Retail – Page 115

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    Higher yields allude to lower income growth - CBRE

    2009-01-15T16:58:00Z

    EUROPE – Yields across all commercial sectors in Europe, Middle East and Africa markets have increased in the fourth quarter of 2008 and may reflect a poor outlook for rents, according to latest data from the CB Richard Ellis EU-15 yield indices.

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    ING enters Polish retail space

    2009-01-12T17:06:00Z

    Czech Republic – ING Real Estate Investment Management has acquired a €125m shopping centre in the Czech Republic and added it to the ING Property Fund Central Europe.

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    Henderson weds Croom for retail property (amended)

    2009-01-12T16:34:00Z

    EUROPE – Henderson Global Investors has appointed Katherine Groom as portfolio manager for its pan-European retail property fund, Herald.

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    More than €50bn waiting to be deployed in Europe

    2009-01-08T16:25:00Z

    EUROPE – More than €50bn of equity is targeting European commercial real estate this year, according to the latest European capital markets research carried out by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

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    EDHEC launches French index

    2009-01-06T15:40:00Z

    FRANCE – French business school EDHEC has launched a monthly index for commercial property in France with the help of the Institut de l'Epargne Immobilière et Foncière (IEIF), an independent French real estate research institute.

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    Hypo Real Estate faces claims for damages

    2009-01-06T15:35:00Z

    GLOBAL – Pension funds are making the first claims for damages against Hypo Real Estate (HRE) for failing to reveal its financial difficulties sooner.

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    ProLogis steps up to support European Properties

    2008-12-22T17:40:00Z

    US – ProLogis, the international logistics developer, has stepped in to help ProLogis European Properties (PEPR) by buying a 20% interest in the ProLogis European Properties Fund II (PEPF II).

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    CPPIB buys into Turkish retail

    2008-12-19T16:15:00Z

    CANADA - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has invested €250m of equity in a Turkish retail fund.

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    UK commercial sees investment halve

    2008-12-11T18:12:00Z

    UK – Jones Lang LaSalle has predicted direct investment in UK commercial real estate will have dropped by approximately 55% year-on-year by the end of 2008, to stand at around £21bn (€24bn).

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    Surveyors predict further 25% UK drop

    2008-12-09T16:43:00Z

    UK – Commercial property capital values are predicted to fall a further 25% over the next two years, according to the latest forecast issued by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

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    Diebold’s pension moves into real estate

    2008-12-04T16:55:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Diebold Corporation’s $450m (€356.5m) defined benefit pension fund has made its first move into real estate investment and made a $10m commitment to JP Morgan’s open-ended Strategic property fund.

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    Negative rental growth now global

    2008-11-17T16:35:00Z

    GLOBAL – Rental growth has turned negative on a global scale and the downturn in emerging markets is accelerating, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) finds in its latest quarterly global report.

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    UK sets new record for fall in capital values

    2008-11-17T16:29:00Z

    UK – UK commercial property capital values fell by record levels last month, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).

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    UK will start to recover in 2010 – Schroders

    2008-11-17T16:28:00Z

    UK – The UK commercial real estate market will not stabilise until the latter part of 2009 but should begin to recover in 2010 according to Schroder Property.

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    Land Securities abandons demerger plans

    2008-11-13T16:26:00Z

    UK – Land Securities announced yesterday in its half-yearly annual results that “adverse market conditions” have forced the firm to abandon its demerger plans in order to protect shareholders’ interests.

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    Crisis of confidence for UK property

    2008-11-10T16:35:00Z

    UK – Confidence has collapsed across the UK real estate sector according to Smith & Williamson’s latest annual survey.

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    CPPIB invests fresh CA$1.4bn in real estate

    2008-11-03T16:31:00Z

    CANADA – The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has expanded its real estate portfolio with $1.4bn worth of new investments, bringing the fund’s total real estate commitments to $8.4bn.

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    CBRE trust widens into UK retail

    2008-10-27T17:51:00Z

    UK - The CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust has expanded its property holdings outside of the United States after purchasing a second major UK retail park.

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    Grosvenor to buy a ride on the Chinese dragon

    2008-10-27T17:19:00Z

    ASIA/UK – Grosvenor, the London-based group of international property investment, development and fund management businesses, has launched a $600m (€468.7m) China retail fund.

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    Ohio PERS grabs opportunity to look beyond the value-add

    2008-10-23T17:57:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Ohio Public Employees Retirement System will be shifting some of its investment capital in real estate to an opportunistic strategy in a bid to tap the little investment likely to surface over coming months.