129 Speciality results

A year that began with high hopes for strong UK real estate activity had, by the time of the Mipim real estate conference in March, already become bogged down by concerns over global tariffs and ...

The UK’s top 30 hotel groups have debt levels 44% higher than they had during the credit crunch, making it more difficult for the sector to weather the Covid-19 economic crisis without Government ...

Constellation Hotels has sourced a £340m debt facility to refinance debt secured against The Connaught and The Berkeley hotels in London.

Empiric Student Property, the owner and operator of student accommodation across the UK, has refinanced £32.8m of the group’s existing debt due to expire in October 2020.

UK specialist real estate lender and investor Octopus Real Estate has strengthened its care home fund management team with the arrival of Chris Wishart as director of origination.

Unite Group expects to see around 16-20% reduction in income for this academic year marked by the coronavirus crisis, as it plans to forgo rent on 43,000-46,000 beds for the summer semester due to ...

Law firm Forsters has announced it is acquiring Orrick’s UK real estate practice. The three partner, ten lawyer Orrick team, led by Anne O’Neill will join Forsters on 15 April 2020. Joining Anne as ...

ICG-Longbow, Intermediate Capital Group’s (ICG) real estate asset management division, has provided Proximity Data Centres an opening commitment in February of £25m from its £929m partnership capital ...

Property professionals from Greystar, SAY Consulting, deverellsmith, and Be Original have joined forces to create a central register where the real estate industry can pledge support to the NHS and ...

Brunswick Real Estate has provided a SEK 842m (£68.9m) loan with a six-year term to NREP and Grandholm Gruppen for the acquisition of five community centres in the Greater Stockholm area.

The scale of the potential retirement accommodation market in the UK is creating development opportunities for property investors and lenders willing to back them.

LaSalle Investment Management has provided a £106m loan to finance the development of two retirement villages in the South of England.

Fusion Students has secured a £106m senior and mezzanine five-year investment loan to refinance two student accommodation schemes and a boutique hotel.

CBRE has made three senior hires to further extend the scope and expertise of its operational real estate (OPRE) team.

NHS Property Services (NHSPS) has signed two new energy contracts in a move to push for sustainability.

Specialist lender LendInvest has announced that Ian Boden, the company’s sales director responsible for buy-to-let (BTL), will leave the business at the end of April.

Waypoint Long Income Fund (WLIF) has committed £20 million to forward fund a 188-bed student accommodation scheme on Park Lane, Leeds.

NHS Property Services (NHSPS) has appointed Montagu Evans as the valuation consultant for its £3.6bn property portfolio on a five-year contract.

Octopus Real Estate has provided a £26m development finance facility to deliver a 398-bed purpose built student accommodation scheme in central Birmingham.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) has provided a combined AED 320m (£66.6m) of Sharia’a-compliant debt to finance two property assets owned by Middle East investors.