97 investment transactions of more than €1 million completed in Ireland in H1 2017 : CBRE

Commercial property consultants CBRE Ireland today released statistics on the volume and value of investment transactions completed in the Irish market in the first half of 2017, showing that a total of 97 assets with a value of more than €1 million traded in the first six months of 2017. In total, more than €775 …

UK’s commercial property market continues to pick up in Q1 2017

The UK’s commercial property market continues to pick up, with industrial space outperforming office and retail, according to the Q1 2017 RICS UK Commercial Market Survey. As investor demand increases for UK commercial property across all sectors, with 18% more respondents reporting a pick-up in enquiries, industrial assets have been most sought after in Q1. …

Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren warns of potential risks in U.S. real estate market

Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren spoke at the Asia-Pacific High Level Meeting on Banking Supervision in Bali, Indonesia; organized by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Financial Stability Institute, and the Executives’ Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks Working Group on Banking Supervision; and hosted by Bank Indonesia. Real estate has played an important …

Savills : Overseas buyers shop for strong covenants and long leaseholds across UK

  According to international real estate advisor Savills, overseas investors ploughed £5.8 billion into the UK’s regional commercial property market in 2016,  growing to account for almost one third (29%) of the total investment outside of London, with hot spots in Edinburgh, Manchester and Cardiff. In 2014 and 2015, when investment volumes in the UK …

Confidence in Australian commercial property market at highest level since 2010, according to NAB’s Index

Commercial property market sentiment has continued to build on the positive gains seen in NAB’s last survey. NAB’s Commercial Property Index rose 5 points to +21 in Q4 – its highest level since the Survey began in early-2010. Commercial property market sentiment has continued to build on the positive gains of recent months, according to …

Chinese investors continue to invest in London’s West End commercial property market in January 2017

Investors originating from China (mainland and Hong Kong)  accounted for £805 million of the £841 million transacted in London’s West End commercial property market in the first month of the year, according to Savills. The international real estate advisor says Chinese investors were responsible for four of the six deals transacted during January 2017. This …

Cluttons : Economic slowdown curbs appetite for office space in Dubai

Demand for office space in Dubai has receded in the past six months, as the ripple effect of the oil price collapse and the subsequent economic slowdown in the rest of the Gulf reverberates across the emirate’s commercial property market, according to the Cluttons’ latest Dubai Office Market Bulletin. Cluttons’ latest Dubai Office Market Bulletin …