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Coventry’s Sapphire Court goes up for sale at £22m

XLB has continued a drive to sell regional office assets by appointing DTRE to market Sapphire Court in Coventry for £21.9m, React News can reveal.

17/02/2020

XLB preps another Leeds office sale

XLB has instructed DTRE for find a buyer for Livingstone House, an office in Leeds fully let to Yorkshire Water, React News understands.

14/02/2020

DTZ Investors continues non-core sell-off

DTZ Investors has sold a single let warehouse on Eldon Way in Crick, Northamptonshire.

The property comprises a 96,210 sq ft single-let warehouse built in 1993 and now let to ZF Services UK in its entirety at a rent of £495,000 per annum with a lease expiring in May 2020.

Harbert and XLB agree sale of Leeds office to Adapt

XLB and Harbert have exchanged contracts with Adapt Real Estate on the sale of the 72,000 sq ft 3-4 Embankment in Leeds, React News can reveal.

11/02/2020

@MIPIMWorld A lot will depend on whether costs that would be incurred in March for flights, accom, and additional e… 29/2/2020

Singapore’s Frasers pays £135m for Cisco’s west London HQ

In an announcement on the Singapore Stock Exchange, Frasers said the acquisition had been completed by its Frasers Property Holdings UK arm via the acquisition of 100% of the issued and paid-up share capital of Bedfont Lakes Limited, a company incorporated in Jersey.

24/01/2020

Canmoor gains consent for major Windsor offices extension

Canmoor has gained consent from the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead to enlarge and enhance the two former office buildings previously known as Windsor Dials, adjacent to Windsor & Eton Central Station.

13/12/2019

Savills Investment Management buys Turbine industrial portfolio from CBRE Global Investors

The portfolio of approximately 195,000 sq ft consists of Cathedral Industrial Estate, Guildford (95,000 sq ft); Northumberland Court, Chelmsford (63,000 sq ft); and Cowley Business Park, Oxford (37,000 sq ft).

21/11/2019

South East office take-up slips to lowest for three years in Q3

Occupier take-up to end Q3 has reached 2.3m sq ft, down 15% on the same period in 2018, with the third quarter the poorest quarterly performance in three years, reports DTRE.

DTRE said Q3 saw just 685,000 sq ft of take-up and said it is "hard to escape the reality that the Brexit induced slowdown engulfing the UK has seen occupiers adopt a wait and see approach".

01/11/2019

DTRE advises Fraser’s Property on £135m off market acquisition of Cisco HQ, Bedfont Lakes, Heathrow. 23/1/2020

DTRE’s Rising Star: Does vertical farming have a future in urban logistics?

DTRE's Charlie Wing reflects on his recent experience of leasing urban logistics accommodation at Edmonton Industrial Park to a vertical farming operator. What impact will this new sector have on the urban logistics market?

31/10/2019

FPROP signs Armstrong in Denham

First Property Asset Management has leased 3,000 sq ft on part of the ground floor of Chaplin House, Widewater Place, Denham to Armstrong achieving £28 per sq ft.

04/10/2019

DTRE sell Tower Thurrock for BlackRock

Royal London Asset Management has bought Tower Thurrock Industrial Estate in West Thurrock from BlackRock UK Property Fund for £56m. Knight Frank acted for Royal London Asset Management and DTRE acted for BlackRock.

11/09/2019

Argo Real Estate and MELBURG have transformed 160,000 sq ft in Edmonton into an Urban Logistics Hub

The 1st phase of the re-branded Edmonton Industrial Park comprises 80,000 sq ft and has been fully let whilst the refurbishment works were undertaken.

10/09/2019

We have closed 19 investment transactions totalling £303m since 1st November - and was before today’s election resu… 13/12/2019

Haydock 525 – Largest available warehouse in the North West

DTRE have just been appointed as leasing agents on the largest available warehouse in the North West. Haydock 525 has been speculatively developed by Bericote and Hillwood and comprises 525,600 sq ft of Grade A, crossed docked, distribution space.

POLITICS AND THE ECONOMY – 4th September 2019

It was former prime minister Harold Wilson who coined the phrase "a week is a long time in politics", and as this is now my fourth iteration of this piece, I certainly agree.

04/09/2019

DTRE going from strength to strength

DTRE, the niche agent founded by two of the UK’s best-known industrial investment advisers, has made serious inroads into both the industrial and ofce investment and leasing markets, achieving signicant market share in the process. As the rm approaches 10 years of trading, CoStar News catches up with partners Keith Dowley and David Turner to learn more.

29/08/2019

Be First acquires warehouse in Barking

Barking and Dagenham Council’s regeneration vehicle makes £11.9m buy near River Roding. The 82,000 sq ft unit, which is let to Restore Plc until 2029 at £600,000 per annum, was purchased from Blackrock’s UK property fund.

14/08/2019

We asked @HanoverGreen to act for us on the 1st office space we occupied at 106 New Bond St - that gets our vote fo… 22/10/2019

Politics and The Economy – 1st August 2019

So there we have it, as assumed in this note for the last two months, Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister, but now the real work starts. Can Johnson somehow convince the EU to change their Withdrawal Agreement to remove the controversial Irish Backstop? Or will he, on Halloween of all dates, take Britain out of the EU in a ‘No Deal’ scenario?

01/08/2019

Huntingdonshire council buys CMS’s 142,338 sq ft Wakefield industrial hub

Kier Property, the development division of Kier Group, in joint venture with Maple Grove Developments, has sold its Tri-Link140 industrial scheme in Normanton to Huntingdonshire District Council for an undisclosed sum.

JLL represented the vendors and Huntingdonshire District Council was represented by DTRE.

22/07/2019

DTRE Client Bike Trip – June 2019

The DTRE team has recently returned from its annual client cycle trip, hosted this year in the stunning area of Girona, Spain.
DTRE's answer to Chris Froome, A.K.A John Adcock, led a home team of five plus four clients. They enjoyed three days of guided cycling up some of the famous climbs in the area, including Rocacorba and Mare de Deu del Mont.

It was a fantastic trip, enjoyed by all. Amongst the feedback is that Girona should be on every cyclist's "bucket list"; excellent cycling routes, beautiful historic city, and great food to top it all.
A return trip in 2020 is already being planned!

18/07/2019

AIMCo/XLB secure largest Thames Valley office letting of 2019 and press 120,000 sq ft development button

Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) and XLB have prelet 46,000 sq ft at 1 Causeway Park in Staines upon Thames to Gartner UK in the largest deal in the Thames Valley this year.

09/07/2019

One of several deals upon which we advised @TritaxBigBox over the last 12 months. #CRE 19/8/2019

Telereal Trillium puts £110m UK govt offices portfolio on the block

Telereal Trillium has instructed DTRE to sell £110m of freehold office buildings let to the UK Government.

02/07/2019

LondonMetric pre-lets Bedford distribution centre

LondonMetric Property has let two logistics warehouses across 138,000 sq ft at its Bedford Link Logistics Park.

23/05/2019

Beavertown Brewery sign up for 126,595 sq ft at Enfield Distribution Park in a major North London pre-let

Aberdeen Standard Investments and development partner Graftongate Investments have agreed a 126,595 sq ft pre-let to Beavertown Brewery, one of London’s best known producers of craft beer.

EuroLogix attracts media coverage from top real estate publications

With consumer spending growing at its fastest ever rate, e-commerce powering change, intense competition driving demand and supply chains evolving, it was high time for the European industry to establish its own premier networking event at MIPIM — the world’s largest real estate trade fair. EuroLogix, hosted by DTRE, Tritax, Prologis and Oxenwood, was a huge success and has been marked as the key event at MIPIM for the European Logistics Industry for the future. The event achieved coverage from the likes of Property EU, Euro Property, Business Immo and Property Funds World.

02/04/2019

Since our launch in early 2010, we have grown from 7 to 30 staff, serving our clients across the industrial, Logist… 4/7/2019

RCA – Top Global CRE Brokers 2018

RCA’s eighth annual ranking of global investment sales brokers incorporates the sell-side activity of 662 firms. These brokers were associated with transaction volume of $597 billion in 2018, representing 63% of all eligible transactions involving income-producing commercial property globally.

20/03/2019

West Midlands industrial site heads for sale at striking yield

Royal London Asset Management is nearing a deal to buy a £135m industrial estate in the West Midlands, for what is thought would be a near-record yield for the sector of around 4.25%.

06/03/2019

Tritax to buy majority stake in logistics developer db Symmetry

Tritax Big Box REIT is planning to raise £250m through shares to part fund the acquisition of an 87% stake in db Symmetry, a company which owns one of the UK’s largest land portfolios for logistics development.

Abstract starts 2019 with a bang with under the rader letting and sale onwards of 61,000 sq ft HQ

Sovereign has leased all of The Florence Building which has subsequently been sold to LGIM, CoStar News can reveal

03/03/2019

Thanks to @PanmureGordon for their kind invitation to present our views and thoughts on a subject very close to our… 12/6/2019

DTRE, JLL and Eastdil Secured lead the way in CoStar’s 2018 Investment Agents League Tables

DTRE has been recognised in the latest CoStar investment agents league tables. They transacted over £3.3bn in 2018, and would like to thank the clients that helped to make 2018 a record-breaking year.

22/02/2019

ANDOVER WAREHOUSE SOLD FOR £6M

A 51,000 sq ft industrial warehouse in Andover has been sold for more than £6m in a deal supported by Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH). Article by Insider Media Limited.

20/02/2019

Goodman’s record industrial land buy

Industrial developer Goodman Group has acquired a 9.5-acre site in Park Royal, west London.

15/02/2019

Chancerygate and Hines JV makes first buys

Chancerygate and Hines’ new joint venture has acquired its first two sites, totalling nine acres of land.

06/02/2019

DTRE advising St Modwen in Gloucester 30/5/2019

Deals Of The Year

Liza Helps reports on some of the deals of the year and what they meant for the logistics warehouse market in 2018. Article by Logistics Manager.

04/02/2019

Orchard Street buys £15.7m industrial estate

Orchard Street has bought Trade City, a multi-let industrial estate in Reading for £15.7m, on behalf of St. James’s Place UK.

14/01/2019

Tritax Big Box buys Amazon fulfilment centre for £147.3m

Tritax Big Box REIT has completed the forward-funding acquisition of an Amazon fulfilment centre in the North East for £147.3m.

24/12/2018

Liberty Property Trust buys £111m warehouse portfolio from Leftfield

US-based real estate investment trust, Liberty Property Trust, has purchased a 1m sq ft warehouse and logistics portfolio from Leftfield Properties for £111m.

05/10/2018

DTRE advises CBRE Global Investors: Acquisition of Sports Direct’s 1.82 Million SQ FT Distribution Centre and HQ in… 29/5/2019

Tritax funds Haydock logistics centre

Tritax Big Box REIT has struck a deal to forward fund a pre-let logistics sortation centre in Merseyside.

28/09/2018

DHL Logistics Veteran Joins DTRE

One of the best known names in European logistics is joining niche property consultancy Dowley Turner Real Estate.

27/09/2018

Swissport expands Heathrow cargo capacity through SEGRO deal

Ground handler Swissport has expanded its cargo presence at Heathrow Airport by taking a 36,000 sq ft facility from SEGRO. Article by Air Cargo News.

17/09/2018

Singapore’s Ascendas Reit makes £207m UK logistics debut

Singapore’s Ascendas Reit has entered the UK logistics market with a £207m purchase of a portfolio of 12 assets...

26/07/2018

Thanks @bisnow and @mikephillips009 for including @DowleyTurner opinion on Brexit effects on UK industrial property… 16/4/2019

Tritax Big Box funds Darlington logistics scheme

Tritax Big Box REIT has committed up to £120.7m to forward fund a new logistics fulfilment centre at Link 66, Darlington.

29/06/2018

M&G snaps up £94m portfolio from Mountpark

Mountpark Logistics EU has sold a portfolio of assets to M&G Real Estate for £94m.

21/05/2018

Clearbell Makes £16.5M Purchase For Cara

Clearbell Capital has bought a multi-let industrial estate from Infrared for £16.5m to add to its Cara portfolio of UK industrial and logistics assets...

26/09/2017