Aberdeen Standard targets Blackstone's global No.1 spot
Aberdeen Standard Investments is aiming to more than double its real estate assets under management to £100bn by 2025.
View ArticlePluto Finance funds Galliard resi scheme
Pluto Finance has advanced a £26m senior loan to Galliard Homes for the acquisition of the former Southall Honda car dealership and its redevelopment into housing.
View ArticleFabrix seeks £50m for second fund
Fabrix Capital is looking to raise £50m for its second fund, which is being launched little more than a year after the company was founded.
View ArticleNo slowdown for Workspace
Workspace Group has reported strong demand for flexible office space in London, brushing aside concerns that the market has slowed.
View ArticleSchroders poised to enter real estate lending market
Schroder Real Estate is set to become the latest major fund manager to enter the commercial property lending market.
View ArticleFairacre lends backing to new finance advisory firm
The former head of Lambert Smith Hampton’s debt brokerage team has launched a new property finance advisory business with backing from Fairacre.
View ArticleAviva Investors set to launch first REIT
Aviva Investors is set to launch its first real estate investment trust (REIT), which will be focused on the booming long-income sector.
View ArticleLondon still out of favour due to Brexit
London has ranked among the European cities with the worst outlook for 2018 in a survey of more than 800 real estate professionals.
View ArticleK&C reveals plans to become £1bn PRS REIT in five years
The boss of K&C REIT has revealed plans to transform the group from a £5m minnow to a main-market £1bn private rented sector (PRS) goliath within five years.
View ArticleOctopus takes on the banks with new commercial loan product
Octopus Property has launched a new commercial property finance product as it looks to ramp up its new lending to £1bn a year.
View ArticleBooming long-income sector grows to £25bn
The UK’s long-income real estate sector is expanding at an exponential rate and is now worth £25bn, according to research by CBRE.
View ArticleF&C UK Property Fund up by a third since EU referendum
F&C UK Property Fund is on an acquisition drive after experiencing inflows of more than £100m since the EU referendum, increasing the retail fund’s total value by a third to £416m.
View ArticleNew debt platform looks to offer flexible financing deals
Three financiers including former co-head of Investec Specialist Private Bank, Paul Stevens, have launched a real estate finance business called ASK Partners.
View ArticleBrickVest goes on hiring spree after fundraising
BrickVest is hiring up to 15 new employees and searching for larger offices following a £7m fundraising round led by German real estate lender Berlin Hyp earlier this month.
View ArticleTop investors warn of danger of repeating past mistakes
Ten years on from the global financial crisis, a group of the world’s biggest real estate investors has challenged the industry to learn the lessons of the past, as market dynamics create growing...
View ArticleMSCI exec director leaves firm
Malcolm Hunt, executive director and head of MSCI real estate client services for EMEA, is leaving the business, Property Week can reveal.
View ArticleEasyCoffee seeks funds to fuel plan to open 200 shops
EasyCoffee is raising fresh equity and debt to help fund its ambitious plan to open 200 shops over the next three years.
View ArticleAviva Investors offloads Tesco store as fund comes under new pressure
Aviva Investors has sold a Tesco superstore for £52m as its property fund for retail investors comes under renewed pressure to sell assets.
View ArticleTelford Homes boss reveals financial drivers behind BTR push
Telford Homes chief executive Jon Di-Stefano has revealed details of the financial trade-off behind the AIM-listed London developer’s plan to deliver 50% of its £1.5bn pipeline as build-to-rent (BTR).
View ArticleChinese investment in Asia soars in second quarter
Chinese investors are switching their focus from western markets to Asia in response to their government’s restrictions on overseas investment.
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