FT Alphaville » investa property http://ftalphaville.ft.com FT Alphaville - Market Commentary - FT.com Fri, 24 May 2013 07:51:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 A year of local governments living dangerously http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2011/04/26/553701/a-year-of-local-governments-living-dangerously/ http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2011/04/26/553701/a-year-of-local-governments-living-dangerously/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:43:56 +0000 John McDermott http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/?p=553701 It’s not just the US sovereign that’s recently taken a credit beating.

A Moody’s report on US public finance rating revisions out Tuesday shows how the fiscal ripple effect continues to deteriorate credit conditions in US municipalities. This may not be big news to muni watchers, but there have been other reports out recently that are worth tying together.

Continue reading: A year of local governments living dangerously]]> http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2011/04/26/553701/a-year-of-local-governments-living-dangerously/feed/ 0 Morgan Stanley in $12.5bn property spree http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2007/05/31/4867/morgan-stanley-in-125bn-property-spree/ http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2007/05/31/4867/morgan-stanley-in-125bn-property-spree/#comments Thu, 31 May 2007 04:49:55 +0000 Gwen Robinson http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/05/31/4867/morgan-stanley-in-125bn-property-spree/ Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy Investa Property Group, Australia’s largest publicly traded office building manager, for A$4.7bn ($3.9bn), in the biggest overseas acquisition of an Australian real estate investment trust, reports Bloomberg. Morgan Stanley has now announced $12.5bn of real estate acquisitions in the past two weeks, including debt. Also on Wednesday, reports the FT, Morgan Stanley’s real estate unit acquired a 3 per cent stake, worth about $1.4bn, in Mitsubishi Estate, Japan’s second-largest real estate group and an owner of prime assets in Tokyo’s Marunouchi business district.

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