Savills has become the latest approved valuer to join IPSX, the International Property Securities Exchange, which operates a regulated securities exchange dedicated to commercial property. 

Investment into UK commercial real estate reached GBP1.1 billion in August, bringing the year-to-date total to GBP23 billion according to new research from Colliers International. 

The hotels sector has been hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis with sales of hotels down by 50 per cent in the first five months of 2020 in comparison with 2019, according to Real Capital Analytics (RCA) latest data.

Fidessa's trading solution will provide powerful order management, fully integrated market data and sophisticated pre and post-trade tools by providing direct trading access to IPSX’s trading platform that is provided and managed by Nasdaq.

The Share Centre has been approved to join IPSX UK's Recognised Investment Exchange (RIE) as a broker in IPSX Prime securities. 

Capital Square, a national investment sponsor specialising in tax-advantaged real estate offerings, has selected Altigo, a technology platform developed by WealthForge, to bring straight through processing automation to the firm’s alternative investments. 

QuantHouse, an independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, has launched real-time pricing feeds from The International Property Securities Exchange (IPSX) for all QuantHouse members looking to trade real estate as an asset class.

BTIG’s Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities division has added a Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities desk led by Weston Friedman.

Swarm, the blockchain for private equity, has released its Market Access Protocol (MAP) for tokenised security trading.  

Aquis Technologies, the financial and regulatory technologies services arm of Aquis Exchange, has been appointed to supply trading technology to Estates and Infrastructure Exchange (EIE).