The UK’s commercial property market was broadly stagnant in the second quarter, with subdued occupier demand and investment enquiries, according to RICS’ UK Commercial Property Monitor.
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Investment in UK purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) totalled around £1.6bn in H1 2025, well ahead of the £1.1bn six-month average and reflecting healthy market conditions, Knight Frank has reported.
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The second quarter of 2025 was characterised by US president Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ on 2 April, which introduced a surge of tariff charges, shaking financial markets globally.
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More than half (53%) of UK residential landlords plan to maintain their portfolio sizes over the next year despite concerns over the Renters’ Rights Bill (RRB), according to data from JLL.
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One of the most encouraging outcomes from the report from the Older People’s Housing Taskforce is the recognition that older people are not a homogeneous group.
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Sales in London's ultra prime residential market fell 13% in the first half of this year, or £100m year-on-year, according to data from Beauchamp Estates.
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When a private residence in the Foster + Partners-designed redevelopment of The Whiteley in Bayswater, central London, is offered for rent, the homeowner can be confident it will be snapped up within 24 hours, according to agent Knight Frank.
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Demand from third-party logistics (3PL) providers continued to underpin the UK industrial market in the first half of 2025, accounting for 59% of all big-box take-up and 6m sq ft of grade-A space, Avison Young has reported.
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The UK needs to deploy "at least" 6GW of AI-capable data centre capacity by 2030 to remain competitive, a threefold increase in today's capacity, a government report has concluded.
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New data from Knight Frank reveals that hedge funds are currently hunting for 474,000 sq ft of office space in London – the highest active requirement figure since the firm began collecting data in 2019.
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Last week, Aquis Real Asset Market (Aram) launched within the Aquis Stock Exchange to provide a new tradeable marketplace for the securitisation of real assets.
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Monthly construction output is estimated to have fallen by 0.6% in May following three consecutive periods of growth, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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UK commercial real estate capital values rose 0.2% in June, according to the latest CBRE UK Monthly Index, with rental values up 0.1% over the month and total returns standing at 0.6%.
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CBRE has revealed that total build-to-rent (BTR) investment volumes hit £1.9bn during the first half of this year, with a "significant pipeline of investment" pointing to a busy second half.
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The real estate sector has emerged as a focal point for UK public mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in recent months, according to Peel Hunt’s Takeover Trends report.
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The majority (82%) of real estate markets in Europe are underpriced, underscoring the "breadth of opportunity available to investors", according a report from Cushman & Wakefield.
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With four sites dotted across north and west London and a fifth in the pipeline, Metro Storage has been attracting plenty of attention from property investors.
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The stated goal of US president Donald Trump’s trade tariff policies has been to put America first, so it seems highly unlikely he intended to boost the appeal of European real estate debt to investors at the same time.
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Investor sentiment towards European real estate has faltered for the second consecutive quarter, according to the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV).
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French real estate investment vehicles, known as SCPIs, are increasingly investing outside their home market, with the UK one of the key targets, according to new research from Savills.
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