Around GBP2.6 billion was invested into UK commercial property in May, a slight decrease on the previous month, but more than twice the corresponding 2020 figure of GBP1.2 billion, according to Colliers.
Research from The Instant Group finds that suburban office markets are outperforming city centres for the first time in over ten years.
London multi-let industrial property had a total return of 20.5 per cent in the 12 months to end-April 2021, with UK-wide distribution warehouses returning over 18 per cent, according to Gerald Eve’s latest In Brief bulletin.
OakNorth Bank has provided a GBP50 million loan to Brigid Investments, a special purpose vehicle formed by John Laing, and Macquarie Capital.
More rough sleepers and people at risk of homelessness will be supported into accommodation through a new social investment pilot that will create over 200 move-on homes, Rough Sleeping and Housing Minister Eddie Hughes MP have announced.
Investor and asset manager N A S Invest Group (N A S) is expanding its business into the Nordic region. In partnership with a multi-family office serving prominent Danish business owners, the Frankfurt-based company has established a new joint venture based in Copenhagen with the medium-term objective of building a diversified real estate portfolio in the northern European countries.
As part of its latest Global Living research, Savills has identified the cities and regions in Europe that in five years’ time will be particularly ‘youthful’, having the largest share of people aged 20-39, and those that will be the most ‘aged’, with the highest number of people aged 65 or older.
By Alex Brunner, COO, Clockwise – Over the last year there has been no shortage of predictions about the post-pandemic future of work filling airwaves and thought pieces in the UK. The office was proclaimed dead: our work-from-home reality would become a permanent party of sourdough, home-schooling, and a work-life balance tipped firmly towards the latter. A winter locked inside soon changed the forecast.
Firma, a Yorkshire-based renewable energy company, is delivering a portfolio of solar PV projects in the UK with its partner European Energy.
Habitat for Humanity Great Britain, a charity focused on long-term poverty alleviation through affordable, social housing, has partnered with leading savings and investment company, M&G plc (M&G), to unveil exciting new research outlining how homelessness can be addressed by repurposing vacant commercial property around the UK.
Pan-European logistics real estate investor Tritax EuroBox’s recent maiden EUR500 million green bond issuance slashed its cost of debt and was over six-times oversubscribed, securing the lowest coupon ever for a BBB-debut real estate issuer in euros.
Aukera Real Estate AG (Aukera) has issued a loan of EUR92 million in Luxembourg on behalf of the real estate debt fund it advises.
