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  • Trust in Asian REITs

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    Trust Company of Australia (Trust) has unveiled plans to expand into the Asian market by opening offices in both Hong Kong and Singapore in a move to becoming a trustee of real estate investment trusts (REITs). Trust managing director, Jonathan Sweeney, said the move comes on the back of strong results after Trust redirected the…

  • How to invest in offshore property

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    WHEN it was floated in November last year, Hong Kong’s first real estate investment trust – Link REIT – created a global sensation, attracting demand from offshore investors for $55 billion worth of shares. The lucky few, including Australian fund managers, who received allocations in the world’s single largest property trust have enjoyed a richly…

  • Institutions keen on Hong Kong Link REIT IPO

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    HONG KONG, Nov 16 (Reuters) – A relaunch of Hong Kong’s $2.8 billion IPO for the Link REIT is expected to be at least 10 times oversubscribed, with institutional investors particularly keen, brokers and market sources said on Wednesday. The government’s second attempt to sell 151 shopping centres and 79,000 car parks through the world’s…

  • Risks & Benefits of Investing in Emerging Markets

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    (PRWEB) – Beaverton, OR, (PRWEB) October 18, 2005 — www.pacificsecuritycapital.com – Pacific Security Capital (“PSC”), a leading commercial real estate investment bank providing commercial loans, structured finance, equity financing, investment sales and advisory services, explains the risks and benefits of investing in emerging markets. Commercial real estate investors are facing the most competitive commercial real…

  • Global REITs offering better returns

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    INVESTORS with higher-risk appetite should seriously consider investing in global properties through real estate investment trusts (REITs) as this has proven to offer better returns than other asset classes over a long-term period. Citibank vice-president (wealth management products) Charles Sik said with the liberalisation of foreign exchange administration rules, coupled with de-pegging of the ringgit,…

  • Beijing Tianhong Turns To Foreign Investors

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    By Federica Bianchi – BEIJING (Dow Jones)–Beijing Tianhong Real Estate Development and Management Corp., a subsidiary of Tianhong Group, Beijing’s largest real estate developer, is starting to cooperate with foreign investors on individual residential housing projects after the government tightened credit resources for construction. “We are teaming up with several investors that don’t necessarily have…

  • Property trusts a winner

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    LISTED property trusts are to investment what Lance Armstrong is to cycling. Everyone loves a winner and over the past six years other asset classes have been struggling to stay the distance with listed property trusts. Australian shares may have won the sprint for the best returns for the year ended June 30 but when…

  • Rules spur REITs offshore

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    Regulatory changes are set to spur Singapore-listed real estate investment trusts (REITs offshore) to acquire overseas properties even as asset prices in the city state rise. Singapore, which has surpassed its traditional rival Hong Kong in developing listed property trusts as popular investment vehicles, is looking to change the rules to make it easier for…

  • Which REITs Rule the Range?

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    So far in 2005, real estate investment trusts (REITs) — entities that manage portfolios of real property — have generally seen firming fundamentals in all property types, from office buildings and shopping malls to apartments and hotels. And those favorable conditions appear to have been noticed by investors: This year through May, the total return…