According to a new forecast, specialist property investment is likely to exceed £10bn in 2015, and will account for around 20 per cent of the UK's total commercial property market by the year 2020. The core specialist sectors - healthcare, hotels, student property and automotive - represent a constantly increasing share of the current commercial market.  The trend is likely...

According to a new report by research firm Real Capital Analytics, the European commercial property market enjoyed a really positive year in 2014, with transactions rising by 13 per cent when compared to 2013. 213.1 billion euros worth of transactions took place across Europe, with the British, German and French markets all enjoying years that were as high as any...

Investment in the Central London commercial property market reached £20.5 billion during 2014, only slightly less than the peak of £20.6 million, reached in 2007. The range of money coming into the London real estate market from both the UK and abroad looks like it will continue in 2015.  According to data from global real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield...

The UK real estate market has demonstrated continually strong performance during the third quarter of this year, with overall values for all property reaching 3.0% growth.  This was a slight decrease on Q2 growth - which was measured at 3.3% - and was the first fall following five successive quarters of increases. However, the strong level of value growth contributed...

Commercial property values in the UK increased again during August, rising by 1.1per cent.  The figure was a slight decrease on the previous months 1.1 per cent, but the market continues to recover from the global economic downturn. According to the IPD UK Monthly Property Index, values have now increased by 12.8 per cent across the last 16 months, with...

The latest research indicates that UK commercial property owners have lost an estimated £100m in tax relief due to an obscure change in tax law. The start of April saw a change in regulations, with a limit set on how soon after buying property owners could claim tax allowances for spending on plant, equipment and machinery. Sums involved in the...

The latest research indicates that UK commercial property owners have lost an estimated £100m in tax relief due to an obscure change in tax law. The start of April saw a change in regulations, with a limit set on how soon after buying property owners could claim tax allowances for spending on plant, equipment and machinery. Sums involved in the...

The latest research indicates that UK commercial property owners have lost an estimated £100m in tax relief due to an obscure change in tax law. The start of April saw a change in regulations, with a limit set on how soon after buying property owners could claim tax allowances for spending on plant, equipment and machinery. Sums involved in the...

The RICS Commercial Market Survey for Q2 2014 has indicated increasing balance in the commercial property sector, with momentum building in various areas of the market. Tenant demand within the occupier market remains solid, with the industrial sector in particular exhibiting genuine strength. Property availability seems to be contracting at the fastest pace on record, particularly in the office and...

It has been revealed that Canary Wharf is to be expanded even more, with owner Songbird Estates winning planning permission to start work on 30 buildings to the east of the area.  The new plans involve offices in addition to more than 100 new shops, restaurants and cafes.  The expansion will also include 3,100 new homes, a 420-place primary school...