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Core Commercial Real Estate Investing: Flattening the Depreciation Curve
Written by Rupert Sheldon, Head of Core REIM, UK The principles of core real estate investing are simple: lease your property, collect your rents, watch the rent grow over time and enjoy capital appreciation where market conditions permit. At the end of the lease term, be ready to refurbish the property and lease it up […]
Discover Prospero Ansty Park: A Home For Innovators
At the heart of the Midlands, the ‘growth engine’ of the UK, Prospero Ansty Park is a hub of knowledge, talent and innovation. The park’s capacity and an award-winning design reflects local industry prestige, and offers a base from which businesses can push their limits through greater adaptability, power and scale. Set within a community […]
Fiera Real Estate UK’s digital transformation journey
Written by Emma Cullen, COO UK, Fiera Real Estate When I first started down our digital transformation path four years ago, I had no idea where it would lead. I hoped for greater efficiencies in the way that we operated, enhanced transparency, faster reporting timelines, verified data and a refined and auditable process. I had […]
Emma Cullen, COO, is set to join Apex’s webinar on UK Funds Review.
Emma Cullen, COO, is set to join Apex’s webinar on UK Funds Review. On Wednesday 7th July, Emma will be taking part in a panel discussion to explore the prospective outcome of the likely opportunities for fund managers and their investors arising from – the review, including Long Term Asset Funds and Professional Investor Funds. […]
Driving Green Investment Keynote: How can the Real Estate Sector Achieve Net Zero Carbon?
Originally published by Real Estate Live. Our Associate Director, ESG, Jessica Pilz, recently joined Real Estate Live to discuss What support the sector will need to drive its green agenda forward and how can it support its occupiers and tenants to drive forward their own net zero ambitions? Speakers include: Sonal Jain (Chair), Director of […]
Prospero Ansty: Where People Take Pride of Place
By delivering inspiring, award-winning design, Prospero Ansty Park provides best-in-class spaces where businesses and their people can reach their full potential. Surrounded by extensive green landscaping and open-air facilities, the development is built to provide vast natural lighting, boost wellbeing, and allow productivity to flourish. Set within the heart of the Midlands, in a location […]
Angle Property completes second acquisition for the Angle Opportunity Fund with 7.5-acre site in Nether Heyford
Angle Property is pleased to announce the acquisition of a 7.5-acre site in Nether Heyford comprising a 93,000 sq.ft. B8 industrial building formerly used as a distribution centre by Wickes. The purchase of this rare site of scale in the area represents the second purchase for the Angle Opportunity Fund which launched in Q1 of […]
Creating Alpha returns through specialism
Written by Steven Wright, Director. The ability to deliver Alpha-style returns in real estate requires knowledgeable people with specialist skills. Whilst Beta can be delivered through the acquisition of standing investments of sufficient quantity to provide the benchmark mirroring diversification, to deliver Alpha the introduction of specific risk is necessary in the portfolio. However, of […]
Peter Walford: ESG used to be a ‘tick in the box’, now it’s a mindset
Written by Peter Walford, Managing Director at Cubex. Interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles is by no means new, but it has certainly accelerated significantly over the last year. Key drivers of this shift include new legislation, pension fund investors asking for the ESG credentials of their investments, and much greater awareness of […]
Building Back Better and for Success
Uncertainty has weighed on the UK since the EU referendum in 2016, compounded by a poor response to Covid in 2020, creating conditions where the UK not only had a health crisis but also where GDP contracted by 9.9% – the deepest slump since 1709.
The pandemic gave protection to occupiers from rental payments, created restrictions on buying or selling assets, and saw debt providers temporarily pause from enforcing sales on defaulting loans and making new loans. With the UK largely having been off the map of global investors for the last few years, real estate values have lagged many other parts of the world.