Property Investment News
Build-to-rent investment tops £4bn
Institutional investment in purpose-built rental homes jumped by 19% last year, while deal volumes leapt by a third.
Prime London is ‘returning towards a pre-pandemic rental market’
London Central Portfolio saw an 11% jump in agreed rents on new tenancies in Q4 2021, "correcting the deep discounts that were granted during the same period in 2020".
MARK teams up with SevenCapital to build RBKC’s tallest tower
Birmingham-based SevenCapital has made its second big play in London in seven months, taking over from Londonewcastle as MARK's JV partner at 100 West Cromwell Road - with plans to build the tallest tower…
Planning nod for Heaton’s ‘Other House’ project in Covent Garden
Designs for The Other House Covent Garden - a JV between London Central Portfolio and APG - have been drawn up by architects Falconer Chester Hall and interior designers Bergman Design House.
Real estate in the metaverse is booming; is it really such a crazy idea?
Gaming is starting to overlap with real life, explains Theo Tzanidis - but is the virtual real estate boom the next great thing or the next big bubble?
Watch: Hollinrake proposes a new wealth tax on non-resident property owners
MP and former estate agency boss Kevin Hollinrake has outlined a series of proposals to make Britain's housing market more fair and equitable - including a new wealth tax on overseas buyers of UK property.
Savills adds Operational Capital Markets director
Ed Crockett has joined Savills from abrdn, where he was head of UK Residential Investment.
Investors pump record amounts into UK build-to-rent projects
14% more capital was invested into the UK's build-to-rent sector last year than in any other year.
Fine & Country enters the Metaverse
“It makes perfect sense for real estate funds and family offices to allocate up to 5% of their portfolio to Metaverse," says the founder of Exclusible, a luxury-focused NFT platform that's just partnered…
Wilton Crescent refurb project bags £17.5m loan from CapitalRise
Super-prime townhouse renovation project in Belgravia has been valued in its current state at £27m.
Warwick Investments builds PCL rental presence with off-market Mayfair mansion acquisition
Warwick Investment Group - run in the UK by former CPC exec Andrew Chrysostomou - is building an impressive portfolio of prime rental properties in Mayfair and Belgravia.
‘Rents in Inner London are on track to reach pre-pandemic levels by the middle of 2022’ – Hamptons
"Rents in Inner London are on track to reach pre-pandemic levels by the middle of 2022," says Hamptons.