Property Investor News
Investment giant AXA makes PRS splash with Dolphin Square acquisition
Westbrook has sold the famous Dolphin Square apartment complex in Pimlico to AXA Investment Managers.
Osborne+Co launch new £1bn property investment business
Sidra Capital's Rishi Khurana has joined Osborne+Co's founder Conor Osborne in a new venture that's aiming to build a £1bn mixed-use portfolio in the next 12 months.
Montague rebrands; recruits Sobha man for Middle East expansion
Luke Banks has moved from leading luxury Dubai developer Sobha in the UK to helming the new Middle East division of Thomas Balashev's Montague Real Estate.
Hungarian resi development giant Cordia makes its first UK splash
“Our goal is to become one of the leading and most diversified residential development groups in Europe," says Cordia International's Chairman Tibor Földi. "
Ken Griffin’s latest splash takes his prime resi spending spree to nearly $1bn
American hedge fund billionaire has dropped around $950m on super-prime homes in the USA and London.
Crown Estate appoints a digital chief to ‘unlock potential’
Linda Morant has been recruited as the first Chief Digital Officer at The Crown Estate.
Capco takes a 26% stake in Shaftesbury
Covent Garden owner Capco has agreed to buy a 26.3% stake in West End landowner Shaftesbury Plc, for £435.9m.
Hong Kong developer proposes a new émigré city in Ireland
One of Hong Kong's big property mavens is touting a plan to build a whole new city in Ireland, to home around 50,000 emigrants from his semi-autonomous Chinese hometown.
Fairway’s resi fund snaps up £70m-worth of PCL property from Grosvenor, as blue chip investors look for a safe haven
"In macro-economic terms, Covid is just about as bad as it gets," says Leconfield and Fairway Capital founder George Brooksbank
Real estate advisory service launched for sports pros
London Belgravia Group has set up a specialist division to handle property investments for retiring sports stars.
Argent’s Strongman appointed to run L&G’s £4bn Oxford University Development
OUD is a major partnership between Oxford University and Legal & General, tasked with developing thousands of homes for students and staff alongside new science and innovation districts.
Property investor-developers have reduced intended UK spend by £1.2bn, says the BPF
The British Property Federation has published a "Covid-19 recovery roadmap", suggesting that Stamp Duty be temporarily cut for institutional build-to-rent investors, and a reduction of VAT on residential…