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The commercial property industry is riding a wave of optimism heading into the fourth quarter of 2021, Property Week's latest sentiment survey reveals. More than three quarters (76%) of those [...]

A quarter of global commercial property sales in 2014 were made to ultra high-net-worth individuals, according to Knight Frank's latest Wealth Report. The report, which the firm publishes annually, also [...]

The strength of occupier demand led to sharp falls in the availability of office space in the West End and the City of London at the end of 2014, despite [...]

PRIME BUSINESS PARKS HAVE PRODUCED BETTER total returns this year than at any time since the boom of the late 1980s. The Business Park Index report published today by Strutt [...]

Prices of retail properties sold at auction may have reached a nadir, new research suggests. The Acuitus/IPD Retail Price Auction Index measures capital value changes in retail properties sold at [...]

The number of retailers entering administration in 2011 increased by 11% on 2010, Deloitte's latest figures show. Of the 183 businesses that collapsed last year, 42 went under in the [...]

The gap between returns from the best- and worst-performing institutional property investors last year was a huge 24 percentage points. Investment Property Databank found the fifth (worst) and 95th (best) [...]

UK commercial property produced an annual return of more than 2% last year after the extraordinary revival in the market's fortunes in the second half. Investment Property Databank (IPD)'s final [...]

RENTAL VALUES FOLLOWED CAPITAL values down in May, the first time this has happened in the current downturn. Rental income was just slightly negative, the Investment Property Databank monthly index [...]

Demand for City of London offices and London residential fell sharply in the first quarter of 2008, Savills said this week. In its interim management statement, Savills said tenant demand [...]

THE VALUE OF TRANSACTIONS IN Australia in the first quarter of the year is up on 2007, despite the turmoil in the financial markets. Savills' latest Australian report shows A$1.635bn [...]

VENDOR UNCERTAINTY OVER pricing caused a drop in properties sold and totals raised at auction in the third quarter of this year. However, yields remained relatively stable and good prices [...]

The total accumulated value of trades in the UK commercial property derivatives market rose strongly in the third quarter to more than 3.7bn £, up from around 2.4bn £ three [...]

PROPERTY PERFORMANCE IS SLOWING down, according to the Investment Property Databank index for October, published this week. The report said property returns fell to 1%, their lowest monthly level since [...]

LINDEN HOMES HAS BEEN SELECTED AS the preferred buyer of one of the most prominent mixed-use development sites in Southampton. The residential developer is said to have paid around 20m [...]

THE LATEST FIGURES FROM THE RICS showed that house prices rose for a sixth consecutive month in April as demand firmed on the back of a strengthening of the economy [...]

UK COMMERCIAL PROPERTY STILL OFFERS FAIR investment value today, despite its stellar performance of the last decade, but the yield differential for poor-quality and risky property is low compared with [...]

DTZ HAS HELD ON TO US POSITION AS the best-performing share in the property market. The property services company, which topped the Property Week league for 2005, was still in [...]

GLADMAN DEVELOPMENTS IS IN advanced talks to sell its 130m [pounds sterling] office village portfolio in a bid to release equity for a speculative office development programme. The Cheshire-based developer [...]

Oakdene Homes has lowered its expected end of year profits to 5m [pounds sterling], because of challenging trading conditions in 2005. It blamed interest rate rises in 2004 and a [...]

THE LATEST RICS FIGURES SHOW THERE was a second consecutive monthly rise in house prices in December, although the increase was quite modest, following 15 months of decline. Confidence and [...]

BIRMINGHAM'S CITY CENTRE OFFICE INVESTMENT market experienced another bumper year in 2005. Yields continued to fall despite a decline in volume traded compared with 2004. Research from Jones Lang LaSalle [...]

PROPERTY PRODUCED AN ANNUAL return of 18.8% last year, according to Investment Property Databank. The figures released on Monday showed an All-Property total return of 2.7% for December. Despite a [...]

PRIVATE INVESTORS SPLASHED OUT almost 1.6bn [pounds sterling] on commercial property at auctions in 2005 as sale and leasebacks continued to lure buyers. A favourable interest rate and a reluctance [...]

SPECULATION IS RIFE THAT REVENUE AND CUSTOMS is set to do something about the JPUT (Jersey property unit trust) 'loophole'. The pre-Budget report is coming up later this month and [...]

IT'S OFFICIAL: INDIRECT PROPERTY investment is enjoying a healthy spell. With the advent of derivatives, spread betting on house price growth and soaring property company shares, it has never been [...]

THE ROBUST RETURNS ACHIEVED BY PROPERTY SINCE THE END of 2003 continued last month with a total return of 1.7%. The FTSE All-Share Index also sustained strong growth with a [...]

THE AVERAGE PROPERTY YIELD SOLD AT auction fell to its lowest-ever level during the third quarter of 2005, according to the latest data compiled by the Auctions Results Analysis Service [...]

SEPTEMBER WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL month for the office market, according to the Investment Property Databank Monthly Index. Not only did offices experience their best monthly capital growth for more than [...]

ALL-PROPERTY RETURNS SLOWED SLIGHTLY THIS month to 1.2%. The majority of the slowdown came from reduced capital growth. Industrial was the best-performing sector for the third consecutive month, achieving returns [...]

SPENDING IN UK COMMERCIAL property auction rooms continues to rise and private investors are among the biggest spenders. The latest figures from the Investment Property Databank and Jones Lang LaSalle's [...]

RECENT MEETINGS WITH TRUSTEES HAVE BEEN redolent of a Conservative party political broadcast. The most commonly asked question is: 'Are you thinking what we're thinking? Has the commercial property market [...]

THE TOTAL ALL-PROPERTY RETURN IN IRELAND WAS 11.5% IN 2004, slightly below the 12.7% return of 2003. Compared with other assets, property outperformed bonds, which returned 10.7% last year, but [...]

A PRIVATE INVESTOR SYNDICATE HAS bought Gainsborough House in Crawley, West Sussex for 9.25m [pounds sterling], reflecting a net initial yield of 6%. The property, which provides 20,565 sq ft [...]

THE AVERAGE ALL-PROPERTY yield on auctioned properties fell by 59 basis points to 6.63% in 2004, according to figures from Jones Lang LaSalle and the Investment Property Databank Auctions Results [...]

OUR PROPERTY IN THE REAL WORLD SPECIAL REPORT (SEE P44-P56) IS MORE THAN an excuse to profile the enticing Sarah Beeny and to play admen on behalf of Great Portland, [...]

PRIVATE INVESTORS ARE reverting to the residential route as the number of commercial properties for sale at auction continues to fall. Buy-to-let properties were hotly contested at the Barnard Marcus [...]

BRITISH LAND CHAIRMAN JOHN RITBLAT was in a bullish mood this week as he delivered a strong set of annual results that we re better than those of great rival [...]

CB RICHARD ELLIS, THE WORLD'S LARGEST property services firm, is poised to float on the New York Stock Exchange with a market value of $1.5bn (830m [pounds sterling]). Having completed [...]

PROPERTY FUND MANAGEMENT, WHICH IS chaired by Raven Mount's co-founder Glyn Hirsch, suffered a plunge in profits last year because of a delay in closing a new 700m [euro] (470m [...]

THE UK TENANTED RESIDENTIAL MARKET performed better than the commercial sector last year, producing a return of 11.5%. According to the third IPD UK Residential Index, published yesterday, residential has [...]

PROPERTY SHARES ROSE BY A MODEST 1.4% last week to 2617, as there was little movement in the share prices of the six property majors. Hammerson was the best performer [...]