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.
Denver's commercial real estate market has been ranked at No. 11 on the 2014 list of US "Markets to Watch" on the Emerging Trends in Real Estate report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP and the Urban Land Institute. The survey respondents reported that... Read More
The GM Building tops the table of multi-million dollar property tax payers according to the New York Post. The Fifth Avenue building is due to be hit with a bill of $59.2 despite the fact that the property, revalued at $3.4 billion last year, is valued at... Read More
Property investors can now study a league table of American ski resorts offering the best investment potential. The report — compiled by US property firm Realty Trac— identifies 19 US locations with high quality ski resorts and ranks them according to... Read More
BlackBerry — the trouble-hit Canadian smartphone maker — is putting the majority of its property holdings on the market in a bid to raise badly needed cash. The Ontario-based company said it plans to use a combination of vacant sales and sale-leaseback... Read More
Already one of Japan’s biggest distribution site owners and providers, Prologis is developing a new 440,000sq ft complex for retailer Töhoku CO-OP. To be constructed on a build-to-suit basis, the new facility will be located at Prologis Park Tomiya... Read More
In what is claimed to be the biggest Netherlands real estate deal of last year, Philips Pension Fund sold an Amsterdam office block for €215m. Situated within the Amsterdam South Axis, the country’s most densely populated business district, the... Read More
The Chinese government has confirmed it may well extend its planned property register to include commercial real estate as a way of cracking down on fraud and internal corruption. Tracking property ownership and keeping a record of sales is seen as one... Read More
Google has started 2014 by adding to its Palo Alto holdings. The new property, located at 1076 East Meadow Circle, is situated on about an acre of land. The company paid approximately $6.5 million for the 19,700 square-foot building. The search engine... Read More
Epic LLC — a division of the London-based property management company — has paid almost $53m for a Washington office block. The acquisition of the 10-storey building near Farragut Square makes Epic the most recent foreign investor in downtown DC... Read More
The US commercial real estate market ended last year strongly, with continued recovery noted in the fourth quarter according to CBRE. The office vacancy rate declined by a total of 30 basis points to hit 14.8 per cent in Q4. This was the most distinct... 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.
