Yopa installs industry veteran Chair as backers plough in another £16m
Savills-backed hybrid estate agency Yopa has raised £16m from investors, and appointed Grenville Turner as Chairman
European property fund raises $2bn
Ares is targeting “distressed” and “complex” residential and commercial assets in major European cities
Ranked: Britain’s top towns for student housing investment
“Student housing is the most mature of the UK’s purpose-built rentalised residential markets,” says Savills, offering up some First Class opportunities for property developers and investors – but it’s not all about academic rankings…
Keller Williams partners with Purplebricks alumnus’ ‘Amazon for property’ start-up
Purplebricks alumnus Richard Jacques has launched a property investment marketplace that he calls an “Amazon for property”, and signed a deal with franchised estate agency network Keller Williams
LendInvest secures £200m from National Australia Bank for UK buy-to-let push
National Australia Bank has pumped a “very substantial investment” into Christian Faes’ property finance platform
DAMAC chief: ‘I see 2019 as a year of opportunity in London’
Current uncertainties around Brexit offer just the right conditions to strike great property deals, says billionaire Emirati developer Hussain Sajwani…
‘A changed world’: What effect will leasehold reform have on landlords, leaseholders & tenants?
As the Government moves forward with plans to overhaul the established leasehold system, Property Vision’s Charlie Ellingworth & Philip Harvey explore what leasehold reform will mean for landlords, leaseholders and tenants. “For residential landlords of both long and short leases this is a changed world,” they say, “— and it’s not going back any time soon”
On Leasehold Reform: A brief history and next steps
Reforming the leasehold system has been moving rapidly up the government’s agenda, and whilst welcomed by the domestic leasehold owners and tenants, the vast range of proposals are causing some concern in the industry. To make sense of it all, Emma Gosling summarises the background, and potentially highly significant changes on the horizon…
AskPorter raises another £1.5m
Three-year-old property management disrupter secures more VC backing
Residential investment surges by 150%, despite Brexit
2018 was ‘a breakthrough year’ for institutional property investment in the UK, says JLL
Beyond Capital Appreciation: What are Asian investors looking for in post-boom London?
Lawyer Chris Myers explains why capital appreciation and rental yields are no longer the only considerations for investors looking to buy in the UK capital – ‘value-add’ is now a fundamental part of the decision-making process…
Institutional PRS investment was 20% higher in H1 2019 than in H1 2018
Nearly £1.4bn was pumped into the UK’s Private Rented Sector by institutional investors in the first six months of this years, says CBRE, despite a relatively low-key Q2