Ryden — the biggest independent commercial property consultants in the north of Britain — is moving its headquarters to Edinburgh’s burgeoning business district. The award winning agency, which has five offices across Scotland and northern England,... Read More
LondonMetric Property Plc has announced today the disposal of two of its retail parks, Westcroft in Milton Keynes for £27.2 million and Mountbatten in Southampton for £16.2 million, to large UK institutional investors, reflecting a blended net initial yield... Read More
With seven of the world’s ten Formula One teams based in Britain — pumping £10bn each year into the economy — the UK’s motorsport industry has survived the recession relatively unscathed. More than 4,000 smaller commercial and manufacturing... Read More
Hay-on-Wye’s 194-year-old Swan Hotel — which has welcomed such guests as Tony Curtis, Seamus Heaney and Alan Alda — has been acquired by Swan@Hay Limited for an undisclosed sum. The sale of the 19-room hotel, which will now undergo a £1.2m... Read More
The automotive property sector is seeing strong levels of occupier interest coupled with buoyant investment activity, according to research conducted by Knight Frank. The research reveals that there has been an unprecedented level of occupier activity... Read More
Rockspring Property Investment Managers and joint venture partner Générale Continentale Investissements (CGI) have completed the sale of Eden Monceau, a 6,400 sq m (69,000 sq ft) prime central Paris office complex, to REAL I.S. The sale follows the recent... Read More
Rockspring Property Investment Managers has acquired Fairhill Shopping Centre for £45.6m. It is the trust’s fourteenth UK acquisition and its first asset in Northern Ireland. Purchased on behalf of Rockspring’s UK Value 2 LP fund, the 295,000 sq... Read More
UK commercial and residential real estate investor and developer, Sunnyday Capital, has announced the acquisition of the long leasehold interest of 94-98 Broadmead and 44-58 Union Street, Bristol for £5.65 million from a private overseas investor,... Read More
Valad Europe— one of the continent’s biggest real estate investment managers — has sold three assets from the Dutch Omikron Portfolio for €11.5m (£8.4m). It was appointed to manage and maximise the portfolio earlier this year. Two of the... Read More
August is traditionally a quiet month for leasing activity. However, according to data from BNP Paribas, take-up in the City of London office market was surprisingly high, totalling an impressive 660,000 sq ft across 37 deals. This brings the total take-up... Read More
