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London

Search launched for £500m Bloomsbury tower partner

Investor sought for Museum Street scheme

Logistics

Cutts cashes in £200m warehouse project

Mountpark founder offloading 1m sq ft scheme received as part-payment for his exit from developer

Residential

Eldridge pumps £146m into Vita’s latest Manchester student scheme

Project includes 861 student beds
Retail

Frasers nears £220m Glasgow mall deal

Braehead shopping centre spans 1.1m sq ft
Office

Victory Group secures £45m loan for Jermyn Street office scheme

22,000 sq ft asset is the investment firm’s first UK redevelopment
Residential

£86m resi project planned for Surrey car park

Construction slated to begin in summer 2026
People

Modal makes trio of senior hires

Industrial open storage specialist team now totals eight
Hotels & Leisure

£57m City hotel redevelopment hits the market

Hub by Premier Inn to open in January 2026

Spotlight

Opinion

Shah on property: real estate is due a boost when the AI bubble deflates

Real-economy stocks tend to rally when euphoria over long-shot ventures subsides
Investment

Q+A: CBRE IM’s Achal Gandhi on the rise of the super investor

CIO of indirect real estate strategies on what the big-ticket backers of real estate companies are looking for

Europe news

Retail

French developer to dispose of entire €300m+ retail portfolio

Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC) is advising on the sale
Student Accommodation

€70m+ Barcelona student scheme hits the market

Blau Student Housing comprises 265 beds
Office

Hines picks preferred bidder for €70m Munich asset

Signing for the 5,200 sq m mixed-use property is imminent
Senior living

€300m French senior living portfolio sale pulled

Offers did not match seller’s pricing expectations

More from UK & Ireland

Corporate

Hanover Green recruits investment heavyweight as partner

Central London investment team now totals eight
Retail

Metrocentre lands £70m refinancing

Loans to help fund investment in the shopping centre
Investment

Threadneedle strikes sale of £50m duo from Trilogy portfolio

Manager has been breaking up airports collection following withdrawn wholesale offering
Student Accommodation

Related and Davidson Kempner form partnership for new living strategy

US giant secures debut European deal with private equity partner as they look to build £300m portfolio
Retail

Luxury fashion house chooses Knightsbridge for UK flagship

Latest signing for The Knightsbridge Estate secured alongside premium sportswear brand

GPE reports jump in earnings

London office landlord and developer notes “increased uncertainty” ahead of the budget
LondonMetric transacts on £73m of acquisitions and disposals

Midlands airport warehouse and Manchester hotel cross the line
Harbert appoints trio to senior roles

John Harbert is among those promoted as he takes on overall responsibility for European real estate
Amundi and ICG agree 10-year strategic partnership

Deal will accelerate distribution of private assets
Plans in for Manchester’s Norfolk House hotel conversion

Proposals will add a further 95 bedrooms
Sirius to shift investment focus from UK to Germany

Chief executive Andrew Coombs says German government is doing more for business
Stoford to lead 4m sq ft Milton Keynes logistics project

Berkeley Group’s MK East slated to complete in 2027
Wavensmere plans 320 Nottingham co-living homes

Waterway House site to host five-storey project
Tishman JV life sciences fund raises €371m at first close

Breakthrough Properties Growth Portfolio II fund will invest in US and European innovation clusters
KKR and ISIF pump €770m into Irish property lender

Activate Capital has completed more than €3bn in residential development financing since 2015

Analysis

Investment

Where will the money come from in 2026?

Aided by cheaper debt and falling interest rates, global capital is expected to target the UK again
Corporate

How Barchester’s new owner delivered the most eye-popping numbers in global real estate

Following a meteoric rise, Welltower is now the world’s biggest REIT
Senior living

Retirement operators pivot to income as sector consolidates

NatWest pension fund deal for Inspired Villages reflects broader market shift
Retail

Mapic 2025: “The mood music is incredibly positive”

CBRE, Cushman and JLL discuss what’s driving appetite for the retail sector
Investment

Swiss Life on growing its real estate portfolio

Group CIO Per Erikson and Swiss Life AM Germany CEO Holger Matheis on expansion targets

Opinion

Capex, compliance and competitive edge: the rise of technical leadership

Investment management firms can focus on creating value from the hiring process
Private investors realise it pays to be a lender

More private wealth capital is being funnelled into real estate debt
Putting health at the heart of urban development

Health is about more than just hospitals and medicine – our built environment is key
How to adapt to a new era of debt

We must navigate refinancing risks, private credit exposures and regulatory reckoning
Are low-carbon materials the most sustainable choice?

Adopting circular economy principles is vital to progress

People

Bywater makes senior hire from Schroders

James Mitchell appointed group finance director
Bill Hughes to “step back” at L&G

Industry titan moving away from day-to-day management to recover following period of ill health
Newmark adds two more big-hitters to growing debt team

Hires follow addition of four senior figures last month
Arada’s Australian MD made redundant amid leadership tensions

Relationships in the Arada Australia management team had fractured, with parties alleging misconduct
Dominus brings in big-hitters to support hotel and student growth

Former bosses from Sellar and Unite on board
Chancerygate appoints head of Europe

Nikolay Velev will spearhead logistics developer’s expansion in mainland Europe

Fundraising

Q+A: Zenzic Capital on $1bn target for new credit opportunities fund

Co-founders Nadine Buckland and Tom Lloyd-Jones discuss aims for the fund and reveal plans to expand in Continental Europe
Financing

Q+A: JLL’s global head of lender advisory on accessing high-quality real estate through SRTs

Tyrone Hodge discusses how banks – such as Aareal last week – are transferring credit risk without selling underlying assets
Hotels & Leisure

Five questions for Whitbread’s property chief Mark Anderson

Hotel giant leveraging its market-leading position to deliver value from its portfolio