Spezialfonds
German Spezialfonds still outperforming inflation despite Q3 dip
In its latest Index reading, the European non-listed vehicles association INREV reports that its German Vehicles Quarterly Index for Q3 2018 recorded a slowdown in performance of German vehicles, with overall returns falling to... Read more
German non-listed vehicles record ten-year high
INREV’s German Vehicles Annual Index 2018 recorded a ten-year high for non-listed real estate performance in Germany, with total returns of 4.29% over 2017, up from 2.68% the previous year. Read more
Inflows to German funds in 1Q outstrip 10-year average
Inflows to German property funds in the first quarter of 2018 outstripped the 10-year average by €7bn to total €38bn, according to the German Investment Funds Association, the BVI this month. Read more
German funds sluggish in a slow-growth world
German funds are increasingly sluggish against a backdrop of a slow-growth world, according to INREV’s German Vehicles Quarterly Index for 4Q 2017 published this month, which shows an overall slowdown in performance across 193 vehicles. Read more
INREV launches new German-only indices
As we reported in these pages recently, the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) INREV was now imminently launching its new indices for German non-listed real estate vehicles, which it developed in... Read more
Pramerica and China’s Gingko clinch Siemens Campus deal
We reported back in October last year that the Chinese group Gingko Tree Investment Ltd. was in talks to buy a huge Munich office park in the south-west of the city. The park consists of 37 buildings with 425,000 sqm of gross lettable space, along... Read more
BEOS adds three new assets to popular fund for €135m
The Berlin-based BEOS, which develops and manages mixed-use light industrial properties throughout Germany, has just bought a further three assets for its second Spezialfonds, the BEOS Corporate Real Estate Fund Germany II. Read more
Spezialfonds, listed sector the big 10-year winners in Germany
It is easy to forget how radically the landscape of the German real estate industry has changed over the past ten years, and how the structure of capital flows has adapted to the growing array of investment options offering exposure to the various... Read more
F&C REIT with fresh commitments for German retail
REFIRE bumped into the top brass of Munich-based F&C REIT Asset Management at the MIPIM recently, and we must admit we felt a little sheepish as they listed all the deals they had done last year, which perhaps we hadn’t fully registered. Read more
Patrizia exceeds own targets for assets under management
We reported some months ago in REFIRE that the Augsburg-based listed property investor Patrizia Immobilien AG came up short of their projected full-year figures, as one of their major deals had yet to be inked. The group had to revise its profit... Read more
Swedish groups Akelius, Cityhold make fresh German investments
News from Swedish investors in Germany highlight how the Nordic country’s leading investors are expanding their footprint across both the residential and the commercial sectors. Residential investor Akelius invested over €270m last year in... Read more
Internos wins new mandates, girds for expansion
There has been a lot of movement at European fund management business Internos Global Investors over the past few months, so much so that we decided to visit Paul Muno, head of Internos’s burgeoning German operations, to learn more about what was... Read more
Study shows outperformance of German market over European funds
Returns for German institutional property funds in the third quarter were 0.1%, according to the IPD/BVI German Quarterly Spezialfonds Index (SFIX). Funds invested in Germany significantly outperformed European allocated funds, while at a sector... Read more
German logistics property sector reaches highest-ever market share
Several reports coming in from the various property brokerage groups seem to underscore that the logistics real estate sector in Germany is enjoying a boom, with this year’s transaction volume already ahead of all of last year’s, and practically... Read more
Valad's new Diversified Fund to favour German investment
Multi-let real estate investment manager Valad Europe has shifted the weighting of its new diversified fund to favour Germany over the UK, although it had originally planned a 60:40 allocation for the UK. It has now raised €180m in equity fort he... Read more
Cordea Savills in €65m German Spezialfonds launch
Property investment manager Cordea Savills launched its first German Spezialfonds for institutional investors earlier this month. Cordea Savills Real Invest 1 raised €65m in equity at its first closing from a group of German insurance companies... Read more
Patrizia features again in biggest commercial deal of the year
In the biggest commercial real estate transaction in Germany this year, Augsburg-based Patrizia Immobilien is buying 36 German office properties valued at about €800m from Austria’s listed CA Immobilien. ... Read more
iii-Investment acquisition gives BNPPRE full-service German presence
While Spezialfonds initiators like Real I.S. are gearing up to train their firepower on a host of new investment targets, across town in Munich at iii-Investments, Germany’s second-largest real estate Spezialfonds company, top management is saying... Read more
Fund launch, sales, highlight fresh interest in logistics sector
Cross-border European real estate investment in the logistics sector has risen by a whopping 22% in the first six months of this year, and the heightened interest in the sector is set to be reflected in a number of logistics-oriented discussions... Read more
F&C REIT gears up for new German investment spree
UK property fund and asset manager F&C Reit Asset Management is all set to start buying new assets for it Best Value Germany II (BVG II) Spezialfonds. The first closing was at the end of July, but the Munich-based German company did not divulge... Read more