DFI, an independent pan-European private equity real estate platform, has launched Techbox in the United Kingdom, with the £90 million ($119 million) acquisition of Catalyst Bicester, a prime, multi-let industrial technology, innovation and advanced manufacturing estate in Bicester, Oxfordshire, developed by Albion Land in an off-market deal.
DFI has launched the platform to capitalize on a growing industrial technology subsector that taps into the United Kingdom’s requirement for space to support its advanced manufacturing, R&D and high-tech industrial (or midtech) sectors. This is a distinct and rapidly growing part of the market that sits between logistics, technology and life science, providing occupiers with power capacity, flexibility and technical space to scale from research through to advanced production. These assets provide critical workspace that power the United Kingdom’s innovation economy, supporting key sectors identified in the United Kingdom’s Ind
