It’s MIPIM time again! Those who struggled through yesterday’s Eurostar delays to make it to the south of France have arrived to find it rather breezy and cool so far in Cannes, but the slew of news from the annual event has already begun. Key events ... Read more
IPD last week presented a new industry-backed initiative to support the measurement of sustainable investment in commercial property. At CBRE’s Sustainability Breakfast on 29 February, IPD launched a new set of questions, the answers to which will ... Read more
Relative investment prospects for commercial property in the UK improved during the final quarter of 2011, says DTZ, whose Fair Value Index score for the UK rose to 53 for Q4 2011 from 33 for the previous quarter. The firm has revised upwards its ... Read more
Occupier demand for ‘big box’ distribution and industrial units for sale and to let (Grade A properties of more than 100,000 sq ft) is likely to remain restrained in the first half of this year, given the economic outlook, says Jones Lang LaSalle. ... Read more
The supply of Grade A distribution properties and industrial units for sale and to let in the UK continued to tighten last year, falling 28% to 13.1m sq ft, says Lambert Smith Hampton, while levels of secondary space fell 4%. In its National ... Read more
Cushman & Wakefield has today announced the appointments of Digby Flower and Andrew Parker from CBRE. Digby Flower, who joins C&W as a partner and head of London markets, has been at CBRE for the past 17 years and was on CBRE’s Central ... Read more
It will be a year of refurbishment rather than new development for regional UK markets for office space, says Jones Lang LaSalle. The firm says that just six offices schemes started speculatively last year across the six regional office markets it ... Read more
Hammerson today announced that, following a strategic review, it will sell off its entire portfolio of office properties in order to become a specialist retail REIT. Retail assets currently represent 89% of the company’s £5.7bn property ... Read more
Take-up of office space in Central London fell 30% compared with December, to 839,400 sq ft, after a relatively strong end to 2011, says CBRE. But this figure was 38% more than in January 2011, the firm notes. While take-up of Docklands offices ... Read more
Savills has noted sustained “and possibly increasing” demand for Grade A City of London commercial property from overseas investors, particularly from Asia. It expects this to maintain prime yields for such properties at 5.25% and says they could be ... Read more
