UKREiiF News

Mission Street and BGO Secure Planning Consent for Landmark Life Sciences Development in Cambridge

Mission Street, in partnership with BGO, has received planning approval from Cambridge City Council for an ambitious new life sciences development that will create a cutting-edge urban science district in the heart of the city. The project will span 23 acres and provide approximately 1 million square feet of gross internal area (GIA) across seven […]

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Panattoni Secures £625m loan facility for further UK projects

Panattoni, the largest logistics developer in the UK and Europe, has successfully closed a £625 million development loan facility, which will support Panattoni’s strategic growth in the UK to invest in speculative development. Matthew Byrom, Managing Director at Panattoni remarks ”…this new £625m facility allows us to continue our ambitious growth plans for the UK […]

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GPE prices new £250m 7-year Sustainable Bond

Great Portland Estates plc (‘GPE’) announces the pricing of its first sterling denominated senior unsecured sustainable bond (the ‘Bond’). The £250m Bond will have a term of 7 years, will bear interest at a rate of 5.375% and is expected on issue to be rated Baa2 by Moody’s Investor Services Ltd. The Bond was over […]

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Hines acquires £6.5m warehouse from Leopard Capital

Leopard Capital, the property investment fund, has completed the off-market sale of the Booker Cash & Carry warehouse, Salfords Industrial Estate, Redhill for £6.45 million to Hines. Leopard acquired the asset in 2019 for £5.05m. The asset totals 41,802 sq ft GIA and is let for a further 2.4 years to earliest expiry. The passing […]

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Burton MP named A50/A500 parliamentary advocate

Burton and Uttoxeter MP Jacob Collier has today been named as parliamentary advocate for the North Midlands Manufacturing Corridor. In 2022 Midlands Connect released a ‘road map’ document with a series of proposals for the A50/A500 which outlined how improvements in the route could add £12 billion to the region’s economy over the next 60 […]

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Government announces new Devolution deals across England

Devolution deals have been confirmed for Hull & East Yorkshire, and for Lincolnshire – with Combined County Authorities also set to be established in Lancashire, and Devon & Torbay. The Mayoral elections will be in 2025 if the devolution deals are approved by Parliament. Greater Lincolnshire will receive an additional £24m a year from Government, […]

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Metro Bank completes £16m refinancing deal with Criterion Capital for Zedwell Hotel expansion

Metro Bank has finalised a £16mn, five-year funding package with Criterion Capital to refinance Zedwell Greenwich, which opened in October 2023. This investment is central to Criterion Capital’s ambitious expansion strategy of transforming obsolete buildings into lifestyle hotels. With 13 more Zedwell hotels planned by 2027 across the UK, the brand is set to have […]

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AtkinsRéalis announce pavilion at UKREiiF 2025

The UK’s Real Estate Investment & Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) has announced that AtkinsRéalis have secured a pavilion at the annual event taking place between 20th-22nd May 2025, in Leeds. AtkinsRéalis provides world-class engineering services, connecting people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Speaking of their involvement, Richard Robinson, President, UK […]

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