This month Innesco is celebrating its 12th Birthday – and what a journey it has been so far! The business continues to thrive since rising from the ashes of the financial crisis in 2009, gaining the trust of some of the largest, most respected, and ambitious companies in global real estate. As part of our birthday...
Yesterday in Milan, Le Village - the open ecosystem that supports the growth of start-ups and accelerates the innovation of companies – hosted the "A tutta R" phygital event, organised by Credit Village and T.W.I.N. With ‘R’ standing for Real Estate, Restart, Recovery and Responsibility. The event offered some fascinating reflections on the relaunch of...
Britain looks set to lift most of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions next Monday in what has been dubbed "Freedom Day", despite warnings that there could be 50,000 new cases detected daily. Freedom Day will see all remaining businesses reopen including nightclubs, while capacity caps will be lifted, and bars and restaurants will no longer be restricted to...
Earlier this month, auction house Sotheby’s launched a digital replica of its London headquarters. Located on New Bond Street in real life, the digital version can be found in the Voltaire Art District in Decentraland, a decentralised virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain that allows users to purchase plots of land which can...
Wednesday 23rd June was the five-year anniversary of the UK voting to leave the European Union. But five years on, how has Brexit impacted the UK real estate market? The result of the EU referendum in 2016 delivered a bombshell to the UK real estate market. Within 24 hours, shares in many of the largest...
I’ve worked in the retail property sector for over 20 years and I’m very fortunate to have made a lot of good friends in the industry. Over the past 15 months or so I’ve tried to touch base with as many of them as possible, checking-in and comparing war stories. So you know how the...
A mere two months after the great reopening of non-essential retail in the UK, we are seeing the sector picking up momentum. The recent acquisition of Touchwood shopping centre in Solihull by US firm Ardent is a prime example of fresh investment into the sector – and this week, we also heard news about a potential sale...
Where much of the value in commercial real estate has historically been focused on hospitality and retail, real estate investors are increasingly targeting the Life Sciences industry, which encompasses a wide range of medical fields, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and biomedical technologies. The need for services associated with the Life Sciences industry is growing and...
As house prices surged by 10.2pc in the year to March, their biggest annual increase since the financial crisis of 2007, concerns were raised about the future of home ownership in the UK. Speaking on the current planning system in @Telegraph, Housing Secretary @RobertJenrick acknowledged that there is now a whole generation that "feels...
The Covid-19 crisis has been a once-in-a-generation challenge for the leisure sector which had been growing and developing strongly in the period pre-pandemic. The sector has had to adapt and now that it’s reopening, which innovations will survive into the recovery? The food and beverage sectors have seen the most innovation. Operators who had never...
