All REIM articles – Page 21
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White papersDecarbonization Metrics for Real Estate Investment: Goal Setting for a Portfolio in the Context of Absolute vs. Intensity Metrics
While there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to track progress toward reducing emissions, due to the complexities of real estate portfolios, we believe intensity-based metrics offer a more flexible and reliable method for tracking decarbonization progress than absolute targets for reasons discussed in this paper.
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White papersEuropean logistics: An evolving landscape
The logistics industry has become vital to our global and interconnected society. Once purely related to the military art of supplying and moving troops across the battlefield, in today’s world, the industry encompasses a large group of companies specialising in the transportation, warehousing, and management of goods.
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White papersEuropean Residential: Finding A New Balance
Prime European residential markets show solid occupancy fundamentals and stabilising investment yields. This is despite the 2022-23 upward shift in interest rates and associated decline in lending. Student housing has also remained a key alternative sub-sector. The long-standing shortage of housing has further Intensified as higher mortgage rates and ...
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White papersQ1 2024 - Asia Pacific Market Perspective
Markets Moving Out of Sync, Rate Cut Expectations Recede, Noise And Volatility To Continue
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White papersQ1 2024 - U.S. Economic and Property Market Outlook
U.S. economic growth slowed sharply over the first three months of 2024, decelerating from more than 4% annualized growth recorded during the second half of 2023 to only 1.6% for the first quarter.
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White papersParsing Office Distress
In this AFIRE article, Dags Chen and Lincoln Janes lay out a framework for parsing upswell in distress across the office sector—and discuss how this is presenting a potential opportunity, especially for investors willing to brave the dislocation.
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PodcastEuropean Real Estate: Light at the End of the Tunnel?
While European real estate markets have faced headwinds in recent years, there are signs that we may be at or nearing the trough of the cycle. Portfolio manager, Rory Allan provides insight into where the Barings team is finding attractive opportunities to deploy capital today.
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White papersThe Case for U.S. & EU Industrial Real Estate
The industrial sector has become a global favorite amongst institutional investors as large structural shifts already underway, accelerated during the pandemic.
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White papersU.S. multifamily housing: Distress can create opportunity
The U.S. multifamily housing sector faces challenges from both overdevelopment and capital market pressures, with ongoing issues anticipated through 2025. However, solid macroeconomic fundamentals and sustained demand, particularly from younger generations favoring rentals, offer potential opportunities in the medium-term for well-capitalized investors to exploit distress in the market.
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Asset Manager NewsAchmea Real Estate leases over 7,000 sqm to international retailers in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague
Achmea Real Estate has leased a total of 7,260 sqm of retail space to new tenants on behalf of the Achmea Dutch Retail Property Fund (ADRPF) in recent months. In addition, several existing leases were extended on a long-term basis.
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White papersUS logistics and industrials: shifting sands in the supply chain
There is an ongoing shift in logistics away from the West Coast in the US. Read more about our views.
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Asset Manager NewsSlättö announces investment from Ares Management
Slättö and Ares Management Real Estate Secondaries funds (“Ares”) have agreed to support the recapitalization of a market-leading light-industrial and logistics portfolio, which is managed by Slättö. The portfolio comprises 28 assets with value concentrated in the Stockholm and Helsinki metropolitan areas.
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White papersPondering performance: Interview with PEI on the GP-led secondaries market
”A lack of full exits means it is too soon to say how well this latest generation of GP-led secondaries will fare, but the ingredients for success are all in place.”
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White papersThe Case for a U.S. Productivity Boom
The economy in any single year is subject to the vagaries of chance and, as such, can be “noisy”. Near-term volatility that exerts short-term stress into markets may be front of mind for most investors, but it is long-term trends that provide us with the best view of the future, especially for those with long investment horizons.
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Asset Manager NewsActis Agrees Sale Of Fibre Operator Octotel
Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has signed an agreement to sell leading South African fibre network operator Octotel to a consortium of investors, led by African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) and also comprising STOA and Thebe Investment Corporation.
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Asset Manager NewsActis To Acquire Swiftnet For US$355m With Plans To Create A Leading Independent Telecom Tower Platform In South Africa
Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, together with Royal Bafokeng Holdings as its empowerment partner, has entered into an agreement to acquire a 100% stake in Swiftnet, a leading telecom tower portfolio in South Africa, from Telkom for an Enterprise Value of ZAR6.75 billion (c.US$355 million).
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White papersResilience and recovery: The outlook for real estate long income
Renos Booth, Isabel Gossling and Kris McPhail from our real estate long income team consider the outlook for long-lease assets after a challenging period for investors.
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Asset Manager NewsBouwinvest raises €520 million in new commitments and executes €503 million in real estate transactions in the Netherlands in 2023
In 2023, investors committed €520 million of capital to Bouwinvest’s Dutch strategies. This is split between €120 million for investments in the Residential Fund, Retail Fund, and Office Fund, and €400 million for the new Impact Partnership. At the same time, Bouwinvest made €288 million in real estate acquisitions and €215 million in divestments on behalf of investors in 2023.
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Asset Manager NewsHIH Invest Buys Solar Park in Southern Spain
Developed and sold by the company BayWa r.e. Acquired for the HIH Green Energy Invest institutional fund Electricity production pre-sold to 90 percent on ten-year power purchase agreement
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White papersThe global water challenge: risks and opportunities that all investors should consider
Manulife Investment Management is committed to helping clients achieve their objectives, build resilient portfolios—including in relation to climate change—and, where appropriate, positively affect nature. We believe water-related risks and opportunities can be financially material factors that should be integrated into investment strategies and operational asset management.
