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Pan-European Real Estate Credit: An Immediate, Compelling and Expanding Investment Opportunity

A whole loan real estate credit strategy provides investors with a compelling and sustainable long-term investment thesis. Supported by an existing €2.0 trillion market, real estate credit looks particularly attractive at this stage of the market cycle.

Skyline

Fiera Real Estate UK and Cubex’s latest urban warehousing scheme, Skyline, has launched. The site is located in Filton, Bristol and only 3 miles south of the M4/M5 interchange. The scheme consists of eight prime units ranging from 5,320 sq ft to 16,370 sq ft with the added option to combine units.

The Elephant in the Warehouse – Unpacking the Market for Small to Mid-Box Logistics

Attractive fundamentals and a deepening occupier market continue to strengthen the investment case for ground-up development of best-in-class small to mid-box logistics in urban locations. Specialist managers developing and managing portfolios of high-quality, institutional-grade UK stock look set to outperform other sectors across this next phase of the real estate cycle and beyond.

Pension fund pooling model is a ‘paradigm shift’ for UK property

In his latest commentary for Property Week, Charles Allen, Head of European Real Estate discussed the potential of pooling UK pension funds to enable investment into high-quality assets central to the UK’s ESG agenda. Larger capital allocations could accelerate the modernisation of the built environment and address key areas like affordable housing and healthcare.  The […]

Treating pension funds like a new monetary policy tool is a threat to finance

In his most recent article for Pensions & Investments, Charles Allen, Head of European Real Estate, speaks about the risk exposure and possible distortion to the real estate market, if governments start to interfere with pension fund investment strategies.

Treating pension funds like a new monetary policy tool is a threat to finance

Pension funds are among the most influential capital providers globally, so it’s no surprise governments with lackluster GDP growth are desperate to unlock them. As part of a broader supply-side reform strategy, pension funds' patience, taken together with their favourable allocations mix (notably overweight fixed income and liability-hedging assets), opens a wealth of possibilities to invest — directly and indirectly — in expenditure-heavy development projects across a spread of asset categories.
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