Investment
Resi investors shun Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is transitioning into a place to live as well as work, says Savills; a third of buyers in the area are international, and over a third of households earn more than £100k a year.
Westminster crowned London’s ‘best performing’ borough for property in 2019
From house price growth to sustainability, rental value to construction activity, CBRE has totted-up the property performance of each London borough in 2019 - coming up with a series of top ten "winners"...
LCP & APG team up for new hotel brand; launch with prime South Ken acquisition
London Central Portfolio has formed a joint venture with APG (which recently teamed up with Delancey to buy Earls Court), acquiring the Harrington Hall site in South Kensington as an inaugural "lifestyle…
British Pearl crowdfunds another £800k
Investment platform backed by former Conservative Party treasurer Lord Stanley Fink completes another successful round
Delancey completes Earls Court acquisition; plots ‘an entirely new vision for the site’
Capital & Counties has offloaded its stake in the Earls Court development to Delancey and APG for £425m.
Meyer Bergman’s VC arm backs CapitalRise
Luxury property crowdfunding platform CapitalRise has secured a £1m equity investment from Meyer Bergman's Revolt Ventures
Europe’s resi real estate investors are ‘bullish’ despite Brexit & regulatory concerns
Paris, Berlin and Frankfurt are the top picks for real estate investment in 2020, reports PWC
Northacre owner is ‘in discussions with a few’ big-ticket distressed development projects in PCL
"Brexit is fully priced in," says ADFG's CEO Jassim Alseddiqi. "I strongly believe there is pent-up demand in Central London residential that will be coming up very soon ...
Investors & developers tap into London’s luxury lettings market
55% of PCL tenancies above £2,500 per week now involve properties owned by either build/own-to-rent investor-developers or professional investors, up from 20% five years ago
Brexit ‘barely relevant’ for most international buyers, says acquisition firm
'For all the political and economic uncertainty we face because of Brexit, the further you get away from the UK, the less significant it becomes', says Black Brick's Caspar Harvard-Walls, as the PCL agency…
New development corporation push promises more new towns ‘on the scale of Canary Wharf’
Sir George Iacobescu is on board to advise on a new Government fund to encourage large-scale regional development
High-end US property rental firm raises $50m; plots significant London entry
Turnkey apartment operator Blueground plans to enter the London property market by the end of this year, building up a portfolio of 1,500 luxury rental properties by 2023