Efforts by European banks to reduce their exposure to toxic real estate loans face a setback, after an additional €500bn (£427bn) of lending to non-core assets showed up on balance sheets in 2012, according to research from PwC.
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Rightmove has reported confident sellers are increasing asking prices to the highest level yet seen in March.
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UK property returned 0.3% in February, slightly below the 0.4% achieved in January, according to the IPD's Monthly Property Index.
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Qatar has been lined up to invest £10bn in a UK fund that will target UK infrastructure projects.
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MIPIM: Turnover in the West End office investment market could tumble by 25% this year, agents at MIPIM have warned.
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CBRE research shows Germany has leapfrogged the UK as the most sought-after destination for European property investors.
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MIPIM: The debt market looks set for growth in 2013, according to Cushman & Wakefield's latest European Real Estate Lending Survey, published at the annual MIPIM conference in Cannes today.
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$320bn of new capital will be available to invest in to commercial property this year according to research by DTZ.
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The government has established an Islamic finance task force headed by ministers Greg Clark and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi.
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MIPIM: The number of active European real estate lenders has increased by 29%, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
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The latest survey from the RICS has pointed to an “encouraging” pick-up in the housing market.
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TheCityUK's Sovereign Wealth Funds 2013 report has reported that SWFs have increased their investment into property worldwide by 30% in the past year to $10bn.
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The Sunday Telegraph questions whether supermarkets can continue pouring millions into new store developments in a saturated market.
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The Observer reports on the influx of new global elites – including investors in prime UK property – “changing the face of Europe”.
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Infrastructure is "on the cusp of going mainstream" as an asset class for real estate investors, said IPD co-founder Ian Cullen at a Movers and Shakers property panel on alternatives this week.
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IHIF 2013: The UK accounted for 38% of total transactional volumes in the European hotel market last year. According to HVS London's 2012 European Hotel Transactions report, €1.4bn (£1.2bn) was transacted in the UK hotel market out of a total of €5.6bn across Europe in 2012
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Last year's stamp duty increase has reduced annual prime central London sales volumes by 15%, according to Knight Frank. In the 2012 Budget, chancellor George Osborne announced that stamp duty on homes sold at a price over £2m would increase from 5% to 7% with immediate effect.
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The launch of flats at Battersea Power Station in London helped push new home registrations in the new year up nearly 30% compared with the same period last year.
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Research from Cluttons shows bankers’ pay cuts are hitting the luxury homes market in central London.
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Hotel investment volumes reached €8.5bn (£7.3m) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa last year - a 4% decline on 2011. According to Jones Lang LaSalle, the most liquid market was once again the UK with €2.3bn (£1.9bn) of hotels transacted followed by France at €1.7bn (£1.5bn) and Germany at €1.2bn (£1bn).
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