All Retail articles – Page 12
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Asia Real Estate Market Outlook - August 2019
Asia Pacific real estate remains resilient despite a challenging macroeconomic backdrop, buoyed by supportive monetary policy as well as the advancement of digital- and knowledge-based economies.
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Real Estate Outlook Eurozone – Edition 2H19 - Retail concerns growing across the eurozone.
Interest rate environment boosts the outlook for returns
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Peripheral Property Perspectives - Insights From A Cross-Asset Comparison
Most cross-asset institutional investors are organised across three main departments: fixed income (or credit), equities and alternatives. Commercial real estate is typically represented in all three departments. Despite having different terminology and perspectives, investors increasingly look across departments to benefit from each other’s views on fundamental trends in the underlying credit, equity, collateral and property markets.
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Nuveen Real Estate and DekaBank provide £285m financing for King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership
Nuveen Real Estate and DekaBank have recently acted as joint arrangers of a £285 million, eight-year loan secured on 3 and 4 Pancras Square, two Grade A office buildings located in King’s Cross, London. Nuveen Real Estate and DekaBank jointly provided the financing to a subsidiary of the King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership (KCCLP), a joint venture between AustralianSuper and Argent (King’s Cross).
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Real Estate Summary Edition 3, 2019
Rate cuts support real estate values. Economy is a risk to tenant demand.
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Logistics properties in high demand: e-commerce brings boom
The continuing e-commerce boom is driving ever greater demand for logistics properties. The increasingly complex value chains being created means more transport hubs are desperately needed in peripheral locations, as well as supply depots in city centres to store merchandise. This is being answered by investors seeking solid returns in an increasingly difficult market. The logistics sector, explains Nicolai Soltau, has strong potential for those who adhere to several important rules.
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European high streets brace themselves for change
Hardly a day goes by without at least one negative headline bemoaning the impact of disruption in retail markets on high streets and shopping centres. While this is true in the US and the UK, Chris Urwin examines whether European high streets will face a similar threat.
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Retail disrupted – taking stock of the retail sector
Retail real estate is undergoing a transformation led by the rise of e-commerce. Store closures and bankruptcies are commonplace.
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UK Real Estate Outlook - Edition 2H19
As the retail correction has fully taken hold, total returns from UK commercial property have slowed markedly delivering just 0.85% in 1H19, based on the quarterly MSCI Index. Outside the retail sector, occupational markets are generally holding up quite well, however investment markets remain very subdued as political uncertainty deters activity. We may see a bounce-back in investor demand should a deal be reached with the EU, but the recent change of Prime Minister and confrontational rhetoric which followed has made that outcome increasingly unlikely.
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The rise of the sun belt
The ongoing and rapid growth in the U.S. Sun Belt has been an extraordinary boon to commercial real estate investors. The region stretches across eighteen states in the Southeast and Southwest and includes seven of the ten largest U.S. cities, as well as many mid-size metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs).The Sun Belt now holds about 50% of the national population (326 million), which is expected to rise to about 55% by 2030. Over the past decade, the region accounted for 75% of total U.S. population growth (15 out of the total 21 million).
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Charter Pack - August 2019
Australia’s industrial sector has attracted a surge in investor and occupier demand over recent years. This is a trend that has broadly transpired globally, albeit at varied rates.
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UK Real Estate Market Outlook - August 2019
Despite the ongoing Brexit-related uncertainty and political upheaval, we expect property income streams to remain mostly resilient. Occupiers are still taking a ‘business as usual’ approach and, while cautious, investors continue to pile into alternatives over mainstream property.
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Barings provides €40 million construction loan for Seville Retail Park
Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers, announces that it has provided, on behalf of one of its managed accounts, a €40 million senior construction loan to finance the development of a retail park in Dos Hermanas, located outside of Seville, Spain.
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Economic and Property Overview: Q2 2019
There is growing evidence to suggest that the UK economy slowed in the second quarter, the ONS recorded a 0.3%m/m rise in GDP in May, which partially reversed the 0.4%m/m contraction in April. The upturn in the monthly rate was driven by a recovery in car production which declined by 45% in April after factories temporarily shut down production around the original Brexit date.
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PATRIZIA acquires retail park in the north of Berlin
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, announces the acquisition of ‘Oranienpark’, a major retail park in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, from Cerberus on behalf of one of its German retail funds.
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Commercial & multifamily mortgage loan investments: An integral part of a fixed income asset allocation strategy
In an era of low returns and high financial market volatility, core commercial and multifamily mortgage loan investments provide fixed income investors an appealing mix of strong relative value, low credit risk, and diversification benefits within a larger fixed income portfolio.
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Barings Acquires Rea Farms Retail Property
Lincoln Harris, one of the Southeast’s preeminent commercial real estate development, investment and property management companies, announced today the sale of the retail portion of Rea Farms (the “Property”) to Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers. The Property is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was purchased by Barings on behalf of an institutional investor.
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PATRIZIA acquires 54,100 sqm German supermarket portfolio
PATRIZIA AG, the global partner for pan-European real estate investment, has acquired a portfolio of 19 food anchored retail assets in northern Germany on behalf of one of its pan-European funds from a private Irish vendor.
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Orchard Street signs two tenants at One King Street, Hammersmith
Orchard Street Investment Management (‘Orchard Street’), the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed two lettings at One King Street, its newly refurbished office and retail asset in Hammersmith. iPlato Healthcare, a London-based Health Tech company, has signed a new five-year lease on 5,712 sq ft of office space at a rent of £53.00 per sq ft, while healthy fast food chain Abokado has taken a 1,954 sq ft retail unit at ground level on a 10 year lease at a rent of £180 psf.
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Deka Immobilien buys retail park in Belgium
Deka Immobilien has acquired the “Les Dauphins” retail park in Mouscron, Belgium, for the WestInvest TargetSelect Shopping sector fund, which is aimed at institutional investors. The property was sold by the Fidelity International Real Estate Fund. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price.