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Head of Investment Strategy for EMEA Capital Markets • United Kingdom

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David Hutchings

Head of Investment Strategy for EMEA Capital Markets • United Kingdom


About

David is the head of the European Investment Strategy team based in the Cushman & Wakefield Cross Border Capital Markets group.

His main area of responsibility is in producing and managing investment and strategy research on behalf of the firm and our clients.

He is editor to a number of the firm’s international capital markets publications and has a wide range of experience supporting both development and investment decision making with economic and property market analysis, risk and return analysis and strategy development.  

Recent successes for David and his team have included work on sales and acquisition strategies for a range of clients across the region as well as the development of a global investment strategy for a Sovereign Wealth Fund, supporting strategy development for an IPO in Asia and developing strategy to assist a fund raising in Europe. 

 

Awards & Recognition

David is a board member on the ULI’s UK Executive Committee, responsible for research, and also a member of the Pan European Property Common Interest Group (PEPCIG), a forum for leading international researchers and the Society for Property Researchers. He previously sat on a CBI working party on energy efficiency, worked on a government review of UK lease structures and chaired a working party looking at the impact of government structures for London on behalf of the British Council for Offices.

Assignments

  • Europa Capital Partners 
  • ECE 
  • Mubadala 
  • Oxford Properties 
  • Redevco
  • The Tesco Pension Fund 

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Lauren Joselyn • 06/09/2026

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Occupiers across Europe are increasingly being forced to plan further ahead to secure the right office space, as demand for high-quality buildings continues to outpace supply in many of the region’s leading markets, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s latest European Office Update.

Lauren Joselyn • 01/09/2026

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European Real Estate Recovery Holds As Investors Turn To Selectivity

Cushman & Wakefield's European Investment Atlas Q1 2026 report highlights a market transitioning into a more mature phase of recovery, where opportunities remain significant but increasingly require precision, discipline and careful asset selection.

Lauren Joselyn • 30/06/2026

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Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed by SEGRO, the UK’s largest Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), as valuer of its UK portfolio of modern warehousing, industrial property, data centres, and development land assets.

Richard Coleman • 08/05/2026

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Richard Pickering and Alvin So join the APAC & EMEA Multi-Markets team.

Lauren Joselyn • 17/12/2025

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The Iversen Building, a new purpose-built ‘lab ready’ 86,000 sq ft building based at The Oxford Science Park (TOSP), has reached 100% occupancy only twelve months after practical completion.

Vikki McCrindle • 28/02/2025

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The Central London office leasing market demonstrated remarkable resilience in 2024, achieving an overall take-up of 9.68 million sq ft, a 1% increase on 2023 and the second highest volume in the past five years, according to Cushman & Wakefield's latest ‘Central London Offices Marketbeat’ report.

Lauren Joselyn • 06/02/2025

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European Commercial Real Estate Markets Experience Significant Yield Compression In Q4

New data from Cushman & Wakefield reveals that a growing number of European commercial real estate markets saw prime yields move inwards in Q4 2024, with 24 market sectors reporting an inward shift in Q4 2024, double the number in Q3, providing a clearer signal that Europe’s investment markets are on the road to recovery at the prime end of the market.  

Richard Coleman • 04/02/2025

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