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Equinix buys Hertfordshire site for £4 billion data centre campus
Equinix has bought DC01UK, an 85-acre site in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, in the single largest powered land sale in EMEA.
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29 October 2025Welltower buys UK's Barchester in world's largest care home transaction
Welltower, the U.S. healthcare real estate giant, has completed what is thought to be the world's largest care home transaction, buying the real estate portfolio of Barchester in a deal valued at £5.2 billion.
29 October 2025US student homes giant Landmark continues busy drive into UK with Birmingham plans
Landmark Properties, the US student homes giant, has submitted plans for 500 purpose-built student bedrooms at 120 Suffolk Street in Birmingham.- 28 October 2025
Octopus Capital raises £60 million for Octopus Healthcare Fund
Octopus Capital, the specialist real estate investor and lender, has secured almost £60 million of investment into its Octopus Healthcare Fund from LGPS Central and Knight Frank Investment Management. - 27 October 2025
AEW enters German life sciences market with €70 million acquisition near Munich
AEW has acquired a newly built life science centre in Gräfelfing, near Munich, from Aventin Real Estate for around €70 million, according to market sources. 
27 October 2025US student homes giant buys first UK development site
Landmark Properties, which describes itself as the largest student housing developer in the United States, has closed its first land acquisition in the United Kingdom, buying a site at 17-37 William Road in Euston in central London.
27 October 2025UK healthcare real estate investment to hit record £12 billion in 2025
The UK healthcare market is on track to complete £12 billion of property transactions in 2025, according to Knight Frank.
22 October 2025LaSalle and Trilogy put £247.5 million London campus on the block
LaSalle Investment Management and Trilogy Real Estate Group have brought to market for sale an education-led campus with a major development opportunity attached at London's East India Dock seeking £247.5 million.
14 October 2025Franklin picks JLL for major UK care homes portfolio management role
JLL’s UK property and asset management team has been instructed to provide property management services to Franklin Real Asset Advisors on behalf of its Social Infrastructure Strategy.
10 October 2025London healthcare centre sale-and-leaseback completes for £25 million
A £25 million sale and leaseback has completed for Knights House, West Norwood, a newly developed mixed-use healthcare and supported living asset, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.5%.
7 October 2025Here’s why JLL says concerns of an AI bubble are overblown
The rush among technology and real estate firms to invest more than $1 trillion to build data centers in coming years has sparked some concern that a bubble of superheated spending on artificial intelligence could burst, creating economic damage. But a new analysis says that risk may be overstated.
2 October 2025Oxford North's £1.2 billion innovation, science, research and homes campus takes a bow
Thomas White Oxford, Stanhope and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan have officially launched Oxford North, an £1.2 billion global innovation district with consent for 1 million square feet of flexible lab and office accommodation.
30 September 2025Columbia Threadneedle exits 2 million-square-foot Manchester Airport campus
The joint venture partnership behind Mix Manchester has confirmed Manchester City Council has taken a 30% stake in the development and existing shareholder Greater Manchester Pension Fund has increased its share from 10% to 30%.
29 September 2025As AI demand soars, here’s what can go wrong in data center development
Nvidia’s recently announced deal to invest $100 billion in ChatGPT parent OpenAI is the latest in a seemingly never-ending run of ambitious artificial intelligence projects, a euphoric climate that may mask underlying risks in the development of high-demand data storage real estate.
22 September 2025Los Angeles to overhaul convention center as city spruces up for Olympics
Los Angeles is investing billions to overhaul its convention center in the latest project to spruce up the region ahead of the Olympics in 2028.
11 September 2025Double Canning Town site sale completes for giant data centre and homes development
Praedius has completed the sale of two prominent Canning Town sites in transactions that should unlock the creation of 871 new homes and a £750 million data centre investment.
29 August 2025Trump mandates classical style as default for new federal buildings
President Donald Trump has taken another step to promote classical and traditional architecture.
21 August 2025World’s largest music venue operator calls this real estate the new ‘sweet spot’
Developers, cities and venue operators are increasingly looking to midsize concert spaces to fill the gap between intimate clubs and cavernous arenas, a trend that’s helping to anchor mixed-use developments across the nation.
21 August 2025Romulus serves up UK's first private hospital in a mall in former Debenhams
Romulus has signed European healthcare provider Affidea for a 30,000-square-foot medical facility on the second floor of Wimbledon Quarter, its London retail complex, in part of the space formerly occupied by Debenhams.
