New lending for UK commercial real estate showed the first signs of recovery at the end of 2024, according to Bayes Business School’s bi-annual report.
Segro's chief financial officer, Soumen Das, has told the REIT's board he will retire from the role after more than eight years with the listed company.
Valor has completed a £260 million refinancing deal with Blackstone real estate debt strategies to help it "continue driving long-term value creation through active asset management" at its 1 million-square-foot London urban logistics portfolio.
Canada's election of the Liberal Party and Mark Carney, a former chair of property investor Brookfield Asset Management and one-time head of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, to continue as prime minister could lead to changes in housing policy as the country faces affordability and supply challenges.
Investec Bank, the international financial services provider, has provided Westbrook Partners, the real estate investment management company, with a £16.7 million loan to finance the acquisition of the Merchant Trade Portfolio of three multilet industrial assets in Liverpool, Kettering and Sunderland.
Eldridge Real Estate Credit and Hillwood have agreed the provision of two debt facilities for the development and construction of industrial units in Swanley in Kent and Park Royal in west London.
Eldridge Real Estate Credit has provided £100 million of debt to Vita Group for the development and construction of a 591-unit purpose-built student accommodation scheme in Glasgow.
Urban Splash, the regeneration specialist, has completed a £16.2 million refinancing deal with The Co-operative Bank for its Grade I-listed Royal William Yard estate in Plymouth.
BlackRock is working to increase its investment in the UK, according to its chief executive, who has hinted that there are bargains to be had among the country's "undervalued" assets.
In recent months, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has driven the investment market with "€1 billion of disposals, including €0.7 billion of retail assets, in line with the latest book values", said chief executive Jean-Marie Tritant in his first quarter 2025 results presentation.
For the time being," says Arthur Loyd in its latest study, exclusively available to Business Immo, "the year-end forecasts remain valid. In other words: the market for investment in unmarked commercial real estate should reach between €13 and €16 billion by 2025, compared with just €12.5 billion last year.
Europe and the UK could experience increased levels of property investment as a result of Donald Trump's "reciprocal tariffs", Pictet Alternative Advisors' global head of real estate has suggested.
Brookfield, the global alternative asset manager, and Copley Point Capital, the asset manager and principal investor, have secured an £153 million loan with Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies refinancing a portfolio of four UK logistics assets.
Europe's real estate recovery should remain on track, despite the uncertainties associated with US tariffs, according to AEW's Research team, which has unveiled its Mid-Year Outlook 2025 study.
IEIF has just published a new version of its study on the comparative performance of investments over the long term, the aim of which is to "put real estate into perspective with other financial investments in terms of levels of performance and risk".
Modella Capital, the new owner of WHSmith’s high street business, as reported, is preparing to launch a company voluntary arrangement that would see the closure of up to a quarter of the stores of arts and crafts chain Hobbycraft.
Blackstone, the world's largest owner of commercial real estate, said it expects opportunities to emerge for acquisitions and other investments as the United States' imposition of tariffs around the globe has led to economic uncertainty.