Rental voids up despite tenant salaries rising higher than rents
by Madeleine Knight
03 / 02 / 2023
January saw a notable increase in void periods across England, despite ongoing demand for rental properties keeping prices buoyant.
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House prices fall for fifth month in a row
by Piers Wehner
02 / 02 / 2023
House prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month, and by more than economists were expecting.
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Cash-rich private buyers to pick up pace of London office investment
by Chanté Bohitige
02 / 02 / 2023
Cash-rich individual investors and family offices are set to seize a greater chunk of the London office investment market this year as debt-reliant institutional investors step back.
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Activists set to launch new wave of corporate attacks
by Piers Wehner
01 / 02 / 2023
Britain’s boardrooms have been warned to expect a further wave of investor activism.
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Corporate insolvencies jump 57%
by Piers Wehner
01 / 02 / 2023
The number of company collapses has hit its highest level since the global financial crisis.
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New mortgages fall to financial crisis levels
by Piers Wehner
01 / 02 / 2023
The number of mortgages approved for house purchases fell at the end of last year to the lowest level since the global financial crisis, outside of the pandemic.
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Property leaders predict life sciences will achieve best financial return for 2023
by Madeleine Knight
31 / 01 / 2023
Almost half (47%) of British property company leaders believe life sciences will perform best in terms of financial return in the next 12 months, according to the British Property Federation’s Property Leader Sentiment Survey 2023.
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‘Complete bemusement’: real estate’s fears for the UK’s reputation
by Tim Burke
31 / 01 / 2023
Months of political turmoil have damaged the UK’s reputation globally and deterred investment from international property investors, say real estate leaders.
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House demand set to pick up amid slow start to 2023
by Madeleine Knight
30 / 01 / 2023
Demand for homes has rebounded in the first few weeks of 2023, but remains well below January 2020-2022 levels, according to Zoopla’s house price index.
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The rise and rise of self-storage
by Greg Pitcher
25 / 01 / 2023
The lockdown-induced demand for space shows little sign of abating, as Greg Pitcher reports.
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UK real estate lending hits record high
by Tim Burke
05 / 05 / 2022
Any fears that the UK’s commercial real estate lending market would face a drawn out recovery from the downturn of the Covid-19 pandemic have been assuaged. Lending has bounced back and then beyond its pre-pandemic high, hitting a fresh record of almost £50bn in 2021.
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Retail hopes for recovery as empty shops fall
by Piers Wehner
29 / 04 / 2022
The number of empty shops has fallen for the first time in consecutive quarters since 2016.
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Global property investors to pour billions into UK life sciences
by Piers Wehner
29 / 04 / 2022
Some of the world’s biggest property investors are planning to spend billions of dollars on labs and offices for the booming life sciences sector.
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Avison Young puts London office Q1 investment at highest since Q3 2018
by Lawrie Holmes
27 / 04 / 2022
Around £5bn was spent on London office assets over the first three months of the year, making it the largest amount transacted in a single quarter since Q3 2018, according to real estate firm Avison Young.
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Central London office demand hits record high
by Piers Wehner
25 / 04 / 2022
Demand for central London offices is a third higher than the five-year average, according to the latest statistics from Savills.
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Jump in shop-to-resi applications
by Evelina Grecenko
25 / 04 / 2022
Applications to convert retail space into homes have risen in the past year, data from commercial law firm EMW has shown.
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Rising costs lower London’s tall towers
by Piers Wehner
25 / 04 / 2022
Tower block developers are pulling back from London as the cost of doing business in the capital continues to climb.
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UK’s first drone airport opens in Coventry
by Emily Wright
25 / 04 / 2022
The UK’s first vertiport for drones has opened today in a former car park in Coventry.
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Rent collection rates rise to highest level
by Samantha McClary
22 / 04 / 2022
Collection of rent for commercial properties has climbed to its highest level since the start of the pandemic
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Most areas will ‘run out of homes’ in three months
by Piers Wehner
22 / 04 / 2022
The number of homes for sale is down by a third compared with what was available before the pandemic.
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