News / Record year for investment in UK logistics real estate, with demand still growing

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E-commerce drove high demand in the UK logistics real estate sector last year, with more than £8bn worth of property changing hands. 

Lambert Smith Hampton’s Industrial & Logistics Market 2019 report claims the level of last year’s investment to have been a “record”, with take-up of larger sites (those above 100,000 sq ft) “falling just short” of the record set in 2016.  

National head of industrial and logistics at LSH James Polson said: “The hive of activity across the industrial and logistics sector continues unabated. The driver remains the ...