IPO activity: Winners and losers

Heraclis Economides, managing director, corporate finance, Bridgewell Group.

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Of the 71 properties companies listed in Europe in the year to April 2007, 39 of these listed in London, raising £3.8 billion. London is likely to continue to dominate equity issuance in real estate, benefiting from the growing realization that the public markets can offer a better pricing mechanism for property than the private market.

The wave of IPOs of externally managed property funds has abated, while IPOs of self-managed property companies are on the rise.

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