Commercial real estate investment in London hit a six-year high of £19.9bn in 2013.
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The number of houses being sold has risen by 24%, according to government statistics.
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CBRE reports that investors have spent more than £16bn buying London property this year.
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The total number of retailers with problems has climbed 15% year on year to 15,792, reports Begbies Traynor.
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Property consultancy DTZ has forecast shopping centre investment deals will leap to £4.35bn by the end of the year.
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Four out of five lenders expect to increase their exposure to residential development over the next 12 months.
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European property investors have developed a higher tolerance for risk in 2013, leading to a rise in value-add and opportunistic strategies, according to a report from Invesco Real Estate.
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Far Eastern investment in London’s prime West End shopping patch looks set to be quadruple that of 2012 after a Hong Kong-led purchase this week.
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The reduction in the UK’s debt pile slowed to just 2.5% in the first half as origination caught up with deleveraging.
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A Turkish investor delighting in a Fitzrovia office block this week, has helped push full-year West End turnover on track for a record £4.9bn.
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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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