All Europe articles – Page 107
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Perspectives: The impact of QE on European property markets
The European Central Bank plans to inject €1.1 trillion into the eurozone economy through its new quantitative easing programme from March 2015 to September 2016. In this paper, we look at what QE is likely to mean for the region’s real estate market.
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Webcast: The Global Private Finance Opportunity
As investors continue to hunt for yield in this historically low interest rate environment, global private credit markets offer a potential solution for achieving both attractive returns and diversification.
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UBS records significant real estate transaction activity globally in 2014.
UBS Global Asset Management’s Global Real Estate (GRE) business has today announced that it completed approximately CHF 7.2 billion in real estate transactions worldwide in 2014, reflecting a solid year for the business.
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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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European mezzanine lender of the year*
DRC Capital may not be the biggest mezzanine provider on the European block, but it has carved out a strong position in this niche market.
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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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White papersOutlook 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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M&G Real Estate appoints Martin Towns as Head of Capital Solutions
M&G Real Estate has appointed Martin Towns as Head of Capital Solutions, reporting to Tony Brown, global chief investment officer. As Head of Capital Solutions, Martin will identify opportunities for international investors seeking direct real estate exposure to the UK, continental Europe and Asia.
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M7 Takes Outright Control of Pan-European Joint Ventures to Transform Platform into a Wholly-Owned Operation
M7 Real Estate, the investment manager specialised in multi-let, light industrial properties, has taken full control of all its asset management joint ventures to transform its pan-European platform into a wholly-owned operation and increase assets under management to over €1.2bn.
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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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Quantitative easing - Lower for longer also holds for European prime office yields
More than six years after the global financial crisis we are still in the uncharted territory of unconventional monetary policy. With the ECB now finally following the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Central Bank of Japan, quantitative easing (QE) will for the foreseeable future remain a central ...
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Bouwinvest wins €92.5m in institutional investment mandates for Dutch residential fund
Institutional property manager Bouwinvest has been awarded a total of €92.5 million in new mandates from four domestic pension schemes for its €2.6 billion Dutch Residential Fund, the largest single unleveraged fund for housing assets in the Netherlands. Three of the Dutch pension funds are new investors in the residential ...
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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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Bouwinvest acquires Rotterdam World Trade Center and Amsterdam’s Citroën buildings to take 2014 Dutch transactions to €628m
Institutional real estate investment manager Bouwinvest’s Dutch Office Fund has acquired the World Trade Center in Rotterdam and the iconic “Citroën buildings” in south Amsterdam as part of its strategy to diversify its portfolio across the major cities in the Randstad conurbation of the Netherlands. The two deals, which were ...
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Aviva Investors: Tilting at windmills?
Jason Hilgefort a prominent Dutch architect met with Keith Kelsall of Aviva Investors to discuss key trends in the European infrastructure market and how investors need to approach the financing of such projects
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European hotel sector continues to thrive in 2014, Invesco Real Estate expands range of investment strategies across the European hotel sector
Institutional investors continue to be attracted to the pan-European hotel sector due to its robust performance and income-oriented characteristics. This is one of the findings which Invesco Real Estate, the global real estate investment manager, recently published in its H2 2014 European Market Outlook Report and which is further strengthened by IRE’s strong transactions activity of c.€500m into the sector in 2014 by its dedicated hotel team.
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Aviva Investors - Market Edge December 2014: European real estate: prime property retains appeal
Prime property appeals due to defensive qualities as concern over the economic outlook grows
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Magnify: Opportunities in the European logistics sector
Eurozone sentiment indicators, such as consumer confidence, have been continuously improving since the second half of 2013, as has occupier demand for industrial property.
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The technological progress, demographics and the real estate market
Macroeconomic development is an important determinant of the performance of real estate assets in both the short and long term, regardless of the asset class under consideration.
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Invesco Real Estate Interim European House View Q1 2012
Our latest house view pointed to little expected development pipeline for the next three years and given continuing financing difficulties, we might expect the delivery of new space to be delayed a little longer.
