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Asset Manager News
All Bouwinvest Real Estate Sector Funds Beat Multi-year IPD Dutch Property Indices
Solid capital growth and value added through active asset management have powered all Bouwinvest’s Dutch property sector funds to outperform benchmarker IPD’s annual total return indices for the real estate investment market in the Netherlands over multiple years, the most recent results for 2014 show.
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Bouwinvest Expands Surging Amsterdam Retail Footprint Into North of Capital
Institutional property manager Bouwinvest is expanding the growing footprint of its €700 million Dutch Retail Fund in the historic neighbourhoods of Amsterdam with an investment in the development of a new shopping centre (Mosveld).
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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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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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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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Asset Manager NewsKGAL acquires commercial building in Hamburg-Wandsbek for special AIF
The KGAL Group signed a purchase agreement for a new commercial building to be constructed in the Hamburg district of Wandsbek. The investment project was acquired for a special AIF (alternative investment fund) with a future-oriented mixed-use concept.
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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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M7 Raises Its First Real Estate Investment Fund, Which Acquires 11 High-Yielding Properties in the U.K. for £25.7 Million
M7 Real Estate has raised its first fund for third party investors and has acquired 11 high-yielding assets in England on its behalf for £25.7 million, or a blended net initial yield of about 12.5%.
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KGAL Real Estate - Market report: retail Germany
Favourable key economic data, strong purchasing power and optimistic consumer sentiment are having a positive effect on Germany’s retail real estate market.
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Signature Urban Properties – The Compass Residences
The first phase of what will prove to be the largest-ever private real estate project in the Bronx, New York City, is now underway.
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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.
