Adroit Real Estate Advisors appoints head of lease advisory
Steve Turner joins from Rapleys
Adroit Real Estate Advisors, the niche industrial and logistics property advisor, has hired Steve Turner as head of lease advisory, starting 5 January 2026.
Regional REIT extends £72.4 million debt facility by three years
Debt reduced from £128 million following property disposals programme
Regional REIT, the regional commercial property specialist, has agreed a three-year extension of its £72.4 million debt facility as it continues to upgrade its portfolio.
Supermarket Income REIT completes circa £98 million stores sweep
Assets include a Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose
Supermarket Income REIT has bought three big-name supermarkets for a total of circa £98 million through its existing debt facility.
Jingdong Property ends busy year with industrial portfolio acquisition near Leicester
Asset management arm of JD.com grows UK portfolio to 3.9 million square feet
Jingdong Property, the infrastructure investment and asset management company of Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com, has capped a busy 2025 with a warehouse portfolio acquisition outsi...
Industrial real estate year in review: buoyant big-box leasing and the race for REITs
CoStar News discusses the year's most significant deals and trends in the sector
Christmas is traditionally a time of gift-giving and the industrial property sector might argue that it deserves a present or two next year after 2025 served up a host of geopoliti...
Regional offices year in review: headline rents rise and refurbishments jump up the pecking order
CoStar News discusses the year's most significant deals and trends
People focused on the UK's regional office markets will look back on 2025 as the year that headline rents reached £50 per square foot, with Bristol first past the post.
Knight Property Group donates £60,000; Greystar appoints development chief; Cushman promotes
Hires, promotions and other personnel changes in UK and European real estate
Knight Property Group donates £60,000 at Christmas
Balfour Beatty offloads 536-bed Glasgow student accommodation block
Infrastructure giant sells 100% stake in Kennedy Street asset
International infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has sold its 100% stake in a 536-bed student accommodation building in Glasgow.
FedEx shed bought by Clearbell in £11.9 million south London deal
Bermondsey warehouse set for an EPC A upgrade
Clearbell Capital and Deva, the real estate and corporate capital solutions investment arm of Santander Alternative Investment, have bought FedEx's Bermondsey warehouse for £11.9 m...
YTL clinches £119 million student residential financing at Brabazon
Deal marks first of several planned funding rounds for 400-acre new town
YTL Developments, the property firm behind North Bristol's Brabazon redevelopment project, has secured a £119 million debt facility from Nomura to fund a student accommodation sche...
Avison Young's UK managing director of transactions leaves role
Manchester-based stalwart Chris Cheap set for new challenge
Avison Young's managing director of transactions Chris Cheap has left the company to pursue new opportunities.
Coworking provider signs 25,000-square-foot lease at Manchester refurbishment
Block will provide 331 desks across two floors at Sunlight House
Coworking space provider Block will open its first Manchester site at Karrev’s £35 million Sunlight House refurbishment project.
Salesforce Tower secures additional 80,000 square feet of lettings
Five firms take space at 230-metre City tower
British property development company Heron International has clinched 80,317 square feet of new lettings at Salesforce Tower in the City of London.
Blackstone's Warehouse REIT CMBS launches
Circa £828.8 million UK portfolio comprises 64 properties
Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank have launched DBMS 2025-1 DAC, a securitisation collateralised by a £828.8 million portfolio of mainly logistics assets in the UK that Blackstone b...
Blackstone sells 2.4 million-square-foot European logistics portfolio to M7
Transaction involves 31 urban and mid-box assets across the UK and France
M7 Real Estate, a European investment and asset management business owned by Oxford Properties Group and AustralianSuper, has bought a portfolio of 31 UK and French logistics asset...
Goldman Sachs and Kennedy Wilson agree £500 million facility for UK single-family homes platform
US investment firm and joint venture partner CPP Investments are targeting 4,500 units
Global real estate investment firm Kennedy Wilson has secured a new circa £500 million debt facility with banking giant Goldman Sachs to finance its single family rental housing po...
AM Alpha adds to leasing team at Manchester Rylands refurbishment
JLL joins OBI and Barker Proudlove
AM Alpha, the owner of Manchester's Rylands building, has appointed JLL as a joint letting agent on the major redevelopment project.
Bank of England cuts interest rates to 3.75%
Experts suggest positive outcome for property transactions is not a given
Property finance experts have said the outlook for commercial property deals remains "complex" despite the welcome news that the Bank of England has reduced interest rates to their...
Cushman & Wakefield names head of science and innovation EMEA
Rory MacGregor previously led its science and innovation capital markets division
Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Rory MacGregor as head of science and innovation to lead its team across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Summix Capital gets thumbs-up for neighbourhood at Edinburgh Gateway
Developer set to deliver close to 1,000 homes and a hotel at former Saica site
Proposals for a residential-led, mixed-use development at Edinburgh Gateway, the site of the former Saica packaging facility in West Edinburgh, have been given the green light by c...