Although the mood among providers of logistics investments has clouded slightly due to the coronavirus crisis, almost three quarters of those surveyed in a new study by Scope expect rents for logistics properties to rise over the next three years.
Smart Buildings specialists, OKTO Technologies, has launched a new ‘Wellness Division’ - OKTOair, a solution set to bring a ‘breath of fresh air’ to the UK thanks to its Artificial Intelligence-led air filtration solution, which has been fast-tracked due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
New data from BNP Paribas Real Estate shows that global capital is actively seeking investment opportunities in London.
Due to increasing investor demand Nedgroup Investments, which runs an independent multi-boutique asset manager business model, has increased its product offering by launching two new share classes – GBP (Accumulation and Distribution) – for its Global Property fund.
The UK care home sector has seen a minimal increase in in the number of beds but this is failing to keep up with demand, with the number of care home beds per 100 people over the age of 85 falling by 5 per cent since 2010, according to the latest research by leading global property adviser Knight Frank.
Cohen & Steers has welcomed the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) announcement on proposals to reduce the potential for harm to investors from the liquidity mismatch in open-ended property funds.
Global property technology company, Equiem, has published the results of its most comprehensive global office occupier survey to date, providing landlords and tenants alike with insights into occupier sentiment amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Real estate fund managers and investors are squaring up to tackle twin threats of climate change and an affordability crisis in housing, which they say could create sea change in the real estate investment world, according to a new whitepaper by SEI.
Foresight Capital Management (FCM), part of Foresight Group, has launched the FP Foresight Sustainable Real Estate Securities Fund.
IPSX Group (The International Property Securities Exchange), which operates a regulated securities exchange dedicated to commercial property, has signed an agreement with Iress to make IPSX market data available through both its trading software and extensive range of data feeds by the end of July 2020.
Throughout the global Covid-19 pandemic, real estate news has been dominated by what it will mean for the future of offices, with media outlets speculating that occupiers will be ridding themselves of now ‘redundant’ prime real estate, keeping their workforce at home and saving money in the process.
AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets (AXA IM - Real Assets) has held the final close of its second comingled European infrastructure debt fund, European Infrastructure Senior (Floating) 2 (EIS 2), which has raised a total of cEUR1.05 billion, exceeding its original target.
