Mike Phillips
UK Editor at Bisnow
UK editor of Bisnow, write about anything to do with real estate as long as it's genuinely interesting
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bisnow.com | Mike Phillips
Investment manager Cheyne Capital, in partnership with Stanhope, is in talks to buy a £375M office development on London’s South Bank from Landsec. Cheyne will acquire the 230K SF Red Lion Court project in Southwark for about £45M, Bloomberg reported. The scheme received planning consent in 2023. For Cheyne, it continues a huge push into London development financing over the past 18 months.
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bisnow.com | Mike Phillips
For a sector enjoying rent increases of 5% to 10% annually for the last few years, UK build-to-rent has been markedly gloomy of late. The causes: regulation causing huge delays in new development and high interest rates deterring investors. Those problems are not about to disappear overnight. But the sector is poised for a period of renewed expansion as the sun starts to appear from behind the clouds.
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3 weeks ago |
bisnow.com | Mike Phillips
Three London residential property companies controlled by a former Bangladeshi politician accused of laundering money in UK real estate have gone into administration, Bisnow can reveal. Partners from Grant Thornton were appointed administrators to Sadakat Properties Limited, Zaria Properties Limited and Zeba Properties Limited on 22 May. All three are ultimately controlled by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Companies House records show.
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bisnow.com | Mike Phillips
Unite, the UK’s largest owner of student accommodation, has made a takeover offer for smaller listed rival Empiric Student Property that values the company at about £710M. Unite has offered £1.07 a share for Empiric, the latter said in a statement on 5 June. That is a 10% premium to Empiric’s share price before the offer was announced, and a discount of the same amount to Empiric’s net asset value.
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bisnow.com | Mike Phillips
How do you follow up the £3B urban regeneration of King’s Cross, widely regarded as one of the most successful urban regeneration projects in modern European history? For Related Argent, the answer is to launch a project more than twice its size — and take the lessons from King’s Cross to build a whole new town. Courtesy of Related Argent and Galldris Service LtdIt has been 10 years since the company that was then simply Argent got involved in the Brent Cross Town scheme in north London.
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