UKREiiF News

Cohort Capital £11 Million Loan for West London Life Sciences Hub

Cohort Capital has facilitated a £11 million loan for the refinance of The Life Science Park located in Sunbury-on-Thames, West London. The park, which is housed in a Grade II-listed Victorian pump house, underwent extensive conversion and restoration in 2022. Spanning over 55,000 square feet, the park comprises high-quality laboratory space. The loan, with a […]

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Tilbury Douglas to lead construction of Garden Mills Refurbishment Project for Bradford College

Tilbury Douglas, a leading UK building, infrastructure, engineering and fit-out business, is set to lead the construction of the Garden Mills Refurbishment Project for Bradford College, which will deliver a new higher education facility. The project to refurbish the five-storey 1900s building, will see it transformed into flexible higher education STEM training and educational facilities […]

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Octopus Real Estate provides £36.8m loan for residential development

Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Investments and a leading UK specialist real estate lender and investor, has provided a development loan of £36.8m to repurpose and extend a vacant office block into 174 private residential apartments. The loan provided to Sheen Lane Developments will finance the conversion of a vacant office block in Addlestone, […]

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SCREF secures planning permission for prime Bloomsbury 106,000 sq ft office repositioning

The Schroders Capital UK Real Estate Fund (‘SCREF’) has secured planning permission to redevelop Minerva House, Fitzroy House, and Telephone Exchange, contiguous, part Grade II listed landmark office buildings on Chenies Street in Bloomsbury into a 106,736 sq ft high-quality workspace, a 37% increase on the current floor area, following the addition of two further […]

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Trifast channels funds into a distribution center with £120m finance agreement

Trifast, a company specializing in industrial fastenings, has secured a £120m finance deal that will facilitate the establishment of a national distribution center in the Midlands. This new financing arrangement, spearheaded by HSBC UK, is designed to foster organic growth and expansion through acquisitions, while also supporting Trifast’s aspirations for export growth. The funding, which […]

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Specialist hotel owners and family offices lead UK hotel investment activity

Hotel transaction volumes totalled approximately £860 million for the first six months of 2023, some 60% below investment volumes for H1-2022, demonstrating the gulf between hotel trading performance and transactional activity has never been wider, according to the latest research from leading property adviser Knight Frank. Whilst it remains challenging to successfully execute and complete […]

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Carter Jonas Welcomes ‘Cambridge 2040’

Over the last weekend, Government plans to invest considerably in Cambridge as ‘Europe’s Silicon Valley’ made national news headlines. Delivering up to 250,000 additional homes over the next two decades, this is intended as part of a blueprint to fix England’s housing crisis and unleash growth in life sciences and technology. ‘Cambridge 2040’ also includes […]

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Helical signs contract to partner with Transport for London on commercial office portfolio joint venture

Further to the announcement on 15 February 2023 that Transport for London (TfL)’s wholly owned commercial property company had selected Helical as its preferred investment partner for its sustainable commercial office portfolio across central London, contracts have now been signed confirming Helical as the joint venture partner.  The partnership will see the delivery of new […]

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