All United Kingdom articles – Page 14
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Orchard Street completes 63,000 sq ft of Leeds warehouse lettings, taking Gildersome Spur to full occupancy
Orchard Street Investment Management (‘Orchard Street’), the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed two new lettings totalling 63,000 sq ft at Gildersome Spur industrial estate in Leeds, taking the prime warehouse facility to full occupancy. Gildersome Spur is managed by Orchard Street on behalf of St. James’s Place UK Plc.
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Net Zero – An Opportunity for Real Estate
In 2019 the UK government announced a target of ‘net zero’ for UK greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 following recommendations made by the Committee on Climate Change. This led to a change in legislation that came into force on 27 June 2019, which amended the Climate Change Act 2008 target of an 80% reduction in GHG emissions compared with the 1990 levels. This amendment to the Climate Change Act made the UK the first member of the G7 group of industrialised nations to legislate for ‘net zero’ carbon emissions.
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Orchard Street launches new ‘Fitted, Furnished and Ready to Go’ office space at Dunn’s Hat Factory, Camden
Orchard Street Investment Management (‘Orchard Street’), the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed two new lettings at Dunn’s Hat Factory, Camden, alongside unveiling its new offering of ‘Fitted, Furnished and Ready to Go’ accommodation which serves the shorter-term commercial lettings market, a third of which is already under offer.
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Building Your DGF for the Journey Ahead
Too many Diversified Growth Funds (DGFs) have left UK investors disappointed with performance. In this paper, we show how a DGF can be designed with clear objectives, constructed using guidelines that are genuinely outcome-oriented, and then managed to achieve its objectives.
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Orchard Street completes repositioning of West London industrial assets, doubling rental income
Orchard Street Investment Management (‘Orchard Street’), the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed 12 separate asset management initiatives across 150,000 sq ft of multi-let industrial accommodation at its 215,000 sq ft West Drayton, London estates. As a result, both the contracted rental income and average lease lengths have more than doubled over the last 18 months.
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Core Matters Investment Returns: A 5-year perspective
2019 has seen huge inflows into Fixed Income (FI) funds and outflows from Equities. From a medium-term return perspective this makes no sense. The formidable demand for safe assets reflects cyclical and structural forces (e.g. ageing). No matter the economic scenario, FI returns over the next five years are ...
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DekaBank arranges financing secured against 4 Cannon Street, EC4M
DekaBank has acted as Sole Arranger and Underwriter on a £95.63m four-year term loan secured on 4 Cannon Street, London, EC4M (“4 Cannon Street”).
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The Power of Emotions: Responsible Investment as a Motivator for Generation DC
Study of attitudes to pensions and responsible investment.
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How long will you live and what does it mean for your investments?
Latest life expectancy data shows that your money will need to last a lot longer than you might be thinking.
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UK Real Estate Outlook - Edition 2H19
As the retail correction has fully taken hold, total returns from UK commercial property have slowed markedly delivering just 0.85% in 1H19, based on the quarterly MSCI Index. Outside the retail sector, occupational markets are generally holding up quite well, however investment markets remain very subdued as political uncertainty deters activity. We may see a bounce-back in investor demand should a deal be reached with the EU, but the recent change of Prime Minister and confrontational rhetoric which followed has made that outcome increasingly unlikely.
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Flashforward: Drawing Parallels With 1999/2000
Investors in the UK and overseas are adopting extreme positioning in their hunt for defensive growth. In doing so the elastic has become very stretched and a sharp rotation could be overdue. This market dynamic is reminiscent of 1999/2000 whereby ‘old economy’ stocks are discarded in favour of ‘new economy’ ones.
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Economic and Property Overview: Q2 2019
There is growing evidence to suggest that the UK economy slowed in the second quarter, the ONS recorded a 0.3%m/m rise in GDP in May, which partially reversed the 0.4%m/m contraction in April. The upturn in the monthly rate was driven by a recovery in car production which declined by 45% in April after factories temporarily shut down production around the original Brexit date.
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DekaBank arranges financing in Birmingham
DekaBank has acted as Sole Arranger and Underwriter on a £90.48m five-year term loan secured on Priory Court and The Lewis Building, Birmingham. The loan is being made available to a Property Unit Trust managed by Gulf Islamic investments (“GII”).
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Major German investment manager opens affiliate in London
KGAL Capital GmbH & Co. KG, a sales company of KGAL Group, has opened an affiliate in London. KGAL Group is a leading, independent investment and asset manager with assets under management of €20.5bn (£18.2bn). Its investment focus is on long-term capital investments for institutional and private investors in the real estate, infrastructure and aviation asset classes.
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Orchard Street signs two tenants at One King Street, Hammersmith
Orchard Street Investment Management (‘Orchard Street’), the specialist commercial property investment manager, has completed two lettings at One King Street, its newly refurbished office and retail asset in Hammersmith. iPlato Healthcare, a London-based Health Tech company, has signed a new five-year lease on 5,712 sq ft of office space at a rent of £53.00 per sq ft, while healthy fast food chain Abokado has taken a 1,954 sq ft retail unit at ground level on a 10 year lease at a rent of £180 psf.
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The Five Myths of “Illiquids”
Market Insight: How UK Defined Contribution (“DC”) schemes can overcome the misconceptions that stop them offering investments with superior risk-return potential.
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Amplified: the social and economic story of Wellington Place
Intrinsic to our ability to generate positive impacts through RPI is the concept of meaningful place-making: urban places where people want to work and live, in which they take great civic pride, and which they want to support through social, economic, leisure and community-based activities.
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Economic and Property Overview: Q1 2019
Economic growth was relatively buoyant at the start of the year, output grew by 0.5%mom in January and by 0.2%mom in February, offsetting the 0.4% contraction in output in the final month of 2018. However, much of this growth spurt was driven by temporary factors such as a pick-up in manufacturing activity from firms stockpiling goods to shield against a disruptive Brexit.
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Building a meaningful city at Wellington Place, Leeds
As stewards of the assets we manage, it is incumbent on us to ensure we manage them in a way that is both ethical and likely to lead to long-term success for our investors. To those ends we continue to deepen our Responsible Property Investment (RPI) practice. Today, a new report documents the outcomes of our RPI approach in Wellington Place, Leeds.
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Our Journey to a Sustainable Future
As investors and advisors who focus on our clients’ long-term success, sustainability is central to how we assess the risks and opportunities facing our clients.