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Rare opportunities in US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Australian super funds could be missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity to add attractively priced, high yielding US property to their portfolios. So says Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, which has approximately US$4.5 billion in US property ...

No housing bubble: Fidelity

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Fidelity banks and property analyst Anita Costa told advisers in Sydney yesterday that while she is concerned over housing affordability levels in Australia, there is no property market bubble. Speaking at the 2010 Fidelity Investment Forum, Costa argued ...

Cards for houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... up and walk away if prices fall. They lose nothing - it's the government's money anyway. Not to mention they get to live rent-free while foreclosure proceedings are afoot. Ahhh, the American dream! But as we've seen yesterday, the psychology changes ...

Timing the market still a tough game: survey

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... they don't miss out on opportunities," said David Land, chief market analyst of CMC Markets Australia. The mining resource rent tax appeared to have dampened investor sentiment towards the resources sector, with the number of traders who viewed the sector ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... $72.37. Iron ore specialist Fortescue, whose chief executive Andrew Forrest was critical of the proposed minerals resource rent tax championed by the ALP, rose six cents at $4.70.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... a key reason for the turnaround in trading had been miner Rio Tinto saying it was comfortable with the proposed resource rent tax. "One of the main reasons for the miners being stronger was Rio Tinto coming out and saying they are comfortable with the ...

Valad wins $700m property mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Valad Property Group has won a $700 million mandate from Kefren Properties IX AB to manage the firm's real estate portfolio in Sweden. According to a press statement, the Kefren portfolio consists of 150 properties spanning more than 827,000sqm of lettable ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... Australian share market in quiet intra-day trading, with the strong bid for Centennial Coal Ltd signalling the minerals resource rent tax will attract foreign capital into Australia. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had slipped 0.6 points ...

SG survives mining tax deal

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... Rio Tinto and overseas listed miner Xstrata. Broadly speaking, the RSPT is dead, to be replaced by the Minerals Resource Rent Tax that sees the headline tax rate cut by a quarter to 30 per cent, a huge rise in the uplift rate to bond rate plus 7 percentage ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... which will hit a lesser number of companies. The new tax will apply to iron ore and coal projects, and the petroleum resource rent tax will be extended to all onshore and offshore oil and gas projects, including coal seam gas. Major resources stocks ...