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Demand is growing for cold storage

For the past 15 years or so old cold storage warehouses had been much in demand, for a very surprising reason, they were being converted to data centres. This may seem a strange repurpose but it was being driven by what was underneath the building rather than the building itself.

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Opportunity

I was looking back at some articles written earlier on this year (pre-covid), when I came across this one published in Property Week in January 2020, titled “the real estate debt market will be full of opportunity in 2020”. Whilst the past 6 months, the Covid pandemic, has done its

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How expensive is commercial property lending for Banks?

Traditionally high street banks serviced the sub £5m commercial investment loan sector but over the past 10 years they have been vacating this space and alternative lenders have been taking market share. One of the many reasons is that banks are struggling with new capital requirements which fall under the