Property

Recent reports of the dramatic turnaround in the commercial property market have raised the spectre of another bubble.

Commercial property is screaming "buy" to some investors, but those looking for a property fund would be wise to look carefully

Standard Life Investments (SLI) is to launch a closed-ended pan European property recovery vehicle in the coming months.

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Skandia has appointed Cohen & Steers to manage its $300m Reits Global Property Securities fund in place of La Salle Investment Management, which had run the fund since its launch in 2005.

Highly-regarded UK fund managers Mark Lyttleton, Tony Nutt and Martin Gray have taken a stake in new property vehicle LXB Retail Properties.

As with the rest of the financial markets, it has been a torrid time for property over the last couple of years.

Improved conditions allow Standard Life to lift redemptions queue it has had in place since January this year

Quarter three has been good for the sector. It has made strong progress, both in absolute terms and relative to the FTSE 100.

Standard Life has lifted the queuing system for customers wishing to surrender, transfer or switch money out of the company's UK unit-linked life and pension property funds.