Rental growth is beginning to lose momentum, report warns
Influential think tank Capital Economics has warned that rental growth in the commercial property market “may be coming off the boil”.
View ArticleM7 strikes debt deal for first European fund
M7 Real Estate has secured €31m (£21.8m) of senior financing from Berlin Hyp for its first European fund as the firm extends its presence on the continent with the opening of an office in Prague.
View ArticleMedium-sized developers struggle to gain financing
Development finance is undoubtedly easier to secure and cheaper than it has been for years, but a new report from CBRE indicates that developers are not having everything their own way.
View ArticleAshby Capital secures £80m for Colmore deal
Peter Ferrari’s Ashby Capital has secured an £80m loan from AgFe for its acquisition of Colmore Plaza in Birmingham - one of the biggest single asset deals outside London so far this year.
View ArticleLendInvest kicks off development lending
LendInvest has recruited Steve Larkin, a real estate veteran from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), to spearhead a push into development finance.
View ArticleHelical raises the bar as Slade sets departure date
Helical Bar’s £248m acquisition of the Bower is a landmark deal on the road to doubling the company’s market cap to £1bn, outgoing chief executive Mike Slade (pictured) has said.
View ArticleConfidence high but concern grows over tax and planning
Confidence among senior industry executives in the outlook for UK property is high but concern is growing about tax and the lack of reform to the planning system, this year’s Smith & Williamson...
View ArticleNew LSH arm mulls £100m fund launch
Lambert Smith Hampton’s new investment management arm is weighing the launch of its first fund.
View ArticleICG-Longbow recruits new senior debt chief
ICG-Longbow has made a key hire, poaching Santander’s David Mortimer to replace Trevor Homes as the head of its senior lending team.
View ArticleL&G’s property lending arm hails best year since launch
Legal & General’s (L&G’s) property lending arm has enjoyed its busiest year to date, lending more than £550m across six deals.
View ArticleTH Real Estate refinances student properties owned by US firm
TH Real Estate has refinanced two UK student properties owned by TJAC Development with a £47.8m loan as it prepares to expand its lending operations to continental Europe next year.
View ArticleHunger for real estate retail funds abates as returns slow
Net inflows into property funds for retail investors have started to ease after hitting dramatic highs last year.
View ArticleIrish investor creates hospitality division
Tetrarch Capital, one of the few Irish investors to buy up property early in the cycle, has created a new hospitality division ahead of a €100m (£73m) investment push.
View ArticleLone Star sells £150m Project Churchill loans
US private equity giant Lone Star has started a process of offloading UK real estate loans that it acquired as part of its mammoth £2.25bn Project Churchill buy from Aviva.
View ArticleEagle One beefs up finances
South West property company Eagle One has bolstered its firepower with a £40m refinancing with Lloyds Bank.
View ArticleBPF warns tax avoidance plans could lead to fall in UK development
Government proposals to tackle tax avoidance could have the unintended consequence of causing the UK to lose development worth £660m a year, the British Property Federation (BPF) has warned.
View ArticleUrban Exposure and Shawbrook team up
Urban Exposure and Shawbrook Bank have agreed to join forces to provide residential developers with a broader range of financing products.
View ArticleColliers kicks off rush for agency M&A deals in 2016
Last year was a busy one for agency mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
View ArticleInvestment in 2015 reaches record high
Investment in UK commercial property hit an all-time high in 2015 despite a slowdown in the second half of the year, new research by Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has revealed.
View ArticleNew lease accounting rules are bad news for landlords
A new international standard on lease accounting that was published last week after eight years of deliberation will drive up demand for shorter leases, experts have warned.
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