All Retail articles – Page 19
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bouwinvest acquires Rotterdam World Trade Center and Amsterdam’s Citroën buildings to take 2014 Dutch transactions to €628m
Institutional real estate investment manager Bouwinvest’s Dutch Office Fund has acquired the World Trade Center in Rotterdam and the iconic “Citroën buildings” in south Amsterdam as part of its strategy to diversify its portfolio across the major cities in the Randstad conurbation of the Netherlands. The two deals, which were ...
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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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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.
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Aviva Investors - Market Edge December 2014: European real estate: prime property retains appeal
Prime property appeals due to defensive qualities as concern over the economic outlook grows
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Real estate market outlook December 2014: Asia Pacific
Economic sentiment remains strong in Asia. An improving global economy, led by the continued recovery in the United States, has helped strengthen growth in Hong Kong and Singapore.
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CBRE Global Investors Sells 14 Dutch Retail Assets to Blackstone
CBRE Global Investors announces the completion of the sale of 14 retail assets in the Netherlands on behalf of the CBRE Dutch Retail Funds to Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe IV (“Blackstone”).
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M&G Real Estate acquires £110 million south east shopping centre
M&G Real Estate announces the acquisition of Fremlin Walk in Maidstone for £110 million from Legal & General Property, reflecting a net initial yield of six per cent.
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WELPUT sells Covent Garden mixed-use asset for £65 million
WELPUT, managed by Schroders and advised by Grafton Advisors, has exchanged contracts to sell the freehold interest in 7-8 St. Martin’s Place, WC2, for £65 million to Chanco Investment Group, a Hong Kong property investor.
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CBRE Global Investors advises Alaska Permanent Fund on first acquisition in Continental Europe
Immochan and Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) represented by CBRE Global Investors, have entered into a strategic joint venture, with the first investments being joint ownership of two existing shopping centres in Spain and Portugal, in a transaction valued at around €280 million.
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Real estate market outlook November 2014: Continental Europe
Private sector confidence in the Eurozone has remained at levels consistent with economic expansion in recent months, although actual economic data has been more mixed.
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CBRE Global Investors Acquires Motorway Service Area for £21M
CBRE Global Investors has, on behalf of a separate account client, acquired Doncaster North Services for £21 million reflecting a net initial yield of 6.3%, from an offshore fund.
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CBRE Global Investors Acquires Dominant Shopping Centre in Spain
CBRE Global Investors has completed the acquisition of El Boulevard Shopping Centre in Vitoria, Spain. The superregional dominant shopping centre has been purchased for €153 million.
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M&G Real Estate acquires Two Snowhill in off-market transaction
M&G Real Estate today announces the acquisition of Two Snowhill, a 319,000 sq ft office and retail scheme in the core of Birmingham’s prime office district.
