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Bayes: refinancing drives 29% rise in UK commercial property lending

UK commercial property lending rose 29% year on year to £28.7bn in the first half of 2026, driven by refinancing as lenders competed for business.

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Columbia Threadneedle: UK retail parks tipped for 8.3% annual returns as development stalls

PHP and GIC enter into £700m private hospitals joint venture

Landsec pays £95m to increase stake in UK shopping centre Bluewater

Capital values for UK CRE -0.9% in Q3 as yields moved: CBRE

Housing and infrastructure could widen UK life sciences development map

Target Healthcare delivers best annual performance since 2013 IPO

Energy and property lead UK industry growth, pointing to real asset demand

KKR and Mirastar buy 8-asset UK logistics portfolio from Ares

Partners Group and Aboria buy £165m UK student housing portfolio

Harworth Board unanimously rejects revised offer from Peel

Panattoni advances 193,000 sq m UK logistics programme

Starlight closes £680m UK BTR fund targeting 6,000 homes

Supermarket Income REIT acquires six UK grocery assets for £104m

Untapped UK commercial rooftop solar capacity could power 20m homes

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Savills: UK BTR starts plunge 79% as development pipeline shrinks

Peel offers £583m to take UK developer Harworth private

Knight Frank: UK logistics take-up rises 15% in Q2 as retailers drive demand for Grade A space

LondonMetric and Schroder REIT finalise £404m Picton takeover

Prologis building GSK’s new R&D centre in Cambridge

Tritax Big Box clears final legal hurdle for 107MW UK data centre

CBRE IM and Moda Living seal first deal for £2bn housing platform

UK pension scheme commits to Invesco Real Estate’s European credit fund

Greystar targets 20,000 UK rental homes

Panattoni gets go-ahead for new I&L park in Southampton

HBD secures forward funding for Golden Valley development

Savills: Britain needs 139,000 new care home beds by 2036 as supply gap widens

SEGRO to create £3bn UK logistics JV with institutional investor

AEW: UK senior housing offers over 150bp yield spread as supply falls short

MSCI: UK commercial rents outpace capital values by 260 basis points

Knight Frank: UK healthcare property transactions hit record £11.3bn in 2025

East Midlands advances investment pipeline with major regeneration projects

MSCI: Healthcare leads UK property market as residential downturn deepens

Brighton leads ranking of UK cities attracting next-generation businesses

Infrastructure-led development drives new investment in Greater Essex real estate and logistics sectors

Jefferies: UK REITs post strong earnings but trade at discounts of up to 52%

EQT buys £199m UK logistics portfolio from Tritax Big Box

Retrofitting UK buildings is ‘urgent’ due to climate change

Jefferies: UK student, resi and logistics sectors face renewed valuation pressure as yields widen

Savills: Science take-up across London, Oxford and Cambridge rises 35%

Knight Frank: UK student housing investment hits £2.1bn in strongest Q1 in over a decade

Aviva Investors sells two UK designer outlets in reported £400m deal

Public/private cooperation the key to unlock UK living sector

Work starts on Panattoni’s spec development in the Midlands

Savills: Iran conflict stalls UK investment but office rents reach new highs

Cushman & Wakefield: UK logistics records strongest e-commerce quarter since 2023

A third of UK investors chooses sustainability over returns

UK’s Unite speeds up disposals, targets £500 million in sales

Knight Frank: transition to EV an opportunity for CRE owners

UK housebuilders halt land buying and cut activity as demand weakens

Aureon and Caisson iO launch £300m UK multi-let industrial platform

UK’s first Land Use Framework aims to balance infrastructure, nature and housebuilding

Greystar acquires Native to expand its presence in Europe

Savills: £3bn UK shopping centre sales pipeline as investment activity rises

Knight Frank: UK life sciences firms jump 22% as lab property market enters new cycle

BlueCastle Capital expands UK BTR pipeline beyond £1 billion

Savills: self-storage markets in UK and Europe set to expand

Industrial portfolio in the UK’s Midlands secures £63.1m refinancing

Newcore Social Infrastructure Fund achieves second close

INREV: 38% of global investors plan to increase real estate allocations in 2026

Fiera Real Estate and USS launch £500m UK urban industrial JV

PBSA, Unite launches £100m share buyback programme

Drax submits plans for data centre at North Yorkshire power station

M7 Real Estate buys 31 logistics assets in the UK and France

LondonMetric launches £500 million senior green bond

UK: Hallam Land sells 1,270 resi plots to Persimmon Homes

London-listed infrastructure trusts HICL and TRIG unveil £5.3bn merger plan

ARCO publishes new policy to develop senior housing in the UK

Newmark: UK logistics availability falls for the first time in three years

Welltower buys Barchester Healthcare in £5.2bn UK care homes deal

Aberdeen to take full control of Tritax by 2029 in UK logistics push

Knight Frank: record £12bn in UK healthcare property deals during 2025

L&G launches £2 billion impact UK regional investment drive

AustralianSuper launches £500m UK living platform to scale rental housing

Savills: UK office and industrial investment to exceed £20.7bn in 2025

Blackstone considers bid for Big Yellow as UK self-storage attracts investors

Blackstone sells UK logistics assets for £1bn to Tritax Big Box

Royal London AM launches £1 billion Healthcare REIT in UK

Royal London acquires £340m East Midlands site for its biggest UK logistics project

QuadReal commits £2.5 billion to expand debt platform to UK

PRS REIT sells entire portfolio to Waypoint for £642 million

Global capital drives €5bn data centre boom across the UK and Germany

ActivumSG launches £500m UK student housing platform with The Mansion Group

Newmark: rental growth, investor demand keep UK multi-let industrial market resilient

Singaporean REIT makes £203m move into UK logistics with East Midlands projects

Octopus Energy, Smart and Kensa join forces to accelerate the UK’s energy transition

QuadReal acquires UK PBSA portfolio for over £500m

Audley and Elysian merge, creating the UK’s largest retirement village provider

Supermarket Income REIT debuts £250m bond to lower debt costs

Avison Young: strong take-up in UK’s regional office markets

Spain’s Pontegadea acquires 49% stake in UK’s PD Ports from Brookfield

Kennedy Wilson and CPP scale UK housing venture with fresh £100m injection

Oryx Real Estate raises over £100m for debut UK logistics development fund

Elevation’s third fund to deploy £270m in UK senior housing

Centurion Accommodation REIT unveils $1.4bn seed portfolio ahead of IPO

Blackstone’s revised offer sways Warehouse REIT’s shareholders

Masdar and Iberdola co-invest in €5.2 bln offshore wind farm

Unite secures £400m refinancing from Rothesay for student housing portfolio

The Crown Estate posts £1.15bn net profit and unveils £24bn development pipeline

Foreign buyers boost early signs of UK commercial property market recovery

Lone Star buys £212m UK student housing portfolio from Unite

Gresham House closes £375m UK forestry fund with institutional backing

UK office conversions surge as investors respond to post-pandemic demand shifts

L&G to acquire real estate private equity group Proprium

Patron and Curation JV buys 418-bed PBSA asset in Durham

LondonMetric worth £4.4 bln after acquiring Urban Logistics

UK BTR sector set for record £6 billion investment in 2025: LSH

Bayes report: new lending for UK CRE up 11% in the last year

Blackstone backs Valor/Quadreal JV with £260m refinancing

AXA IM Alts enters battery energy storage sector in the UK

BlueCastle buys former Brum M&S for 50+storey BTR project

Cheyne acquires 485-unit co-living scheme in south London

Segro adds to rail infrastructure in UK’s East Midlands region

Aviva’s build-to-rent commitment over £500m after Beds deal

Eight banks back Segro with renewed €1.6bn revolving loan

BL and Co-Laboratories partner on flexible London lab space

Owner-occupier forward buys City office block for £333m

Columbia Threadneedle bags £138m Nuveen fund for TPUT

UK healthcare investment to rise as aged dominate demand

Redevco debt fund kicks off with €56.8m City office loan

US investors account for a third of capital deployed in UK CRE

SevenCapital plans London resi expansion with GDV of £1bn

Blackstone invests £235m to buy stake in three UK airports

New Segro JV plans £1bn data centre in London’s Park Royal

CBRE: energy-efficient assets deliver better financial returns

Japan’s Nomura partners L&G to accelerate UK BTR provision

Mitsui Fudosan & Stanhope sign for £1.1bn library project

UK property claimed to be ‘overvalued’ due to maths error

Arlington Advisors to supervise London college’s PBSA refurb

Landsec sells offices and pivots to resi to rebalance portfolio

Investec Realis and Keir create £400m logistics JV in England

Government keeping investors in dark on energy reforms: BPF

£125m HSBC loan hastens Helical/TfL City development

Property prospects improve owing to ‘construction crunch’

First phase of London’s Tribeca life science campus completed

Retail leads UK’s recovery in property performance: CBRE

New Invesco JV will focus on multi-let UK industrial property

Daily commute the clincher as office-v-home battle hots up

More pension schemes join L&G affordable housing fund

Prologis chosen to develop East Midlands logistics park

Kennedy Wilson JV swoops in on 650 new houses in England

AshbyCapital sells retail park portfolio in UK for £220 mln

New JV enables start of £260m Birmingham housing project

Real estate recovery underway, led by UK and Europe: M&G RE

Mapletree buys first warehouse in UK and ten assets in Spain

TPG buys half of M&G logistics portfolio as the pair plan capex

Leumi UK provides £56m debt for care home company

Invesco partners Simten to focus on London projects

Local authorities help Heim UK resi fund to £375m first close

Civitas to double UK pipeline and expand further in Europe

Property fund outflows rose to £1.16 billion in 2024: Calastone

Oaktree, Greycoat and Homes England launch £250m JV

Savills raises outlook on total returns for UK real estate in ’25

Landsec buys Liverpool One shopping centre for £490m

Boost for flex-offices as return to in-person work gathers pace

Supermarket Income REIT obtains second listing – on JSE

Knight Frank: UK’s healthcare sector continues to outperform

Redevco buys £518m UK retail park portfolio from Oxford

Planning victory a green light for Patrizia data centre site sale

€120bn of UK projects showcased at EXPO Real

Sofidy bags asset in London’s jewellery quarter on 8% yield

£180m Tristan loan backs BGO’s Oxford life science project

Royal London AM buys 50% of Milton Keynes shopping centre

Royal London & Graftongate buy land to develop in Coventry

Theatre signs 10-year lease on Westfield’s former Debenhams

Brookfield buys Atrato for £220 million in bet on rooftop solar

Homes England provides £124m boost for Barking

Greykite and Gatehouse plan £750m SFR campaign in UK

PIC, Muse and Homes England join to target UK housing crisis

M&G acquires 65% stake in BauMont, aims for growth

Helical realises £71.4m selling 50% share in City office block

L&G’s Managed Fund chalks up £370m in ’24 with Soho asset

Cheyne and Apollo back Castleforge with £115m loan

EXPO Real: ‘United front’ by UK cities as sentiment improves

Aware Super and Delancey JV targets UK with £1bn platform

CPP/Kennedy Wilson JV aims for 4,000 BTR units in the UK

UK’s Simply Affordable Homes fund makes first acquisition

Bayes report: new lending for CRE down 10% in the last year

US tech firms to invest £6.3 bln to build new data centres in UK

EXPO Real: €120 bn projects showcased at UK pavilion

Atrato sells portfolio of rooftop solar assets to Brookfield JV

Abrdn Trust sells its portfolio to GoldenTree for £351 million

Evercore set to leave Mayfair for Victoria in record letting deal

Green light for Mission Street’s Cambridge science project

£625m finance deal will boost Panattoni’s UK spec build plans

Green light for Torsion-Zenzic JV’s 200-bed Leeds PBSA

Aedifica targets UK with £61.5m care home portfolio acquisition

Fabrix gains consent for “ultra-urban” London industrial space

MEAG gains consent for central London office extension/refurb

Garbe and Invesco team up to develop logistics site in the UK

Blackstone sells 3,000 homes to UK fund for £405 million

Panattoni Gatwick project part of focus on south eastern UK

Northwest sells UK hospital portfolio to Assura for £500m

Canada Life partners a Bristol uni in 330-bed PBSA project

MSCI: positive capital growth for UK commercial real estate

Segro steps up commitment to UK’s West Mids with new office

URW to develop PBSA project on east London car park roof

Shortage of space could limit scope of UK’s biotech boom

Cheyne backs Fattal Hotel Group with £525m refinancing

Delivery the key as UK aims to ‘get Britain building again’

BPF & Savills: record delivery for the UK’s Build-to-Rent sector

Numa buys Native Places to expand UK hospitality portfolio

UK’s property sector highlights needs as Labour takes the reins

Invesco Manchester PBSA joins sector’s rising investment tide

Aviva buys Reading retail park following ‘sharp repricing’

Microsoft pays £106m for Leeds datacentre development site

Fundamentals will reverse UK’s drop in healthcare investment

Axa to start work on nature-rich City of London offices

Invesco acquires ‘Golden Triangle’ logistics project

Harworth gets green light for rail-linked logistics in Leeds

Reading: New tenants cite rail service as key to leasing choice

Lenders compete to refinance Bishopsgate office tower

Paternoster sale to ‘optimise’ CR’s Hausinvest portfolio

Croydon project takes Prologis’ London investment over £2.1bn

Arrow-Cerberus JV planning logistics project in northern UK

UKREIIF: Nottingham readies urban quarter for investors

UK Crown’s £1.5bn life science JV takes on former Oxford retail

‘Living’ sector front and centre as UKREIIF opens in Leeds

Amro plans 1,000 homes on site of south London retail park

PGIM acquires UK PBSA portfolio from Unite Group

Ares buys LandSec hotel portfolio for £400m and restructures leases

Blackbrook’s merger with Cain creates combined $17bn AUM

Hines gets go-ahead for central London office and resi project

Foundation and Deer Capital buy UK care group for £100m

Knight Frank: take-up in life sciences Golden Triangle +25%

Obayashi-Sellar JV tests water for new City of London tower

Hines’ first step in Newcastle backs big multi-family project

Mapletree’s £1bn PBSA buy expands European network

Multi back in UK after buying stake in retail expert Realm

Swiss Life AM enters JV to invest in UK co-living sector

ICG lends developer Salboy £100m for Manchester resi

Ares seeks more value assets as pays Helical £43.5m in London

Rothesay refinances Get Living Salford scheme in £110m deal

KKR and Mirastar acquire logistics park in UK’s NW

Schroders targets UK hotels as gets taste for operational RE

Hines acquires new student housing building in Bristol

French Clariane sells UK care homes to Elevation for £207m

Bristol office building sold to bed-led regeneration specialist

Outlook 2024: UK a harbinger of the future of real estate

UK’s university pension fund backs PRS-focused Thriving

Newcore begins £100m UK healthcare investment spend

Lone Star lined up to buy Hammerson’s Union Square

Back-to-the-office orders likely to disrupt workforce: Survey

Survey finds that London leads rival cities when FDI compared

London last-mile project has scope for water-borne freight

Scale the goal as UK logistics REITs consolidate for the future

Bruntwood JV £480m loan facility boosts sci park plans

Evans Randall gets green light to expand UK tech cluster

Round Hill Manchester BTR wins £115m loan from Carlyle

Cheyne backs third Riverstone London senior living project

Garbe: act now to pick up good deals in UK Logistics market

Council gives go-ahead for Birmingham BTR project

UK multifamily values fell 2.2% in 2023 finds CBRE research

Moorfield goes ahead with Manchester multifamily BTR

Abrdn PIT agrees merger with Custodian PI, creates £1bn REIT

Aviva and Tri7 add to PBSA assets in UK university towns

Another 10m sq m of UK I&L space needed in five years: KF

Axa’s first venture into UK TV & film studios: BBC Elstree buy

New Zenzic/Torsion JV to deliver student housing in UK

LondonMetric-LXi merger to create UK’s 4th largest REIT

Clarion’s UK focused core-plus fund final close secures £427m

Columbia Threadneedle buys Parkgate Shopping Park in UK

Panattoni starts development of green logistics project in UK

Long Harbour-Rosethorn PBSA JV to target UK university hubs

Business and leisure demand boost UK hotel performance

UK should focus on I&L space to become ‘superpower’: Segro

BLand’s London urban logistics gets boost from Essex project

Life Science REIT sells Lumen House, hails UK opportunities

Patrizia JV with Man GPM aims £100m at UK housing shortage

Amro to develop 447-unit BTR scheme on Croydon hotel site

More specialist space needed if UK to grasp life science chance

Moorfield targets UK city Lincoln for PBSA joint project

Ingka buys Brighton’s Churchill Square to open Ikea City Store

Office to resi switch planned in City of London’s Aldgate fringe

PGIM backs Get Living with £150m loan on London project

UK pay-as-you-go industrial space a blueprint for more

Tristan/Queensway JV acquires second Edinburgh hotel site

Macquarie UK BTR arm closes fund with £550m available

Landlords need freedom to do office-to-resi conversion: CBRE

Nuveen Apache funding JV kicks off with Cambridge plan

£73m Cohort loan refinances Qatari-owned London hotel

Sirius sells in Kassel, buys in Barnsley as assets recycled

Moorfield launches £500m REIT to target UK resi-for-rent

UK Proptech Association merger with BPF approved

Birchgrove forward funds senior community with £36m

PineBridge’s £300m facility will enable single family housing

Quintain’s Wembley refinance one of largest UK deals of 2023

Praxis/Veld JV pays £125m for Birmingham’s Brindleyplace

Bank rate takes toll on UK property investment totals

First acquisition for Orchard Street’s new Impact fund

More science space needed for UK’s depleted ‘golden triangle’

More pressure on UK market after 14th rate increase by BoE

Aviva Investors to finance offshore wind farm in UK

Aareal Bank refinances London PBSA portfolio for Chapter JV

CBRE: University towns in UK facing a shortage of PBSA beds

Segro sale heralds P3 Logistic Parks’ move into UK market

£100m debt secured for UK’s largest modular BTR scheme

Listed London office landmark to be reborn as life science hub

Aviva Investors takes 35% share in Italy’s Innovo Renewables