Railpen, manager of the £34 billion pension scheme for railway staff in the UK, has appointed Emma Goodford to lead life sciences and innovation leasing across its Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor portfolio.
Boutique Leeds-based property and construction adviser Fox Lloyd Jones has appointed Bethan McMurrough as a senior surveyor, to support the growth of its agency and development team.
The City of London set a new record for office leasing deals in a calendar year with 339 transactions over 5,000 square feet in 2024, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
Europe's real estate recovery should remain on track, despite the uncertainties associated with US tariffs, according to AEW's Research team, which has unveiled its Mid-Year Outlook 2025 study.
UK property investment has got off to a slow start in 2025 but is showing "signs of resilience beneath the surface", with the office sector delivering its best quarterly performance in almost two years, reports Lambert Smith Hampton.
UK commercial real estate market sentiment remains generally cautious but there are early indications that some sectors are improving, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' Q1 2025 UK Commercial Property Monitor.
With the winds of change blowing from the US amid recommitment to Milton Friedman’s mantra that a business’s primary purpose is to boost profit for shareholders, there is a sense that ESG is falling rapidly out of fashion.
Mitsubishi Estate London and Co-re have appointed Savills as leasing agent for 72 Upper Ground, as work starts on the landmark redevelopment of the former ITV studios on London's South Bank, CoStar News can reveal.
Central London office investment volumes for the first quarter totalled £2.4 billion, increasing by 49% on the £1.6 billion in the final quarter of last year, reports CBRE.
Leeds office take-up reached 241,282 square feet in the city centre during the first quarter of the year helped by a large owner-occupier deal secured by Network Rail.
Berkeley Estate Asset Management has unveiled plans for a major KPF Architects-designed extension of 33 Cavendish Square, a prominent island site between Oxford Street and Cavendish Square in London.
PayPal, the digital payments group, has completed its letting of the top floor of 76 Southbank, the Grade II-listed building next to the National Theatre, that is being redeveloped and extended by Dubai family office Al Gurg Group to create 300,000 square feet of offices.
IEIF has just published a new version of its study on the comparative performance of investments over the long term, the aim of which is to "put real estate into perspective with other financial investments in terms of levels of performance and risk".
Related Argent, the property and urban regeneration businesses, has appointed former Cushman & Wakefield group chief executive and global president John Forrester as its chairman.
The Greater London and South East office market recorded 909,000 square feet of take-up in the first quarter of 2025, reflecting a 38% increase on the first quarter of 2024 and a 26% increase on the five-year average, according to Savills.
EDF Energy, the British arm of French energy group EDF, has agreed to take the entirety of developer CEG's 1000 Aztec West offices outside Bristol city centre.
American Express has completed the lease of a further 77,943 square feet of offices on the 3rd and 4th floor at Belgrave House in London's Victoria, taking on space vacated by Google.