Commercial Sales and Lets



Superdrug Distribution Centre acquired by LondonMetric

Posted on 5 February, 2014 by Kirsten Kennedy under Commercial Sales and Lets

Commercial property is, once again, seen as an attractive investment as the market continues to pick up and this week LondonMetric confirmed that it has acquired Superdrug’s Doncaster distribution centre in a £13 million deal. The retail group purchased... Read More

Vornado set to make 50 per cent Profit on Three-Year Manhattan Office Deal

Posted on 3 February, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets, Worldwide Property News

Three years after rescuing a Park Avenue office tower from default Vornado Realty Trust has put the Manahattan property on the market. Vornado — which has a stake in more than 20m square feet of Manhattan office space — has instructed Eastdil Secured to... Read More

Central London Office Investment hits Record High

Posted on 2 February, 2014 by Kirsten Kennedy under Commercial Sales and Lets

Central London office investment has now reached an all-time high, with the fourth quarter of 2013 becoming the highest grossing quarter on record. Investment volume peaked at £7.46 billion between the start of October and the end of December, increasing by... Read More

Landmark Washington Hotel Sold

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets, Worldwide Property News

One of Washington’s landmark hotels has been sold and moth balled prior to a multi-million dollar redevelopment. Details surrounding the sale by Stanford Hotels Corporation of its L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in downtown Washington D.C. are still sketchy with new... Read More

Commercial Property Market Growth Built on Widening Demand

Posted on 31 January, 2014 by Jodee Redmond under Commercial Sales and Lets, Economy, Industry News

Over the past nine months, the commercial property market has seen a marked rise in demand. UK property is very attractive to investors right now, with annualised returns of about 8.7 per cent forecast over the next three years. As the economy improves... Read More

Serco bids to Manage MoD Estate

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets

Privatisation will pave the way for land and property sale An outsourcing company recently given clearance to bid for government contracts following a six month suspension, is the front runner for a £400m contract to manage the country’s entire military... Read More

Offers Invited for Singapore Arcade Building

Posted on 30 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets, Worldwide Property News

Colliers International is inviting offers of £424m for one of its prestige Singapore seafront re-developments sites. The Collyer Quay site is currently occupied by The Arcade, a 20-storey retail and office complex. Completed in 1981, the building has three... Read More

£2m Price Tag for Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn

Posted on 27 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets, Top Properties

Jamaica Inn hotel — Cornwall’s legendary coaching house immortalised in Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name — is being sold for £2m. Included in the price is the desk on which the novelist wrote Rebecca and several of her other... Read More

Does the Rise in Sterling threaten the growth of the UK Commercial Property Market?

Posted on 26 January, 2014 by Jodee Redmond under Commercial Sales and Lets, Industry News

The commercial property market has been showing positive signs of recovery for several months but the rise in the value of sterling is potentially unhelpful to the market, since it poses a threat to future growth. There has been a significant level of... Read More

Loss-Making Turkington Continues Sell-Off

Posted on 25 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets

Turkington Holdings — which made a loss of more than £25m in 2012 — has continued its sell-off strategy with the £2m disposal of a Northern Ireland leisure park. The sale of Eastpoint Leisure Park, near Dundonald, for around £2.2m is the latest... Read More