Digital Realty buys new data center in west London for 0 mn

Digital Realty buys new data center in west London for $200 mn

Digital Realty, a provider of data center solutions, announced the acquisition of a colocation data center in the Slough Trading Estate for $200 million. The acquisition marks Digital Realty’s entry into the... Read more »
Foxtons buys rival lettings service for £10m…

Foxtons buys rival lettings service for £10m…

Foxtons has snapped up London lettings agency Ludlow Thompson for £10m. Ludlow Thompson, founded 30 years ago, has seven branches in London, generating over 70 per cent of its total revenue from Lettings. ... Read more »
Apax-backed bidco buys London-based consultancy

Apax-backed bidco buys London-based consultancy

Kelvin UK Bidco, a new company indirectly owned by Apax Partners funds, is to pay £203m for a London-listed Kin & Carta. The digital-transformation consultancy company said Wednesday that accepting shareholders will get... Read more »
Apax-backed bidco buys London-based consultancy

Fintech entrepreneur buys stake in European PE firm

A fintech founder has bought a stake in European private equity house HPE Growth. The Amsterdam-based investment firm has sold a minority stake to Philipp Nieland, who founded PPRO, a cross-border payments... Read more »
Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha buys his very first football club – South London News

Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha buys his very first football club – South London News

Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha has brought his very first football club in the Ivory Coast. The Eagles’ record Premier League goalscorer and appearance holder, alongside his brother Carin, have purchased Ivorian... Read more »
East London council goes greener and buys new electric road sweepers

East London council goes greener and buys new electric road sweepers

Barking and Dagenham Council has invested in three new state-of-the-art electronic road sweepers to continue its aim to improve the quality of air in the borough. The council has been using this... Read more »
HICL buys stake in Cross London Trains

HICL buys stake in Cross London Trains

HICL Infrastructure has agreed to acquire a minority equity position in Cross London Trains. Cross London Trains owns a recently delivered fleet of rolling stock operating on the Thameslink passenger rail route which... Read more »
UK buys more vaccines for monkeypox as cases top 2,100

UK buys more vaccines for monkeypox as cases top 2,100

British has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130, the majority of them in London, officials... Read more »
Lewisham locals fear pub could be lost forever unless council buys it by force

Lewisham locals fear pub could be lost forever unless council buys it by force

A South London pub could be lost forever if a council doesn’t buy it, punters have warned. The Baring Hall Hotel in Lewisham has been closed since the Covid lockdown in 2020.... Read more »
Euan Blair buys £22 million west London townhouse

Euan Blair buys £22 million west London townhouse

Tony Blair’s son Euan buys £22M London mansion: Millionaire businessman, 38, snaps up five-storey townhouse with underground swimming pool, 50ft-long reception room and a lift for CARS that leaves even his parents’... Read more »