Andrew Don
- Online
JLL revenues rise 32% in EMEA
JLL has reported total revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) grew 32% on a local currency basis in the second quarter boosted by the acquisition of property management firm Integral.
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Squarestone secures five buildings at Capitol
Squarestone has bought five office buildings at Capitol Park, Leeds, from Sterling Capitol for £18.2m.
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Harworth and pension fund multiply up in Lancashire
Multiply Logistics North, a joint venture between Harworth Group and the Lancashire County Pension Fund, has started building the first three units in the Logistics North Multiply development, in Bolton.
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JLL & Cushman to co-market SEGRO's Slough Trading Estate
SEGRO has appointed JLL’s UK industrial and logistics group and Cushman & Wakefield to co-market all unoccupied industrial warehouse space across the entire Slough Trading Estate and Link 225, in Bath Road, Slough.
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Golden letting for M&G
M&G Real Estate has secured the first letting at Imperial Park, its speculatively-developed scheme in Coventry’s Golden Triangle of logistics warehouses for an undisclosed rent.
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Bridgepoint announces £655m purchase of Miller Homes
Bridgepoint has agreed to snap up Miller Homes, one of the UK’s largest housebuilders, for about £655m from funds managed by GSO Capital Partners, Blackstone’s global credit investment platform.
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Double industrial deal for Royal London
Royal London has bought two of Chancerygate’s prime development schemes in Chelmsford and Enfield for £33.5m.
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Barclays latest to take Dublin space at One Molesworth Street
Barclays Bank has signed a 20-year lease for 37,000 sq ft of lettable space at Green REIT’s flagship development at One Molesworth Street in Dublin ahead of Brexit.
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Asian investors put UK in pole position for European commercial property
Asian investors have helped restore the UK to the top of Europe’s commercial property investment market in the second quarter, research from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) shows.
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EMEA revenues up at Colliers
Colliers International’s revenues for its second quarter nudged up 1.4% in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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Supermarket Income REIT bags Tesco Extra from M&G
Supermarket Income REIT has made its first asset purchase – Tesco Extra, in Thetford, Norfolk, from M&G Real Estate for £43.2m.
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Epsilon wins planning for 50-flat Victorian conversion in Slough
Epsilon Real Estate Partners has secured planning permission for 50 flats for sale in a £15m development in the heart of Slough.
- Insight
Have ministers resolved the key starter homes concerns?
Government’s long-awaited consultation seeks to address concerns over how scheme will work in practice.
- Markets
Business rates reform: should the chancellor have done more?
Many have welcomed George Osborne’s Budget nnouncement, but questions remain over certain areas including the business rates reforms.
- News
Wall of money rises to record height, but growth slows
The ‘wall of money’ available to invest in global real estate has reached record heights this year - but the rate at which it is growing has slowed markedly.
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Fund managers look to emulate success of core open-end funds in US
AXA IM - Real Assets has joined a growing band of fund managers to have launched a core pan-European open-ended fund.
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AXA IM raises €500m for new core European fund
AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets has launched the AXA CoRE Europe Fund, a new pan-European open-ended real estate fund with a long-term target size of €3-5bn (£2.3-3.9bn).
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Super-rich private investors target wider range of assets
Super-wealthy private investors are growing in sophistication and targeting a wider range of property investments as a more analytical younger generation takes charge.
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Dublin market on the up despite election fears
Prime office rents in Dublin are on track to hit €65/sq ft (£50/sq ft) by the end of 2016 - more than double their post-crash low - and analysts say even an uncertain outcome in Ireland’s election is unlikely to dampen the positive mood in the market.
- Markets
Why moves to shine light on viability tests could backfire
Developers looking to bring residential schemes forward in Greenwich will now be forced to publish commercially sensitive information about those schemes if they are unable to meet the borough’s affordable homes quota.