To South African real estate investors, the UK offers stability and resilience, which is why they are buying up offices in the capital – even in the face of Brexit and new leadership in their home country.
COMMENT: Make’s founder Ken Shuttleworth discusses whether corporate HQs still have a purpose
COMMENT: Co-working is for London what Brexit is for news. It has been impossible to avoid since 2016, and it’s not going away any time soon. But if you’re a serviced office provider, it’s worth remembering there is a whole world outside the M25 – as there is a world outside of Brexit. It’s an oft forgotten world, but it’s out there. I’ve been, and it’s lovely.
JSE and Luxembourg-listed MAS Real Estate has acquired two Bank of Scotland-let office buildings in Edinburgh for £71m – the largest office investment deal in the city so far this year.
LREF 2018: Despite high pricing, referendum uncertainty and regional competitors, there was a bullish outlook about the capital’s prospects at the Money Talks roundtable.
Housebuilder Grainger is to double the size of its portfolio in the next three years as it completes its repositioning strategy
COMMENT: In January of this year (coming up to five years since the phenomenally successful Grimsey 1 report, An Alternative Future for the High Street, was published) Bill Grimsey – veteran retailer and all-round tour de force – sounded out some of his original team to see if we were game to write another report
More listed M&A and a plan to team up with blue-chip partners to help deploy the new core-plus fund. Blackstone’s head of European real estate James Seppala talks to EG about his new job
London’s city core is on track to deliver a 10-year construction high. EG looks at the data behind the cranes currently dotting the skyline
COMMENT: Do you remember me assembling a cross-disciplinary team to write a review into our town centres, entitled An Alternative Future for the High Street five years ago, asks Bill Grimsey, chair, Grimsey Review, former chief executive Wickes and Iceland
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