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NewsProperty investment hit six-year high in Q4 2021
Property investment in the UK hit its highest level in more than six years in Q4 2021, Property Week can reveal.
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M&G buys Amazon shed from Fiera for £120m
M&G has bought a warehouse in Peterborough let to Amazon from Fiera Real Estate UK for £120m, reflecting a net initial yield of 3.2%.
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First phase of £300m Blackpool Central scheme gets funding
The first phase of Nikal and Media Invest Entertainment’s £300m Blackpool Central regeneration project has received funding.
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Goldman Sachs buys 75% stake in EDGE’s £500m London Bridge office
Goldman Sachs Investment Management has bought a 75% stake in an office scheme near London Bridge being developed to BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ standard by Dutch developer EDGE.
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Scottish hotel investment activity beats pre-Covid level
Scottish hotel investment volumes hit £185m last year, according to research from Savills. This represents a 166% increase on the £70m transacted in 2020 and is 12% up on the £165m recorded in 2019.
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Ekistics buys mixed-use central London scheme for £118m
Real estate investment advisor Ekistics Property Advisors has acquired the long leasehold of 19-20 St James’s Street, in central London, from WELPUT for £118m.
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Google buys London HQ in £762.5m vote of confidence for offices
Google has bought its London HQ for £762.5m in the largest West End office deal on record.
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Hotel investment volumes surge 84% in 2021
Total 2021 UK hotel investment volumes hit £4.14bn, an 84.3% jump on 2020 volumes and just shy of the 15-year average of £4.22bn.
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Investment expected to top 2021 this year
Some 55% of respondents to Property Week poll expect £60bn-plus deal volumes.
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Octopus Real Estate agrees £450m funding partnership with Bayview
Octopus Real Estate has agreed a funding partnership with an initial commitment of £450m with Bayview Asset Management.
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Owen heads up new pan-European investment firm
Belgium’s largest developer Immobel Group has appointed former Schroders Real Estate boss Duncan Owen to lead the launch of Immobel Capital Partners, a new co-investing active manager across the UK and continental Europe.
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€2bn invested in Irish market in final quarter of 2021
The Irish property market secured more than €2bn (£1.67bn) of investment in the last quarter of 2021, bringing full-year activity to €5.5bn.
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French state makes debut UK buy with stake in Save The Children’s London HQ
The investment arm of the French government has made its first major UK real estate transaction by snapping up a 50% stake in Save The Children’s London headquarters from Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), in a deal understood to be worth £115m.
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Colliers says property investment in 2022 will hit five-year high
Colliers is predicting a bumper 2022 for commercial real estate, forecasting that investment will hit a five-year high of £65bn in 2022.
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BTR sector hits record level of investment
Build-to-rent (BTR) had its biggest year on record in 2021 as investors poured £4.1bn into the sector.
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Shopping centre investment volumes set to bounce back in 2022
Distribution warehouses and London’s industrial sector are set to see the highest investment returns over the next five years, at 11.6% and 9% respectively, but shopping centres could also be set to make an unlikely resurgence.
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Secure Income REIT pays Merlin £33.5m to extend resort leases
Secure Income REIT has paid Merlin Entertainments £33.45m to extend the leases of Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Warwick Castle and Heide Park by 35 years.
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Samsung Life pays £64m for stake in Savills IM
Savills Investment Management has sold a 25% minority stake to South Korean insurer Samsung Life for £63.75m as part of a new strategic investment alliance.
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Arora Group acquires Luton Hoo Hotel
The Arora Group has completed the purchase of the five-star 228-room Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa from Elite Hotels for an undisclosed price.
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UK property investment volumes set to top £60bn in 2021
UK property investment volumes are set to exceed £60bn this year, sharply up on the £42.9bn recorded in 2020 and £50.4bn in 2019 – and placing 2021 in the top five years of all time, according to data from JLL.
