Investment
Urban Exposure launches £500m loan note
Aim-listed property finance firm launches a Bond for retail investors
Infography: PCL property has outperformed other assets over the last 30 years
A £100 investment in PCL property in 1989 would now be worth £575, according to Knight Frank's sums, while the same stake in the FTSE 100 or Gold would be worth £351 and £338 respectively
73% of buy-to-let investors still think the sector is the best long-term investment
83% of investors say it is either unlikely or very unlikely that they will sell their buy-to-let property within the next year, with the majority (58%) staying put for five years
FT: Why high-rise, high-spec property is high risk
Judith Evans reports for the Financial Times on the ailing market for luxury off-plan units around the world
Build-to-Rent, student housing & retirement living present a £700bn investment opportunity says Savills
The value of the UK's "residential operational real estate" sector - combining build-to-rent, senior living and student housing - is set to quadruple, forecasts Savills, hitting £880bn once fully mature…
London airspace developer secures £3m equity backing
BGF has agreed a further £3m investment into Apex Airspace, taking the specialist property developer's fundraising total to £22m in 2019
Hampstead townhouse scheme goes crowdfunding
East Eight and London Central Developments are looking to raise £1m for their latest boutique project via a crowdfunding platform
New wealth management firm for billionaires launches in Monaco
Monaco-based Azura is set to hit the ground running with 'about $2bn' of advisory assets under management
Rare whisky outperforms other ‘luxury asset’ classes
Knight Frank's Luxury Investment Index has out-paced the prime London property market for the last five years, as have the FTSE and Gold (albeit in more volatile fashion)
Re-imagining real estate: How ‘tokenisation’ is transforming global property investment
The blockchain ecosystem is growing, says Steven Lang of Savills, and this ‘tokenisation’ has the potential to revolutionise the global real estate sector by fragmenting real-world assets into digital…
Investment into UK purpose-built residential assets to hit £146bn by 2025
Knight Frank predicts that investment into the combined UK Student Accommodation, investment-grade private rented sector, and senior living rental sectors will rocket from £87.
New property recruitment agency bags backing from Caan & Butt
James Caan's Hamilton Bradshaw and Faisal Butt's Spire Ventures have backed a new property-centric recruitment agency, Beaumont Bailey