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Asset Manager NewsARA Venn raises €200 million for the first close of its latest whole loan European real estate debt fund
ARA Venn, a leading investment manager of real estate private debt, has secured €200 million from institutional investors for the first close of its latest fund, Venn Commercial Real Estate Fund II1 (“VeCREF II”).
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Investment Research - Comparing Previous Downturns
This short paper expands upon content first published in PGIM Real Estate’s 2020 Global Outlook report: Real Estate During a Crisis.
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Real Estate: The Critical Role of Asset Management in a Crisis
Asset management is vital to long-term value creation in real estate debt and equity markets—particularly when it comes to navigating crises like COVID-19.
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Tomorrow’s world: COVID-19 and the long-term future of commercial real estate
Chris Urwin and Jonathan Bayfield look beyond the near-term disruption to real estate to assess the longer-term prospects for the retail, office and logistics sectors.
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The Evolving Role of Office Space
We just experienced one of the most sudden, vast and unprecedented disruptions of workplace routines in modern society. As COVID-19 swept the globe in early 2020, office-based organizations around the world scrambled to expand remote work to nearly all employees. Overnight, we saw the adoption and implementation of tools, technologies and protocols that many companies had previously been slow to adopt or even rejected.
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Think European value-add: Why a short-term strategy needs a long-term philosophy
Investors cannot rely on what worked before. Even short-term strategies need to be reconsidered and reformulated to factor in changes that are shaping our society and our behaviour.
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London Offices to be hit by a triple decker
Among Europe’s major office markets, the current environment seems particularly challenging for London, given its exposure to co-working and finance, as well as VC funding dependent start-ups. On top of this, still Brexit looms on the horizon. Landlords should be anticipating falling rents and investors should diversify geographically and structurally.
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#1 – COVID 19 – What we know and what we don’t know
The COVID-19 pandemic is the most impactful social, cultural and economic event in modern history.
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Will Student Housing pass the COVID-19 test?
As discussed in a recent blog post, there are still many unknowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the global economy and society. This also extends to higher education and – linked to it – to purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA). Beyond the crisis and its cyclical impact though, there are structural trends supporting the investment case in student housing.
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Henderson Park And Hines Acquire 1,094-Room Hotel Portfolio On Greek Island Of Crete
Henderson Park, the European real estate investment platform, and Hines, the international real estate firm, have acquired a portfolio of five hotels on the popular Greek island of Crete.
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Defaults, disruption and development: Real assets adjust to the new normal
While lockdown measures gradually start to ease, it is still far from business as usual in the real assets sector. Mark Versey explains the impact for investors.
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Logistics: ‘Last mile’ or further to run?
Following a decade of bumper demand and returns, many experts are questioning whether logistics real estate assets have reached their prime or whether they still have further to run. Vivienne Bolla argues the latter.
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Real Estate Outlook, Switzerland
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the economic outlook abruptly. Switzerland is set to experience a sharp GDP contraction in 2020, although economic activity is slowly recovering thanks to the progressive lifting of the soft lockdown measures. This situation supports a continued extreme low interest rate environment, which contributes to the attractiveness of Swiss real estate investments.
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2020 Isn’t Only Hindsight
By any conventional measure, the current recovery and expansion phase of the U.S. business cycle is the longest in the nation’s history. This naturally leads many to conclude that the economy, and by extension property markets, must be “late cycle” with an inevitable downturn just around the corner.
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U.S. Economic & Property Market Perspective Q1 2020
At the beginning of March, the U.S. economy was on pace to record another quarter of moderate but positive growth. Total employment had increased by 214,000 in January and 275,000 in February and the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s real-time model (GDPNow) suggested annualized real GDP growth of 2.5% for the quarter. Within a span of just a few weeks, that assessment was radically upended as more than 30 million American workers lost their jobs in the rapid shutdown of wide swathes of the U.S. economy in response to the equally rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
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2020 Global Strategy Perspective
As we start the third decade of the 21st century, it is an opportune time to take stock of real estate markets around the world. Despite the aftershocks of the global financial crisis, most investors have taken advantage of real estate opportunities outside their home markets. At AEW we have been working with international investors for nearly 40 years. In this report, we share our perspective on global investment markets, considering both global trends and occupier market trends.
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What Happens After Listed Real Estate Falls?
It has been a month since the high watermark for listed real estate securities and other equities, and a week since the dam broke. Listed real estate has suffered even more than the broad market, especially in the past few days as public life began to shut down in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. Hotels are empty, many malls and restaurants are shuttered, and most of us are working out of our homes rather than at our offices. Even after the March 24 rally, both U.S. and global listed real estate markets are down roughly 40% from their February peaks.
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Asia Pacific Market Perspective Q1 2020
Operating conditions and the investment outlook in the Asia Pacific region shifted dramatically over the first quarter. The market had severe restrictions imposed on it to bring the public health crisis of COVID-19 under control, and governments and central banks announced very large support packages to offset the costs of these restrictions. The current projections are for a sharp, but short-lived contraction in economic activity, concentrated in the first half of this year, with a resultant recovery in the second half of 2020 and rebound in 2021. The unknown part of this outlook is the effect any COVID-19 reoccurrence may have, and how disruptive that could be.
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Covid-19: short-term pain, long-term opportunities for European commercial real estate
The Covid-19 crisis now appears to be deeper and more widespread than initially estimated by financial markets, and it is placing a huge strain on the global economy. In this new and evolving context, real estate is likely to share in the economic pain in the short run, but could prove resilient in the longer term given its defensive features, including its ability to dampen volatility and bring diversification to portfolios.
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Why the city of Berlin is marching to the river edge
When PATRIZIA bought the Coca-Cola building in Berlin’s trendy Mediaspree in 2016 for the PanEuropean Fund, it was a first mover. Since then, the media and communications park has really taken off.
