IPD appoints Alasdair Evans as new Finance Director (UK) Evans – who has been a non-executive director of IPD since March 2009 – joins IPD on October 4 2010 from Hermes Real Estate, where he was Chief Operating Officer. He replaces Kelly Smith who is leaving IPD at the end of October after five years’ service. More »

IPD: UK residential on track to deliver 9.6% return in 2010 (UK) Source: IPD UK Residential Annual Index, IPD UK Annual Index, IPD UK Residential Biannual Investment Indicator and the IPD UK Quarterly Property Index. More »

IPD: US real estate emerges from two and a half year slump (US) Source: IPD US Quarterly Property Index Underlying US commercial... More »

Property market completes 12 months of positive growth, says IPD (UK) Over the month, the market returned just 0. More »

IPD: One quarter of Irish property income is over-rented, delegates told (IE) Speaking at the IPD/SCS Quarterly Briefing, IPD research analyst James Scott, said: “Significant falls in net income growth have not followed on from the deep rental re-pricing, as would be typical. More »

IPD: Yields and rents heading for the doldrums, delegates told (UK) Source: IPD UK Quarterly Property Index At the breakfast briefing... More »

No respite for Irish markets as rentals fall steeper, says IPD (IE) Source: SCS/ IPD Ireland Quarterly Property Index. The precipitant... More »

IPD: Property rebound tops 15% three years on from peak (UK) Three-year property cycle The latest IPD monthly numbers pass the third anniversary of the UK market’s peak in June 2007. More »

IPD: Global capital flows of $200 billion will be invested over next five years Speaking at IPD’s Multinational Investment Seminar on Wednesday in central London, Invesco Real Estate’s director of European research Simon Mallinson said: “We have estimated a conservative figure of $200 bln. More »

Peter Hobbs joins IPD as Senior Director, Business Development (UK) Peter will become the number two in the organization, helping Laurent Ternisien, the Managing Director, with the commercial strategy of IPD. More »

IPD: Forestry delivers top property returns over 2009 (UK) On a three-year annualized basis to the end of 2009 the total return was 16.1%. Over this period, forestry outperformed UK equities, fixed income and commercial property, which delivered returns of -1. More »

IPD: Farms outperform commercial market for third year (UK) The index, which is IPD’s first established valuation-based index and has a 29-year history, measures the ungeared performance of a tenanted... More »

IPD: Misapplied leverage can amplify losses (JP) The analysis reveals that over the 12 months to June 2009, a direct property level return of -7.3% was eroded to a leveraged return of -13. More »

IPD: Commercial property recovery continues to soften (UK) “The last time yields compressed at this annual rate was in the mid-1990s, the following month yields started to move out again. More »

Uncertainty reigns in European property investment markets (EUR) But the mood among the 200-plus delegates, from the Netherlands, Germany, France, UK, Southern Europe, South Africa and the US, at Amsterdam’s... More »

IPD European Property Investment Awards 2010: The Winners (EU) Market context The last three years have been among the most turbulent in living memory for European commercial property markets. More »

IPD: Global real estate returns deteriorate over 2009 Webinar chairman Ian Cullen was joined by the following panelists: AXA’s Head of European Research and Strategy Alan Patterson; Fidelity’s... More »

Monthly capital growth sinks to 10-month low, says IPD (UK) April marks two years of consecutively monthly negative rental value growth, which measures underlying movements in estimated rental levels. More »

Pan-European Index shows modest capital depreciation, says IPD (EU) The headline euro return reflected a -2.0% capital depreciation offset by a solid 5.9% income return. But the positive return masked deterioration,... More »

IPD: Pan-European Index shows modest capital depreciation (EUR) The headline euro return reflected a -2.0% capital depreciation offset by a solid 5.9% income return. But the positive return masked deterioration,... More »