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Real Estate Markets
Independent and Strategic property advice

From homes and offices to leisure and care, a deeper approach to real asset purchases and investment allocations.

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Our clients’ real estate holdings balance near and long-term objectives across multiple sectors, recognising that value is shaped not only by returns, but also by use, resilience, and long-term relevance.

Civic & Public-Use

    For investors, this sector can offer long-term stability, often underpinned by government or institutional tenants with strong covenant strength. Income streams are typically predictable, supported by long leases and low vacancy risk, making these assets attractive for risk-averse capital. Demand is generally resilient through economic cycles, reflecting their essential public function. However, yields are often lower than commercial alternatives, and assets may be highly specialised, limiting flexibility for change of use. Investors should also consider regulatory oversight, funding dependency, and exit liquidity when assessing long-term value and portfolio fit.

DDI

    For investors, the Data & Digital Infrastructure sector offers exposure to strong structural growth driven by cloud computing, AI, data consumption, and digital connectivity. Assets such as data centres, network hubs, and digital exchanges often benefit from long-term contracts with high-quality corporate tenants and inflation-linked income. Barriers to entry can be significant due to power availability, planning constraints, and capital intensity, supporting value retention. However, assets require specialist management, ongoing capex, and careful assessment of energy costs, obsolescence risk, and tenant concentration when evaluating long-term resilience and returns.

Education

    Educational sector buildings can provide stable, long-term income supported by universities, colleges, academies, or education trusts with strong occupancy fundamentals. Leases are often long and income can be underpinned by public funding or established institutional demand, offering resilience through economic cycles. Purpose-built assets typically experience low vacancy rates, particularly in strong catchment areas. However, buildings can be highly specialised, with limited alternative-use flexibility, and investors should consider regulatory requirements, funding structures, demographic trends, and maintenance obligations when assessing long-term performance and exit strategy.

Food & Beverage

    Buildings catering to the food and beverage market can offer attractive income potential supported by strong consumer demand and high footfall locations. Assets such as restaurants, cafés, food halls, and production kitchens often benefit from turnover-linked rents and brand-driven tenants, allowing income growth in successful trading environments. However, performance is closely tied to operator quality, consumer trends, and economic conditions. Investors should carefully assess lease structures, tenant covenant strength, fit-out costs, and the adaptability of the space to mitigate vacancy risk and support long-term value.

Healthcare

    For investors, healthcare buildings can provide defensive, long-term income supported by essential services and strong underlying demand. Assets such as medical centres, clinics, care facilities, and specialist treatment buildings often benefit from long leases, high occupancy, and resilient cash flows, frequently backed by public or regulated funding models. Demand is driven by demographic trends, particularly ageing populations. However, properties can be highly specialised and subject to regulatory oversight, operator dependency, and evolving care standards, requiring careful due diligence on tenant strength, compliance, and long-term adaptability.

Hotels & Hospitality

    For investors, hotel and hospitality assets offer income and capital growth potential driven by tourism, business travel, and lifestyle demand. In the UK, hotel occupancy averaged around 75–80% in strong trading years, with prime London assets often exceeding this level. Revenue is typically linked to operational performance, allowing upside through branding, management, and asset repositioning. However, returns are sensitive to economic cycles, labour costs, and operating efficiency. Investors should assess location, brand strength, management structure, and capex requirements when evaluating long-term resilience and exit potential.

Indust. & Logistics

    For investors, Industrial & Logistics property remains one of the strongest-performing sectors, underpinned by e-commerce growth, supply-chain restructuring, and last-mile delivery demand. UK prime logistics yields have historically compressed during peak demand periods, reflecting strong investor appetite, while rental growth has been driven by constrained land supply and rising build costs. Assets typically offer long leases, index-linked income, and high tenant retention. However, investors should assess location quality, transport connectivity, building specification, energy efficiency, and tenant concentration to manage obsolescence risk and support long-term value.

Leisure & Showbiz

    Over the past decade, the UK leisure property market has been resilient but uneven, with a significant post-pandemic rebound in key sub-sectors. 2025 reviews show strong investor interest across holiday parks, marinas, and visitor attractions, with 73% of leisure professionals planning transactions in 2025. VisitBritain forecasts around 43.4 million inbound visits in 2025, up roughly 5% on 2024, underpinning demand for experiential venues. Transaction volumes remain selective, and investor focus has shifted to adaptable, high-quality assets with diversified consumer appeal.

Life Sciences, R & D

    For investors, Life Sciences and Research & Development properties offer exposure to a high-growth, innovation-led sector supported by pharmaceutical, biotech, and technology investment. In the UK, demand has been particularly strong around established clusters such as Oxford, Cambridge, and London’s “Golden Triangle,” where supply remains constrained. Assets typically benefit from long leases, significant tenant investment, and high switching costs. However, buildings are highly specialised, capital intensive, and sensitive to funding cycles, making location, specification quality, and tenant covenant strength critical to long-term performance.

Offices

    For investors, office buildings can offer stable income and long-term value when aligned with occupier demand for quality, location, and sustainability. Prime offices in strong urban centres continue to attract tenants seeking flexible, well-connected, and ESG-compliant space, often supporting longer leases and rental resilience. However, secondary stock faces structural challenges from hybrid working and rising refurbishment costs. Investors should focus on specification, energy performance, floorplate efficiency, and adaptability, while carefully assessing local supply dynamics, tenant covenant strength, and future capex requirements to protect income and exit value.

Residential (Living)

    Over the past decade, the UK residential property market has shown enduring resilience amid periodic volatility, with average house prices rising steadily since 2015. In 2025, average UK house prices were around £269,000, up about 4% year-on-year and above long-term norms. Transaction volumes recovered post-pandemic, with seasonally adjusted sales rising in 2025 relative to 2024. Private rents also continued to increase, supporting landlord income across regions. Despite affordability pressures and regional divergence, housing demand remains robust, underscoring long-term demand fundamentals and adaptive buyer strategies.

Retail

    For investors, retail property offers selective opportunities as the sector continues to rebalance toward convenience, experience, and essential spending. In the UK, prime retail warehouse and food-anchored schemes have shown stronger resilience, with footfall in leading locations recovering to around 90–95% of pre-pandemic levels in recent years. Income can be supported by long leases to strong covenants, often with inflation-linked or turnover-based rents. However, secondary high-street assets remain challenged, making location quality, tenant mix, and adaptability critical to long-term performance.

TMT

    For investors, Media, Creative & Production buildings offer exposure to a growing sector driven by streaming, gaming, advertising, and digital content creation. In the UK, the creative industries contribute over £120 billion annually to the economy and have grown faster than the wider economy in recent years. Assets such as studios, sound stages, and production hubs often benefit from strong location clustering and long-term tenant commitment. However, demand can be cyclical and assets highly specialised, requiring careful assessment of technical specification, adaptability, and tenant covenant strength.

Transport & Mobility

    For investors, transport and mobility buildings offer exposure to essential infrastructure supporting passenger movement, logistics, and urban connectivity. Assets such as transport hubs, depots, parking facilities, and mobility interchanges benefit from long-term demand driven by population growth, urbanisation, and infrastructure investment. Income is often supported by long leases, public-sector involvement, or regulated frameworks, providing defensive characteristics. However, assets can be operationally complex and capital intensive. Investors should assess location criticality, usage dependency, regulatory risk, and adaptability to evolving mobility trends, including electrification and shared transport models.

Any advice, commentary, opinions, or figures provided are for general guidance only and do not constitute a formal valuation or financial advice. These views are shared in our capacity as estate agents, are not prepared in accordance with RICS ‘Red Book’ standards, and carry no liability to any third party. Market forecasts and percentages are subject to change; formal advice will be clearly identified alongside its specific purpose, assumptions, and limitations.

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