Category: Real Estate
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Risks & Benefits of Investing in Emerging Markets
(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…
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Global REITs offering better returns
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,…
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Beijing Tianhong Turns To Foreign Investors
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…
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Property trusts a winner
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…
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Rules spur REITs offshore
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…
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Which REITs Rule the Range?
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…
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UK property industry calls for urgency on trusts
UK property industry By Jim Pickard – The ownership of billions of pounds of property will move offshore unless the government urgently introduces Reits (real estate investment trusts), the property industry warned yesterday. The Treasury is keen to introduce a new tax-efficient vehicle for property investors but is adamant that such a system should not lead…
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Before rushing into Reits …
Investors shouldn’t let enticing payouts blind them to property trusts’ risks Reits or Real Estate Investment Trusts are now the flavour in Singapore and the region. Governments are offering tax incentives for Reits and there is talk of several billion-dollar Reits being floated in Singapore and other regional markets, including Hong Kong. Reits invest in…
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Self-storage REITs ride economic boom
NEW YORK – You can’t always take it with you, and when you can’t you put it in storage. At least that’s what investors are betting as they put cash into self-storage real estate investment trusts. “So far this year, they’ve significantly outperformed,” said Tom Bohjalian, vice president of New York based Cohen & Steers…