Trio of UK logistics sites snapped up by BMO

Canadian investment firm BMO has bought three logistics assets on behalf of a UK segregated mandate client. Warehouses worth £33m have been acquired in Ipswich, Birmingham and South Derbyshire. Following the sale of the Royal Mail distribution centre in Bristol, the transactions form part of BMO’s strategy for its client to diversify out of larger […]

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Lure of real estate still too attractive for institutional investors

Nearly three-quarters of institutional investors plan to expand their real estate portfolios over the next five years according to new research carried out by asset management company Patrizia. The German real estate firm garnered responses from 222 clients and 72% said they were planning to increase real estate investments before 2026 with a focus on […]

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InfraRed Capital cashes in on last-mile logistics portfolio

InfraRed Capital last night confirmed the £250m sale of its portfolio of last-mile logistics assets in the UK and France to Blackstone real estate funds. The warehouses, comprising 2.2million sqft of space across 50 Anglo-French properties, located mainly in urban locations near Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield, will be incorporated into Mileway, Blackstone’s pan-European last […]

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HS2 hoping to utilise Hinkley workforce

Businesses in Somerset are being encouraged to bid for upcoming HS2 contracts worth millions of pounds. Two days ago HS2 made a similar appeal for Scottish firms to come forward with both regions under represented on the contractors’ roll. And Robin Lapish, HS2 Ltd’s Supply Chain Manager, is hopeful the considerable expertise, contained withing the […]

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Nottingham town centre redevelopment restarting thanks to £12m grants

Nottingham City Council (NCC) has received £12m in funding to pave the way for the restart of its Broadmarsh shopping centre redevelopment. NCC has received £8m from the D2N2’ Local Enterprise Partnership’s Getting Building Fund along with £4m of match funding from the Transforming Cities Fund to complete the demolition phase, which is due to […]

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Investors pile into LondonMetric’s capital-raising debt issue

LondonMetric has raised £380m from Trans-Atlantic institutional investors keen to support the asset management company’s long-term logistics strategy. The private debt, which has a blended maturity of 11.1 years and blended interest rate of 2.27%, was upsized from an initial target of £150m due to demand. A £50m tranche (‘Green Notes’) is subject to a […]

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Former Liverpool distillery set for new life as multi-let industrial hub

Network Space has acquired a high-profile 28-acre industrial site in Liverpool, for an undisclosed amount. The Sovereign Distillery comprises 446,151 sqft of space and was the former headquarters of Halewood Artisanal Spirits PLC, a family-owned producer of world-famous artisanal wines, spirits and beers which has operated from the site at Huyton Business Park since 2000. […]

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