Land Securities, which this week began work on the Walkie-Talkie office tower in the City in a joint venture with Canary Wharf Group, yesterday announced that it expects a wider range of buying opportunities this year – although bidding may remain ... Read more
Another shopping-centre deal was announced today – NewRiver Retail has bought a portfolio of five shopping malls for £53m from the CPI Retail Active Management (CReAM) fund. The centres are in Bramley in Leeds, Burgess Hill in West Sussex, Erdington ... Read more
London still offers attractive investment opportunities, with City office space and West End offices classed as HOT under DTZ’s Fair Value Index for the third quarter. These are the only two HOT UK office markets, according to the firm’s ... Read more
JLL research has shown that Birmingham came top of the list for international property investment in the UK outside London in the first half of 2010. The Birmingham Post quotes Richard Goodhall from JLL as saying that the findings came as “something ... Read more
Listed property group Hammerson says the outlook remains uncertain. As the group today unveiled a 7% increase in adjusted pre-tax profit during the first half of 2010, chairman John Nelson said: “With an uncertain economic outlook we will focus on ... Read more
DTZ’s second-quarter reports on the market for office space in the UK regions show that occupier sentiment clearly took a turn for the worse in many cases, and tenants were hesitating to commit to deals. While 2009 probably marked the lowest point ... Read more
While many of the measures announced by Chancellor George Osborne in his Emergency Budget today appear to be broadly in line with expectations, the increase in Capital Gains Tax at midnight tonight to 28% from 18% for higher-rate taxpayers is of key ... Read more
It’s Friday, so it must be time for a dose of caution. As the Euro and banking shares take fright at the prospect of the Greek crisis spreading elsewhere, MoneyWeek says it is wary of piling back into commercial property despite what DTZ and Knight ... Read more
In our quest to listen to you and constantly improve our site, we have taken a detailed look at the technology that determines the order of properties in your lists. Miranda Munn, managing director of NovaLoca, has delved into this subject in ... Read more
