Property

Investment Week Conjecture

Threadneedle Property Investments' managing director Don Jordison believes there is a danger the market could go off course again with so much money targeting UK commercial property.

Global listed property securities provided good returns for investors in 2009 and markets rallied as the global economy responded to government stimulus measures.

Catherine Penman from property consultancy Carter Jonas says agricultural land, as an asset class, is growing in stature in the minds of professional investors

Income from investments in European real estate offers protection against inflation even if property prices do not, according to Thames River Capital.

Standard Life Investments' Property Income Trust plans to grow its dividends by 10% this year after buying £21m of property in 2009.

Metric Property Investments, the retail property group led by three former British Land executives, raised £175m in its IPO, £25m more than initially targeted.

Invesco is continuing to see signs of improvement in its troubled Property Income trust, with the vehicle's loan-to-value ratio falling from 96.1% to 93.5% over the final quarter of 2009.

Aegon has switched the pricing of the £1bn Aegon Scottish Equitable Property fund from a cancellation to a creation basis to reflect recent positive inflows.

Premier's Alex Ross believes targeting areas of the property market that are expected to show rental growth will be key this year.