Investment into retail commercial properties is beginning to reach pre-recession levels once more, indicating that businesses and individuals are becoming more confident about a long-term recovery within the retail industry. Shopping centres, in particular,... Read More
During the initial stages of the economic recovery, Britain’s manufacturing industry flourished due to a combination of strong overseas demand and an increasingly stable domestic market. However, Eurozone issues and importing issues within key markets have... Read More
An Israeli billionaire and gambling tycoon has paid up to £90m for a second chunk of one of London’s most famous market sites. In March, Teddy Sagi bought Camden Stables Market, on Chalk Farm Road, for £400m. He has now acquired Camden Lock Market... Read More
The German owner-managed investment company PATRIZIA AG has become joint owner of three more UK business parks as part of a £430m sell-off deal. PATRIZIA’s fifty-fifty venture with the Los Angeles-headquartered Oaktree Capital Management now makes... Read More
Less than four months after the completion of a five-year £83m transformation BAE Systems is selling its Cheshire munitions factory. Commercial property consultants GVA says it has already received “considerable” interest from British and overseas... Read More
A bidding frenzy has pushed the sale price of a former Northern Ireland Methodist church to £1.2m — three times its guide price. The Grade II listed church on Belfast’s University Street was previously owned by the Ballygowan-based Soll... Read More
Specialist investment management firm Kames Capital is toasting the acquisition of two of Birmingham’s most popular nightspots. Kames has purchased the Mechu and Après nightclubs on Summer Row from Town & Country Inns as a means of boosting... Read More
The value of English farmland increased by 2 per cent in Q3, taking the rise in the year to date to 12 per cent. Year on year, values have risen by an average of 15 per cent, outperforming the housing market (+10 per cent), the FTSE 100 (+5 per cent) and gold... Read More
Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has included Facebook’s new Dublin headquarters in one of five property portfolios it is selling off with a combined starting price of €600m (£372m), The organisation has hired property agents... Read More
London-based Redefine International has sold ten of its regional assets — including Liverpool’s landmark Prudential Assurance Building— to an un-named buyer. The stock market-listed property investor, voted 2014 UK Real Estate Investment Trust of... Read More
