LondonMetric snaps up urban logistics spaces from Savills for £122m December 22, 2021 LondonMetric Property has snapped up Savills Investment Management’s UK Income and Growth Fund for a little over £122m. The deal, which follows an equity placing in November, will see the Fund’s portfolio of 15 assets, mainly urban logistics spaces, fall under LondonMetric jurisdiction. Key occupiers of the assets include HSBC, Fujitsu and Volkswagen – who [...]
Extreme E: Hamilton has second title in a week snatched away despite win December 19, 2021 Lewis Hamilton has had a second world title snatched away from him within seven days as former Formula 1 rival Nico Rosberg’s Extreme E team won the inaugural world championship. Hamilton’s X44 Extreme E racing team won their first race in the final outing of the season but couldn’t surpass Nico Rosberg’s RXR racing team [...]
The Lost Daughter: Maggie Gyllenhaal shows she can direct, too December 18, 2021 Twenty years on from her breakthrough role in Secretary, star Maggie Gyllenhaal directs and writes her first feature. It seems like a natural progression for the actor, who has largely stuck with independent dramas and interesting blockbusters (The Dark Knight, World Trade Center). The Lost Daughter stars Olivia Colman as Leda, an academic in her [...]
Warehouse deals hit record high as UK firms look to reel in supply chains December 16, 2021 Property deals for industrial and warehouse spaces have hit a record high this year, suggesting that businesses are reeling in their supply chains closer to home. Take up of warehouse space is set to hit a record 66m square feet this year, according to preliminary data from Knight Frank, surpassing 2020’s record by nearly 30 per cent. [...]
Could we be nearing the end of Lewis Hamilton in Formula 1? December 14, 2021 He may be due to be knighted later on today, but Lewis Hamilton was denied his coronation as an eight-time world champion Formula 1 driver on Sunday. In the immediate aftermath of that controversial final lap in Abu Dhabi, the 36-year-old declined to commit to continuing racing: “I’ve felt great in the car in the [...]
King’s Cross hotspot for rental growth in city as student demand pushes prices higher December 13, 2021 Real estate experts have said it would take more than a minor setback with Covid variant Omicron to dent the sector’s recovery. The country would have to rewind to a situation like the start of the year, when the vaccine was in its early rollout and working from home was enforced for a long time, [...]
Lamb film review: Another unsettling horror from A24 December 11, 2021 The term Sheeple is given a whole new context in Lamb, the directorial debut from Valdimar Jóhannsson, co-written with Björk collaborator Sjón. Maria and Ingvar (Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason) are the owners of a farm in Iceland, whose quiet existence is disturbed when one of their sheep give birth to a human child [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Back Breeders’ Cup winner that always Loves it in Hong Kong December 9, 2021 LOCAL sprinters from Hong Kong haven’t set the world alight in recent times and are in danger of seeing their £2.3 million Group One Hong Kong Sprint (6.40am) prize going overseas again. Lucky Patch has emerged as a legitimate contender from the home territory having won the Group Two Jockey Club Sprint last month, with [...]
US investors pump £1bn into Central London offices since September December 8, 2021 Investment flows into the Central London office market has hit £2.2bn since the beginning of October, according to neww research from Knight Frank.
Lockdown savings push UK house price growth boom December 8, 2021 The UK and US housing markets have surged past other economies’ thanks to buyers being able to amass savings in lockdown. Prices increased by 9.4 per cent on average across the 56 countries and territories tracked by the index, according to Knight Frank’s global house prices index. The majority (96 per cent) of the 56 [...]