Real Estate

Bloomberg Real estate has been the obvious sell in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. Publicly traded real estate developers are trading at a steep discount to value of their portfolios, reflecting fears of a downturn in office demand, while commercial property funds are rushing to sell assets. Even London home builders are offering would-be buyers ...

  AFP China’s property and entertainment giant Wanda has agreed to sell a historic Madrid skyscraper, a source close to negotiations said, after feuding with city authorities over plans to renovate the landmark. Wanda acquired the 25-storey Edificio Espana, completed in the 1950s under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, in June 2014 for 265 million euros (now $292 million) ...

  Bloomberg A group led by US real estate investor Hines plans to sell a Dublin shopping mall and adjacent land for about 600 million euros ($660 million), three people with knowledge of the matter said. The venture, including the Grosvenor Group Ltd. and HSBC Alternative Investments, hired Eastdil Secured LLC to broker the sale of Liffey Valley Shopping Centre ...

  Bloomberg Blackstone Group LP expects to take its Invitation Homes unit public in the first half of next year, capitalising on a rally in US single-family rental landlords to list the biggest company in the industry, according to two people familiar with the matter. The size and exact timing of an initial public offering haven’t been decided, said the ...

  Bloomberg BGC Partners Inc., a brokerage serving financial and real estate markets, agreed to acquire Sunrise Brokers Group to expand its equity-derivatives business. Sunrise Brokers, founded in 1991, reported $90 million of consolidated revenue for last year, BGC said in a statement, without disclosing the terms of the deal. “This transaction enables us to further expand our equity derivatives ...

  Bloomberg Legal & General Group Plc cut the discount investors must accept to withdraw cash from its 2.5 billion-pound ($3.3 billion) UK property fund after applications for redemptions slowed. Investors spooked by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union now face a loss of 10 percent, compared with a 15 percent charge imposed after redemption requests surged in the ...

  AP Construction of new homes posted a solid increase in June, led by a surge of building in the Northeast and the West. The Commerce Department said that housing starts rose 4.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.19 million from a revised 1.14 million in May. The June reading was the highest level since February, but ...

  Bloomberg What’s the cost of having to raise money quickly by selling London real estate? Almost 15 percent based on the sale of two properties on Oxford Street, the UK’s busiest shopping thoroughfare, since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Aberdeen Asset Management Plc’s UK Property Fund accepted a 15 percent price cut to sell a building on ...

  Bloomberg Developers now are making sure they reach a higher level of sales before they begin construction on Toronto condominium projects, contrary to the housing bubble that unfolded in the city in the 1980s, Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp. (CMHC) said. Work began on 79 percent of condo buildings only after developers pre-sold at least 70 percent of the ...

  AP Laura Jordan came home from work one day to find herself locked out. She had missed two mortgage payments, and the company servicing her loan had changed the locks without warning. In a ruling this month, the Washington Supreme Court found that action illegal — a decision that clears the way for a federal class-action case that Jordan ...