Bank lending to small medium enterprises (SMEs) in construction dropped 26% year on year for the month of April, according to accountancy group UHY Hacker Youn
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A new bill set to pass through the House of Lords tomorrow will further weaken the position of commercial landlords during the coronavirus crisis, claims accountancy group Moore.
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Britain’s hotel owners have been among the worst-hit real estate victims in the Covid-19 crisis. Now, after more than two months of lockdown, many are planning their reopening strategies and hoping business will bounce back quickly
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Knight Frank’s usually-bustling Baker Street headquarters was eerily quiet at the end of March, as Britain entered lockdown and employees started to work from home. Just a handful of staff were still left in the building.
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Demand for industrial and logistics space continues to grow apace as occupiers line up to take large, long-term leases across the country despite, or sometimes because of, the coronavirus pandemic.
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The chief executive of one of the UK’s largest property companies has warned that demand for secondary office stock will plummet as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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UK property fund returns hit their lowest level in 11 years during the quarter to the end of March, according to the MSCI/AREF UK Quarterly Property Fund Index.
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Asset managers raised more than €200bn (£175bn) in 2019 to invest in real estate – up 24% on the amount raised in 2018.
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Social distancing has thrown the whole concept of co-living into question.
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Real estate must prepare for its most painful recession yet, with the International Monetary Fund warning that the global economy is entering the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
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The UK hospitality sector could be facing a “bloodbath” unless urgent action is taken to support struggling businesses through the Covid-19 pandemic, advisers and operators have warned.
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Capital values fell by 3% across all UK commercial property in March, according to the latest CBRE Monthly Index.
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A survey of real estate lenders conducted at the end of January showed that very few foresaw the potential impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
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The full extent of the shortfall in rent received by landlords as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic became clear this week.
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Intu has threatened to serve ’statutory demands’ to some tenants that have refused to pay their quarterly rent.
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Jefferies analyst Mike Prew has upgraded a raft of real estate stocks to ‘buy’ and predicted a wave of M&A activity in the listed property sector.
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Retirement living operators are calling on the government to classify any move into retirement housing as a ‘critical home move’ as sales and lettings in the sector dwindle to nothing following the government’s advice last week to put all but critical moves on hold.
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SoftBank has walked away from buying $3bn (£2.4bn) of WeWork stock.
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The heads of more than 30 flexible workspace businesses have written to chancellor Rishi Sunak warning “hundreds” of operators could go under because of declining membership in light of the Covid-19 outbreak.
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