All Investment articles – Page 6
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NewsData reveals brightest London boroughs for BTR investment
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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UK investors ramp up overseas spending
UK investors increased investment in Europe by a fifth between 2015 and 2019 and slashed investment at home.
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West End set to remain a long-term choice for investors
The 2016 EU referendum had a huge impact on investment coming into the UK.
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We can futureproof the natural and built environment
The quest for net zero carbon and the ever-increasing urgency to halt climate change have garnered significant attention in recent months.
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Why investors are flocking to Milan
Italy’s second city in terms of population is undergoing something of a renaissance, as Emanuela Barbiroglio reports.
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Gramercy and WP Carey executives launch investment firm with €1bn capital commitment
Two former executives of WP Carey and Blackstone-owned Gramercy Property Trust have launched a new London-based real estate investment firm called Blackbrook Capital, backed by €1bn of capital commitments from Connecticut-based Eldridge Industries.
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Commercial real estate investment plummets in January after bumper December
Total UK commercial real estate investment in January plunged to £1.4bn, down from the £10.2bn invested in December – the third-best month on record – and from the £3.3bn invested in January 2019.
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Countrywide and LSL in £470m merger talks
Countrywide and LSL Property Service are in talks over a possible £470m merger that would bring together the UK’s two largest estate agent groups.
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Freshwater bidco set to delist Daejan as it acquires remaining shares
A bid vehicle led by Freshwater Group has agreed to buy the 20.5% of Daejan Holdings it does not already control for £269.5m.
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Barings sells St James’s scheme for £71m
Barings has sold a prime St James’s asset to Frankfurt-based Cara Real Estate for £71m.
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UK proptech investment nosedives as global volumes leap
Investment in the UK proptech sector slumped almost two thirds from nearly £1bn in 2018 to £375m last year, according to proptech data firm CREtech.
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Outlook for residential sector is bound to improve
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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Investment in UK hotels increases by more than a quarter
Investment in the UK hotel sector in 2019 reached £6bn, an increase of 26%, according to the report ‘UK Hotel Capital Markets: Investment Review 2020’, published by Knight Frank.
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Investment down 21% in 2019 despite uptick in fourth quarter
A significant increase in commercial real estate investment following the general election in December helped to boost investment in an otherwise slow year, according to data from JLL.
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Intu sells Spanish shopping centre for €290m
Shopping centre giant Intu and its joint venture partner the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have sold its Asturias mall in Spain, to the ECE European Prime Shopping Centre Fund II for €290m (£245m).
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Over £10bn of commercial property transactions took place in December 2019
December 2019 was the third best month on record for UK commercial property investment, according to new research by Colliers International.
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Performance of unlisted retail funds took a nosedive in 2019
British Land’s Hercules Unit Trust is worst performer in MSCI/AREF index with a return of -34.3% last year.
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Convenience still counts for investors in retail
Editor: January brings its usual gloomy round of retail health warnings, with even food retailers reporting downward sales and the market bellwether of John Lewis deciding whether or not to pay its partners their annual bonus, but there are pockets of retail resilience .
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JLL Spark makes multi-million pound investment in UK proptech LandTech
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?
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.
