All Property Week articles in Global November 2009

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    From Sheffield to Shenzhen

    Global November 2009

    Kevin McCabe was among the first UK property entrepreneurs to see China’s potential for growth

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    A rice-to-riches tale

    Global November 2009

    When rice farmer Yang Guoqiang created Chinese developer Country Garden in 1997, he was one of a new generation of tycoons that benefited from the liberalisation of the country’s property market

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    Money pours west

    Global November 2009

    Asia-Pacific’s cash-rich investors are sizing up the west’s distressed property markets

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    Man in the news

    Global November 2009

    Future Fund’s Barry Brakey

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    Office yields still too Low

    Global November 2009

    The fall in demand for offices across Asia-Pacific has coincided with a boom in construction, write Sotiris Tsolacos and Stephen Chung

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    Point Park Prague letting

    Global November 2009

    PointPark Properties, formerly known as Pinnacle, has let 21,528 sq ft (2,000 sq m) to sauna and whirlpool supplier Marimex at its PointPark Prague D1 distribution park

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    LaSalle´s Paris Venture

    Global November 2009

    LaSalle Investment Management has made its first continental European purchase for its Paris Office Ventures fund. It has paid around €100m (£90m) to Standard Life Investments for the 231,340 sq ft (21,490 sq m) BL ériot building in Suresnes, Paris.

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    What opportunities are there in the South Korean market?

    Global November 2009

    South Korea is recovering faster than expected from the global downturn, and there is a strong possibility that interest rates will increase before the end of the year because of concerns about a new property bubble

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    Kenmore sells Paris shed

    Global November 2009

    Kenmore European Industrial Fund has sold 85-109 rue Auguste Renoir in north-eastern Paris to an owner-occupier for €2.4m (£2.1m)

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    Horrell leaves JLL

    Global November 2009

    Tony Horrell, head of European capital markets at Jones Lang LaSalle, is to leave the company after 27 years by the end of 2009

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    US home prices ´to fall

    Global November 2009

    Economists at Goldman Sachs claim the stabilisation in US home prices will not last. In a note to clients, Alec Phillips, an economist based in Goldman’s Washington DC office, said it expected a further 5% to 10% fall by mid-2010.

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    Ex-JLL man joins NAI

    Global November 2009

    Former Jones Lang LaSalle valuation director Charles Kingsley Evans has been appointed as international director of NAI Apollo Valuation Advisory, a property services company with headquarters in Dusseldorf.

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    West meets east

    Global November 2009

    Established cross-border investors are flocking into Asia-Pacific’s rapidly recovering property markets. Over the next seven pages, Lucy Scott talks to institutions about the markets they are targeting

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    Dublin Take-up falls

    Global November 2009

    Data compiled by Savills shows there was 904,176 sq ft (84,000 sq m) of take-up in Dublin’s industrial market in the first three quarters of 2009

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    China´s holiday spending

    Global November 2009

    Sales of consumer goods in China totalled RMB570bn (£51bn) during the country’s eight-day national holiday

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    China goes home

    Global November 2009

    House prices are rising in China, but buyers may be priced out

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    Centro pays off Galileo loan

    Global November 2009

    Centro Properties has used asset sales and cash reserves to repay the outstanding balance on the Galileo America facility

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    Central and eastern Europe is top target for occupiers

    Global November 2009

    Data from Cushman & Wakefield shows that cities in central and eastern Europe are top of the list for occupiers looking to expand across the continent in the next five years. Cushman’s European Cities Monitor found that Warsaw, Moscow, Budapest and Bucharest were ahead of London and Paris when it ...

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    Conference calls

    Global November 2009

    Expo Real, Munich, 5-7 October

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    JSM buys HO chi Minh resi

    Global November 2009

    JSM Indochina has paid $65m (£40m) for two ”distressed” luxury residential towers in Ho Chi Minh City