All Retail articles – Page 17
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Asset Manager News
M&G Real Estate makes first retail acquisition in South Korea
M&G Real Estate has acquired three retail assets in South Korea at a combined value of US$230 million, representing an average yield of 6.5%.
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Insights: Quarterly market views from our fund managers - Q2 2015
The Asia Pacific real estate market is expanding rapidly – invested stock in the region rose by 10% in dollar terms over the past year to $5.1 trillion, moving further ahead of Europe and North America. This growth has helped to further broaden the pool of opportunities, with new markets meeting the transparency and maturity criteria for core investment.
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Asia Pacific Outlook: June 2015
Over 2015 and 2016, economic growth of the Asia Pacific region is forecast to hold steady at 5.5% per annum, continuing to outperform the rest of the world by a large margin.
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Success on a Plate: Growth in casual dining feeds the UK leisure sector
A notable feature of the retail landscape in recent years has been the growing prominence of certain leisure occupiers, notably casual dining chains.
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Asset Manager News
UBS advises mandate on the acquisition of Continente Hypermarket in Lisbon's Colombo Shopping Centre for EUR 53.6 million.
A European real estate mandate advised by UBS Global Asset Management’s Global Real Estate (GRE) business has acquired the 25,000 sqm Continente Hypermarket in Lisbon for EUR 53.6 million.
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M&G Real Estate grows core exposure in Germany
M&G Real Estate, the real estate fund management arm of M&G Investments, has purchased a 23,000 sq m retail park in Dreieich, Germany for €51.9 million.
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Big City, Bright Lights, Better Returns?
Real estate investors have a natural affinity for big cities in Europe and North America. Most big cities are forecast to see relatively strong economic and population growth over the next decade and they also have deep and relatively liquid investment markets.
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Asia-Pacific property investing – challenges and opportunities
Despite negative headlines about the health of several Asia-Pacific economies (most notably China) and the yields on core properties falling below historical averages in most major markets, we still see attractive investment opportunities in the region, albeit through a more targeted approach.
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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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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
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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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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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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Real estate market outlook - UK
The UK was the fastest growing member of the G7 group of major advanced economies in 2014, outpacing even the US. For two full years now, real GDP has been rising at a quarterly rate in excess of 0.5%, and the economy seems to have moved back on to a sustainable path of robust growth.
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UBS - Real estate research blast: European real estate market predictions 2015
General elections in Greece, the UK, Portugal and Spain may create uncertainties in business and consumer confidence but may also open windows of opportunities for cash rich real estate investors.
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Asset Manager News
Union Investment rejuvenates real estate fund portfolio
Union Investment is stepping up the turnover rate in its real estate fund portfolios.
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People News
M&G Real Estate expands retail team with eight new recruits
M&G Real Estate has appointed eight new members of staff, bolstering its retail team in response to recent acquisitions and increased asset management and development activities.
