Property

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.

Commercial property sector is now offering good yields as well as good valuations, says SLI's Andrew Milligan

Following strong recovery in the second half of 2009, commercial property delivered a total return of +2.18% for the year (IPD Monthly Index December 2009), driven principally by capital growth of around 8% during Q4 2009 - a figure that would have been...

Barings is to launch a Dublin-domiciled Ucits III Middle East and North Africa (Mena) fund.

Managers are growing increasingly cautious on short-term commercial property markets, with Ignis the latest to warn investors of a potential drop in capital values.

Ignis has warned investors in its £510m UK Property fund to expect a short-term drop in capital values but believes returns will remain positive.

Jupiter's Philip Gibbs has opened up a net short position on "overvalued" UK commercial property stocks as the manager develops a number of early themes into his new Absolute Return fund.