Less than a year after South Africa’s largest REIT Growthpoint took a stake in Romania-focused, AIM-listed Globalworth, the latter has already started expansion, buying control of Polish (...)
Growthpoint, the largest primary listed REIT in South Africa, has its eye on other eastern Europe markets after taking a stake in Romania’s Globalworth, says (...)
Index provider FTSE Russell is to follow S&P and MSCI in giving real estate its own industry classification, moving it out of Financials after it found correlation divergence. The move (...)
Bringing REITs under the European Union’s AIFMD directive would be counterproductive in Portugal, which has announced their introduction, says a senior executive of Spain’s (...)
When you look at the bid/offer spread logic of the South Africans entering eastern Europe, laid out so clearly by the Growthpoint MD on (...)
It looks as if Portugal will become the next member of the European REITs club as political confusion reigns in Poland, and Sweden shows (...)
I know you won’t believe I’m old enough, but indeed I visited the Warsaw Stock Exchange at its very beginnings post-Communism, in January 1990, (...)
European public real estate markets are in good shape as our website goes live. German housing stocks are near highs, as are most of (...)
Portugal intends to introduce legislation establishing REITs next year, aiming in particular to attract private capital into housing. Foreign investors will also be welcomed. Antonio (...)