Cushman & Wakefield has released its Winning in Growth Cities report for 2014-15, and Tokyo has been named as the largest commercial property investment market in Asia. The Japanese capital city reported 30.4 per cent increase in real estate... Read More
As one of Europe’s most stable economies, Britain has attracted a great deal of investment attention in the past few years. This has seen the number of commercial properties owned by overseas investors rise sharply, with this group now holding around 25 per... Read More
Specialist investment management firm Kames Capital is toasting the acquisition of two of Birmingham’s most popular nightspots. Kames has purchased the Mechu and Après nightclubs on Summer Row from Town & Country Inns as a means of boosting... Read More
Maryland based real estate investment trust Sabra Health Care, has acquired a portfolio of 21 independent living facilities from Holiday Acquisition Holdings. The REIT paid $550 million in cash for the portfolio, which is made up of 2,850 units. It... Read More
Student-led pro-democracy protests have resulted in negotiations for the sale of several Hong Kong commercial properties being postponed as investors get the jitters, according to property agents. Daniel Wong Hon-Shing, the chief executive at... Read More
London-based Redefine International has sold ten of its regional assets — including Liverpool’s landmark Prudential Assurance Building— to an un-named buyer. The stock market-listed property investor, voted 2014 UK Real Estate Investment Trust of... Read More
The recovery of the global commercial property market has seen huge sums of capital flood into so-called supercities like London, New York and Hong Kong. In these locations values have soared as businesses, developers and investors scramble to make the most... Read More
Birmingham based Real Estate Investors (REI) has announced the acquisition of a Walsall retail scheme, pushing the value of its assets beyond the £100 million mark. REI acquired 59/75 Park Street from Scottish Widows for a £7.7 million sum earlier... Read More
A number of heavyweight international investors have already shown an interest in buying an entire Birmingham estate of eight office buildings. The sale is one of the biggest portfolios ever to hit the Midlands’ market. The Great Charles Street... Read More
An un-named pension fund has paid almost £9m for a Belfast office block indicating, claims one leading agent, that the city’s market is “going from strength to strength”. The 11-storey Victoria House on Belfast’s Gloucester Street — which... Read More
