Demand for “jumbo” loans to refinance 2006-08 vintage debt has given way to acquisition finance, according to a new UK debt barometer.
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Student housing has become an increasingly popular alternative asset class for investors. But it has been the opportunity to buy large portfolios from collapsed Opal Property Group that has really put the UK on the global student accommodation map and attracted a surge of new international buyers to Britain.
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Investors have pumped more than £1.6bn in UK student accommodation in just nine months. According to CBRE’s Student Accommodation Index, the sector has shown total returns of 9.95% in the 12 months to September 2013, higher than IPD total returns on offices, industrial and retail property respectively over the same period.
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Data from HMRC gathered by law firm EMW has identified a slowdown in institutional investment in UK residential property.
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CBRE reports that investors have ploughed £1.6bn into student accommodation in the first nine months of the year.
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More than 20,000 prime homes could be delivered in London over the next decade with a combined sale value of more than £50bn
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The value of luxury residential London developments to be built over the next decade has grown 32% to £50bn.
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Research from Benthorp has determined that prime London house prices are set to spike over the next quarter.
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Homeowners living close to flourishing local high streets could see their property values attract a premium, a study concludes.
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Housebuilders have begun work on the most new properties since the financial crisis, the latest figures show.
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The Treasury has enjoyed a sharp rise in stamp duty and VAT receipts, official figures disclose.
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Raising interest rates could seriously disrupt the property markets at a time of fragile recovery, industry experts have warned.
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More bank and non-bank capital is becoming available for lending secured by lower quality assets, according to new research by DTZ.
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Lenders are becoming increasingly willing to write loans against lower quality properties, reducing the funding gap for grade-C assets, according to new research by DTZ.
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Britain’s largest REITs have beefed up plans to build high-end housing to capitalise on soaring residential prices in London.
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Hotel investment volumes reached €8bn (£6.7m) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa during the first three quarters of 2013 – only slightly behind levels for the whole of 2012.
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Residential landlords are increasingly confident of the private rented sector with 68% expecting their letting business over the next three months to be either good or very good.
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Fears are growing about a reversal in the resurgent residential property market, a Bank of England survey indicates.
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Wetherell has reported the greatest surge in central London office-to-residential conversions since the end of World War One.
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At the ninth annual World Islamic Economic Forum in London on 29 October, David Cameron announced that he wants London to stand alongside Dubai and Malaysia as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance.
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