Sun Venture expands London portfolio to £900m with latest acquisition Feb 2, 2022 Sun Venture has acquired 120 Moorgate, a freehold property situated in a strategic position in the heart of the City of London which is set to benefit from the opening of The Elizabeth Line at Moorgate station. They acquired the property from WeWork for £148m. The newly redeveloped freehold, which includes a striking new façade […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Invesco relaunches UK Fund with ESG focus Feb 2, 2022 Invecso has relaunched its UK Companies fund as the Sustainable UK Companies Fund to capitalise on the ‘underestimated’ opportunities in the UK market. The fund will continue to be managed by Tim Marshall, and its risk profile and objectives will remain unchanged. It will use a scoring system to identify opportunities in ‘misunderstood and mispriced’ […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
M7 Capital loans East Kilbride Nominees Ltd £4.5m to acquire retail park Feb 2, 2022 M7 Capital, a full-service real estate debt specialist, announces that it has provided, on behalf of its UK debt fund TREC II, a £4.46 million loan to East Kilbride Nominees Ltd. The property vehicle is managed by David Samuel Properties Ltd (the “Sponsor”) who are a specialist purchaser of Commercial Real Estate assets across the […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
UKREiiF poaches Sales Director from MIPIM as interest in inaugural event soars Feb 2, 2022 James Parker has joined UKREiiF ahead of the inaugural event set to take place in Leeds between 17-19 May 2022. James Parker, known for heading up UK Sales for MIPIM, has today been announced as joining Built Environment Networking to work across one of their flagship event – UKREiiF (The UK’s Real Estate Investment and […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
600 delegates representing 150 investors and funders already signed up to UKREiiF Feb 2, 2022 The UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) has so far secured over 600 C-Suite and senior professionals to attend the event – representing more than 150 investment firms. UKREiiF is a game-changing new event set to take place in Leeds between 17-19th May 2022 which brings together cities and regions to connect with investors, […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Blackpool Pride of Place Partnership calls on Government to further its mission to ‘Level Up’ Blackpool’s economy by £1bn Feb 2, 2022 The Blackpool Pride of Place Partnership has today released the latest edition of its Blackpool Town Prospectus aimed at responding to the current and future needs of the local community, and building on the Government’s levelling-up agenda. The Prospectus, titled “An Agenda For Action 2030” is a long-term strategic vision for Blackpool, positioning the area […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Ex-Buro Four’s Eleanor Binns leads trio of New Appointments at fast-growing Place Capital Group Feb 2, 2022 Place Capital Group, the estate regeneration specialist set up by David Smith-Milne in 2021, has announced a trio of new recruits to support its growing project and development pipeline, taking headcount to 29. Leading the expansion is Eleanor Binns who has joined as Project Director. Eleanor has previously spent 16 years with Project Management specialists, […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Boyer: Changes to benefit the Local Plan process Feb 2, 2022 Appearing before the House of Lords’ Built Environment Committee in November, the Housing Minister Christopher Pincher addressed the thorny issue of housing demand by stating that there are, ‘some questions…about whether the call for sites system works particularly effectively and consistently’ and concluded, ‘clearly that’s something that we will want to look at’. The current call for […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Carter Jonas Achieves Planning Consent for Barratt and David Wilson Homes in Cambridge Feb 2, 2022 National property consultancy Carter Jonas has secured planning consent on behalf of Barratt and David Wilson Homes (Eastern Counties) to deliver 410 homes (of which 40% are affordable housing) in North West Cambridge, on part of a larger scheme known as Darwin Green 1. The Reserved Matters planning consent is for a site of 9 […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Alternative Income REIT acquires Slough showroom in £5m deal Feb 1, 2022 The Board of Directors of Alternative Income REIT PLC (ticker: AIRE), the owner of a diversified portfolio of UK commercial property assets predominantly let on long leases with inflation-linked rent reviews, is pleased to announce that the Company has completed the acquisition of the Volvo car showroom in a prime location on the A4 Bath […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
