Blog entries posted during March 2011


2 March 2011

Continued yield compression but widening yield gap – the “flight to quality” continues?

Since the transaction market changed for the better in terms of transaction volume in the end of 2009 we have had the pleasure to discuss investment cases with more optimistic investors and gradually more cooperative banks. As expected we have...

7 March 2011

The Luxury Residential Property Market in Lithuania – A Sleeping Beauty about to wake up

The luxury property market usually starts with around EUR 2300-2500/m2 of residential property, and thus is only available to the most affluent part of the Lithuanian population. The properties considered as luxury are also highly sensitive to the...

8 March 2011

MIPIM can be whatever you make it to be!

Soon I have been at the French Riviera for 24 hours; it feels like luxury to get the first taste of spring. I´m not here on my own; over 17 000 persons from 81 countries are participating in MIPIM, the world´s premier real estate event for...

10 March 2011

Speed dating at MIPIM

My second day at MIPIM has now gone by and it has been an eventful day from early morning until late evening. It is my first visit to this major real estate event and as a rookie everything seems new and challenging but at the same time fun and...

11 March 2011

Strengthened self-confidence increases the risk appetite!

A clear trend can now be seen in the Nordic property markets. As the Nordic investors’ self-confidence is strengthened, the focus starts shifting away from safe, virtually risk-free low-yielding residential properties. Office and retail properties...

28 March 2011

Green certificates - what will be the effect?

Green certificates have been talked about both in the media and in hallway conversations. Interest in this relatively new subject has reached the Finnish real estate business. On the whole this means that the players are looking at the movement and...