Commercial property investors in the United Kingdom are prepared to take on more debt for new transactions as the market recovery heats up. The average loan-to-value ratio sought by investors increased to 58.3 per cent in Q3 of the year from 43.6 per... Read More
International investors are betting on London commercial projects as opposed to putting their money in property funds, according to a recent Bloomberg article. The report notes that the current shift is a bold one, taking into account that foreign... Read More
Britain’s regional recovery is underway with 88 per cent of property professionals expecting their assets to rise in the next six months — compared to just 10 per cent this time last year. And confidence is highest north of the border, claims the... Read More
While Chinese investment floods into the UK market, Western developers are cashing in on China’s growing consumerism by investing in warehouses, shopping malls and other western-style retail projects in the country, says the Wall Street... Read More
The Kuwaiti real estate conglomerate, St Martins Property Group, has purchased the prestige More London development from London Bridge Holdings for a reported £1.7bn. London Bridge originally announced it intended to refinance the Thames-side... Read More
More than 30 bids have been received for the multi-billion Euro sell off of property loans issued by the now defunct Anglo Irish Bank. The Anglo Irish interest in the Whitgift Centre is also for sale The two commercial property loan portfolios —... Read More
A new company is taking advantage of Ireland’s recovering property market by announcing plans for a €350m initial public offering. Hibernia will become only the country’s third Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) but has already attracted... Read More
Investors looking for a better return than London or other European markets are turning to the German property market to boost their portfolio. The rush for high yield investments has increased transactions by 18.6 per cent so far this year and is... Read More
Prompted by rising rents in Britain’s biggest financial district, Deka Immobilien has paid almost £416m — 500 million Euros — for a City of London office building. Deka, buying on behalf of its open-ended real estate fund Deka-ImmobilienEuropa,... Read More
Ardstone — the Irish investment firm — has completed a run of multi-million pound investments by spending £40m on a Birmingham office block. Notable for being one of the few Irish investors to have avoided the property crash, in September Ardstone... Read More
