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And Alibaba’s woes
Companies build basketball courts and sites with beehives as unions call for pay increases
Pain likely to be widely spread as landlords struggle to refinance at current interest rates
Retrofitting old buildings to meet modern standards is costly and complex
Move underscores group’s booming growth and is a welcome sign for the city’s commercial real estate market
UK bank agrees five-year lease extension on its 32-storey headquarters building
Collapsed European property company founded by René Benko faces painful wind-down, warns administrator
The insurance marketplace will remain at One Lime Street in a commitment to in-person trading
As René Benko’s Signa property empire implodes, the rest of the sector faces a reckoning
Private equity firm rebuts short seller’s warning about ‘a lot of rot in its book’
Bids for £90mn loan secured against block in City of London fall short in sign of property market stress
The players and properties at the centre of one of Europe’s highest-profile restructurings
Buckle up
Lenders across Europe race to assess their exposure to sprawling empire of Austrian billionaire René Benko
New form of co-working offers companies ability to expand or shrink space when needed
Segro CEO says his ‘very generic boxes’ are at the forefront of digitalisation
Stability review warns of contagion risk for wider financial sector from surging losses in real estate
High interest rates and plunging property values shake up commercial real estate market
UK landlord expects property investment to pick up following challenging period marked by soaring borrowing costs
Even if the property downturn lasts a little longer, further steep declines in the share price are unlikely
UK property group decided to try to re-let the space in a sign of its confidence in London office market
Not really. But if you wanted to, it’d be pretty easy
The desk-renting start-up’s implosion ought to teach investors not to bet the future on the recent past
Higher interest rates, an uncertain economy and remote work pile pressure on office space owners
But it’s probably not that big a problem for UK landlords, says Morgan Stanley
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