All REIM articles – Page 175
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Asset Manager News
M&G Real Estate invests in prime Italian high street retail
M&G Real Estate has acquired the corporate entity holding a prime high street retail asset in central Milan from Italian developers, PRIA SpA. The asset will become part of M&G Real Estate’s core European property strategy, managed by David Jackson and Simon Ellis.
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Asset Manager News
AEW Europe launches opportunistic investment partnership
AEW Europe has signed an investment programme focused on German retail assets as part of the expansion of its opportunistic platform. AEW Europe is working with its local partner, Kintyre to source and structure investments in Germany and will initially look to build a €150 million portfolio of assets in lot sizes of €5-15 million.
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Asset Manager News
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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Asset Manager News
Bouwinvest’s Dutch Residential Fund Beats IPD Annual Property Index for Fifth Year in Succession as it Plans Additional €700 million Investment Programme in Housing
The Dutch Residential Fund of real estate manager Bouwinvest outperformed the Investment Property Databank’s (IPD) Netherlands Annual Property Index for the fifth year in a row in 2014 with a total investment return of 5.8% versus the market benchmark’s 5.2% last year.
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Asset Manager News
Bouwinvest’s Dutch Retail Fund Trumps IPD Annual Property Index in 2014
Bouwinvest’s Dutch Retail Fund outpaced the IPD Netherlands Annual Property Index in 2014 with an average total investment return of 2.7%, compared with 2.0% for the benchmark. The Retail Fund also beat IPD’s Dutch market multi-year averages with a total return of 5.3% for three years and 6.3% for five years, versus 2.6% and 4.5% respectively for the index.
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Asset Manager News
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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People News
M&G Real Estate appoints Martin Towns as Head of Capital Solutions
M&G Real Estate has appointed Martin Towns as Head of Capital Solutions, reporting to Tony Brown, global chief investment officer. As Head of Capital Solutions, Martin will identify opportunities for international investors seeking direct real estate exposure to the UK, continental Europe and Asia.
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Asset Manager News
M7 Takes Outright Control of Pan-European Joint Ventures to Transform Platform into a Wholly-Owned Operation
M7 Real Estate, the investment manager specialised in multi-let, light industrial properties, has taken full control of all its asset management joint ventures to transform its pan-European platform into a wholly-owned operation and increase assets under management to over €1.2bn.
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Asset Manager News
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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People News
UBS Real Estate verstärkt Portfoliomanagement mit Andreas Langer
Andreas Langer (41) verstärkt seit 15. Januar 2015 das Portfoliomanagement der UBS Real Estate GmbH München. In dieser Funktion betreut er die Logistikfonds ERGO Trust Logistikfonds Nr. 1 sowie UBS (D) German Logistics Property Fund 2.
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People NewsKGAL Group restructures management
The KGAL Group forms a new management line-up. The Group’s internal staff changes will reinforce core business and drive growth further. Since 2013, the KGAL Group has focused on institutional investors. The company acquired more than 1 billion Euros in equity last year.
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Asset Manager News
New Development Managers required for €400 million investments in Dutch Residential and Healthcare projects
Bouwinvest has appointed Henk van Kleij and Martin Otten as development managers within the Acquistion and Development team to work on the €300 million investments in housing assets planned this year for the Dutch Residential Fund.
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Asset Manager News
Institutional Investors Could be Missing Out on Private Rented Sector Opportunities
A new whitepaper by Invesco Real Estate has suggested that UK institutional investors are significantly underinvested in the fastest growing tenure and highest performing real estate asset class in the UK – the Private Rented Sector (PRS).
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White papers
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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Asset Manager News
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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White papers
M&G Real Estate - Eye on Europe: where to invest in 2015?
The European real estate market looks to be on track for another strong year, building on 2014’s performance. We expect UK returns to remain in double digits, while continental Europe – which has lagged so far – is well positioned to rebound. Across the board, investor demand remains strong and ...
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White papers
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 NewsKGAL acquires commercial building in Hamburg-Wandsbek for special AIF
The KGAL Group signed a purchase agreement for a new commercial building to be constructed in the Hamburg district of Wandsbek. The investment project was acquired for a special AIF (alternative investment fund) with a future-oriented mixed-use concept.
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Asset Manager NewsClarion Partners Completes the Acquisition of Gables Residential
NEW YORK, NY – Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment manager, today announced that a group of investors led by Clarion has acquired Gables Residential. As a result of the transaction, Gables Residential will be converted into a perpetual life vehicle.
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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.
