Despite the healthcare crisis we have faced since the COVID-19 pandemic began, people in the UK are living longer than ever before. The number of people aged 65 years and over in the UK was 12.5 million in mid-2020 compared to just 10.3 million a decade before — and this figure is expected to continue rising steadily over the [...]

Rynda is delighted to have been named a winner in Business Reporter’s ‘Best of British Business 2021’ awards. The accolade recognises Rynda’s successful expansion into alternative real estate strategies in response to societal changes and recent shifts in the property investment market. Accelerated by the pandemic, online shopping is increasingly dominating the retail market. The proportion of retail sales [...]

Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, is pleased to announce the sale of a forward funded investment with planning consent for a care home pre-let to Care UK, situated in a high-profile position next to St Luke’s Hospital in Market Harborough. Frontier Estates achieved full planning permission for a ‘state of the art’ 76 bedroom care home scheme [...]

Property investors have an unfortunate habit of not looking very far ahead The real estate sector has a propensity to underestimate change, perhaps because change has historically been at a rather glacial rate within the industry. In my 30 years in the European real estate markets, it has always surprised me how short-term factors almost exclusively colour investment decisions. [...]

Farming in the UK is changing faster than anyone realises. There will be winners – and losers… The UK farming industry is facing a period of radical change that most farmers are underestimating both in extent and speed. There will be winners and losers, with the split between the two largely determined by how quickly individual farmers can adapt. [...]

Established talent is being hoovered up – where are all the start-ups vying for their place? Small real estate investment managers are becoming a critically endangered species across Europe as property investors and international fund managers across the world buy them up. Not all investments are structured as an outright buy – some acquisitions are phased through progressive stake [...]