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London

Nomura in talks to sell £100m West End block

Japanese investor is running a quiet sale process for Charing Cross Road gem

Retail

LaSalle revisits sale and recap options for £600m outlet centre

Investment manager sounding out potential investors

Corporate

Ex-Activum UK head launches new investment firm

Curion Capital will specialise in alternative credit and hard asset opportunities
Retail

US investor resumes mall acquisition drive with double cash buy

Two shopping centres change hands
Office

Orega management takes over in private equity-backed buyout

Deal will fund expansion to 50 sites by 2031
Corporate

Realty Income CEO: “You need the courage to go against the tide”

Sumit Roy shared his thoughts on the company’s rapid ascent in Europe at the annual EPRA conference
Hotels & Leisure

CBRE names new UK and Ireland hotels investment head

Agent has made several leadership changes
Office

Fiera locks in buyer for regional office HQ

Radius Campus in Crewe changes hands

Spotlight

People

Shah on property: farewell to the property jungle’s most lustrous leopard

Mike Slade was one of the last big characters in the PLC sector
Office

Regional REIT’s Inglis: “In 18 months we haven’t sold to the same buyer twice”

Deeper buyer pool allowing REIT to reinvest to meet demand for refurbished space

Europe news

Personal loans

Buy-now, pay-later securitizations seen heating up in Europe

Others are expected to follow KKR in securitizing buy-now, pay-later loans across the pond
Second lien

Home-equity lenders jump on EU, UK risk-retention bandwagon

US second-lien and HELOC securitizations increasingly are complying with European skin-in-the-game rules
Corporate

Ex-Activum UK head launches new investment firm

Curion Capital will specialise in alternative credit and hard asset opportunities
Corporate

Realty Income CEO: “You need the courage to go against the tide”

Sumit Roy shared his thoughts on the company’s rapid ascent in Europe at the annual EPRA conference

More from UK & Ireland

Retail

US investor resumes mall acquisition drive with double cash buy

Two shopping centres change hands
Logistics

Chancerygate snaps up £28m Milton Keynes industrial hub

DTZ Investors offloads 192,000 sq ft Wolverton multi-let asset
Office

Fiera locks in buyer for regional office HQ

Radius Campus in Crewe changes hands
Hotels & Leisure

CBRE names new UK and Ireland hotels investment head

Agent has made several leadership changes
People

EQT promotes Russell Petrie to head of living

Petrie replaces Tom Livelli while Jeannie Wong joins as head of investments

First phase of £2bn York Central approved

McLaren and Arlington Real Estate secure planning for 1,000 homes, an innovation hub, and a station expansion
Berkeley calls for stamp duty reform in struggling housing market

Group warns transactions deferred until after budget as it continues to pause new phases and land buying
Supermarket Income splashes £106m on six assets

Acquisitions mark full deployment of proceeds from recent equity raise
Starlight makes final close of £680m UK residential fund

Fund will support the acquisition and delivery of more than 6,000 homes
Kajima secures approval for 31,000 sq ft Soho office retrofit

Firm’s European arm will upgrade the asset to modern standards
Lisbon and Milan lead the way in prime shopping centre rent rises

Savills expects future retail tenants to come from health, food and beverage, leisure and services sectors
UK Land Estates names David Gibbs managing director

Keith Taylor steps down after 23 years to transition into executive chairman role
Cedarstone and Cheyne win approval for £2bn Vauxhall Square project

Residential-led development marks one of the largest regeneration schemes in London
Aviva Investors plans doubling of historic City office

New Broad Street House sits opposite Liverpool Street station and would be the latest office scheme in the City’s development pipeline
RE:UK calls for tax cuts to jumpstart stalled £950bn property sector

Property lobby group urges chancellor to cut taxes and fees as construction activity falls

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Hotels & Leisure

Ruby enters Finnish hotel market

Union Investment will reposition Proffa office building for operator
Alternatives

Aedifica invests €13m in Valencia care campus

Novaedat will operate the property
Logistics

CTP lets 104,000 sq m at Polish logistics park

Two leases made at CTPark Iłowa
Residential

Greystar lists €100m+ Madrid aparthotel

Sale expected to attract both flex living operators and value-add privatisation players
Residential

Vesteda chief executive: “I sense we are at a turning point”

After fighting off a €4.1bn redemption shock, the Netherlands’ largest residential landlord aims to double in size to €20bn

Analysis

Residential

EPRA 2026: “€100bn is needed for German housing, but it isn’t there”

Vonovia CEO Luka Mucic shared thoughts on Europe’s housing crisis alongside other CEOs and MEPs
People

Mike Slade remembered: “He would lift the spirit of any room”

Industry pays tribute to larger-than-life character who was one of the last property grandees
Corporate

The curious case of the former bankrupt racehorse trainer and Ireland’s newly listed REIT

GDL Management Group listed on the Irish stock exchange last week
Development

The best unbuilt schemes: developments that could have been

A look back at some of the more interesting proposals that were never built
Policy & Regulation

Why the spectre of rent controls continues to haunt the new government

A series of embarrassing leaks and row-backs continues to dent investor confidence

Opinion

Retail investment is returning but scarcity is reshaping where capital goes

Income, occupier demand and location are becoming increasingly important to investment decision
Why European lenders are changing how they apply sustainability criteria

Sustainability is firmly embedded in European lending decisions
From trophy to platform: why family capital is building hotels

A new generation of family capital is moving into operational architecture
AI and emotional intelligence: redefining soft skills

Building trust and reading emotion cannot be replicated by computers
Office refurbishments in the regions: what’s changed?

Spotting a crane on an office site outside of London is becoming increasingly rare

People

Downing hires George Cotterell to lead commercial real estate lending push

Investment manager raises £500m to support debt drive
DTZ Investors appoints Generali exec to lead capital-raising push

Nicholas Garattini will take on newly created London-based role in October
Park Place Retail boosts team with partner hire

Boutique advisory firm appoints Jessica Salmon
King joins Tidebridge as demand builds for bespoke technology

Former consultant becomes commercial director of recently launched firm
Dot Group hires Ronen Journo to lead Yugo in Europe

Executive has worked at Hines, WeWork and Cisco
Retail specialist Vedra hires duo to accelerate expansion strategy

Appointments reflect firm’s focus on growing its landlord and occupier advisory platforms

Investment

Q+A: Madison on tackling the open-ended fund liquidity challenge

Jacob Albano and Maximilian Sauermann discuss the “fear cycle”, the secondaries market and creating breathing space for assets to perform
Co-living

Q+A: Node’s Khera – “We’re not just trying to disrupt; we’re trying to institutionalise”

The co-living specialist is planning to expand across three continents
Corporate

Q+A: Mike Pegler on the strategy behind Kennedy Wilson’s recent deal run

European president aims to grow the firm’s investment management business

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ABS

Diverging bond-yield trends lock issuers in funding tug-of-war

The focus is on new-issue ABS spreads as issuers work to keep buy-siders in place
Utility

State officials renew efforts to reclassify utility-fee bonds

Governors and regulators argue such securities should be classified as corporate debt
People

The Grapevine – Moffitt lands at Fortress, Lin joins King Street & more

ABA’s weekly roundup of the latest people moves
Credit cards

Nonbank card companies are shuffling the securitization deck

New companies are accounting for a larger share of U.S. bond issues backed by credit…
Risk-transfer

U.S. Bank pushes the risk-transfer market’s credit envelope

The bank issues its first so-called crossover deal including exposure to noninvestment-grade corporate loans