Real Assets – Page 75
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White papersEconomic and Property Market Review: Q1 2018
The UK economy had a reasonably good start to the year.
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White papersGlobal Economic Outlook: More of the same for 2018?
2017 was a surprisingly calm year for the global economy. Despite the economic and geopolitical concerns voiced at the beginning of the year, fears over Brexit, Chinese debt, rising populism across Europe and Trump’s legislative agenda had negligible effect on world growth.
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White papersBrexit offers buying opportunity after temporary set-back
Since the Brexit vote in June 2016, the UK has gone from a macroeconomic outperformer to an underperformer due to the extended uncertainty on the final terms of the separation.
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Trump's First Year in Review
In the Q3 2016 Market Commentary, “Post-Election US Outlook,” GTIS Research covered possible policy scenarios under the incoming Trump administration based on promises made during his presidential election campaign. At the time, we noted that the Trump platform offered little detail on policy, but we believed the administration would target five key areas: trade, immigration, taxes, infrastructure, and regulation.
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Land Development Strategy Overview
Although integral to the residential housing chain, land development is a specialized strategy with limited market intelligence and few national or publicly-traded players. While the lack of market data can contribute to more uncertainty and volatility, it also leads to market inefficiencies and limited competition that can provide for attractive investment opportunities.
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White papersFinding the value hotspots in Europe
With the strong economic recovery in continental Europe, investor interest has followed suit and demand has been strong for core assets in well-connected locations. Value has therefore, on the whole, become harder to find in Europe.
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White papersEurozone Real Estate Outlook: 1H18
Economic growth was strong during 2H17 and for the year as a whole. The year ended well with robust growth of 0.6% in 4Q17. GDP growth reached an exceptional decade high of 2.5% in 2017 and according to survey data, it seems the eurozone economy got off to a good start this year.
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White papersEuropean Relative Value Index
As yields on European commercial real estate have tightened to record lows over the last two years, investors are fully justified to question whether direct real estate offers sufficiently attractive returns.
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White papersThe case for Europe: UK investors should look to expand their property exposure onto the Continent to increase their diversification
We at DTZ Investors are forecasting total returns from UK real estate to moderate in the near term and such a market outlook is encouraging an increasing number of traditionally domestic-focused property investors to consider opportunities overseas, with a resurgent Europe closest to home.
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White papersInfrastructure white paper series: Part 2
This series explores some of the key portfolio considerations of investing into infrastructure. Our first paper focused on the growing area of infrastructure debt. This paper, the second in our series, takes a closer look at how infrastructure returns might perform under various economic scenarios, and in particular in a rising interest rate environment. We use public and private infrastructure indices from 2004-2017 to help inform the analysis.
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White papersUK Real Estate Outlook: Edition 1H18
The all property total return for UK commercial real estate of 10.3% in 2017 exceeded even the most bullish forecast expectations from the start of the year, and by some margin.
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White papersOpportunity amidst converging returns and shrinking risk premia
In the early months of 2018, economic fundamentals are supportive of another solid year of real estate performance. But monetary conditions are tightening and our central preoccupation persists: how will this affect the risk premium for real estate?
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White papersEurope Real Estate Market Outlook
Economic growth in the Eurozone consistently beat expectations throughout 2017. Following growth of 0.6% in Q3 and 0.7% in Q4, Eurozone GDP reached 2.5% for 2017, well above the ECB’s forecast of 1.7% at the start of the year. This marks the fastest pace of growth since 2007.
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White papersGrand Paris project: beyond the CBD office investment opportunities
Paris is the largest economy amongst the EU28 NUTS 2 level regions and the economic impact of the €26 billion Grand Paris project is expected to generate $29 billion of net new money to the local economic supply chain. This compares favourably to other worldwide infrastructure development projects.
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White papersDiversification: Friend or Foe? What are the Benefits and Costs of Diversification in Real Estate Portfolios?
While the importance of diversification is well known, the answer to the question of exactly how much diversification is appropriate for a real estate portfolio is not necessarily obvious.
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White papersCo-Working Space: The Future of Office Demand?
Though by no means a new sector, the serviced offices sector is undergoing a period of significant growth and evolution.
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White papersLuxury Retail Real Estate: Poised for Growth or Close to The Limit?
The retail real estate sector is increasingly polarised. Rents have stagnated or declined in secondary shopping centres and high streets since the global financial crisis.
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White papersThe Case for European Long Lease Real Estate: Contributing to More Certain Investment Outcomes
In today’s low yield world, high quality assets generating predictable income streams with inflation-linked uplifts are highly prized by investors.
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White papersThe UK Property Paradox: Both Cheap and Expensive
Real estate prices follow a cycle driven by a broad range of inter-related factors in occupier, development and lending markets as well as in the broader economy. An understanding of the cycle is especially important in a long-run asset class such as real estate.
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White papersCities of the Future: Europe
Given its nature as a long-term asset class, it is important that real estate investors have an understanding of structural drivers of growth and major shifts in the sources of growth. The rising importance of the knowledge-based economy is one such shift that is of considerable importance for the outlook for city office markets.
