The value of UK commercial property owned by investors hit a record £483bn at the end of 2015.
According to the IPF research report The Size and Structure of the UK Property Market, overseas investor holdings rose 19.5% to £135bn in 2015, of which 21% came from sovereign wealth funds.
Funds made up 34% of foreign investment and more than a quarter of total investment.
UK insurance companies have seen their share of the commercial investment market dwindle to 9% since 2007, when it stood at 15%.
Domestic ownership accoun-ted for less than 40% of the City of London’s commercial investment stock at the end of the year.
While the total value of UK commercial property in 2015 was 0.5% above the last peak in 2006, the value outside London fell 14% in the same time.
The capital accounted for nearly 40% of the total UK property stock and over half of commercial property.
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