2024 news

The operation, carried out with Roebuck, a fund specialising in logistics, aims to finance the company's growth.

The site consists of 110K square feet of industrial floor area with approximately 1.2M of Class 1 Open Storage. The site will be operated by CAM as a vehicle storage & servicing depot for multiple customers alongside a third-party contract for Daimler Truck UK’s (Mercedes-Benz Trucks) who will remain on site in part.

Acquired with a private investor, the new facility has 15,000 square metres and 16 loading bays. Sesé has invested 16 million euros in this new logistics centre, achieving Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) certification.

Despite the well-documented slow down in occupier take up in H1 2024, we have recently completed numerous successful leasing events across our portfolio: 12x Transactions completed,1.60M sq ft Total built area, 1.86M sq ft Total IOS area, £13.5M p.a. Total rent roll.

In celebration of Earth Day 2024, we spoke to Peter Massie, COO of Syzygy to get a greater insight into the role industrial real estate plays in combating sustainability.

Peter highlights the challenges facing landlords and tenants, how best to overcome these challenges and the support Syzygy is able to give to facilitate collaborative and effective change.

GFH Financial Group (“GFH” or “the Group”) today announced the appointment of Mr. Zayed R. Alzayani as Chairman of the Board of its subsidiary Roebuck, a Pan European real estate logistics investor and asset manager headquartered in London. Mr. Alzayani brings to Roebuck’s Board nearly four decades of experience spanning senior leadership roles in the public and private sectors. He is a former Minister of Industry, Commerce & Tourism of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and former Minister in Charge of the Bahrain Bourse. This comes in addition to more than 25 years of experience in private holdings and enterprise, leading some of the GCC region’s most successful operating companies across sectors.

In celebration of International Woman's Day, we spoke to our Finance Director, Amy Rusack (White) and European Asset Manager, Joanna Zola to gather insights on being a women in real estate.

The mood in the GCC is positive for the UK and specifically within the logistics and living sectors where valuations and pricing look very compelling. Hugh Macdonald-Brown lead the discussion noting to create value you need to undertake a hands on approach and can no longer just collect rent and wait for yield compression.

Roebuck have acquired and sold over £1.5bn UK Big Box (Middle Mile) logistics assets as well as completing 20m sq ft of new leases. It's a segment of the market we feel both knowledgeable and extremely positive about.

As the sector continues to significantly develop and transform, Big Box distribution centres are more and more in demand from a variety of end users, particularly 3PL’s and ecommerce related occupiers providing a key component in the Supply Chain.