Investment

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  Cushman head of resi investment joins Stonegate Homes

  2020-05-27T16:13:00+01:00By Jessica Newman

  Cushman & Wakefield’s head of residential investment and PRS, Jack Simmons, has left the firm to join Stonegate Homes.

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  The growing appeal of alternative assets

  2020-04-02T00:00:00+01:00By Nick Hughes

  Investors have been increasingly drawn to sectors such as care homes and student accommodation.

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  Data reveals brightest London boroughs for BTR investment

  2020-03-27T00:00:00+00:00By Graham Lanktree

  Developers and investors looking to place a long-term bet on build-to-rent (BTR) in London should target Barking, Newham, Ealing, Greenwich and Hackney, according to exclusive research from BTR data provider Houzen.

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  Outlook for residential sector is bound to improve

  2020-02-13T16:36:00+00:00By Daniel Austin

  Editor: Your article last week, ‘Institutional investors looking to invest more in the resi sector’, revealed a not unsurprising trend. With Brexit certainty and the ‘Boris bounce’ effect taking hold, the outlook for property – particularly residential – is bound to improve.

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  JLL Spark makes multi-million pound investment in UK proptech LandTech

  2020-01-22T11:42:00+00:00By Graham Lanktree

  JLL is making its biggest investment in a proptech firm to date with a multi-million-pound investment in the UK’s LandTech, Property Week can reveal.

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  What are the pitfalls for investors as student accommodation booms?

  2020-01-21T17:04:00+00:00By Louisa Cobbe & Chris Ormond

  Student accommodation, once an ‘alternative’ or ‘specialist’ asset class, is evolving into a mainstream investment, attracting a variety of global institutional investors. More data and the sheer volume of deals paint a similar picture of real estate investors’ growing desire to gain exposure to student accommodation strategies and capabilities.

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  Housing requires diverse investment

  2020-01-08T13:55:00+00:00By Roxana Mohammadian-Molina

  Editor: In his recent article, Greg Hill highlighted the risk that a rise in the Public Loans Work Board rate poses to regeneration and housing schemes supported by local authorities.

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  Small investors stung by Inspired collapse

  2019-11-14T00:00:00+00:00By Emanuele Midolo

  Inspired Asset Management owed about £12m to unsecured creditors, including small investors that bought the company’s bonds, when it collapsed in September, an administrators report has revealed.

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  Overseas investors increase focus on PRS as pound falls

  2019-11-11T08:52:00+00:00By David Parsley

  The proportion of homes in the private rental sector being let by overseas landlords has increased year-on-year as falls in the value of sterling attract international property investors, according to Hamptons International.

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