Investors piled a record €359bn (£300bn) into European property last year, targeting homes and warehouses as they pulled back from pandemic-hit offices and shops.
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Ulez could extend to cover all of Greater London
by Piers Wehner18
18 / 01 / 2022
London mayor Sadiq Khan is considering a huge expansion of the city’s low emission zone or pay-as-you-drive road charging.
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Regional BTR growth races ahead of London
by Emma Rosser
17 / 01 / 2022
The regional build-to-rent market is outpacing that of London, with twice as many new homes added in the regions than in the capital last year.
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Hundreds of construction firms going bust each month
by Piers Wehner
17 / 01 / 2022
Hundreds of construction businesses are going bust every month as materials costs rise and the pool of skilled workers shrinks.
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Analysts sees ‘inflection point’ for retail real estate market
by Tim Burke
14 / 01 / 2022
A stabilising of rents could be an “inflection point” for the retail real estate market, says the team at RBC Capital Markets.
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Commercial property rent collection has improved on the previous quarter in the face of tightening government restrictions as the Omicron coronavirus variant took hold, according to the latest research.
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Hotel investment volumes surge 84% in 2021
by Ifeoluwa Taiwo
13 / 01 / 2022
Total 2021 UK hotel investment volumes hit £4.14bn, an 84.3% jump on 2020 volumes and just shy of the 15-year average of £4.22bn.
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Construction delays double since start of pandemic
by Imogen Hope
12 / 01 / 2022
Delays to large-scale construction projects in the UK are now more than twice as long as they were before the pandemic, according to research from machine-learning start-up nPlan.
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Commercial real estate investment to hit five-year high in 2022
Developers, investors and funds backed a record number of build-to-rent homes last year, committing some £5.2bn to provide 22,324 homes.
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Slowing outflows suggest a thawing in property funds’ ‘long winter’
by Tim Burke
06 / 01 / 2022
UK real estate funds suffered a third year of net outflows in 2021, as investors withdrew £2.1bn during another year of Covid-19-fuelled market uncertainty.
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Listed housebuilders’ shares end 2021 up 10% year on year
by Riya Makwana
06 / 01 / 2022
Listed housebuilder shares ended up rising 10% in value in 2021 – despite falling for most of the year and causing the FTSE to slump in the final quarter.
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Oxford Street named busiest shopping street in Europe last year
by Alex Daniel
05 / 01 / 2022
Oxford Street was the busiest shopping street in Europe last year, according to research, beating rivals such as Paris’s Champs-Elysées and Madrid’s Gran Via on footfall.
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Student housing underperforms for first time since 2017
by Samantha McClary
21 / 12 / 2021
The purpose-built student accommodation sector has underperformed the all-property average for the first time in four years, according to CBRE’s PBSA Index.
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Student housing underperforms for first time since 2017
by Samantha McClary
21 / 12 / 2021
The purpose-built student accommodation sector has underperformed the all-property average for the first time in four years, according to CBRE’s PBSA Index.
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Unpaid rent bill set to top £7.4bn
by Samantha McClary
20 / 12 / 2021
Property owners could be left more than £7.4bn out of pocket by the end of the year as a result of unpaid rent.
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Old War Office flat is priciest ever at £11,000 per sq ft
by Piers Wehner
20 / 12 / 2021
A flat in the the turreted former War Office on Whitehall, SW1, has become London’s priciest property per square foot.
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UK property investment volumes set to top £60bn in 2021
by Riya Makwana
16 / 12 / 2021
UK property investment volumes are set to exceed £60bn this year, sharply up on the £42.9bn recorded in 2020 and £50.4bn in 2019 – and placing 2021 in the top five years of all time, according to data from JLL.
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by London private residential rents return to pre-pandemic levels
25 / 11 / 2021
London private residential rents returned to pre-pandemic levels at the end of last month, according to exclusive data provided by Colliers International.
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New homes supply drops for the first time in eight years
by Emma Rosser
25 / 11 / 2021
The number of new homes built in England has fallen for the first time in eight years, following restrictions on construction sites during the pandemic.
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