Foreign buyers have invested £144.3 billion in London commercial property over the past two decades and are still buying despite Brexit, new research showed on Wednesday. Agent CBRE revealed its office property data as industry experts insisted Brexit will not have a “material impact” on future appetite to spend here. The firm said overseas investment into central London has increased...
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AZ Real Estate, the London and Moscow based real estate consultancy, has brokered a £4m investment in the Hilton Hotel, Manchester Airport, on behalf of a private overseas equity investor. The £4m equity is part of a wider pool of overseas investment into the hotel, with the fund management process being overseen by Regency Project Management. Scheduled to open in 2021 and with a GDV of £116m,...
Alisa Zotimova, Director of AZ Real Estate, about Art Masters Summit, and some parallels between the world of art and the world of property. I was delighted to speak recently at the inaugural Art Masters Summit, which ran alongside the world renowned Frieze Art Fair in London. The theme was ‘disruption’, looking at challenges, opportunities and changes within today’s art market. From a property...
Russian magazine "Digest Nedvizhimosti" (Real Estate Digest) has asked our director Alisa Zotimova to comment on how the "smart" technologies are used in British homes. One of the major problems is that technologies become outdated too fast nowadays, it means that "smart" homes owners will have to update them all the time. Another issue is that not all the technologies are userfriendly if the users...
Alisa Zotimova, our director, comments on the live of pensioners in London for a large Russian media group RBC (RosBusinessConsulting): "Here pensioners and the city center are far from being conflicting notions. Many retired people live in the center of London. In general a big part of property owners in the UK are adults older than 50-55". Read the full article (in...
Money restrictions and tax changes have impacted the prime property market Boris Johnson has used some contentious turns of phrase. Aside from the extraordinarily witless remarks he made about burkas, he once compared female volleyball players in the 2012 Olympics to “glistening wet otters frolicking”. But his claim in 2014 that London was “to the billionaire as the jungles of Sumatra are to the...
Our friends and partners EP Advisory decided to interview our company for their new video series about hiring and working in London, UK. Watch interview with Alisa Zotimova, the director of AZ Real Estate, and Anna Petrenko, Associate, Investment. The video has gained more than 5000 views in just one day (only in...
Russian edition of the International Architectural Digest AD Magazine published an article about Alisa Zotimova, director of AZ Real Estate, and the things that make the company stand out among others on the british market. It is easier to solve various issues when you have an insider. Alisa Zotimova, the director of AZ Real Estate, is one of those: she knows everything about life in London and...
Moscow-born property whizz Alisa Zotimova looks remarkably calm for an entrepreneur who specialises in buying London properties for wealthy Russians. Has no one told her Vladimir Putin’s regime isn’t top of Britain’s Christmas card list at the moment? Or that Prime Minister Theresa May is proposing a new levy on foreign property buyers? The UK isn’t perhaps the welcoming market it once was. The...
In the traditionally male-dominated world of property investment, Russian-born Alisa Zotimova has carved out a niche with her boutique London consultancy AZ Real Estate. After over a decade in the corporate property world between Russia and London, Alisa Zotimova set up a boutique consultancy – using her own capital – in Mayfair. The business is on track to turn over £1 million this year....