Real Estate & Funds News in United Kingdom from Propertyshowrooms.com

Hedge funds offers to price in gold

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A hedge fund has begun offering investors the chance to have their investment denominated in gold, as worries grow over governments debasing their currencies by printing money...

Property fund investors should hold tight

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Judging from past experience, when frozen investors were still be able to generate decent returns, early redemptions would be unwise...

Real Estate Fund Investors Pulling Out

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I came across an interesting article recently on the Financial Times website. It is interesting for a a number of reasons which I will discuss...

Asset company in £40bn fund deal

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Investment company Aberdeen Asset Management is to take on £40bn of Credit Suisse's fund management business...

Bidders eye Lehman UK mortgage book

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A clutch of vulture funds and private-equity bidders are circling a £900m portfolio of British sub-prime mortgages being auctioned by the administrators of Lehman Brothers...

Asian property funds sitting on $10bn unspent capital

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Hoarders guard cash as they wait for a sharper downturn in the region's real estate market...

Fund star returns as SilverStreet partner

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Alan Miller, one of the City's highest profile fund managers during his days at Jupiter and New Star, has returned to the investment world after a two-year absence...

Cap & Reg ponders new fund

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The £882m X-Leisure fund, the leisure property investor one-fifth-owned by Capital & Regional, is considering setting up a separate opportunistic fund...

ING Select’s Global Osiris fund secures £150m seed investor

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

ING Real Estate Select has launched its Global Osiris Property Fund – one of its first fund of funds to come to the market – and secured the London Pensions Fund Authority as a seed investor with...

First to launch Shariáh fund

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The First Group, the British property development company, is to launch a Shariáh compliant property fund to invest in Middle Eastern developments. The Emirates...

IMF says Britain will dodge recession

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The International Monetary Fund has signalled that Britain is likely to avoid recession, upgrading its economic forecast for both this year and next...

UK. Launch of new water recreation challenge fund for Wales

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing Jane Davidson, AM and Chris Mills, Director, Environment Agency Wales, will launch ‘Splash’, the new water recreation challenge fund for Wales. The Welsh Assembly Government has provided £410,000 to improve and develop facilitates ...

LXB and HBOS form £150m distressed land fund

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Regenco vehicle to consider retail on sites owned by ailing housebuilders...

Savills predicts more gloom

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The chief executive of Savills forecast house prices in London to fall 25% by the end of next year, while the effect of the credit squeeze on property was now spreading across Europe and into Asia...

Brits taking advantage of low property prices in the US

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Evidence is emerging that British property investors are increasingly taking advantage of bargain prices in the US...