Real Assets
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White papersTaking the temperature of the private markets: mid-year outlook
In this private markets outlook, we outline what the headwinds facing the property sector are, why we are focusing on quality in private credit and how the clean energy infrastructure conversation in Europe is being dominated by war in Ukraine.
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ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund buys Rabobank offices near Eindhoven Centraal station
Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1 august 2022 – On behalf of the ASR Dutch Mobility Office Fund, a.s.r. real estate has purchased the Rabobank office building at Fellenoord 17 in Eindhoven for approximately €115 million. These sustainable modern premises, with a BREEAM Excellent certificate and A++ energy label, are located directly opposite Eindhoven Centraal station.
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Rising rents matter more to REITs than rising rates
Despite the prospect of near-term volatility, REITs are well positioned to help mitigate higher interest rates, sticky inflation and challenging economic conditions, in our opinion.
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Infrastructure: Why Investing Over The (Very) Long Term Is Worth The Wait
For investors willing to commit for 15 or more years, the financial and non-financial rewards from essential infrastructure assets are compelling
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Real Estate: Built to Withstand Both Inflation and a Slowdown
Real estate could serve as a foundation for portfolios in an environment of high inflation, rising interest rates and slowing growth, and investing at the real estate company level can offer valuable advantages during a time of market uncertainty.
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UK housing shortfall – crisis or opportunity?
There is a saying that an Englishman’s home is his castle. Although not all UK housing is medieval, it is starting to creak with age. The UK has the oldest housing stock in Europe. Nearly 40% of residential property was built before the end of the Second World War. More than one in five dwellings has been standing for more than a century.
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Accelerated Migration Post-Pandemic Drives Real Estate Returns - Q2 2022
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic largely accelerated many location changes that began before March 2020. Nationwide, some migratory patterns related to American industry and demographic shifts became more pronounced by type of region, metro, and location − some areas experienced unprecedented booms, while others reported sizeable declines.
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Why logistics investors should turn their attention to Southern Europe
In the tension field between crisis resilience, economic competitiveness, digitalisation and sustainability, the logistics industry is undergoing a dynamic transformation. Coping with rising complexity is a major challenge, but one that offers opportunities due to the rising value of logistics services and the resulting need for infrastructure.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve is about to Raise Rates: Keep Calm
With widespread inflation persisting in many western economies, the United States, United Kingdom and to a lesser degree, the Eurozone are moving up the curve of hawkish monetary policy. Emerging from the pandemic-induced lockdowns, the initial burst of inflation was largely driven by so-called base effects as prices were being compared to artificially low prices in 2020 due to the dramatic disruption of aggregate demand.
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What comes after globalisation?
The end of the Cold War acted like a catalyst for the liberal international economic order and free world trade. Cash and commodities moved across the globe at will. Location patterns were reshuffled. Asian countries, especially China, beckoned with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labour. With their labour market largely unregulated, they became the world’s extended workbench.
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Infrastructure Strategy 2022
EDHECinfra and BCG benchmark infrastructure investor peer groups
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ESG is the most pressing question facing our industry, but how do we bring it all together?
When we meet prospective investors, ESG is now firmly at the top of their list of questions. In a seemingly short period of time, it has quickly become one of the most talked about areas among real estate investment professionals.
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The road ahead for transportation infrastructure
Transport infrastructure experienced an unprecedented decline during the Covid-19 pandemic. As the world emerges from a series of lockdowns, traffic on toll roads returns more quickly than rail or air travel. Overall volume-sensitive transport continues to re-gain ground from the cyclical rebound. Investors seem to have turned the corner and see the impact on the sector as transitory rather than permanent. But what are the long-term structural trends behind the revival in investment deal flow and some of the biggest buyouts in transport infrastructure?
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Investment to help solve the problem of our time: building resilient supply chains
The best investment theses for real estate are almost always underpinned by their relevance to solving the greatest social and economic problems of the day. Among the most pressing of issues currently is the rebuilding and reconfiguring of global supply chains and better ensuring their future resilience.
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Hines Investment Perspectives - U.S. Overview
We began this year with the expectation that the world and real estate markets would normalize, on the back of a more controlled pandemic and the reopening of most economies and markets. Little did we know that the first quarter would welcome us with a war in Eastern Europe, rising inflation, increased cost of debt and the prospects of a recession looming in the United States.
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Real Estate Outlook – US, Edition 2 - 2022
Growing economic uncertainty based on weaker consumer sentiment and inflation concerns increases the importance of focusing on durable income growth across real estate sectors, metros, and product types. Continued strong industrial and apartment return performance is anticipated, but at a lower margin than 2021, given interest rate pressures. We expect a deteriorating performance for office and a gradual strengthening in retail performance through 2022.
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Real Estate: Investors Seek Smarter ESG
Owners of core real estate portfolios seek ESG metrics that enable true impact
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European Real Estate in Asset Allocation: a new model for a new world
During the decade from 2012 to 2021, relative international geopolitical stability and quantitative easing policies generated abundant, low-cost liquidity, which was advantageous for real estate. However, the emergence of a paradigm shift, most notably in inflation or policy rates, cannot be ignored when defining a high-performance allocation strategy in the future, given current uncertainties.
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Life Science in Germany
It is now time to provide a detailed analysis of the real estate sector for life sciences companies. This market segment is attracting everincreasing interest from property developers, investors and financiers. It comes as no surprise that medical technology, pharmaceuticals and biotech companies have gained significant prominence over the last two years in view of their huge contribution to the control of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Real Estate Outlook – Europe, Edition 2 - 2022
For many years, the main argument in defense of ever-lower property yields was that the spread over fixed income yields remained comfortably above historic levels. This is no longer the case, with the spread between government bond yields and prime office yields now below their long-term average in every major market.
