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Asset Manager News
4th hospitalityInside INVESTMENT BAROMETER Spring survey available
The continuing pressure on demand in the hotel market most likely motivates hoteliers and hotel property experts to diversify regionally in secondary and tertiary markets. New leaseholders and brands are less in demand, and a higher commitment in country markets with higher risks is definitely last on the list.
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White papershospitalityinside Investment BAROMETER Spring 2015 - supported by Union Investment
The overall index has decreased slightly with 3,811 points (-1.73 percent) compared to last fall and is thus returning to the level of spring 2014. However, the good mood in the hotel industry hides the scepticism about its own business expectations and new hotel projects.
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The greatest investment theme of our lives?
How global listed infrastructure can provide the potential for stable, reliable and growing cashflows: In this paper we discuss the attributes of the asset class, focussing mainly on the cash generated by the underlying assets.
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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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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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Colin Humphries joins UBS as new Assistant Portfolio Manager for UK debt fund
Colin Humphries has been appointed as Assistant Portfolio Manager for the UBS Participating Mortgage Real Estate Fund (UBS-PREMF), joining UBS’s UK real estate debt business in London.
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Asset Manager News
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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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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AEW Europe continues expansion in Germany and moves to new offices
Following the recent strengthening of its German team and a significant increase in its activity in the region, AEW Europe, which raised a record €2.2 billion of equity in 2014, has moved its German operations to larger offices in central Düsseldorf.
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KGAL Infrastructure - Market report H1 2015: Wind
The boom in the German onshore wind market is unwavering. The rate of construction of wind power plants has increased by more than 50 % in 2014 with a newly installed capacity of around 4.75 GW (including repowering) compared to the previous year.
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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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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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Bouwinvest Expands Surging Amsterdam Retail Footprint Into North of Capital
Institutional property manager Bouwinvest is expanding the growing footprint of its €700 million Dutch Retail Fund in the historic neighbourhoods of Amsterdam with an investment in the development of a new shopping centre (Mosveld).
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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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First aircraft deal closed for the KGAL Aviation Portfolio Fund 1
The KGAL Aviation Portfolio Fund 1 (APF1), an aircraft portfolio fund for institutional investors managed by KGAL Investment Management, acquired three Embraer 190 aircraft as part of a sale and leaseback deal.
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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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Asset Manager News
M7-Starwood Capital Group Joint Venture Acquires 17 Dutch and German Light Industrial Properties for €74.5M
MStar Europe, the joint venture set up by M7 Real Estate and Starwood Capital Group’s Starwood Global Opportunity Fund X (SOF X) to invest in high-yielding, multi-let assets in Continental Europe, has agreed to acquire or has completed the purchase of 17 properties in Germany and the Netherlands.
