London & Regional Properties (L&R) is a property company

Real estate development

Real estate development, or Property Development, is a multifaceted business, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of improved land or parcels to others...

 based in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest privately held

Privately held company

A privately held company or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the...

 property companies in Europe.

L&R was founded in 1987 by the brothers Richard Livingstone, a chartered surveyor, and his brother Ian, a former optometrist. It has business interests in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

 and the Baltic region

Baltic region

The terms Baltic region, Baltic Rim countries, and Baltic Rim refer to slightly different combinations of countries in the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea.- Etymology :...

, Germany, Poland, South Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland and Central America

Central America

Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

.

It manages business, retail and leisure complexes from its offices in London, Stockholm, Moscow, Panama City

Panama City

Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...

, St Petersburg, Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

 and Cape Town

Cape Town

Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

.

Investments

• London Hilton on Park Lane
• Trafalgar Hilton
  Trafalgar Hilton
  The Trafalgar is a hotel in London, owned by Hilton Hotels.Located on the south side of Trafalgar Square, the hotel is a contemporary boutique hotel, containing Rockwell Restaurant and notable roof gardens....
  
  
• The Empire, Leicester Square
• Diageo
  Diageo
  Diageo plc is a global alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine....
  
  's head office in London WC1
• 55 Baker Street, site of Marks & Spencers' former head office
• The sports centre business David Lloyd Leisure, acquired in 2007 from Whitbread
  Whitbread
  Whitbread PLC is a global hotel, coffee shop and restaurant company headquartered in Dunstable, United Kingdom. Its largest division is Premier Inn, which is the largest hotel brand in the UK with around 580 hotels and over 40,000 rooms. Its Costa Coffee chain has around 1,600 stores across 25...
  
  
• 90 care homes, formerly managed by Southern Cross until 2011, to be managed by Orchard Care Homes in the North and Minster in the South-East
• Cliveden
  Cliveden
  Cliveden is an Italianate mansion and estate at Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. Set on banks above the River Thames, its grounds slope down to the river. The site has been home to an Earl, two Dukes, a Prince of Wales and the Viscounts Astor....
  
   and the Royal Crescent
  Royal Crescent
  The Royal Crescent is a residential road of 30 houses laid out in a crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom and is a grade I...
  
   hotels, subject to negotiations, from the collapsed Von Essen Hotels group
• Cliveden House is now officially part of their portfolio

Current development projects

• A development of 750 apartments with hotel and leisure facilities at Greenwich Peninsula
  Greenwich Peninsula
  Greenwich Peninsula is an area of South London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.The peninsula is bounded on three sides by a loop of the Thames, between the Isle of Dogs and Silvertown. To the south is the rest of Greenwich, to the south-east is Charlton.The peninsula lies...
  
  
• A hotel and office development in Novosibirsk
  Novosibirsk
  Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...
  
  , Russia
• The Panama Pacifico
  Panama Pacifico
  Panama Pacifico is a mixed-use real estate development in Panama. The project has been in development since 2007.London & Regional Properties and Colombian banker Jaime Gilinski are developing the Panama Pacifico business and residential development in Panama City, Panama...
  
  , a US $700 million mini-city on the banks of the Panama Canal