July 17, 2025
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Real Estate’s Next Big Investment Frontier

AI-based Retrofit Investment Planning will Transform Commercial Real Estate investment getty In the heart of every city, commercial buildings stands as pillars of prosperity and progress, while also bearing witness to the urgent climate imperative. Today, we are witnessing a powerful transformation, the convergence of artificial intelligence with the capital-intensive world of commercial real estate.

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AER orders 50 Sany machines

Banner Equipment general manager Rob Gowling (left) and Chippindale managing director Paul Blake Sany is supplying AER companies MPH Hire & Sales, DHS Complete Hire and Chippindale Hire & Sales with a range of telehandlers and excavators over the summer. Before placing the order, AER Rents executives visiting Sany’s factory in China to rn the

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Elliotts acquires Hampshire tool hire store

Stuart Long (left) has sold his New Forest Hire business to Tom Elliott (right) The acquisition of Totton-based New Forest Hire allows south of England merchant Elliotts to expand its product offering, with a range of tools and plant equipment, from mini diggers and dumpers to sanders and mowers. Although under new ownership, New Forest

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Manitou dealer adds Komatsu line

Marubeni-Komatsu regional sales manager Rob Wilmott (left) with Mawsley sales managers Leon Geoghegan (centre) and Luca Proietti (right) Master distributor Marubeni-Komatsu has handed Mawsley Machinery a portion of the southeast East Midlands area to sell Komatsu Utility mini and midi crawler and wheeled excavators. Mawsley will cover all LE, NN, and CV postcodes plus MK40

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Tractor dealer moves into construction machinery

Crawfords group sales director Nunzio Rio with Komatsu machines Crawfords Group has been appointed as an authorised distributor of Komatsu compact equipment across Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, and South Berkshire. Crawfords will offer Komatsu’s full compact range, including excavators up to 10 tonnes, wheeled loaders, skid steers and backhoe diggers. It also plans

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Conagri brings Venieri to the UK

Venieri’s VF 1.63D TL compact articulated wheel loader Conagri, a Devon-based supplier of  construction and agricultural machinery, is looking to distribute equipment made by Italian manufacturer Venieri. The first machine to be showcased is Venieri’s new articulated backhoe loader, the VF 823E, which is claimed to be the only such machine on the market that

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Construction Equipment Association appoints new chief executive

Viki Bell The machinery manufacturers’ trade association has been without a chief executive since the departure of Suneeta Johal in March 2024 after two years with the organisation. Viki Bell joined the  Construction Equipment Association (CEA) at about the same time that Johal departed, initially as business development & partnerships manager but was soon promoted

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Firm Capital Property Trust Announces the Sale of Its 50% Interest in a 159,470 Square Foot Industrial Building Located in Montreal for $27.9 Million

TORONTO, March 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Firm Capital Property Trust (“FCPT” or the “Trust”) (TSX : FCD.UN) is pleased to announce that its Montreal Industrial Portfolio Joint Venture (“Montreal Industrial JV”) has entered into a binding agreement to sell a 100% interest in a single tenant, 159,470 square foot industrial facility for gross proceeds

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MKL appoints Komatsu Utility dealer

Global Construction Plant & Equipment will sell the full range of Komatsu Utility equipment, including mini excavators, midi crawler and wheeled excavators, skid steer loaders and compact wheeled loaders, across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands. Established in 1992 by Tim Weeks, Global Construction Plant & Equipment is the UK distributor

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Jones Bros invests in new plant

One of Jones Bros’ new PC490LCi excavators and Volvo A40G articulated dump trucks working together on Havant Thicket reservoir Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK has added 29 new machines to its 400-strong plant fleetand put them to work on Havant Thicket reservoir in Hampshire. North Wales-based Jones Bros has joined forces with West Sussex-based Mackley

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