UKREiiF News

Bradford Council is a partner at flagship sustainable investment event

Bradford Council is playing a key role in regional flagship event which aims to bring together businesses, investors and public sector organisations to plan for a sustainable future for employment, planning and industry. The inaugural UK Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) is set to be held in Leeds on 17-19 May 2022. Bradford […]

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Europa Capital enters Birmingham market with acquisition of city centre Crown Works BTR development

Europa Capital, the pan-European real estate investment manager, announces that it has entered the Birmingham market with the acquisition, through a forward funding agreement, of Crown Works, a new 203-apartment build-to-rent (“BTR”) development adjacent to the city’s central business district. Europa Capital has made the acquisition on behalf of its value-add fund, Europa Fund VI. […]

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£400m investment to create largest multi-modal biopharmaceutical manufacturing site announced

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a world leading contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) for biologics, viral vaccines and viral vectors, has confirmed a £400 million planned investment package at its UK facility in Billingham, Teesside. This investment package more than doubles the site’s existing development and manufacturing footprint, creating the largest multi-modal biopharmaceutical manufacturing site in […]

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SSE announce £4bn investment plans – creating 850 jobs

Energy giant SSE has unveiled £4 billion investment proposals that will create more than 850 jobs in its distribution business. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution, which is owned by SSE, aims to boost its investment by around a third in the north of Scotland and central southern England for the next price control period between 2023 […]

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Built environment “in urgent need of regeneration”

Debate is raging on what the city of the future will look like, with the pandemic serving to hasten many of the trends that were already reshaping our urban landscape and real estate markets. JLL’s report ‘Regeneration Shaping the built environment to create value for all’ shows the opportunity and accountability for real estate to […]

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Council set to submit plans for innovative later living housing scheme

Caerphilly County Borough Council has announced that it is submitting a planning application to develop an innovative new later living housing scheme on the site of the former Ty Darran care home in Risca. The proposed new building will be designed with high levels of energy efficiency to reduce tenants’ bills, whilst also reducing carbon […]

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UKCM acquires pre-let multi let industrial warehouse development for £25 million

UK Commercial Property REIT Limited (“UKCM” or the “Company”) (FTSE 250, LSE: UKCM), announces that it has further strengthened its significant industrial and logistics portfolio with the acquisition, via a circa £25 million forward funding of three new warehouse units, known as Sussex Junction, which are currently under construction near Gatwick airport. The asset is expected […]

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Supermarket REIT acquires further Sainsburys store for £76m

Supermarket Income REIT plc (LSE: SUPR), the real estate investment trust providing secure, inflation-protected, long income from grocery property in the UK, announces the acquisition of a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Cannock, Staffordshire, from a client of CBRE Investment Management for £75.8 million (excluding acquisition costs), representing a net initial yield of 4.0%. The Sainsbury’s store opened in 1997 and was extensively refurbished […]

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