All Office articles – Page 32
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Office space trends in Europe: The disappearance of the adjustment cycle
The cyclical growth pattern of office stock across European markets in the last decades has been subject to several structural breaks and changes, which has resulted in a less flexible supply side.
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Asia-Pacific property investing – challenges and opportunities
Despite negative headlines about the health of several Asia-Pacific economies (most notably China) and the yields on core properties falling below historical averages in most major markets, we still see attractive investment opportunities in the region, albeit through a more targeted approach.
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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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Asset Manager NewsDRC and Standard Life Investments provide £65m refinancing for Brettenham House
Draco Property has secured new lending facilities for Brettenham House in central London. CBRE UK and EMEA Debt & Structured Finance sourced the debt which was fully underwritten by European Real Estate Debt Fund 2 advised by DRC Capital LLP.
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All Bouwinvest Real Estate Sector Funds Beat Multi-year IPD Dutch Property Indices
Solid capital growth and value added through active asset management have powered all Bouwinvest’s Dutch property sector funds to outperform benchmarker IPD’s annual total return indices for the real estate investment market in the Netherlands over multiple years, the most recent results for 2014 show.
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New investor commits £162 million to WELPUT
An international institutional investor has committed £162 million to WELPUT (the ‘Trust’), through the secondary market, successfully matching the units made available through the recent redemption window.
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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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White papersOutlook 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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Bouwinvest’s Dutch Office Fund Beats IPD’s Multi-Year Annual Property Index
Bouwinvest’s Dutch Office Fund has strongly outperformed the latest benchmark IPD Netherlands Annual Property Index over both three-year and five-year periods. The Office Fund’s average three-year total investment return was 1.1% compared with -0.9% for the benchmark.
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Office Fund Rents 3,600 sqm Renovated Office in Emerging Amsterdam Eenhoorn District
Bouwinvest has rented the 3,600 square metres newly renovated Valina office building in the up and coming mixed-use Eenhoorn district in the east of Amsterdam entirely to publishers WPG Uitgevers.
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M&G Real Estate to fund the London Fruit & Wool Exchange Development
M&G Real Estate has acquired The London Fruit & Wool Exchange building in Spitalfields from Exemplar for circa £55 million. Following the completion of the acquisition, M&G Real Estate and Exemplar will work in partnership to redevelop the site.
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Public real estate debt strategies: Commercial mortgage-backed securities
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (“CMBS”) represents a prominent segment of the U.S. commercial real estate investment landscape, carrying an outstanding balance of over $564 billion. Principal Global Investors Real Estate believes current economic trends, U.S. commercial real estate fundamentals, and factors specific to the CMBS market are conducive to positive long-term CMBS performance.
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WELPUT sells One Chapel Place, W1, for £58.5 million
WELPUT, a specialist fund investing in Central London offices, managed by Schroders and advised by Quintain Estates and Development plc, has exchanged unconditional contracts to sell the freehold interest in One Chapel Place, London W1, to a private investor for £58.5 million
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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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Asset Manager NewsAEW Europe sells 28 500 sqm office park to Invesco Real Estate
AEW Europe, acting as asset manager for its institutional investors, has sold an office park located at 48 quai du Point du Jour in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, to a separate account mandate managed by Invesco Real Estate.
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Asset Manager NewsKGAL sells office building in Chicago at 30% above market value
Ahead of schedule, KGAL and UBS Real Estate GmbH succeed in selling an office building in Chicago's central business district to an American investor.
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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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Bouwinvest bucks market trend to extend rental contract for national police unit in Zoetermeer with Dutch state real estate company
The Dutch State’s real estate management company has agreed to extend the lease of the 11,000 square metres Europe Palace building in Zoetermeer, near The Hague, held by Bouwinvest’s Office Fund, bucking a growing trend for the government to sharply reduce its office space requirements and leasing from third-party landlords in the Netherlands.
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DRC in UK deal double
DRC Capital has completed two deals in the UK, for Draco Property and for a joint venture between Oaktree Capital Management and Patrizia Immobilien.
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UBS Real Estate GmbH verkauft für ihren Fonds UBS (D) 3 Sector Real Estate Europe eine Büroimmobilie in Chicago
Die UBS Real Estate GmbH mit Sitz in München hat für den in Auflösung befindlichen Publikumsfonds UBS (D) 3 Sector Real Estate Europe eine Büroimmobilie in Chicago verkauft.
