All eyes on overseas expansion

property

The success of UK property portfolios has encouraged investors to look at opportunities abroad. Paul Burgin considers the options

There is a range of responses to growing demand for global property opportunities from private and institutional investors, as demonstrated by a clutch of new funds. Flushed with success from their UK portfolios, investors are looking further afield for greater specialist exposure to bricks and mortar. The property fund scene was fairly turgid in the UK a few years ago, despite good performance. Liquidity restrictions pushed most funds offshore, while the conservative remits of life and pension companies meant few funds bothered to look abroad for opportunities. The huge growth in fund inf...