Institutional Real Estate Europe

September 1, 2008: Vol. 2, Number 9

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Europe

Less Is More

Amid the doom and gloom that is increasingly enveloping the vast majority of western Europe’s real estate markets and the liquidity crisis that has stalled transaction volumes, global pension funds have not shied away from increasing their exposure to property investments. Indeed, as leveraged deals fizzle out in a flash of onerous debt conditions, cash-rich pension funds have begun to circle, looking for attractive property prospects.

Europe

Seats of Learning

A quick look at the newspaper headlines will quickly raise alarm bells for real estateinvestors. The United States is likely to experience little or no economic growth in 2008, the global economy looks to be entering at least a slowdown and indicators point to a period of deleveraging. Such factors will likely affect the global real estate market. But it is important to distinguish between the U.S. subprime residential real estate crisis and the prospects for the wider, mostly commercial, real estate market globally.

Europe

In for the Long Haul

Although the value of the real estate capital market continued to grow last year to reach $12 trillion (Ä7.7 trillion), 2007 witnessed a sea-change in the global investment environment, following what the International Monetary Fund has labelled “the largest financial shock since the Great Depression”.

Europe

Bucking the Trend

Europe is a booming marketplace for factory outlet centres. The potential exists for more than 160 new outlet centres by 2017 and the existing 145 are bucking the current downward retail trend, according to the latest report from the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC). The outlet centre market is the place to be for investors, developers and retailers.

Europe

Black and White

Reading the business pages over breakfast, I can’t help but think that many people will assume that there is no reason for optimism in the property business during the downturn that we now find ourselves in. However, this popular view fails to recognise that even in bear markets there are opportunities for strategic investors.

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