Property Funds

Opportunities that exist in the central London, Paris and Stockholm property markets are being pounced upon by real estate security funds. It follows news that the Thames River Real Estate Securities Fund has returned 20....

The Investment Property Databank (IPD) has launched a new pan-European property fund index which will reveal the cross-border performance of real estate funds. Set to be released quarterly, the index is made up of 18 cross-border funds in the region, which represent approximately 82 per cent of the total market, Property Week reports....

If you are a frequent reader of the blog here at IPIN, you'll likely know that the press invariably get my goat when it comes to the property market with their poor analogies and comparisons....

The past few years have seen a great deal of change in the property investment world. 10 years ago the average home owner would not really have considered buying a house in a foreign land for a number of reasons - not least for the lack of information but also likely due to the complexity of it all and the general all out hassle one would have expected to encounter gaining enough information to make an informed decision.....

Alternative investments are becoming increasingly more popular as buyers look to enhance the performance of their portfolios. According to the Indian Economic Times, while stocks and bonds have managed to hold their value well in the past few years, investors are also looking to diversify into real estate, hedge funds, private equity and exchange-traded funds....

The past ten days or so has seen the British press publishing more doom than normal for the property industry. The Halifax have piped up claiming house prices have dived by a further 3.6%, the government are allegedly going to flog their property off to the private sector in what will likely be a Gordon "Gold Sale" Brown style car boot sale, and one agent appears to have completely lost his marbles....

An increasing number of global commercial property investors have retreated back to their home country to find the safest returns, it has been claimed. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said that the downturn in many overseas markets had forced many investors back home....

Investor sentiment from buyers in the Middle East continues to favour the Asia Pacific, it has been found. Almost half of the individuals questioned in the Jones Lang LaSalle Investor Sentiment Survey believe that the region's real estate market will post the strongest performance in the coming months....

Now is an attractive time to be buying into property, it has been claimed. Following research from the Investment Property Database (IPD) showing that real estate funds have recovered in the past year, Aberdeen Asset Management has predicted that the asset class is set to do well in the coming months....

There has been a marked recovery in the performance of institutional European pooled property funds over the 12 months to June, it has been claimed. The International Property Databank (IPD) reports that the funds delivered an 8.3 per cent local currency return over the period....

After a difficult few years, commercial property made a comeback in early 2010. 2008 saw decreasing values for the asset class but Q2 2010 saw a rise in both values and interest from investors....

Given the current economic climate, with the past 2 years or so having hit the investment property industry rather hard and the media not knowing whether the market is on the up, taking a dive, entering a double dip or stagnating....

One of the largest deals on the Russian commercial real estate market has fallen through...

New research has found that in the second quarter of 2010 global direct commercial real estate investment volumes reached US$66 billion.

The figures, released by Jones Lang LaSalle, are similar to the ones seen during the first quarter of the year and as the sector begins its recovery it represents almost twice as much activity in the market compared to the lows of one year ago....

Real estate investors around the globe can expect to see a rise in the number of distressed properties entering the market during the second quarter of 2010, with the US and Ireland leading the way.....

German institutional investors could invest up to EUR 8.1bn out of a total of EUR 26.6bn into German property funds over the next three years, according to a report today.

A Qatari investment company plans to launch two $500m funds to invest in Russian and Brazilian real estate, a further sign of deepening economic links between emerging markets