All Research & Forecasting articles – Page 21
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Investment case: The UK private rented sector (PRS)
The UK private rented sector (PRS) has doubled in size in the past decade and is now starting to increasingly attract the attention of institutional investors.
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Opportunities in Asia: Japan's residential sector
Japan boasts the biggest real estate market in Asia, offering investors maturity, transparency and low volatility of returns. That, coupled with a recovering economy, has fuelled investor interest.
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Invesco Real Estate Interim European House View Q1 2012
Our latest house view pointed to little expected development pipeline for the next three years and given continuing financing difficulties, we might expect the delivery of new space to be delayed a little longer.
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Property, liability matching and investment risk
In recent years, property has been promoted in some quarters as having inflation-hedging characteristics which are suitable for liability driven matching strategies. We challenge this and ask whether long lease properties with inflation-linked leases really are low risk assets.
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Slotting and its impact on the UK commercial property market
The UK banking sector has historically been a key provider of debt finance to the commercial property sector. Bank exposure to property assets has increased substantially over the past cycle, driven by the sector’s attractive marginal profitability and low equity capital requirements
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Postponement of the 2015 Rating Revaluation: winners and losers
Deloitte estimate that business rates generate around 5% of the total UK annual tax revenue. Collected by the district or borough council, the levy is passed back to the Government for redistribution to local authorities as part of central funding of local services.
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Now is the time to invest in European property
While the immediate prospects for European economies remains weak, there is now greater stability across the larger and stronger European markets than for some while.
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Investment case: Asia Pacific core real estate
The Asia Pacific (APAC) real estate market has grown into the largest in the world, offering increasingly high levels of maturity, transparency and liquidity.
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UK house prices: how serious is the risk of overheating?
The UK housing market has rebounded over the past 18 months, earning strong returns for investors but also prompting some commentators to express concerns about the risk of overheating.
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Why rate hikes shouldn’t yield trouble for UK real estate
Against a backdrop of widely expected UK interest rate rises, this paper seeks to determine the implications for the real estate market.
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The race for yields – Yield conversion in a low growth environment
The economies of the various eurozone countries are still moving in different directions, with the recovery being mainly driven by the Austrian, Belgium and German economies and the re-emergence of the Spanish economy out of recession.
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UK’s Big Six office markets: emerging from London’s shadow
Britain’s ‘Big Six’ office markets – Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester – are emerging from the shadows to offer a serious challenge to London.
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Global strategy – 4Q13: Calling time on prime?
Amid growing signs of stronger growth for both the US and global economy, investors are anticipating an eventual tapering of the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) quantitative easing policy.
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UK commercial real estate market
In the last outlook paper in 1H13, we suggested there were signs that the UK economy was stabilizing. Since 2Q13 there has been a raft of improvements in key economic indicators over the summer months.
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ECB Lifeline to Banks Means Real Estate Lending Market Is Still Wide Open
There is a deep structural change occurring in the European CRE lending market, with insurers and specialized loan funds readying themselves to fill part or all of the gap left by receding bank mortgage lending in the sector.