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AEW Europe enlists private equity expert
12 October 2012
AEW Europe has appointed Simon Blaxland as executive director to expand its private equity platform.
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Morgan Stanley’s Brussels out
12 October 2012
An open-ended fund managed by Morgan Stanley is to sell a large Brussels office tower as part of its liquidation plan.
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Prologis prepares to recapitalise €3.8bn logistics portfolio
12 October 2012
Industrial developer to sell completed European properties into its own managed funds
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Spain, sliders and sheds — three of my take-homes from Munich
12 October 2012
This year’s Expo Real in Munich, property’s biggest conference, was an odd one.
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Expo Real 2012: Ric Lewis: “I’m betting against Armageddon”
11 October 2012
The chief executive of Tristan Capital Partners, Ric Lewis, tells Property Week why he does not believe that the European monetary union is facing certain death.
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Expo Real 2012: Actis raises $278m for real estate in Africa
10 October 2012
Emerging markets, private equity firm Actis has raised $278m to invest in east, west and southern Africa, excluding South Africa.
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Expo Real 2012: Blackstone raises largest property fund
10 October 2012
US private equity giant Blackstone has completed the fundraising for what is the biggest fund in property history.
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Expo Real 2012: Prologis Europe president on reasons for optimism
10 October 2012
Philip Dunne, president of Prologis Europe describes the continuing sense of caution at this year’s Expo Real conference in Munich.
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Expo Real 2012: Peter Damesick on Europe's bright spots
10 October 2012
Investors are turning their attentions to eastern Europe in order to increase returns according to Peter Damesick, chief economist, EMEA at CBRE.
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Expo Real 2012: Spezialfonds market to spiral to €50bn as a result of GOEFs plight
9 October 2012
The German spezialfonds industry will grow to €50bn in the next three to five years as a result of the plight of German open ended funds, according to CBRE.
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Expo Real 2012: Encore+ fund makes first purchase in four years
9 October 2012
The LaSalle Investment Management and Aviva Investor managed open-ended fund, Encore+, has made its first purchase in over four years.
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Expo Real 2012: RREEF appoints asset managers to pension fund
9 October 2012
Real estate fund manager RREEF Invest has today mandated Corpus Sireo to manage its RREEF property pension fund
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Expo Real 2012: Head of CBRE Spain calls for greater clarity over "bad bank" solution
9 October 2012
Executive managing director of CBRE Spain, Adolfo Ramírez-Escudero spoke to Property Week at Expo Real 2012 about the Spanish investment market and why he believes that an increase in the levels of volume is imminent.
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Expo Real 2012: Global investment volumes drop to $96bn
9 October 2012
Despite global investment volumes falling by 8% during the last quarter, the sector continues to perform strongly, a report by Jones Lang LaSalle says.
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Expo Real 2012: Fun, funds and the rumble of the eurozone
9 October 2012
One afternoon in, Expo seems to be a bit more fun this year. Obviously a giant conference centre on the outskirts of Munich is never going to com are as a setting with the Croisette in Cannes, but people seem to have made a bit more effort with their stands.
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Expo Real 2012: US bank eyes giant Spanish loan purchase
9 October 2012
One of the world’s biggest banks is in talks to buy a large portfolio of distressed Spanish loans at a deep discount, in a transaction that is seen as key for Europe’s property market.
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Expo Real 2012: New York is top dog for investment
9 October 2012
In spite of the constant protestations from London that it’s the world’s dominant global city, New York was the clear leader in property investment over the last year.
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Expo Real 2012: Increase in money targeting property
9 October 2012
The amount of money available for investment in property has increased in the last six months and, in a rare positive for the region, Europe is leading the way.
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Expo Real 2012: Germany is top shopping centre investment hot spot
9 October 2012
Germany is the top destination for shopping centre investment in Europe, according to a new report by Savills.
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Expo Real 2012: Russell Jewell on funds and lending
8 October 2012
Russell Jewell, head of European private equity funds at AEW Europe, speaks to Property Week’s David Hatcher at Expo Real 2012.
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Expo Real 2012: Tristan and AEW sell €115m Frankfurt store
8 October 2012
EPI, a fund co-advisde by Tristan Capital Partners and AEW Europe, has sold the Karstadt department store in Frankfurt for €115m.
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Expo Real 2012: Morgan Stanley fund to sell €100m Brussels tower
8 October 2012
An open ended fund managed by Morgan Stanley is to sell a large Brussels office tower as part of it’s liquidation plan.
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Expo Real 2012: European rents to increase by 20%
8 October 2012
Philip Dunne, head of Prologis Europe, has predicted a 20% rise in industrial rents across Europe in the next four years as the company prepares itself for a speculative development drive.
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Expo Real 2012: What to expect
5 October 2012
Today 38,000 property professionals will descend on Expo Real in Munich – Europe’s largest property conference.
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PODCAST: Meyer Bergman talks strategy
5 October 2012
Meyer Bergman is eyeing up the UK, German and Polish market for retail portfolio opportunities, according to chief executive Markus Meijer, who was speaking on today’s monthly Property Week podcast.
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EXPO REAL 2012: London remains a safe haven for investors
5 October 2012
It is once again that time of the year when those involved with the commercial property investment market head to Munich.
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Market prospects will be a marathon and not a sprint
5 October 2012
For some real estate investors, a great summer of sport has provided a welcome distraction from the challenges facing the property industry.
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"The eurozone escaped the meltdown many feared last month"
05 October 2012
Today we revert to our Property Week International format, which brings you a 50:50 mix of global real estate with your usual diet of news and analysis from across the UK.
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Conquering Conferences
05 October 2012
As Expo Real opens its gates, the experts tell Emma Haslett how to make the most of it
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German property starts to feel distressed
05 October 2012
Restructurings are scarce compared with UK. Mike Phillips reports
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Ivanhoé sells €700m in French capital
05 October 2012
A consortium of investors led by Ivanhoé Cambridge has appointed an adviser to sell a €700m portfolio of office properties in Paris.
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Kennedy Wilson makes for Madrid’s ‘banco malo’
05 October 2012
American asset manager sets up Spanish office to run auctions and assist banks
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Oxford to make Parisian debut …
05 October 2012
Canadian property investor to venture across channel to jointly fund office block scheme
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US investor buys German retail centres
4 October 2012
US real estate investor Global Income Trust has bought a portfolio of four neighbourhood retail centres in Germany.
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Irish investment activity improves
3 October 2012
Investment activity in Ireland has improved in 2012, as the market begins to fight its way out of the depths of the downturn.
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British Land and Orion open Puerto Venecia mall
3 October 2012
British Land and Orion Capital Managers have today opened Spain’s largest fashion mall at Puerto Venecia, Zaragoza.
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Corestate buys €60m German residential portfolio
2 October 2012
Corestate Group, a real estate investor based in Zug in Switzerland, has bought 2,300 residential units from European energy group, E.on.
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Henderson’s German JV completes fundraising for second Austrian fund
2 October 2012
Henderson Global Investors’ German joint venture, Warburg-Henderson KAG, has completed the equity raising for a €360m Austrian property fund.
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Wereldhave continues property sell off
2 October 2012
Wereldhave, the Dutch property company, has sold two properties for a combined €43m.
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Chinese business park giant to make east London debut
1 October 2012
A Chinese developer is set to buy east London’s 35-acre Royal Docks site and develop it into a 1.5m sq ft business park, which is to be used as a European launchpad for Chinese enterprise.
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Paralysis rather than panic is the message from Munich
7 October 2011
As Property Week’s crack Expo Real team made its way into Munich’s Oktoberfest on Monday night, it was drawn to one beer keller by the unique sight and sound of 5,000 Germans standing on tables belting out Katrina and the Waves’ Walking on Sunshine
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Midweek Bulletin: Doom and gloom from Expo Real 2011
6 October 2011
From the final day of the international property conference Expo Real in Munich Property Week’s Mike Phillips and David Hatcher sum up the main trends and mood.
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EXPO REAL: Debt getting competitive for the best stock, says Henderson MD
6 October 2011
The price of debt is increasing on the best stock, Henderson’s managing director Mike Sales told Property Week yesterday.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Prices should fall on short-term let City stock
6 October 2011
Despite the strenght of London as an investment location, there is a lot of property where aggressive yields are being quoted on properties with short leases, BNP Paribas Real Estate’s senior director of City investment Shaun Gorvin said yesterday.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Allianz to increase lending to property... but not in the UK
6 October 2011
Allianz Real Estate’s German chief executive, Stefan Brendgen, today said the company planned to increase its lending against European property as Solvency II regulations make lending for insurance companies more attractive than direct property investment.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Sovereign debt crisis strongly impacting investment volumes in affected countries.
6 October 2011
The sovereign debt crisis has already started to cause property investors to concentrate more on prime assets in core markets according to CBRE’s European Investment Market briefing.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Lack of supply creates opportunities, says Prologis European president
5 October 2011
Europe is facing “12 to 24 months” of bumpy road, Prologis’s European president Philip Dunne said today, but the lack of supply could create opportunities.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Pramerica - legislative changes will increase attraction of German open ended funds
5 October 2011
Forthcoming legislation changes for German open ended funds will make them a more attractive and stable asset class, according to Pramerica’s general manager Sebastian Lohmer.
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Expo Real 2011: Dublin take-up increases despite economic turbulence
5 October 2011
According to Savills, Dublin’s office market is on track to show the strongest level of take up since the credit crisis emerged in 2008
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EXPO REAL 2011: Two La Défense towers up for sale for €250m
5 October 2011
Two tower buildings in the centre of Paris’s financial district, La Défense, have been put on the market for a combined price of around €250m.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Opportunistic Real Estate Funds searching for $76bn
5 October 2011
The global search for real estate capital has soared according to latest research by investment manager Clerestory Capital with opportunistic real estate funds searching for $76bn.
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EXPO REAL 2011: European property to get brighter in "six to nine months" says JLL's Ulbrich
5 October 2011
The sovereign debt crisis will not have a lasting effect on European property markets, Jones Lang LaSalle’sEMEA chief executive Christian Ulbrich said today.
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EXPO REAL 2011: New York knocks London off top spot for investment
5 October 2011
New York has beaten London to the title of most popular investment destination for the first time since 2007.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Solvency II will help boost real estate lending, says AXA Reim's Lavergne
4 October 2011
The Solvency II regulations will boost lending to European property as it will make the sector more appealing to insurance companies, Laurent Lavergne, head of fund management at insurance giant Axa’s investment management arm Axa REIM, said today.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Aberdeen Asset Managers to increase spending outside Europe
4 October 2011
Aberdeen Asset Managers will increase its spending in countries outside its traditional European core, the company’s global head of property said today.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Insurance companies must "gallop faster" into European property lending
4 October 2011
Insurance companies need to “gallop faster” into European real estate, Paul Rivlin, co-founder and joint chief executive of Palatium Asset Management, said at Expo Real in Munich today.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Investors will stick with property funds because "there's not much else" says Union's Kutscher
4 October 2011
Investors will continue to invest in property funds, despite the difficult economic conditions, because “there isn’t much else around”, Reinhard Kutscher, chairman of the management board at Union Investment said today.
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Henderson Research: Think/Europe
4 October 2011
It has been a summer of discontent across financial markets. The latest wave of sovereign debt fears on both sides of the Atlantic, alongside a stark slowdown in economic growth, has revealed that the treacherous debris of the financial crisis is still evident.
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EXPO REAL 2011: London is top target in Europe for global real estate investors
4 October 2011
London is the top target in Europe for global money coming into property, with almost five times as much investment from non-European buyers as its nearest rival, a new report today said.
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EXPO REAL 2011: LaSalle IM appoints Estama to manage 2.8m sq ft German retail portfolio
4 October 2011
Estama has been appointed to manage a giant retail portfolio by LaSalle Investment Management.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Property Week's team in Munich welcomes you to the conference
3 October 2011
As the sovereign debt crisis continues to rage, around 36,800 commercial property professionals haver descended on Munich this week for Expo Real - where the Eurozone’s economic woes will no doubt be a key focus.
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EXPO REAL 2011: Money flowing out of German funds likely to go back into property
3 October 2011
Although money is flowing out of german open-ended property funds due to new regulation and worries about property values, the majority won’t be reinvested outside of real estate, a new report said today.
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Expo Real: A real good time at expo
30 September 2011
This ‘strictly business’ conference follows the excesses of Oktoberfest
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EXPO REAL: Allianz plans to increase allocation to real estate to €30bn
6 October 2010
Allianz, the German insurer, plans to increase its allocation to real estate to €30bn.
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EXPO REAL: Sustainability will change the value of your building, JLL says
6 October 2010
Sustainability is a key issue across Europe as it will impact on the capital values of investors’ real estate, Julie Hirigoyen, lead director of Upstream Sustainability Services at Jones Lang LaSalle said yesterday.
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EXPO REAL: Barrie blogs on Europe's views on Britain
6 October 2010
What was the consensus on Britain at this week’s EXPO Real investment bonanza in Munich?
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EXPO REAL: Europe is reaching the end of its bounce, King Sturge says
6 October 2010
The property market should proceed with caution as the European market has reached “the end of its bounce”, Angus McIntosh, head of research at King Sturge, said yesaterday.
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EXPO REAL: London still "most important" for investors, says CBRE
5 October 2010
London is still “the most important city in the timezone” and is attracting investors, CB Richard Ellis’s head of EMEA capital markets, Jonathan Hull, said today.
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EXPO REAL: French investment volumes 60% higher, Savills says
5 October 2010
French investment volumes in the first three quarters of 2010 are set to total €7.2bn – 60% higher than for the same period in 2009, research from Savills has shown.
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EXPO REAL: Should we talk about PIG instead of PIIGS, asks AEW
5 October 2010
The economic problems in Italy and Spain should be distinguished from Europe’s other PIIGS problematic countries, Rob Wilkinson, head of fund management at AEW Europe, said today.
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EXPO REAL: Polarisation of European prime and secondary property set to continue, says CBRE
5 October 2010
The polarised recovery of prime and secondary commercial property is expected to continue, CB Richard Ellis said today.
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EXPO REAL: Germany set for strong retail recovery, says AGL
5 October 2010
A number of key factors are positioning the German retail market for continued growth, research from retail consultancy Angermann,Goddard & Loyd has shown.
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EXPO REAL: Development pipeline dry-up will drive European rental growth in 2011, Savills says
5 October 2010
Office rents across Europe will rise in 2011 against the backdrop of a 45% drop in development completions in the year, Savills said at the EXPO REAL conference in Munich today.
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EXPO REAL: Giles Barrie welcomes you to Munich
4 October 2010
Property Week editor Giles Barrie welcomes you to Munich on the first day of European property conference EXPO REAL.
