Banks are becoming more willing to take on development risk again, speakers said at MIPIM UK today.
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UK commercial real estate returned 1.7% in September – representing the second highest monthly returns of the year, according to the IPD UK Monthly Property Index.
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Overseas investors have for the first time overtaken UK institutions to become the largest owners of UK commercial property, new data from the Property Industry Alliance has revealed.
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The City office market is undergoing “Manhattan-isation” as demand for office space diversifies beyond the traditional finance sector, the latest research from Knight Frank indicates.
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Scotland has introduced a new land and buildings transaction tax, using the Scottish parliament’s first new taxation powers in more than 300 years.
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson has urged the government to reconsider lifting restrictions on turning offices into homes in parts of the capital.
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A “huge proportion” of luxury homes planned or under construction in London are unlikely to be built on time, a new report warns.
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Europe’s asset management agencies have almost €264bn (£207bn) of European non-core real estate exposure, Cushman & Wakefield has estimated.
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The student housing investment market is heading towards a record year with JLL predicting that £2bn worth of assets will go under offer in the final quarter of this year – the same value achieved during the entirety of 2013.
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Housebuilding completions in central London are poised to hit a seven-year high of 100,000 units next year, JLL has forecast.
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson has today opened a new £200m investment scheme for developers and housing associations in a bid to accelerate the building of low cost homes for Londoners.
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Demand for grade A industrial space in the UK has notched up a record performance in the first half of the year, research from DTZ has revealed.
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Property entrepreneur Nick Leslau says he is in no hurry to invest the £448m from the sale of Max Property.
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Crest Nicholson walks away from Chiswick development as it moves portfolio away from higher-value homes. A residential deal in Chiswick, west London, has collapsed over concerns about the impact of a mansion tax on homes worth more than £2m.
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The busiest period since 2006 means summer holidays will be in short supply. By David Parsley.
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Shortages of skilled labour and materials are becoming more apparent as market comes out of downturn Office occupiers look set to be hit by spiralling costs when fitting out buildings, with tender prices predicted to rise at an annual rate of up to 6.5% over the next two years, new research suggests.
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Demand across the South East office market increased by 10% in the second quarter of 2014, according to Savills. 150 new requirements came to the market in the period, which together total 2.7m sq ft of wanted space. Total demand for the first half of the year is up 15% on the previous half, totalling 4.5m sq ft.
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Foreign interests using city as safe haven are making city ‘too hot’ for UK investors, Dev Secs group director says The London property market is no longer a sensible investment for UK developers as long as sovereign wealth funds and global billionaires continue to treat it as a cash haven, Development Securities director Matthew Weiner has said.
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The UK is facing a housing crisis. Open any newspaper today and there will be articles on spiralling house prices and an imminent bubble. Yet the greatest and fundamental factor underpinning these dire warnings and predictions is quite simply a lack of supply.
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Supermarket chain Tesco has come under renewed pressure after it was revealed its land bank could be used to build 15,000 homes, the equivalent of the new town in Ebbsfleet.
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