All Retail articles – Page 3
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Asset Manager News
Charter Hall secures 50% of Southern Cross Towers, Melbourne
Charter Hall Group (Charter Hall or the Group) is pleased to announce the Charter Hall Prime Office Fund (CPOF or the Fund) has acquired 50 per cent of the landmark Southern Cross Towers precinct in the prestigious “Paris End” of Melbourne’s CBD, from Brookfield and Blackstone.
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Asset Manager News
DekaBank and Bpifrance arrange the acquisition financing for Tour La Marseillaise
DekaBank, as Agent and Arranger, and Bpifrance are providing a green financing - according to the LMA ́s Green Loan Principles - to the retail funds SCPI PFO, PFO2 and SCI PERIAL Euro Carbone, managed by Perial Asset Management. The loan is structured with a 5-year term and a bullet profile.
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The Fed Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
The Fed turned more hawkish this week, upgrading its outlook for the Fed Funds rate, and lowering its outlook on growth—leading to a risk-off tone in markets. Meanwhile, the ECB announced a new tool to help address the uneven transmission of monetary policy normalization.
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Shoppers Keep Spending, But For How Long?
A risk-off tone was prominent this week in markets amid rising worries of stagflation, given aggressive monetary policy. Despite the solid U.S. retail sales data, retailers led a sharp decline in equities mid-week, which pushed U.S. Treasury yields lower.
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Asset Manager News
Deka Immobilien invests in logistics project in France
Deka Immobilien has exchanged contracts to secure the purchase of a new building project in the Paris metropolitan region of Île-de-France for EUR 160 million. The seller is Gemfi, the development arm of the French real estate company Gicram Groupe. The e-commerce fulfilment centre will be added to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund Deka-ImmobilienEuropa.
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When volatility is rising, boring is beautiful
Fast-growing digital and tech companies generated a lot of investor excitement over the past decade, not to mention an outsized share of market returns.
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War & Pestilence
Military and economic responses to Russia’s war in Ukraine remain at the top of the watch list, as disruptions in energy and agriculture flows add to inflation pressures and worries about growth.
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Charter Hall Market Update
Resilience and relationships continue to drive Charter Hall’s record fund growth and equity across the business, delivering strong results for investor and tenant customers, and communities in the first half year alone.
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Real Estate Outlook – Edition 1, 2022
The economic recovery continues, albeit interrupted by Omicron, and the war in Ukraine poses a new risk. Global real estate volumes reached a record high, driven by domestic buyers. Falls in office and retail yields were more widespread. We think that any headwinds from interest rate rises will be offset by growth in the economy.
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UK supermarkets: a sector in the eye of the storm
As the world slowly moves on from the pandemic, Eugenia Lara Armas, Credit Analyst, looks at how shifts in shopping habits will impact credit investors, with a focus on the UK supermarket sector.
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Real Estate House View - Switzerland 2022
The residential sector in Switzerland has a surprise in store in 2021: the 12-year rise in the vacancy rate came to an end. On 1 June 2021, 9.5% fewer apartments were empty. One driver was the increased net immigration from abroad.
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Real Estate House View - United Kingdom 2022
Retail warehouse capital values grew 7.0% in Q4 2021 alone, roughly eight times the rate of other retail segments. This statistic helps illustrate the divergance in performance between different retail segments.
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Real Estate House View - Europe 2022
The ongoing demand for real estate has in recent years turned former niche sectors (logistics, healthcare) into pioneers, and we are hearing of new ones such as life science, data centres and self-storage.
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Asset Manager News
KGAL acquires Charles Square Center in Prague
Grünwald, 24.02.2022 – KGAL Investment Management GmbH & Co. KG has acquired the Charles Square Center in Prague, which includes offices, retail, restaurants and healthcare space, on behalf of a pan-European fund. The city centre property with a total of almost 20,000 square metres of leasable space has a roster of international, renowned tenants. The seller was Commerz Real.
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As COVID Cases Fade, Services Ready for Upgrade
January U.S. retail sales surprised to the upside, rising 3.8% M/M. The Omicron wave temporarily halted the shift in consumer spending from goods to services, as at-home sectors gained. Meanwhile, restaurant sales fell for a second-consecutive month.
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Asset Manager News
M7 sells retail warehouse on behalf of Portuguese industrial fund
M7 Real Estate (“M7”), the pan-European investor and asset manager specialising in multi-tenanted properties, announces the sale of a retail warehouse in Madeira, on behalf of the Portuguese Industrial Fund (“PIF”), a joint venture with a major global private equity firm. The asset has been sold to an affiliate of Portugal Yield Fund, FCR, managed by Portuguese private equity firm Iberis Capital.
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Investment Research - Trends for 2022
As worrying new COVID-19 variants emerge, the pandemic is still far from over, while concerns about higher inflation and rising market interest rates persist. Nevertheless, the backdrop for real estate markets in 2022 is one of transition to a new phase of recovery and expansion.
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Research Report
Real Estate Outlook APAC, Edition 4 - 2021 - The air is wild with investment activity.
APAC economies slowed in the third quarter. Apart from China, countries are now looking to contain COVID-19 rather than eradicate it.
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Research Report
Real Estate Convictions - November 2021
In a world dominated by uncertainty, the recovery in the global economy continues. With the on-going vaccination of the general population and booster campaigns remaining a strategic priority, to avoid the introduction of new health restrictions that would deteriorate growth in late 2021 and early 2022, the deterioration of short-term prospects has come from China.
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Global real estate outlook - Finding value in a new era
Global economies are showing signs of recovery as people adapt to living alongside COVID-19, and attention is turning to what our post-pandemic world looks like. M&G’s latest Global Real Estate Outlook highlights the challenges and opportunities that real estate investors may need to consider.