Investment
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 sec…
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
Vote of Confidence: Why EU investors are unruffled by London’s market turbulence
Recent figures suggest the majority of EU investors remain unfazed by the uncertainty in the London market, and even relishing the opportunities being created, say property lawyers Julian Bishop & Emma…
New finance platform aims to deploy ‘in excess of £125m’ to SME resi developers in the next 12 months
Hilltop Credit Partners is being backed by Round Hill Capital, and has secured finance from Oaknorth Bank
Residency as a luxury good: Marketing global ‘golden visa’ programmes
As the world’s most popular programmes proving a significant draw for international investment, property advisors must constantly develop their understanding of where interest is coming from, and how t…
CapitalRise secures £30m institutional funding line
Top-end property finance platform gets significant backing from a major bank