While our primary focus is the UK commercial property market we will occasionally carry international stories. In the Worldwide News category you can read articles exploring global market developments or looking at a particular overseas commercial property story that has caught our attention.
Europe had been slow to get on board with real estate investment trusts (REITs), but that has changed with a record surge in fundraising which has provided a lift to the commercial property market. In the first eight months of 2014, 10 REITs in Spain,... Read More
Industrial property in the Australian market delivered returns of 12.1 per cent over the year ended June 30 2014. This exceeds the returns from retail and office property, which generated returns of 9.8 and 9.0 per cent, respectively. The strong... Read More
Nairobi, the “Green City in the Sun,”has been seeing more skyscraper and high-rise construction over the past several years, and investors from around the world have been taking notice. By the end of 2013, there were over 20 buildings which were... Read More
There are increasing indications that Wanda Commercial Properties, the privately-owned subsidiary of Wanda Group, is preparing to go public in Hong Kong after the company changed the name of its Hong Kong shell company to Wanda Hotel Development Company and... Read More
Despite an increase in use of digital devices in South Africa, most consumers appear to be using them to make choices before visiting bricks and mortar shops, according to the results of Broll Property Group's Retail Consumer Survey 2014. The results... Read More
Investment in the Tokyo commercial market is picking up pace based on the prospect of rent increase and rising returns. According to Jon Tanaka, the managing director of Angelo Gordon & Co., an alternative asset manager with $27 billion in assets, there... Read More
China Vanke Co., China’s biggest developer in terms of sales, has announced it has agreed to enter into a joint venture with Carlyle Group which will buy nine of the company’s commercial properties. Carlyle Asia Investment Advisors Ltd. (Carlyle)... Read More
Overseas investors have been flocking to Australia, resulting in an “unprecedented”60 per cent surge in capital entering the commercial property market. Foreign buyers have spent $5.9 billion in the last financial year, according to Savills... Read More
GeoSim, an international technology firm with offices in Vancouver, Warsaw and Tel Aviv, has developed an interactive digital 3-D model of downtown Vancouver. The 14-year-old company says it could change the way that commercial real estate agents, developers,... Read More
A report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has good news for the US hospitality industry: It is on track to hit a 20-year high in 2015. The economy experienced a weather-related slowdown during the first three months of the year and then travel activity... Read More
The ups and downs of the international commercial property market are closely related to the global economy. However the picture is not always uniform. While demand can be low in one country it can outstrip supply in another.
In this category we report on these trends and the outlook for the occupier and investment markets in Europe, the Far East and elsewhere. We also cover individual commercial property stories from around the world.
These might be articles looking at office developments in global financial centres like New York, Paris and Frankfurt. Equally they could focus on worldwide retail, industrial or leisure developments. You will also find related human interest stories in this category.
