Total investment volumes reached £12.7bn, down just 3% on Q1 2017.
The hotel segment was the top performer in Q1, with total returns of 4.9% (IPD UK Monthly Index), building on stellar total returns in 2017 of 14% (IPD UK Annual Index). The wider alternatives sector produced the two largest deals by lot size in the first quarter: the acquisition of SACO, a serviced apartment business, by Brookfield Asset Management from Oaktree Capital Management for circa £430m, and the acquisition of the Enigma Portfolio, a UK student housing portfolio, by CBRE Global Investors from the Curlew Student Trust for circa £520m.