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MIPIM Awards winners revealed
MIPIM 2016: The 26th MIPIM awards have been announced at a gala dinner at this year’s event in Cannes → Read More
Available investment capital soars
MIPIM 2016: A record amount of capital invested into real estate funds caused a dramatic cut in fund raising in 2015 → Read More
Business rates thresholds rise
BUDGET 2016: The threshold for business rates will rise for smaller businesses to £15,000. For larger businesses, the threshold will rise to £51,000 → Read More
Help to Buy gets boost
BUDGET 2016: The Help to Buy ISA can now be rolled into the newly announced lifetime ISA → Read More
Business rates cut announced
BUDGET 2016: Business rate reforms will see around 600,000 companies pay no business rates by 2020 → Read More
ISA boost for young savers
BUDGET 2016: The chancellor has announced a new ISA scheme aimed at the under 40s → Read More
CGT drop springs ‘tax trap’
BUDGET 2016: A reduction on capital gains tax rates has left second home owners caught in a tax trap, according to experts → Read More
Global investment ‘to rise 4%’
MIPIM 2016: Global real estate investment is likely to rise by 4% in 2016, defying expectations of a slowdown, according to the latest research from Cushman & Wakefield → Read More
Time to prepare for another crash?
As economists predict another financial crisis, what does “sell everything” mean for the real estate market? → Read More
Propco insolvencies rise
Property company insolvency rates rose by 8% in 2015 as banks took the opportunity offered by improved markets to realise their bad loans → Read More
Belfast Question Time: Embrace risk to move forward
Belfast needs office space but low rents are impeding development, so should players be brave and build speculatively? Experts convened by Estates Gazette for Question Time tackled this and other questions. → Read More
Pbb provides Prologis with equity finance
EXPO REAL: Pbb has provided a £52m facility to Prologis for the acquisition of three distribution centres in the UK. → Read More
Quintain offer accepted
Lone Star’s bid for Quintain has become unconditional following the company’s raising of its offer price and the acquisition of 4.3% more of the company’s shares → Read More
Caspy to leave Deutsche Bank
The head of Deutsche Bank’s European commercial real estate business, Gad Caspy, is to leave just weeks after global head Jonathan Pollack left for Blackstone. → Read More
Property shares leap as Tories surge
ELECTION 2015: Shares in housebuilders and estate agents soared on news of a surprise Conservative majority → Read More