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Tommaso Albanese

Managing Director - Global Head and Chief Investment Officer of Infrastructure

Thibault Contat Desfontaines

Portfolio Manager - Executive Director Infrastructure Equity Direct Investments

Olivia Drew

Portfolio Manager (UK/EU Life Sciences)

Zachary Gauge

Head of Real Estate Research and Strategy Europe ex DACH

Mark Gifford

Portfolio Manager

Tommaso Albanese

Managing Director - Global Head and Chief Investment Officer of Infrastructure

Thibault Contat Desfontaines

Portfolio Manager - Executive Director Infrastructure Equity Direct Investments

Olivia Drew

Portfolio Manager (UK/EU Life Sciences)

Zachary Gauge

Head of Real Estate Research and Strategy Europe ex DACH

Mark Gifford

Portfolio Manager

Paul Guest

Senior Portfolio Manager, Real Estate and Private Markets

Neil Harris

Head of Real Estate Private Markets, UBS Wealth Management International

Clare Hayes Guymer

Associate Director, Corporate Communications and Branding - Media Relations Manager

Jonathan Hollick

Head of European Real Estate - CIO ex DACH

Declan O Brien

Head of Infrastructure Research and Strategy

Sean Rymell

Associate Director Research

Jonathan Ufton

Asset Manager for its UK real estate team

Gijsbert Van Riemsdijk

Head of Investment Management EMEA ex DACH

Investment

Asia Pacific Fair Value Index : Loose monetary policies boost appeal of property - Q4 2014

DTZ’s Asia Pacific Fair Value Index™ rose slightly in Q4 2014 to 56, indicating that Asia Pacific property has become more attractive for investors. According (...)

Investment

UK Fair Value Index : Oil price plunge a boost for UK property - Q4 2014

DTZ’s UK Fair Value Index™ increased to 72 in Q4 2014 from 64 in Q3, meaning that UK property has become more attractively priced (...)

Office

Berlin : Record take-up on office market - Q4 2014

At 656,000 sq m, Berlin had the highest take-up of the Top 5 markets in 2014. This result also marks the highest level in (...)

Office

European Office Market Linkages and Spillovers

This study focuses on the return linkages and volatility spillover effects between 16 major office markets in Europe over the period 2003-2013. We find (...)

Logistics

Germany : take-up increases - Q3 2014

In the third quarter of 2014, 1.31 m sq m warehouse space was newly let or passed to owner-occupiers through purchases or start of (...)

Office

Hamburg : A further increase in take-up - Q3 2014

Take-up on the Hamburg office market improved by 14,700 sq m (+11%) to 145,000 sq m compared with the previous quarter. As in the (...)

Office

Melbourne CBD : Office investment underpins surge in volumes - Q3 2014

The national economy decelerated over Q2 2014, with growth of 0.5% compared to 1.1% in Q1. The state economy recorded 1.2% growth in State (...)

Office

North China : Beijing office rental pushed up by CBD - Q3 2014

Beijing – grade A office rental pushed up by CBD, with increase of 1.94% In Q3 2014, Beijing grade A office rents rose 1.94% quarter-on-quarter (...)

Office

East China : Shanghai office rental bucks trend - Q3 2014

Shanghai – Grade A office rental sees a slight rise In Q3 2014, we witnessed the citywide grade A office rental in Shanghai reverse (...)

Office

Hong Kong : Strata-title office sales active in non-core areas - Q3 2014

Office market activities were mostly driven by mid-sized professional services companies and finance companies that were actively looking for office space for in-house expansion (...)

Office

Brisbane CBD : Further softening in vacancy - Q3 2014

The national economy decelerated over Q2 2014, with growth of 0.5% compared to 1.1% in Q1. The Queensland economy recorded 0.4% growth in State (...)

Office

Taipei : Most deals are for owner-occupation - Q3 2014

  This quarter, grade A office rents were stable in most districts. The citywide average rent remained at NT$2,440 (US$82) per ping per month. (...)

Office

Sydney CBD : Three year high in annual net absorption - Q3 2014

The national economy decelerated over Q2 2014, with growth of 0.5% compared to 1.1% in Q1. This followed a strong start to the year (...)

Office

South & West China : Residential transactions remain low - Q3 2014

Shenzhen - New supply in the residential market increases but transaction drops New supply in the primary market rose as developers rushed to launch (...)

Office

Guangzhou & Central China : Move to quality leads office space absorption - Q3 2014

Guangzhou – CBD more attractive with slight drop in office rents The mature business atmosphere and increasing supply in Pearl River New City are (...)

Office

Canberra CBD : Weak demand a brake on rental growth - Q3 2014

The national economy decelerated over Q2 2014, with growth of 0.5% compared to 1.1% in Q1. Strong growth earlier in the year is attributed (...)

Investment

United States : Overseas investors driving price rises - Q2 2014

Nationwide investment transaction volumes reached a pre-crisis record of USD267bn in the trailing 12 months to mid-year 2014. With this report, we initiate our (...)

Office

Tenant Demand in Sydney CBD - Demand recovery resilient to economic downside

There has been a widely held view for some time that following a sustained period of weakness from 2011 to 2013, office tenant demand (...)

Investment

China Fair Value : Property more attractive as required return falls - Q2 2014

The DTZ China Fair Value IndexTM score rose to 53 in Q2 2014, up from 39 in the previous quarter, and meaning that property (...)

Logistics

Germany Industrial : Volume of new-builds up - Q2 2014

In the first half of 2014, 2.4 million sq m of warehouse space was newly let or passed to owner-occupiers through purchases or starts (...)

Office

UK : Sharp increase in headline rents - Q2 2014

Anticipation of a short term supply squeeze and an increase in pre-letting pushed up UK regional office prime headline rents 3% on average in (...)

Office

China : Shenzhen outperforms other markets - H1 2014

In the first of 2014, the China office market remained relatively active with an aggregate net absorption of 945,000 sq m or a year-on-year (...)

Investment

Asia Pacific Fair Value : Property more attractive as required return falls - Q2 2014

The Asia Pacific property market continues to present attractive opportunities for investors. The DTZ Asia Pacific Fair Value Index™ rose to 63 in Q2, (...)

Office

Hamburg : Major deals drive strong first half - Q2 2014

Take-up on the Hamburg office market improved on the previous quarter by 20,300 sq m (+18.5%) to 130,300 sq m. This is the highest (...)

Investment

UK Fair Value : Property attractive while risk near record low - Q2 2014

The UK commercial property market continues to offer attractive opportunities for investors, particularly outside of London. The DTZ UK Fair Value Index™ score for (...)

Office

Frankfurt : Weak first half of 2014 - Q2 2014

Take-up on the Frankfurt office market was disappointing in the second quarter. Compared to the first quarter (87,700 sq m) it declined by around (...)

Investment

Central London : Fringe markets more expensive - Q2 2014

The volume of lettings increased to 3.7m sq ft in Q2, bringing year to date take up in Central London to 6.6m sq ft, (...)

Office

Milan : Q2 results confirm ongoing market activity - Q2 2014

The Italian economy is starting to recover despite having registered a negative GDP growth in 2013 (-1.8% for Italy and -1.2% for Milan). However (...)

Office

Rome : Constant take-up - Q2 2014

The Italian economy is starting to recover despite having registered a negative GDP growth in 2013 (-1.8% for Italy and -1.5% for Rome). However (...)

Investment

Europe Fair Value : Property attractive while risk near record low - Q2 2014

The DTZ European Fair Value Index™ rose marginally in Q2 to 76 from the Q1 published figure of 74, meaning that European property has (...)

Logistics

Momentum to continue, despite record volume - H1 2014

EUR9bn of European logistics investment volume was recorded in the first half of 2014. This reflects a 25% increase versus H1 2013. It sets (...)

Office

South & West China : Residential transaction volume falls - Q2 2014

Shenzhen – Active demand for Grade A office pushed up rent Demand for grade A office in Q2 was more active than in Q1. (...)

Investment

East China : Warehouse absorption accelerates - Q2 2014

In the second quarter of this year, we witnessed the overall availability ratio for industrial properties rise slightly by 0.5 percentage points to reach (...)

Office

North China : New supply leads to rising office take-up - Q2 2014

In Q2 2014, the Beijing high-end residential market was active, though the mass market was weak. High-end residential properties were attractive for their scarcity (...)

Office

Hong Kong : strong interests in en-bloc offices - Q2 2014

Office rents remained relatively flat this quarter with Kowloon East having dropped by 3.2% quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q). Demand in Central/Admiralty is currently being fuelled by (...)

Office

Guangzhou & Central China : retail property adjustment on the upswing - Q2 2014

The overall office leasing market was active in Q2, while a decentralisation trend has gradually become more significant. In comparison, with no new supply, (...)

Investment

Czech Republic : Investment activity continues to rise - Q2 2014

Due to positive signals from the first half of the year, continuing unabated investor interest and several ongoing transactions, DTZ forecast that total annual (...)

Investment

Focus on Ireland, Italy and Spain : peripherals recovering, but at different speeds - Q1 2014

Recovery in Ireland, Spain and Italy is gathering pace at different speeds, with Ireland leading the way. Over the past year fears of a (...)

Investment

Net Debt Funding Gap - Surplus expected to plug remaining gaps

Europe’s refinancing gap for 2014-15 is down 33% year on year to EUR51bn supported by bank write downs, improved capital values and more aggressive (...)

Office

Warsaw : Tenants' market - Q1 2014

Ten buildings totalling 84,300 sq m were added to the Warsaw office market in Q1 2014, which took the modern office stock to 4,200,000 (...)

Office

Steady take-up in Hamburg - Q1 2014

Take-up in Hamburg, at 110,000 sq m, was in line with the first quarter of 2013. This result is mainly attributable to five deals, each (...)

Office

Rome : Timid start of the year - Q1 2014

The Italian economy is starting to recover despite having registered a negative GDP growth in 2013 (-1.9% for Italy and -1.7% for Rome). However (...)

Office

China Office Pipeline and Dynamics - Coming wave of supply … not as bad as it looks

The Chinese office market is entering into a period of unprecedented supply over the next three years. There is a 25.6 million sq m (...)

Investment

Asia Pacific Fair Value : Less attractively priced than Europe until 2018 - Q1 2014

The Asia Pacific property markets continue to offer attractive opportunities to investors. The DTZ Fair Value Index™ for Asia Pacific was unchanged in Q1 (...)

Investment

Europe Fair Value : Improving economy makes peripherals attractive - Q1 2014

The European property market continues to present attractive opportunities to investors for the time being. The DTZ Fair Value IndexTM for Europe rose slightly (...)

Office

Berlin : Strong start to the new year - Q1 2014

With a take-up of just under 164,000 sq m the Berlin office market experienced its best start to the year for the past ten (...)

Office

Frankfurt : Solid start on the office market - Q1 2014

The Frankfurt office market started 2014 with a marked boost in take-up compared to the first quarter of 2013. In total, take-up rose in (...)

Office

Milan : Promising start to the year - Q1 2014

The Italian economy is starting to recover despite having registered a negative GDP growth in 2013 (-1.9% for Italy and -1.4% for Milan). However (...)

Office

Central London : Take up to rise as year progresses - Q1 2014

There is now an imminent prospect of a step up in intensity in leasing activity. The growing divide between leasing volume and the amount (...)

Investment

Czech Republic : Yield compression indicates high investor demand - Q1 2014

After a strong start of the year (€268m) with recorded quarterly and annual increases, the total annual investment volumes are forecast to range between (...)

Investment

UK : Balance has tipped toward secondary - March 2014

Quarterly data show that secondary performance improved relative to prime over 2013. The record differential between prime and secondary yields, weight of money and improved (...)

Investment

Europe Fair Value: window of opportunity closing - Q4 2013

 The DTZ European Fair valueTM remained relatively stable in Q4 at 72, down slightly from 74 in Q3. This is the third quarter in (...)

Investment

China Fair Value : Slowdown yet to dampen China attractiveness - Q2 2013

In Q2 2013, China’s GDP growth forecast for the year was downgraded to just over 7%, representing the lowest level of GDP growth in (...)

Investment

UK update : improved investor sentiment - June 2013

The 12-month rolling IPD All Property total return increased every month over February to May 2013. This was due to a fall in negative (...)

Finance

"In the current environment, real estate has attractive attributes for investors"

BiTV Interviews welcomes Fergus Hicks, Real Estate Market Strategist at UBS Asset Management. In the opening of UBS Asset Management’s mid-year Panorama outlook report, titled  “Inflation (...)