UKREiiF News

Berkeley given green light for 4,600 home scheme

St James Group, Berkeley Group, has announced it has been given the green light for the 4,600-home scheme. Plans outline a new community immediately east of Junction 14 of the M1, that includes schools, local centres, employment and will include a range of accommodation from one-bed flats to five-bedroom houses. As part of the extension,  a new bridge […]

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PATRIZIA launches £800m London focused urban logistics platform

PATRIZIA AG, a leading partner for global real assets, announces the final close of its GLI platform (“the Platform”), a London urban logistics sidecar investment to its flagship discretionary value add fund, TransEuropean Property VII LP (“TEP VII” or “the Fund”), with a further EUR 750 million to invest. The Platform, which will be operated […]

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SSE announces £12.5bn investment plan to accelerate net zero targets

SSE has rebuffed calls to break itself up, and announced a multi-billion pound plan to boost investment across its renewable energy and electricity networks businesses. SSE will expand its investment plan for the next five years to £12.5bn, from its previous target of £7.5bn, across its business in the areas which will help the UK […]

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Further homes approved in Ebbsfleet Garden City

Bellway Homes has been given planning approval for 121 homes in Ebbsfleet Garden City. It will be the first major phase of the Northfleet Embankment West mixed-use development and will be known as Harbour Village.  The area forms part of Ebbsfleet Development Corporation’s site at Northfleet Riverside with a key aspiration that development will re-connect the existing communities […]

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Workspace acquire historic Busworks building in Islington for £45m

Workspace Group, London’s leading provider of flexible office space, is pleased to announce that it has acquired The Busworks, in Islington, for a total of £45m. This off-market acquisition is being funded from existing facilities. A former Victorian bus factory with a rich history dating back to 1888, the property provides 104,000 sq. ft. of […]

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Grainger acquires two sites for BtR schemes in Exeter and Sheffield

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord with 9,727 operational rental homes and a further 8,373 in its £1.9bn pipeline, today announces that it has acquired two sites for direct development build-to-rent opportunities, totalling a potential c.480 new PRS homes within Grainger’s planning and legal pipeline. Exmouth Junction in Exeter benefits from having planning […]

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Trebor Developments submit plans for 645,000 sq ft manufacturing facility

Following Trebor Developments and their partner’s purchase of the former MARS Petcare site in Peterborough and successful planning consent for a two-unit speculative development in July 2021, a new detailed planning application has been submitted for a bespoke manufacturing facility totalling 645,000 sq ft on behalf of an undisclosed occupier. Work will commence on site […]

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JLL Announced as Major Sponsor of UKREiiF

At the inaugural UKREiiF event in Leeds between 17-19 May 2022, JLL will be the Future of Real Estate Pavilion Sponsor Major international real estate service provider JLL has thrown its weight behind the inaugural UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) event, to be held in Leeds between 17-19 May 2022, by agreeing […]

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Supermarket Income REIT acquires two grocer stores for £73m

Supermarket Income REIT, 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 Swansea, South Wales, and a Tesco supermarket in Maidstone, Kent, from Argo Real Estate Limited for a total purchase price of £73.0 million (excluding acquisition costs), reflecting a […]

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