Tag: reits
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Oh Sheet, It’s A REIT (The Coming Crisis)
On Wednesday, in the World Out Of Whack they took a gander at global real estate and today they’ve got a follow up to that dealing with REITs. Written by Chris at Capitalist Exploits: My long term buddy, fellow hedgie and confidant Kuppy, who can be found lurking here, shares his thoughts on the US real estate sector…
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Real Estate as an Offshore Investment Opportunity
Over the last few years, with the economic markets as shaky as they have been, many investors have turned to a very solid, tangible investment strategy – real estate. In fact, the ROI on real estate investment has been a better value than other traditional assets like stocks or bonds. There are several ways you…
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Room for Developers in the World of Reits
By Jim Pickard The arrival of real estate investment trusts (Reit) in the UK has prompted the biggest shake-up in the commercial property market for years. But Michael Marx, co-managing director of Development Securities, is non-plussed. “It hasn’t changed anything for us,” he comments. “What has changed? Nothing has changed.” As you may have already…
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UK ISA and REIT’s for Individual Investors
Individual Investors are looking at Real Estate companies in the UK that are registered for REIT’s combined with using you person ISA allowance in the UK make the option worth a second look. REITs do not have to pay corporation tax or capital gains tax. Individual Investors in REITs will still have to pay tax…
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India Real Estate Funds
European private equity and venture capital company 3i said on Wednesday it is investing $40 million in an Indian real estate fund, the latest foreign firm to tap into a fast-growing sector. The offshore fund of IndiaREIT, founded by Indian industrialist Ajay Piramal, has a proposed corpus of $160 million. Piramal also has domestic venture…
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CISX Reveals Increased Interest In REIT Listings
It emerged this week that the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX) has experienced significant interest from tax advisers and fund management companies in using the CISX for the listing of UK REITs when they are introduced next year. The flow of enquiries about the potential for listing REITs was one of a number of recent…
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New Law to Introduce REITs to Dubai
Legislative moves to introduce a Real Estate Investment Trusts (Introduce REITs to Dubai) under the jurisdiction of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) are reportedly underway by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the independent regulator of the DIFC. “The proposed Investment Trust Law introduces a new investment vehicle for use by Funds to facilitate…
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How to invest in offshore property
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…
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Institutions keen on Hong Kong Link REIT IPO
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…