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By Mitchell Labiak2021-07-02T00:00:00+01:00
International investor BentallGreenOak (BGO) made its UK debut in 2019 with its forward-funding of 611,000 sq ft of warehouse space in Peterborough and has not let up since, snapping up a 2.1m sq ft portfolio from Thor Equities Group and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing earlier this year, and partnering with Equation on a £100m scheme in Bristol, to name but two of the investor’s high-profile UK shed deals.
Toby Phelps
Despite the level of competition it now faces in what is arguably the hottest sector in property thanks to the pandemic, the company is not done yet, says Toby Phelps, managing partner and head of European equity at BGO. Property Week caught up with Phelps to find out why the company is so bullish about the sector and what its next move will be.
Almost two thirds of the real estate sector expect investment volumes to return to pre-pandemic levels or exceed them by the end of 2021, according to the latest Property Week quarterly sentiment survey.
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Property Week’s latest Power of Proptech survey, supported by Freeths, shows that the real estate industry has become increasingly reliant on the use of technology during the pandemic.
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