Trebor and Hillwood acquire major industrial site in Ipswich Jul 5, 2023 Trebor Developments and Hillwood have acquired 8 acres of commercial development land from Ipswich Borough Council at Eastern Gateway, Ipswich. Prior to acquiring the site, Trebor secured detailed planning consent in 2022 for a five unit industrial and logistics scheme, ranging in size from 12,905 to 52,250 sq ft. The units will be built speculatively, […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
UKEF provides £1.1 billion support to the construction sector in 2022 Jul 5, 2023 UK Export Finance (UKEF) has published its annual results for 2022-23, which show the government’s export credit agency provided £1.1bn in new, direct support for UK construction exporters in the last 12 months. This supported up to 5,000 jobs in the sector, a 25% increase on last year’s figures. Overall, UKEF provided £6.5 billion in […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
A £400 million Build-to-Rent project is poised to provide 1,000 homes in Digbeth Jul 5, 2023 Moda Living and Aviva Capital Partners have announced a joint venture to invest in a four-acre regeneration site in Digbeth, with plans to build 1,000 homes for rent. The £400 million ‘Stone Yard’ project aims to transform a brownfield site near Birmingham New Street Station and HS2 Curzon Wharf. The site was purchased from Gallagher […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Defiant dealmaking for Shoosmiths’ real estate investment group Jul 5, 2023 Despite further tightening in the lending market and wider economy, Shoosmiths’ real estate investment group concluded c.£200m worth of deals in Q2 2023. The quarter saw the law firm’s investment specialists act on transactions in the office, industrial and logistics sectors, as well as the mixed-use Royal Albert Dock development. Shoosmiths started the quarter by […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Octopus Real Estate provides loans totalling £26.3m to leading care home operator Jul 5, 2023 Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Investments and a leading UK specialist real estate lender and investor, has provided a total of £26.3m to support the development of two purpose built care homes. The back-to-back development loans provided to Connaught Care last month will finance the construction of two state of the art care homes […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
£500m Green Finance Fund opens to London local authorities Jul 5, 2023 Urgent action is needed to tackle climate change. We are seeing the impacts of climate change accelerate in London and globally. Last year London experienced drought, record temperatures and heatwaves that also led to wildfires across the city and the busiest day for the London Fire Brigade since the Second World War. Globally we saw […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Announcement of £500 million funding partnership Jul 5, 2023 LendInvest plc (AIM: LINV; “LendInvest” or the “Group”), the UK’s leading platform for mortgages, has announced a £500 million investment to fund part of its future mortgage originations for its Buy-to-Let and Residential Mortgage products from Chetwood Financial Limited. This new funding will further the growth of LendInvest’s Buy-to-Let business, which supports professional landlords, as […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Keepmoat to deliver 4,000 new homes targeting net zero as it becomes new strategic partner of WMCA Jul 5, 2023 Top 10 homebuilder Keepmoat has announced it has become the latest strategic partner of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), with a commitment to build 4,000 additional new homes in the West Midlands. Keepmoat has also made a committement to aim to achieve net zero carbon emissions when building on brownfield sites and to increase […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
MRP Purchases Liberty House, Kensington Olympia From Catella APAM Jul 5, 2023 Catella APAM (“APAM”), the specialist UK & Ireland real estate asset manager, is delighted to announce the sale of Liberty House, 76 and 80 Hammersmith Road, London. Catella APAM sold the building on behalf of its Danish client Britannia Invest A/S. The two adjacent office buildings comprise a total of c. 90,000 sq ft of office […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
Harris Lamb acquires development site for Heart of England Cooperative Society Jul 5, 2023 Retail agents at Harris Lamb have acquired a district centre at Glenvale Park in Wellingborough on behalf of Heart of England Co-operative Society. The 15,730 sq ft development forms part of a larger housing site with 3,000 new homes and a primary school. Heart of England Co-operative Society has secured the site’s freehold with a […] Posted by: Mya Driver Read more
