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NEWSLETTER | 27 Feb 2020  
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From pandemics to presidents: The top concerns for US commercial real estate professionals…

Despite the Democrats having yet to pick a challenger to take on Donald Trump later this year, as we report in this week's newsletter, the outcome of the pending US Presidential election is one of the top concerns for US commercial real estate professionals, according to a new survey by Seyfarth Real Estate.

Other research out this week from Warburg-HIH Invest suggests that an ageing population means that the outlook is bright for German real estate over the coming decade.

Staying with the German property market, we also report on near record growth in closed end real estate funds in 2019, while on the UK front we have news of how London's famous shopping hub, Oxford Street, is also becoming a desirable residential address.

On a rather less positive note, a new survey by Engen Group reveals that almost two-thirds of UK real estate professionals believe the UK housing shortage will worsen over the next five years…

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Seyfarth Real Estate Market Sentiment Survey reveals top concerns for 2020
Thu | 27 Feb 2020, 12:09
While opportunity zones and the cannabis space offer new avenues for commercial real estate (CRE) investment in 2020, executives cite the elusive end of the current growth cycle, a potential recession, and the results of the pending Presidential election as their top concerns this year, according to Seyfarth’s 5th annual Real Estate Market Sentiment Survey.
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Demographic change will define the 2020s and ensure strong demand for German real estate
Thu | 27 Feb 2020, 12:09
Demographic change will increase the demand for secure, stable-valued real estate investment assets and structural parameters will ensure that rates of return on the capital markets stay low, according to a new market intelligence update from Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate (Warburg-HIH Invest) that provides a compact snapshot of national and international investment and occupier markets. 
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Market for German closed-end real estate funds grows by around EUR3.4bn in 2019
Thu | 27 Feb 2020, 12:09
After a few weaker years, the market for German closed-ended property funds is growing, almost at a rapid pace in the last year, with an analysis of Bundesbank statistics revealing that it rose by around 13 per cent in 2019. 
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London's Oxford Street to see 400 new homes
Thu | 27 Feb 2020, 12:09
Oxford Street is being transformed into a residential address says Aston Chase with London's famous retail thoroughfare currently undergoing a GBP1.06 billion building boom which is delivering 437 new homes and 84,939 sq ft of new format retail outlets on or adjacent to Oxford Street.
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UK real estate professionals expect housing shortage to worsen, says new research
Thu | 27 Feb 2020, 12:09
New research by Engen Group, a UK property business which focusses on addressing environmental challenges such as affordable and sustainable housing, reveals that 64 per cent of real estate professionals in the UK expect the housing shortage to worsen over the next five years and only 14 per cent expect it to improve.
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Pictet raises EUR700m for first real estate fund
Thu | 27 Feb 2020, 12:09
Pictet Alternative Advisors SA (PAA), the Pictet Group’s wholly-owned alternative investment firm, has closed its first direct real estate fund, Elevation I, at its hard cap of EUR700 million.
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St Modwen secures a rail-connected future for Meon Vale Business Park
Thu | 27 Feb 2020, 12:09
St Modwen has secured the signature of rolling stock asset management company Porterbrook to take over the future-direction and development of its extensive, rail-connected Long Marston facility adjacent to Meon Vale Business Park. 
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Hammerson disposes of retail parks portfolio
Thu | 27 Feb 2020, 12:09
Hammerson has exchanged unconditional contracts on the sale of a portfolio of seven retail parks to Orion European Real Estate Fund V (Orion) for a headline price of GBP400 million with expected net proceeds of GBP395 million.
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Patron completes GBP129.25 million sale of Arlington Business Park
Thu | 27 Feb 2020, 12:09
Patron Capital, a pan-European institutional investor focused on property-backed investments, has completed the sale of its holding in Arlington Business Park, Theale to CapitaLand for GBP129.25 million.
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