Forget shining skyscrapers, gleaming office blocks or swanky shopping centres; in commercial property, big sheds are where it’s at. Warehouses may not be sexy, but they’ve proved extremely lucrative in the surging world of e-commerce.
Most consumers won’t have heard of Segro, but it will have touched their lives. Items they use every day may have passed through its warehouses: vast landmarks of an online boom that has made it Britain’s most valuable property company.
“We get everyday things. That could be a coffee cup, or it could be something you’ve downloaded on your phone that’s gone through a data centre,” says David Sleath, Segro’s chief executive, seated in a boardroom at the company’s Mayfair head office behind Regent Street. “We
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