Property Investment

THE Seven Dials European Property fund has outperformed its larger, more established competitors, according to the specialist commercial property fund manager.

FITCH Ratings has published new Real Estate Asset Manager rating criteria.

James Hay's wrap proposition is rapidly approaching 1,250 funds after additions from BlackRock Merrill Lynch and Scottish Widows.

SOME 3.2 million people, or 7pc of UK adults, are relying on property investments to fund their retirement, according to research from Baring Asset Management.

THE UK and European mortgage markets could be set for a US sub-prime style meltdown, according to SG Asset Management.

LONDON and Capital (L&C) has taken a stand against the negative view on UK commercial property and adapted its UK Real Estate fund, in order to continue to make returns from the country's property market.

PINDER Fry & Benjamin LLP (PFB) has launched an innovative commercial property investment fund, focused on the development of data centres.

STANDARD Life Investments' European Property Growth fund (EPGF) has acquired three Swedish retail warehouses.

ASIAN commercial property markets are set to deliver healthy returns to investors in the New Star International Property fund, according to Roger Dossett, head of property fund management at New Star.

THE credit crunch will hasten the end of the phase of yield compression in European commercial property and investment managers will no longer be able to rely on rising property prices to generate the bulk of their returns, according to Alessandro Bronda,...