Institutional Real Estate Europe

January 1, 2012: Vol. 6, Number 1

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Europe

Dig Deep: Looking for a Safe Haven from the Financial Turmoil? Buy Some Good Property, Sit Back and Enjoy It

What do you do in a world where an Italian government bond yields more than a Milan office building? That is the quandary that investors in real estate and other asset classes are pondering as the sovereign debt crisis, centred in the euro zone, continues to wreak havoc in financial markets across the world. Investors are grappling with how to allocate capital in an environment where the supposedly risk-free rate offered by government bonds has become decidedly risky, depending on the government, and where there is a tangible risk that the world will be plunged back into financial chaos by a break-up of the euro. 

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