Property

Positive net retail sales over seven consecutive months show investors are shifting back towards sector

Swip's Gerry Ferguson has started to use cash reserves, purchasing a £260m property portfolio from Aviva Investors.

The Dubai World crisis could be the first in a series of credit crunch 'aftershocks' that change how investors view quasi-government bodies, warns Paul Brain.

Conviction is growing that a recovery is underway and equities have pushed further into new territory for the year.

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.

Investment Week Conjecture

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.