Iconic Gherkin sold for record £600m

Iconic London building the Gherkin was today sold for a record £600m (€908.3m) in a deal thought to be the most ever paid for an office property in Britain.

Insurance group Swiss Re sold the 41-storey office block, officially known as 30 St Mary Axe, to German real estate group IVG Immobilien just three years after it opened.