investors
Roughly three months after the Fed announced that its third and final quantitative easing (QE) program was complete, the European Central Bank (ECB) finally announced that it was starting its first QE program.
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Market Report: Aviation Markets H1 2015
Good times for the aviation markets: Oil prices are at their lowest level in six years. Prices of under USD 70 per barrel provide relief for the aviation industry.
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Asia Pacific Outlook: June 2015
Over 2015 and 2016, economic growth of the Asia Pacific region is forecast to hold steady at 5.5% per annum, continuing to outperform the rest of the world by a large margin.
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Insights: Q1 2015
In Asia, active management is becoming an increasingly important driver of outperformance, against a backdrop of moderately positive rental growth and relatively low yields. Attractively priced prime assets aren’t as easy to find as they were a year or two ago.
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KGAL Infrastructure - Market report H1 2015: Wind
The boom in the German onshore wind market is unwavering. The rate of construction of wind power plants has increased by more than 50 % in 2014 with a newly installed capacity of around 4.75 GW (including repowering) compared to the previous year.
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KGAL Infrastructure - Market report H1 2015: Photovoltaics
Europe’s share in the photovoltaics market is continuing to shrink. Nevertheless, Germany is still one of the most significant photovoltaics markets in the world with a PV capacity of around 38 GW at the end of 2014.
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Outlook 1H15: Eurozone commercial real estate market - Navigating political uncertainties – in an improving economic environment
The economic headlines from the second half of 2014 could easily give the impression that the eurozone’s economy was heading towards another crisis. There were concerns that the economic recovery had stagnated, with 2Q14 data showing that France and Germany, the eurozone’s two largest economies, had recorded negative growth and in so doing dragged the eurozone’s overall growth down to 0.1%.
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Outlook 1H15: UK commercial real estate market - Will 2015 be a year of two halves?
Economic data from the end of 2014 continued the pattern of softer growth recorded since the summer, with 4Q14 GDP growth of 0.5% the slowest for a year. Nonetheless, this left growth for 2014 as a whole at a robust 2.6% and the fastest of the G7 nations, and given some reasonably strong high frequency data in 4Q, it is likely the final figures may be revised up in the future.
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M&G Real Estate - Eye on Europe: where to invest in 2015?
The European real estate market looks to be on track for another strong year, building on 2014’s performance. We expect UK returns to remain in double digits, while continental Europe – which has lagged so far – is well positioned to rebound. Across the board, investor demand remains strong and ...
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Real estate market outlook - UK
The UK was the fastest growing member of the G7 group of major advanced economies in 2014, outpacing even the US. For two full years now, real GDP has been rising at a quarterly rate in excess of 0.5%, and the economy seems to have moved back on to a sustainable path of robust growth.
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Global real estate securities - 2014 performance review and 2015 market outlook
2014 was a good year for global real estate securities. Strong real estate fundamentals resulted in better than expected earnings growth, which helped propel share prices higher.
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UBS - Real estate research blast: European real estate market predictions 2015
General elections in Greece, the UK, Portugal and Spain may create uncertainties in business and consumer confidence but may also open windows of opportunities for cash rich real estate investors.
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KGAL Infrastructure - Market report: wind
The German wind power industry remains highly attractive and continues to be competitive compared with other alternative energies.
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KGAL Real Estate - Market report: retail Germany
Favourable key economic data, strong purchasing power and optimistic consumer sentiment are having a positive effect on Germany’s retail real estate market.