Marks & Spencer has joined forces with industrial powerhouse Prologis to develop a circa 1.3 million-square-foot national distribution centre in Daventry as it moves to future-proof its business and UK retail logistics.
There was $380 billion invested in global real estate in the first half of 2025, a small rise on $376 billion in the same period last year, reports property services provider Savills.
Panattoni, the privately owned industrial development giant, has added 1.5 million square feet to its pipeline in the UK with two logistics sites in the East Midlands.
Rising defence spending in the UK is expected to increase demand for industrial and logistics accommodation by millions of square feet each year, research from Savills shows.
Corum' s biggest transaction of the first half 2025 was in Ireland. In Dublin, to be precise. On behalf of its SCPI Corum Origin, whose capitalization stood at €3.51 billion on June 30, the management company chaired by Frédéric Puzin acquired the Infinity Building, in the heart of the judicial district, for €45.5 million, representing a yield of 8.6%.
Data centre development numbers in the UK are set to grow by around a fifth following an influx of investment into the industrial subsector over the past year, according to analysis.
Rogers Communications has struck a deal to sell nine of its 12 data centres in Canada to United Kingdom-based InfraRed Capital Partners, an arm of Sun Life Financial.
The year-to-date has continued to be challenging for occupiers and landlords in Greater London and the South East as global uncertainty and economic difficulties have held back occupier decisions, according to SHW’s third quarter 2025 Industrial and Logistics Focus.
For Los Angeles residents and tourists used to sweltering in the summer heat, cool solutions are on tap: Oak trees are set to replace low-shade palms, water stations are popping up at new transit shelters, and more fabric awnings are covering open-air walkways.
The UK economy grew by 0.3% in the second quarter, beating analysts’ expectations of a more modest expansion of 0.1%. Slower growth had been factored in after the first quarter of the year recorded strong gross domestic product growth of 0.7%, driven by a rise in exports and house sales ahead of the introduction of US tariffs and a hike in stamp duty.
Kier Property has started speculative development of a 204,933-square-foot Trade City and Logistics City hub on the Saltbox Business Park in Bognor Regis.
Orchard Street Investment Management, acting on behalf of a pension fund, has bought Taurus Park, a multilet industrial estate in Warrington, from Pictet Alternative Advisors and Marchmont Investment Managers.
Indurent, the Blackstone-owned developer, owner and operator of industrial across the UK, has signed a 10-year lease with Soudal Group, a European manufacturer of sealants, adhesives and polyurethane foams, for 50,000 square feet at Indurent Park Tamworth.
Sirius Real Estate, the owner and operator of business and industrial parks providing conventional and flexible workspace in Germany and the UK, has completed the acquisition of the Hartlebury Trading Estate in Worcestershire for £101.1 million.
Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust named a company veteran as its interim chief executive following the death of Wesley LePatner in the July 28 mass shooting at its New York headquarters building.
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT, the Singaporean industrial specialist, has bought a pair of East Midlands industrial plots from the real estate arm of international logistics and cargo giant DHL and is looking to build four new warehouses to the tune of £203.5 million.