Canary Wharf Group Investment Holdings, which is majority owned by Qatar Holdings, is London's largest property owner, with almost 21.5m sq ft of space on its books, according to data from the research firm Datscha.
Canary Wharf Group (“CWG”), the developer of the largest urban regeneration project in Europe, announces that its shareholders, Brookfield and the Qatar Investment Authority, have committed £400 million to the company by way of a £300 million equity subscription and a £100 million revolving credit facility.
Another royal, Turki bin Salman Al Saud, is the ninth son of the king and brother to the country's de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman. Turki Al Saud owns a BVI-based company called Moncrieff Holdings, which owns 18 properties in London, including flats in the Pinto Tower in Nine Elms.
Two years after the tower's completion, the QIA aimed high again, buying HSBC's headquarters at 8 Canada Square in Docklands for £1.1bn. It swiftly followed that up by leading a consortium that bought Canary Wharf Group in a £2.6bn takeover.
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Qatar owns Harrods department store, 95 per cent of the Shard skyscraper in London, and has stakes in Heathrow airport, British Airways, Barclays bank, plus Sainsbury's.”
Harrods is a British luxury department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. It is owned by Harrods Ltd, a company currently owned by the state of Qatar via its sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority as part of Qatar's global soft power strategy.
Most British Arabs live in the Greater London area, and many are either businesspeople, recent immigrants or students. There are also sizable and long-established Yemeni Arab communities living in both Cardiff and the South Shields area near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
LONDON: Home ownership in England and Wales is most common for people who identify as being of an Indian ethnicity, the latest release of data from the 2021 census has revealed.
We have compiled a brief rundown of the top estates and property portfolios. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the 6th Duke of Westminster, controls the £10 billion Grosvenor Estate, making him London's wealthiest landlord.
Canary Wharf Group Investment Holdings, which is majority owned by Qatar Holdings, is London's largest property owner, with almost 21.5m sq ft of space on its books, according to data from the research firm Datscha.
Shobi Khan is the Chief Executive Officer of Canary Wharf Group. He has worked in the real estate industry for more than 30 years and joined Canary Wharf Group in October 2019.
Saudi Arabia's investment in Selfridges adds to its growing portfolio of high-profile investments in the UK, which includes majority ownership of Newcastle United and the second-largest stake in Aston Martin.
The airport is owned and operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings, owned mostly by FGP and Qatar Investment Authority and CDPQ.. In 2022, it was the second-busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic and the busiest airport in Europe as per March 2023.
The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244 metres (801 ft). The Shard was developed by Sellar Property Group on behalf of LBQ Ltd and is jointly owned by Sellar Property (5%) and the State of Qatar (95%).
The government (together with its QUANGOs) is the biggest land owner by area, the Forestry Commission owning some 2,200,000 acres (890,000 ha), the MoD 1,101,851 acres (445,903 ha), the Crown Estate 678,420 acres (274,550 ha), DEFRA 116,309 acres (47,069 ha) and Homes England 19,349 acres (7,830 ha).
An Abu Dhabi-based sister restaurant opened in June 2010, consisting of a restaurant, bar and lounge spread over 16,000sq ft. ADIA has also acquired a 16 per cent stake in Gatwick Airport, and a 9.9 per cent stake in Thames Water, which serves 8.5m London customers with 2.6bn litres of tap water every day.
According to a 2017 projection the Muslim population in the UK in the year 2050 is likely to number around 13 million. The top 20 local authorities in England and Wales with the highest percentage of Muslims in 2021 were: London Borough of Tower Hamlets: 39.9% (123,912) Blackburn with Darwen: 35.0% (54,146)
The greatest concentration can be found in the east London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest, where Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and Indians tend to predominate.
Harrods was sold for £1.5 billion. Fayed later revealed in an interview that he decided to sell Harrods following the difficulty in getting his dividend approved by the trustee of the Harrods pension fund. Fayed said "I'm here every day, I can't take my profit because I have to take a permission of those bloody idiots.
While he was openly critical of the royal family after the crash, Al-Fayed did attend Princess Diana's funeral in Westminster Abbey in 1997, alongside his wife, Heini Wathen. His son Dodi had been buried at an earlier date at Barrow Green Court, Surrey – a house which Al-Fayed owned.
In 1985, House of Frasier sold Harrods department store to Egyptian businessman Mohammed Al-Fayed. Al-Fayed introduced the Egyptian room in Harrods in which he displayed two busts of himself, as well as two memorials to his son Dodi and Princess Diana, who both died tragic deaths in a car accident.
