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  • Peter Sceats, director, TFS Property.
  • The conversion of Hamburg-based real estate company alstria into a Reit at the beginning of October and its inclusion in a new Deutsche Börse German Reit segment in November heralded a new dawn for the German property market. But despite the big long-term potential of Germany’s position as Europe’s largest property market, observers aren’t expecting a substantial increase in the near future in the number of German Reits – known as G-Reits.
  • Martin McGuire is joining Axa Real Estate Investment Managers as European fund manager in London.
  • Morley Fund Management is reorganizing its UK property team and has promoted Philip Nell as new lead manager for two leading retail funds.
  • Merrill Lynch has invested $377 million in the Indian real estate market, through the purchase of a 49% share of a portfolio of residential properties. The portfolio is managed by DLF, one of India’s largest developers, and comprises seven mid-income residential projects in Chennai, Bangalore, Kochi and Indore. The deal brings Merrill Lynch’s total investment in the market to $550 million.
  • In a recent interview, Merrill Lynch’s newly anointed chief executive, John Thain, revealed that the financial institution’s risk management system had ceased to function properly during the sub-prime crisis. That comment raised some eyebrows and provoked speculation about the possibility that Merrill’s particular black box might have been switched off.
  • Land Securities’ announcement that it will split into three sector-focused specialist companies is unlikely to signal the demise of generalist UK Reits. Other large Reits, such as Hammerson and British Land, have indicated that they will not pursue the specialist route. However, now that their share prices have come under significant pressure, many UK Reits will have to reconsider their structures and strategies, making Land Securities an interesting market test case.
  • Meinl European Land (MEL), Austria’s second-largest real estate company by market capitalization, is under investigation by its local regulator, the Financial Market Authority (FMA).
  • Market veteran Christopher Casey has joined AIG Global Real Estate in New York as a managing partner and product specialist in the capital markets group.
  • India’s real estate sector is simultaneously huge and underdeveloped. Much-needed capital is flooding in from domestic and foreign sources, yet many building plans are still prospective rather than under way while sector-focused financial instruments, including Reits, are absent or at a rudimentary stage of development. Elliot Wilson reports.
  • Cash-rich Gulf-based funds are ploughing billions of dollars into real estate in the fast-growing economies of India and China, lured by eager regional and municipal governments and the promise of double-digit annual returns. The economies of China and India are growing at an annual rate of about 12%. US investment bank Merrill Lynch expects India’s property sector to expand to $90 billion by 2015 from $15 billion in 2005.