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Retail

M7 secures £135m+ retail park portfolio exit

Trio of assets is latest notable trade by manager

Logistics

Hines and Oaktree fire up £175m logistics sale

DTRE mandated on portfolio disposal

Logistics

Henderson Park buys out partner on 1.4m sq ft West Yorkshire logistics site

First phase of the scheme has already been completed
Fundraising

Cabot’s €400m Europe roadshow kicks off

US logistics firm to target investments in the UK, Netherlands and Germany
Student Accommodation

Student specialist completes £60m Edinburgh site purchase

Development expected to create up to 400 student beds
Corporate

Patron Capital secures €600m investment from Mitsubishi Estate

Mitsubishi Estate Co (MEC) buys majority stake and provides capital to finance Patron’s for new subsector strategies
London

Colliers’ London head of international capital departs

Director leaves the firm to explore other opportunities
Opinion

Timber is not just a symbolic choice in warehouse construction

Cost premium to conventional development is expected to narrow in the medium term

Spotlight

Politics

Institutions eye opportunity as Reeves revives housing associations

Spending review creates potential partnerships with private sector worth billions as Homes England given £4.8bn to lend
Opinion

Why regional offices are reaching a turning point

After a tough five years, the outlook is improving thanks to a supply squeeze

Europe news

Finance

Tite Street and Crestline provide €70m Lake Starnberg development refinancing

Whole loan is for C7 Group’s Feldafinger Höhe residential project
Corporate

Q+A: Cushman Germany – “Sometimes people just follow the money”

Country head Tina Reuter and head of capital markets Simon Jeschioro discuss departures and dealmaking amid strategic realignment
Office

€140m Paris office sale relaunched for fourth time

Value of JP Morgan and LaSalle’s property has depreciated by more than half since 2020
Retail

Specialist investor takes 50% stake in €700m Berlin shopping centre

The 125,000 sq m asset, which also includes resi units and a hotel, was put on the market earlier this year

More from UK & Ireland

Corporate

Swiss Life AM UK aims to more than double portfolio to £5bn

Manager pursues growth opportunities across living and alternative sectors
Student Accommodation

Tokoro-backed HMO operator adds to £50m regional portfolio

Manchester assets join holdings in Newcastle, Leeds and Durham
South East

South East office take-up hits three-year high

Lack of prime space is creating unprecedented value-add opportunities, says LSH
London

China’s Greenland mulls sale of £600m Spire London

Site of Europe’s tallest residential tower up for grabs
Residential

Building Safety Regulator starts to budge on Gateway 2

New measures unveiled during CLC sector call

Irish government expands residential rent caps nationally

Landlords can increase rent between tenancies but both new builds and existing lettings to be controlled
Bridges and Hub buy 300-home London co-living scheme

Sandringham Mews was part of Oaktree-backed co-living platform Balanced Out Living
Knight Frank makes raft of promotions

170 colleagues step up in firm’s latest round of UK promotions
L&G completes £250m financing for cold storage provider

Company contributed to the total £500m financing on behalf of its private markets platform
GS8 buys £300m Basildon residential site

Scheme marks its third project in Essex
London agency launches affordable housing arm

Managing director Adil Rashid will lead Vandermolen Real Estate’s new strategy
Lloyds Living adds 598 homes to portfolio

Lloyds Bank’s private rental business seals second acquisition with partner Barratt Redrow
Custodian Property grows NAV to £423.5m

Firm posts £12m increase due to valuation gains in full-year results
Approval for Cambridgeshire life sciences campus expansion

Scheme will add around 200,000 sq ft of lab space within the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton
Dan Batterton promoted to L&G’s head of housing

The newly created role oversees a unified housing platform, combining businesses with over £5bn AUM and more than 17,000 homes

Analysis

Self-storage

Self-storage sellers face reality check

Recapitalisations grow in prominence as bidders question pricing of older stock and owners look to achieve scale
People

Who will replace Hammerson’s Rita-Rose Gagné?

Green Street News weighs up the likely runners and riders for the top job at the retail REIT
Investment

UK, Germany and Spain in global top five for cross-border capital destinations

US share of activity fell below 15% from over 17%, according to Colliers
Politics

Will Labour have the stomach for new towns?

Investors circle opportunity, but questions emerge over government commitment
Corporate

Sirius’ Andrew Coombs: “Defence is just another layer on top”

Chief executive on industrial market drivers in the UK and Germany

Opinion

Is £86bn for sciences enough to boost investment outside the Golden Triangle?

Kadans Science Partner on why Rachel Reeves’ new funding for sciences could be a tonic to the regions
How building safety changes affect retailers

Beyond residential towers, the Building Safety Act has serious implications for commercial units
How unblocking the East Midlands can unlock a £9bn opportunity

Government action is needed to free up one of the country’s best development opportunities
Net lease in Europe: a strategic haven amid macro turmoil

Investors can position themselves to reap stable, inflation-resistant returns in an uncertain world
What’s in a name? Rethinking co-living in today’s rental landscape

As the market matures and the product evolves, is the term still fit for purpose or has it become too broad – and even a bit misleading?

People

Colliers hires capital markets director in Birmingham team

Ben Wisher joins from CBRE
Metre Capital adds third partner

Leading broker joins up with pan-European capital advisory business
Former Burbage Realty partners spin out of Cushman

Senior logistics advisers resign after three-year stint at the agency
Battersea Power Station names new interim chief executive

Appointment confirms departure of Donagh O’Sullivan after a year in the role
Bruntwood retail boss heads to CBRE

Latest director has expertise across Northern city centres
Cushman partner heads to JLL

Senior figure departs Leeds office

Student Accommodation

Q+A: Urbanest on “ripping up the rulebook” and building Europe’s largest Passivhaus scheme

Head of development Angus Kearin discusses how the student accommodation developer is leading the market in sustainability certification
Logistics

Q+A: Tritax’s Nick Ireland on flying airport fund into new markets

Manager seeks to double fund size to £1.5bn following change of strategy and structure
Retail

Q+A: Sovereign Centros boss – “The power in this building is immense”

Eighteen months after his asset management business was acquired by CBRE, Chris Geaves discusses life in the green machine and the mood in the retail market