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.
Almost half (45 per cent) of all real estate investment in the Asia Pacific rim is going into the Australian commercial property market. This is twice the amount being invested in Japan, which is the next biggest market at 19 per cent. Investors are flocking... Read More
Despite the recession easing job creation in the United States is not keeping pace with available office space. The office market is growing at what is being described as a "glacial" pace. New York-based researcher Reis has released figures indicating... Read More
Stirling Properties has announced the grand opening of a new full-service Walgreens drug store in New Orleans. The 13,000 sq ft facility, which is located at 5518 Magazine Street, is situated in a building with plenty of patriotic history. Magazine... Read More
Alliance Partners has bought Burnham Center in downtown Chicago for $94.6 million. The company, which is the east coast branch the real estate firm The Schidler Group, signed the deal for the 580,000 sq ft property only five months after the historic building... Read More
With a delinquency rate of 14.6 per cent, boom-era commercial mortgage holders are missing out on the U.S. real estate recovery, according to Trepp LLC. The data provider has released a report showing that the average delinquency rate for the overall... Read More
Maguire Investments has announced that it has recapitalised Water's Edge, its 6.5 acre, two-building "creative office campus" in Los Angeles with a $105 million loan. Water's Edge is located close to Ballona Preserve The funds are earmarked for tenant... Read More
The commercial property market has not been immune to the effects of the foreclosure crisis. Years after the real estate boom went bust, Southwest Florida has seen some multimillion dollar commercial foreclosures in Lee and Collier counties. While there... Read More
Recently we reported that plans to remove an historic section of the Berlin Wall to allow a property development to go ahead had led to protests in the German capital. The section in question is part of the East Side Gallery stretch of the wall which has been... Read More
The commercial property market in Beijing has risen by 320.5 per cent in the first 10 days of March. Since the government has introduced its new measures to cool down the country's residential sector, investors have responded by shifting their focus to this... Read More
Market insiders say the Greek commercial property market is ready to bottom out by next year and will start to post higher numbers in 2014, if not sooner. Rental rate renegotiations and a general reduction in prices is expected to continue until the third... 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.
