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Pradera begins raising capital for UK retail park 'club fund'
UK 鈥� Pradera UK has secured 拢75m (鈧�85.6m) from a European pension fund to invest in UK retail parks and is hoping to raise a further 拢175m from several other investors currently undertaking due diligence.
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UK commercial rally running out of steam, says IPD
UK 鈥� Investment Property Databank (IPD) has warned that the rally in the UK commercial real estate market is all but over, with the third quarter seeing the shallowest period of capital growth in 2010.
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Norway's Pension Fund Global Fund makes first foray into real estate
EUROPE 鈥� Norges Bank has made its first real estate investment for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, acquiring a 25% stake in The Crown Estate's Regent Street portfolio in London.
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Irish commercial real estate continues to slide, IPD says
IRELAND 鈥� The commercial real estate market in Ireland continued to see declines in capital values in the third quarter, meaning the market has been falling for more than three years, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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CPPIB, LaSalle join forces on German shopping centre
GLOBAL 鈥� DEGI Europa, the open-ended real estate fund in the process of liquidating its assets, has sold a shopping centre in Germany for 鈧�157.3m to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and LaSalle Investment Management.
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Lack of European prime stock slows global transactional recovery
GLOBAL 鈥� The recovery in global real estate transactions has levelled off, driven by a constrained availability of prime properties in Europe, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
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OMERS, British Land team up to develop London's Cheesegrater
UK 鈥� Oxford Properties, the real estate division of Canadian pension fund OMERS, has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with British Land to develop the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, otherwise known as the Cheesegrater.
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Real estate markets failing to recover in Italy, Japan
GLOBAL 鈥� The Italian commercial real estate market has continued its gradual decline in capital values in the first half of 2010, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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BP Pension Fund's Cubemaker joint venture buys ITV assets
UK 鈥� Cubemaker Partnership, the joint venture between the BP Pension Fund and Cube Real Estate, has acquired three commercial real estate assets from television company ITV for 拢11.3m (鈧�12.9m).
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Global investors flocking to German real estate market
GERMANY 鈥� The German commercial real estate market has seen in influx of international investors in 2010, accounting for 40% of all transactions in the first half of the year, according to Savills.
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Hermes seeks to increase liquidity for BT Pension Fund
UK 鈥� Hermes Real Estate is to sell the BT Pension Scheme's interest in the Bluewater Shopping Centre as part of a wider rebalancing of the portfolio away from "less liquid" indirect and joint venture holdings in the UK.
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Carlyle combines buyout, real estate capital to fund B&B Hotel purchase
EUROPE 鈥� The Carlyle Group has acquired B&B Hotel Group, operator of 223 hotels across France, Germany and France, with equity from one of its private equity buyout funds and one if its real estate vehicles.
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French commercial real estate returns to positive territory, says IPD
FRANCE 鈥� Commercial real estate in France has emerged from a two-year slump to record a six-month 1.6% capital appreciation, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).
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AMF makes largest Swedish transaction in over two years
SWEDEN 鈥� Swedish pension provider AMF and German open fund manager DEKA Immobilien Investment have executed the largest single real estate deal in the city of Stockholm for more than two years.
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Texas Teachers approves $500m investment in retail REIT
GLOBAL 鈥� The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has approved a $500m (鈧�371m) investment into General Growth Properties (GGP).
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CPPIB swoops on eight shopping centres
GLOBAL 鈥� The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has spent C$230.5m (鈧�167m) to acquire interests in eight shopping centres in Canada.
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West Midlands boosts exposure to UK retail with three deals
UK 鈥� The West Midlands Pension Fund has bolstered its retail exposure in the UK by adding a shopping centre, warehouse park and supermarket to its direct portfolio.
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Invesco fund shows German appetite for UK property remains strong
EUROPE 鈥� Invesco Real Estate has raised 鈧�75m from four German institutional investors, enabling it to make a first closing for its latest UK real estate fund.
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German Spezialfond looks to invest in Belgium, France
GERMANY 鈥� HypoVereinsbank's real estate investment subsidy iii-Investment has launched a new Spezialfond, aiming to raise 鈧�400m worth of capital.
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MGPA's opportunity fund targets 鈧�200m of German retail
GERMANY 鈥� MGPA's European opportunistic real estate fund has acquired 140 ALDI S脺D stores in Germany as it seeks to deploy close to 鈧�200m of capital in the country's retail sector over the next six months.
