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  • News

    North Dakota State shifts core capital to value-added

    2007-09-03T17:00:00Z

    UNITED STATES - North Dakota State Investment Board has decided to move a portion of its capital originally invested in core real estate and move it into the value-added real estate bucket.

  • News

    Carrefour to spin off property

    2007-09-03T17:00:00Z

    FRANCE - French retailer Carrefour is to offer 20% of its €24bn property portfolio to “strategic institutional real estate partners” and other investors, including pension funds.

  • News

    Corio to divest office and industrial portfolios

    2007-09-03T17:00:00Z

    EUROPE - The €6bn property investment company Corio has decided to explore the divestment of a major part of its offices and industrial portfolios, and to further focus on its retail activities.

  • News

    Unibail-Rodamco prepares post-merger management

    2007-08-27T17:00:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - Unibail-Rodamco is almost ready to announce its top 50 management structure as its integration efforts are now on track, the €23.9bn property investor has said.

  • News

    Low returns fail to deter core pension fund investors

    2007-08-27T17:00:00Z

    UNITED STATES – Some US pension funds are still willing to invest a portion of their capital in core real estate despite returns being at an all-time low, according to consultants Townsend Group.

  • Europe’s rising giant: Istanbul
    Magazine

    Europe’s rising giant: Istanbul

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Exciting demographics have propelled Turkey up the league of investment appeal in spite of a shortage of stock and nagging political uncertainties, as Paul Strohm discovers

  • Retail delight
    Magazine

    Retail delight

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Neville Moss looks at the emerging shopping centre market in Istanbul where exceptional fundamentals present a solid long-term outlook

  • What’s bred in the bone
    Magazine

    What’s bred in the bone

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Hard’ factors such as regulation and liquidity only partly define the contours of real estate markets. The cultural stuff can be harder to negotiate. Shayla Walmsley reports

  • Taking on primary importance
    Magazine

    Taking on primary importance

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    As Asia’s major centres struggle to meet the surge in investor demand the focus is moving to a vast tier of lesser ‘secondary’ giants where huge potential combines with significant challenges. Paul Benjamin reports

  • Sitting on a tax break
    Magazine

    Sitting on a tax break

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    SICAVs have long been the investible UCITs structure of choice for property fund managers. Now some pension funds are finding a new use for them. Shayla Walmsley reports