Sonja Hutson

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FT News Briefing · Ares’ big play in private equity · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

It's another indication investors are getting more nervous about how much companies are spending on data centers, chips, and computer memory.

On top of the credit default swap prices spiking, there's been a big sell-off in debt issued by so-called hyperscalers.

Those are companies that have piled hundreds of billions of dollars into developing huge data centers and AI models.

Investors are increasingly worried about how much debt those companies are selling.

Institutional investors are snapping up UK houses en masse.

That's because the property market is struggling.

Individual buyers are on the sidelines as high prices and sticky mortgage rates stand in their way.

Here to discuss this latest trend is the FT's property correspondent, Julie Steinberg.

Hi, Julie.

Hi, thanks for having me.

Thanks for being on the show.

So tell me a little bit about just how much property these investors are buying.

Yeah.

Why is the UK housing market so precarious right now?

And that gets us to these bulk deals that institutional investors are striking.

How exactly do those work?

OK, so it makes sense that these are mutually beneficial for both the institutional investors and the house builders.

But what about individual buyers?

Where does this leave them?

Julie Steinberg is the FT's property correspondent.

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