Defiant dealmaking for Shoosmiths’ real estate investment group Jul 10, 2023 Despite further tightening in the lending market and wider economy, Shoosmiths’ real estate investment group concluded c.£200m worth of deals in Q2 2023. The quarter saw the law firm’s investment specialists act on transactions in the office, industrial and logistics sectors, as well as the mixed-use Royal Albert Dock development. Shoosmiths started the quarter by […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Octopus Real Estate provides loans totalling £26.3m to leading care home operator Jul 10, 2023 Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Investments and a leading UK specialist real estate lender and investor, has provided a total of £26.3m to support the development of two purpose built care homes. The back-to-back development loans provided to Connaught Care last month will finance the construction of two state of the art care homes […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
£500m Green Finance Fund opens to London local authorities Jul 10, 2023 Urgent action is needed to tackle climate change. We are seeing the impacts of climate change accelerate in London and globally. Last year London experienced drought, record temperatures and heatwaves that also led to wildfires across the city and the busiest day for the London Fire Brigade since the Second World War. Globally we saw […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Announcement of £500 million funding partnership Jul 10, 2023 LendInvest plc (AIM: LINV; “LendInvest” or the “Group”), the UK’s leading platform for mortgages, has announced a £500 million investment to fund part of its future mortgage originations for its Buy-to-Let and Residential Mortgage products from Chetwood Financial Limited. This new funding will further the growth of LendInvest’s Buy-to-Let business, which supports professional landlords, as […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Keepmoat to deliver 4,000 new homes targeting net zero as it becomes new strategic partner of WMCA Jul 10, 2023 Top 10 homebuilder Keepmoat has announced it has become the latest strategic partner of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), with a commitment to build 4,000 additional new homes in the West Midlands. Keepmoat has also made a committement to aim to achieve net zero carbon emissions when building on brownfield sites and to increase […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
MRP Purchases Liberty House, Kensington Olympia From Catella APAM Jul 10, 2023 Catella APAM (“APAM”), the specialist UK & Ireland real estate asset manager, is delighted to announce the sale of Liberty House, 76 and 80 Hammersmith Road, London. Catella APAM sold the building on behalf of its Danish client Britannia Invest A/S. The two adjacent office buildings comprise a total of c. 90,000 sq ft of office […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Harris Lamb acquires development site for Heart of England Cooperative Society Jul 10, 2023 Retail agents at Harris Lamb have acquired a district centre at Glenvale Park in Wellingborough on behalf of Heart of England Co-operative Society. The 15,730 sq ft development forms part of a larger housing site with 3,000 new homes and a primary school. Heart of England Co-operative Society has secured the site’s freehold with a […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Landmark deal between Pinnacle Power and DIF Capital Partners enables critical investment for the UK Jul 4, 2023 The UK’s energy security is a top priority, and, as recognised in the Government’s ‘Powering up Britain: Energy Security Plan’, heat networks will play a crucial role in achieving this. To turbocharge the UK’s heat network capability a new partnership between Pinnacle Power and DIF Capital Partners will deploy town-and-city-scale heat networks to decarbonise tens […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Molo launches new large HMO and large MUFB offering Jul 4, 2023 Demand for rental properties continues to rise across the UK, with more than four-million people renting privately. As landlords look to identify new opportunities in the rental market and provide high-quality homes, Molo are pleased to announce an expansion to their existing Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMO) Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFB) buy-to-let product. Now, investors can get a mortgage for […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Kadans expands relationship with Oxford Biomedica through Harrow House purchase Jul 4, 2023 Kadans Science Partner will add Harrow House in Oxford, UK to its Pan-European portfolio. The asset will be acquired from Oxford Biomedica in a sale and lease back transaction. Harrow House is a purpose-built manufacturing facility which will be leased back, in its entirety, to Oxford Biomedica. Oxford Biomedica is a quality and innovation-led viral […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
