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CBRE Global Investors has acquired Park Plaza London Waterloo hotel, Hercules Road, Waterloo, Central London in a club deal for a number of its pension fund investors. The hotel has been bought for circa €181m (£160m). The PPHE Hotel Group have committed to a sale and long term leaseback through the hotel owing entity, Waterl...

British Land has let three floors at 4 Kingdom Street, Paddington Central, to software company Finastra, and the office space is now 89% let or under offer. Finastra, formed in 2017 by the combination of Misys and D+H, develops software for financial institutions, including 48 of the world’s 50 largest banks. The company has ...

JLL has promoted ten members of staff in Scotland, including the promotion of four senior staff to National Directors and one to Regional Director.

Commerz Real has sold the office complex “Blaak 31” in Rotterdam for approx. €75.6 million to an institutional investor; the property had belonged to the open-ended real estate fund hausInvest since 2008. Based on the current annual rent, this results in a gross yield of approx. seven per cent. In the course of the transactio...

LGIM Real Assets and Mitsubishi Estate London have broken ground at 245 Hammersmith Road, W6, their 250,000 sq ft office-based scheme which will deliver a new standard of office space for the area. Demolition works have recently been completed by Erith, and Lendlease has been appointed to deliver the €227m (£200m) constructio...

Hodes Weill & Associates has appointed Jonathan Read as a Principal in its London office with primary responsibility for institutional coverage in Europe. Read was previously employed at Angelo, Gordon & Co., where he was responsible for institutional coverage and capital raising across Europe.

A luxury boutique hotel in Edinburgh's west end, The Bonham Hotel, has been sold by a controlled affiliate of Starwood Capital on an off-market basis to the U.S. based investor. Starwood Capital Group, via Starwood Global Opportunity Fund X, acquired the property in 2015 as part of the Town House Collection, which included th...

Inspired Homes has unveiled what is believed to be Greater Manchester's largest micro-apartment development. Fabrick in Cheadle Hulme, SK8 is a new development of 184 studio, one and two bedroom micro-apartments offering high quality, low cost accommodation to Manchester's young professionals.

Frasers Property (UK) Ltd have gained planning permission from Wandsworth Council for a landmark €146.5 million (£130 million) (GDV) Thameside apartment building at Riverside Quarter in Wandsworth. It provides 172 mixed tenure apartments; ground floor retail and commercial premises; 72 car and 340 cycle parking spaces, and ex...

This Friday Spaces is opening a new 16,900 sq ft hub on The Causeway, Teddington, its first location in the town. Spaces is a creative working environment with a unique entrepreneurial ethos. Its workspaces offer an inspiring environment designed to integrate lifestyle into work, and members are encouraged to build their netw...

LGIM Real Assets has signed an agreement with the Borough of Poole that unlocks a €29.3 million (£26 million) programme of investment at The Dolphin Centre in Dorset. Plans include bringing further improved retail and dining choices to the Centre. The agreement restructures the existing headlease arrangements into a single, l...

Topland Group has sold the Royal Mail Regional Centre in Plymouth to Plymouth City Council for €21.69 million (£19.25 million). GVA acted on behalf of Topland and Plymouth City Council was advised by JLL. The property is let to Royal Mail Group ltd on full repairing and insuring terms for a lease of 15 years at a rent of €1....

St Francis Group and iSec have announced details of further development and progress onsite at its prestigious Horizon 38 development, a 1 million sq ft mixed use scheme under construction in Bristol. In the first phase of development, five speculatively developed logistics, manufacturing and industrial units totalling 210,70...

Teddy Sagi has confirmed via Globe Invest, his Family Office, that Brickington Trading Ltd is selling 36,500,000 shares in Playtech. This represents 11.5% of the issued share capital of the company. The shares are being sold at €10.41 (£9.24) each and will raise the total sum of €380m (£337.26m). Brickington is a wholly owned...

Whilst best known for its industrial past, Yorkshire now has a growing reputation as a destination of choice for the creative sector, according to a brand-new report by Knight Frank. Knight Frank’s Yorkshire Office Market Review 2017, issued today (Tuesday) revealed that last year, firms from the Technology, Media and Telecom...

Legal & General has completed a €27.9m (£24.5m) bi-lateral loan to refinance three offices and a leisure centre owned by Citygrove. This latest deal continues to prove the platform’s ability to provide competitively priced debt at the shorter end of the market. Arranged over a seven year term, the loan is secured against thre...

Deutsche Asset Management, on behalf of its German open-ended real estate funds „Grundbesitz Europa“, purchased 2 & 3 Bankside in London’s Southbank from M&G Real Estate for €354m (GBP 310m). The properties, built in 2007, have 38,500 square meters of office space on nine floors and are located behind the Tate Modern art mus...

CBRE Global Investors, on behalf of the CBRE Dutch Office Fund, has completed the sale of an office building, Hojel City Center 1, Croeselaan 1-3 and Graadt van Roggenweg 100-350 in Utrecht. The office was sold to SRLEV N.V. who already owned 35% of the asset. The asset comprises approximately 40,022 sq m office space and 872...