UK institutional investor M&G Real Estate is committing £50.5 mln (almost €64 mln) to the speculative development of a logistics hub in the central English city of Coventry.
Over a third (39%) of institutional investors - pension funds, insurance companies, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and banks - view sustainable asset selection as ‘critical’ or ‘one of the most important criteria’ when selecting properties to acquire, according to CBRE’s 2016 EMEA Investor Intentions Survey.
London, Los Angeles and Sydney Top Regional Targets to Investors
According to CBRE's Global Investor Intentions Survey 2016, real estate investors worldwide remain strongly expansionary in 2016, with more than $1 trillion of planned expenditures anticipated to enter global real estate markets--6 percent higher than in 2015.
Over 70 percent of companies from the business services sector are planning to expand their office space in the next two years. According to “BPO and Shared Service Centres’ management speak out on real estate”, a joint report by Skanska and JLL, and prepared under the patronage of ABSL, a modern and conveniently located office adjusted to numerous and different working styles can create a competitive advantage for a company in the so-called “war for talents” as well as contribute to an increase of work productivity.
Skanska has sold Corso Court, its office project in Prague. The building has been purchased by global investment manager Invesco Real Estate on behalf of one of its German separate account mandates. This is Skanska’s second investment in the Czech capital to be acquired by Invesco Real Estate.
Global commercial real estate (CRE) investment reached US$407 billion in H1 2015, the strongest first half to a year since 2007, and up 14 per cent year-over-year, according to the latest research from global property advisor CBRE Group, Inc.
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