Jones Lang LaSalle has been banging the drum for the South West in its market review of the area, predicting a growth rate of 13% this year for the region – which it says is equal to the West Midlands, and is in the top four regions outside ... Read more
Ryden and Knight Frank have negotiated the sale of a 11,700 sq ft new-build industrial unit in Aberdeen, at Stockland Muir’s £100m Aberdeen Gateway business park development Oilfield services firm Coretrax has acquired the property, which includes ... Read more
There was a further 0.3% decline in property values in December, says the IPD, taking values at the headline level for the full year to minus 4.2% in what it describes as a “challenging year for the UK commercial property sector”. The retail sector ... Read more
UK commercial property produced a total return at the All Property level of 0.3% in December, following a 0.2% return in November, says CBRE. The firm’s Monthly Index last month showed a continued decline in capital values, which fell 0.2% in ... Read more
Segro this week announced a further £159m of disposals, including two large, non-strategic assets – the Thales campus in Crawley for £80m, which was sold earlier this month to a large UK institutional investor; and the MPM site in Munich for £53m to ... Read more
Colliers International expects the tentative economic recovery to stumble in the first half of this year, and has cut its forecast for total returns in 2013 at the All Property level to 6.7% from 8.8%. While higher employment levels and improved ... Read more
Commercial property in the UK produced a largely flat performance in November, says CBRE, with values at the All Property level falling by 0.2% after a 0.1% decline in October. The firm’s latest Monthly Index shows that capital values across all UK ... Read more
Occupier demand for European logistics assets held steady in the third quarter of 2012, says Jones Lang LaSalle in its latest research into the market for logistics property of more than 5,000 sq m (10,000 sq m in the UK). Take-up in Q3 2012 reached ... Read more
Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) are not enough by themselves to deliver the government’s targets to de-carbonise the UK’s built environment, says Jones Lang LaSalle in a joint report with the Better Buildings Partnership, a collaboration ... Read more
Scottish property produced its first negative return in three years during the second quarter of this year, but Q3 saw a modest recovery with All Property total returns reaching 0.3%, says CBRE. The firm’s latest research into the Scottish ... Read more
