20 January 2012
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D-day for €2.3bn of Euro debt
20 January 2012
Fitch warns of 2012 timebomb for loans taken out at height of boom
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NAMA's head of lending quits
20 January 2012
Head of lending Graham Emmett announces his departure
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‘Brompton Diamond’ up for sale
20 January 2012
An undeveloped residential and retail scheme with a potential end value of £115m, dubbed the “Brompton Diamond”, is to be put up for sale in London’s Knightsbridge.
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£350m tower gets the go-ahead in Croydon
19 January 2012
A scheme to construct a 55 storey high rise tower in the centre of Croydon has been granted planning consent.
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2011 Residential Yardstick: What's in store for resi in 2012?
16 January 2012
The shift in the UK from a home-ownership model to a rental model was bolstered by the research from Chainbow and Berkeley Way this week, which showed overwhelming expectations that residential rents will rise this year.
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A new dilapidations protocol for a new economic climate
20 January 2012
Amid rising tensions, the Property Litigation Association published a revised version of the dilapidations protocol on 1 January.
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AEW Europe merges European funds
16 January 2012
Investment manager AEW Europe has merged three of its logistics funds to create a €1bn pan-European logistics fund.
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Alchemi turns commercial to housing gold
20 January 2012
Alchemi Group, a central London residential developer, is on track to achieve a 45% return from the two-year conversion of a commercial building in Victoria.
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Allied Irish Bank property boom due diligence in the spotlight
20 January 2012
The due diligence carried out by Allied Irish Bank during the property boom came under scrutiny in court today as Achillieas Kallakis claimed he could obtain credit and complete a deal within 12 days.
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All-in-one website Indirex launched
20 January 2012
Indirex, an online community for global unlisted real estate, was launched this week.
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American investment manager backs Signature care homes
20 January 2012
Ageing UK population fuels lucrative market for overseas investors. Hardeep Sandher reports
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Barratts bought out of administration
16 January 2012
Shoe retailer Barratts Priceless has been bought out of administration by its existing management team.
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BBC property head pay boost despite Auntie's bonus scrap
17 January 2012
BBC property executive Chris Kane took home around £370,000 last year despite the broadcaster’s pledge to scrap bonuses and freeze pay.
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BDO first in door at Bridgewater House
20 January 2012
BDO intends to become the first occupier at HDG Mansur’s Bridgewater House in Bristol city centre, a speculative office scheme.
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Blackrock's UK Property Fund managing director leaves
17 January 2012
The managing director and head of investment of Blackrock’s UK Property Fund has left the company “with immediate effect.”
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Blackstone JV in $1.4bn shopping centre deal
11 January 2012
A joint venture between private equity firm Blackstone and DDR Corporation has agreed to buy a $1.4bn portfolio of 47 US shopping centres.
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Blackstone's new direction
20 January 2012
Chad Pike to lead “tactical opportunities fund” after internal reshuffle
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Bolton retail park owner in administration
19 January 2012
The owner of Bolton’s Central Retail Park has been placed into administration, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Boom-time loans come home to roost in 2012
20 January 2012
Debt-fuelled securitisations will need refinancing this year. Mike Phillips reports
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BSkyB re-signs at existing Brentford HQ
20 January 2012
BSkyB has signed a new lease at its existing 170,000 sq ft headquarters in Brentford.
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Burberry doubles up in London
20 January 2012
High-end fashion house Burberry is close to doubling the size of its London headquarters, after posting stellar results on Monday.
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Caisson cuts self-storage fund equity target due to ‘cautious investors’
20 January 2012
Caisson Investment Management has slashed the equity-raising target for its self-storage fund from £100m to £10m-£20m in light of difficult market conditions.
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Camden Lock Market bought by Brockton-backed jv
16 January 2012
The iconic Camden Lock Market in North London has been purchased by Urban Market Company in a joint venture between the founders of Camden Lock and the retail development firm, Milligan.
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Canary group takes full control of Wood Wharf
20 January 2012
Canary Wharf Group this week bought out its partners in the 16.8 acre Wood Wharf scheme in Docklands.
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Canary Wharf takes control of Wood Wharf
18 January 2012
Canary Wharf Group today said that it had bought out its partners in the 16.8 acre Wood Wharf mixed-use scheme in Docklands.
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Cancel rates valuation
20 January 2012
Sir, Following the commercial property value meltdown of 2009, the simplest and most effective help the government could give to hard-pressed business — and the property sector in particular — would be to cancel the 2010 business rates valuation.
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Capita Symonds unveil office and retail scheme Kampala Tower
20 January 2012
Plans for Africa’s tallest tower in the Ugandan capital of Kampala were unveiled this week.
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Care home operator Four Seasons defers debt repayment
20 January 2012
Care home company Four Seasons Health Care has chosen not to prepay at least £100m of its securitised debt, resulting in an increase in the interest it has to pay noteholders.
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CBRE Global Investors buys Paris mall for €68m
18 January 2012
CBRE Global Investors has bought the Centre Commercial Boissénart in Paris for around €68m.
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CBRE Global Investors’ two interiors tenants
20 January 2012
CBRE Global Investors has completed two lettings at Minworth Trade Park in Birmingham.
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Chainbow/Berkeley Way: Residential Yardstick 2011
16 January 2012
The following survey was designed by lettings agency Berkeley Way and property management company, Chainbow, to gauge owners, investors and renters’ opinions and attitudes about what lies ahead for the residential industry in 2012.
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'Cheap money' is a disease
20 January 2012
Sir, Interest rates were only ever going to be left on hold, given the dire state of the economy.
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CITY VIEW: Goings-on at London & Stamford become curiouser and curiouser
20 January 2012
What is going on at London & Stamford Property?
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Clarke will need trademark charm to steer Tesco supertanker back on course
20 January 2012
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Philip Clarke’s appointment as chief executive of Tesco in June 2010 was widely seen as underpinning the supermarket’s international ambitions
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CMS pulls out of Hammerson prelet
16 January 2012
Law firm CMS Cameron Mckenna has terminated a prelet agreement at Hammerson’s 591,000 sq ft Principal Place office development in the City, as the current global financial turmoil continues to bite on property in the Square Mile.
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Corestate Group buys €230m German portfolio
17 January 2012
Corestate Group, the Switzerland-based private equity investor, has bought a €230m German portfolio residential and office portfolio.
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CPD Module 1: Valuation and Sustainability
17 January 2012
Talking up your company’s ‘green’ credentials is now the done thing whatever sector you are in. It helps marketing and makes products look more attractive.Property is no different.
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Crown drops Jones Lang LaSalle because of King Sturge merger
20 January 2012
The Crown Estate has dropped Jones Lang LaSalle as its property manager for its regional portfolio.
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - Victoria Centre
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s Victoria Centre
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - Braehead
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s shopping centre in Braehead
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - Chapelfield
20 January 2012
A description of the CSC shopping centre in Chapelfield
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - Chimes
20 January 2012
A description of the CSC shopping centre in Chimes
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - Eldon Square
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s shopping centre at Eldon Square
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - Harlequin
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s Harlequin Shopping Centre in Watford
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - Lakeside
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s Lakeside shopping centre
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - Manchester Arndale
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s Manchester Arndale shopping centre
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - Metrocentre
19 January 2012
A description of CSC’s Metrocentre
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - St David's
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s St David’s shopping centre
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - The Glades
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s The Glades shopping centre
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - The Mall
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s The Mall in Bristol
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - The Potteries Shopping Centre
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s The Potteries Shopping Centre
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CSC Shopping Centre Brochure - The Trafford Centre
20 January 2012
A description of CSC’s The Trafford Centre
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Cushman hash tag
20 January 2012
Ludgate’s artistic education continues. For two consecutive weeks, this page has shown readers several shocking examples of urban defacement, from a Banksy stencil to a spoiled “To et” sign.
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Dads' army
20 January 2012
From Lawrence Dallaglio to Mark Rigby, property’s rich seam of rugby greats is yielding the next generation of egg-chasing superstars.
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Derwent London joins Grosvenor jet set
20 January 2012
Rumours about the world’s first showroom for private jets have circled the rarefied air of the London’s West End for some time, but credit should go to Derwent London for landing the tenant.
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Deutsche considers quartet for relocation
20 January 2012
German bank shortlists four sites, among them the Shard and Canary Wharf
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Development Securities secures Watford consent
20 February 2012
Development Securities has secured a resolution to grant planning consent for a residential-led scheme in Watford.
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deVere Group to open Lisbon office
16 January 2012
The deVere Group has announced plans to open a new office in Lisbon, Portugal next month.
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Dilapidations legislation met with trepidation
20 January 2012
New legal obligations split opinion on what is an already divisive issue. Sarah Townsend reports
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Dixons to halve high street stores
17 January 2012
Dixons Retail has reported a 5% dip in like-for-like sales over the Christmas period, as it continues to trim back its store portfolio.
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Even the bravest cannot overcome a lack of debt
20 January 2012
Fortune favours the brave” may not be a saying that resonates with most of the leveraged property investor fraternity right now after the experiences of the last three years.
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Falling non-food sales prompt Tesco development rethink
20 January 2012
Tesco is expected to reduce its development pipeline by nearly half in the next three years, after announcing a change in strategy and a retreat from its larger Tesco Extra formats.
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First phase of Swindon's £350m Union Square scheme gets consent
18 January 2012
The first phase of the £350m regeneration of Union Square in the centre of Swindon is to start in late spring following the approval of plans to progress the scheme.
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Follow Anne Frank’s example and help change lives
20 January 2012
What beckons for the property world in 2012? In a nutshell and notwithstanding London, plenty of pain and opportunity, resulting in a rebasing of values.
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Gale resigns as JER CEO after firm slims down
20 January 2012
Barden Gale has quit as CEO of private equity real estate firm JER Partners.
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Government makes last minute correction to Localism Act
20 January 2012
The government made last-minute amendments to the Localism Act this week to correct a mistake relating to council development plans.
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Gowers confident of safe future for self-storage firm
20 January 2012
Safestore’s chief remains positive after a tough first year in the job. David Hatcher reports
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Griggs' cutting remarks
20 January 2012
Chris Grigg has no plans to move back into investment banking.
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Helical secures 20,000 sq ft Aldersgate letting
11 January 2012
Expanding conference venue operator etc.venues is to open a 20,000 sq ft outlet at 200 Aldersgate near London Wall.
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Helical's Solihull scheme to finally start following long-running planning saga
19 January 2012
The final chapter in a long running development saga will begin in May when work finally begins on the Shirley Parkgate scheme in Shirley, Solihull, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Henderson: Think/Asia 2012
20 January 2012
Over the last 12 months, Asian (ex-Japan) economies demonstrated continued resilience with 6.6% GDP growth in 2010 and an expected outturn of 4.6% for 2011.
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Henderson: Think/Europe 2012
20 January 2012
Brace! Brace! The alarming words that every airplane passenger hopes they will never hear seem particularly resonant when considering the fate of today’s European economy. With the engine of growth stalling, we can all but wait and hope as we contemplate the implications for property investment.
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Henderson: Think/UK 2012
20 January 2012
In Think/UK 2011, we projected a 6.5% total return with the potential for secondary valuation falls due to occupier and banking related risks, but anticipated that quality real estate would perform well with investors globally hunting the high, secure yield provided by the asset class.
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Henderson: Think/US 2012
20 January 2012
Today, there is a prevalent concern that governments no longer have the tools, balance sheets, or gumption necessary to further stimulate their economies or to impact markets in a meaningful way.
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Hollister hits Edinburgh high street
20 January 2012
US fashion retailer Hollister has signed up for its first non-shopping centre store in the UK, in Edinburgh.
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Hong Kong broker key to Kallakis defence
20 January 2012
Middle man allegedly arranged for Sun Hung Kai to provide overriding leases
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Ignis buys £80m Segro portfolio
20 February 2012
Segro has sold five industrial estates to two funds managed by Ignis Asset Management for £80.2m, as tipped by Property Week.
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Index reveals retailers pump value into petrol sites
20 January 2012
The value of average independent petrol station sites declined by 5% in 2011 reveals Barber Wadlow, Catalist Experian and the Retail Motor Industry Federation’s 2012 Petrol Station Property Value Indices.
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Intelligence: Henderson's Think/2012 research
20 January 2012
Investors should aim for an 80:20 mix of core and periphery territories when gauging European real estate investment this year, revealed research from Henderson Global Investors.
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IPC to look at Humber wind turbine manufacturing park
17 January 2012
Plans for a multi-million pound centre for renewable energy on the south bank of the River Humber has taken a significant step forward, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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IPD reveals slow growth in 2011
20 January 2012
UK property generated a return of 8.1% last year, the IPD UK Monthly Index reveals.
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JJB margins improve but sales continue to fall
20 February 2012
Wigan-based sports retailer JJB has announced a drop in like for like sales of 5.7% during the five weeks following Christmas.
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John Lewis ties up Ipswich regen scheme
20 January 2012
Planning consent has been granted for a £100m Ipswich regeneration scheme that will comprise a combined John Lewis at Home and Waitrose store — the country’s first.
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Junk bond
20 January 2012
Not content with tackling the housing crisis, Sanctuary Housing has turned its hand to the “hoarding” crisis, too.
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Kallakis: I never met Hong Kong investor
18 January 2012
Achilleas Kallakis took to the stand for the second time this afternoon and told jurors he had never met anyone from the company that held the overriding leases on his entire commercial property portfolio.
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L&G buys Stevenage Leisure Park for £40m
16 January 2012
Legal & General Property has bought Stevenage Leisure Park from Aviva Life & Pensions UK for around £40m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.5%.
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Lamb gambols into West End
20 January 2012
TV star George Lamb and designer Adrian Sauvage have signed for the first store for their new menswear label, A Sauvage, in London’s West End.
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Lenders staring at £700m loss from Propinvest loan
10 January 2012
Lenders to a portfolio put together by Glenn Maud’s Propinvest are facing a loss of more than £600m on their loan, in what could be one of the largest single loan losses of the downturn.
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Lok’n Store and two feuding shareholders
20 January 2012
Self-storage CEO unperturbed by major shareholder revolt. David Hatcher reports
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London & Stamford appoints advisors to sell Meadowhall stake
16 January 2012
London & Stamford has appointed Savills to bring its 50% stake in the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield to the market in the next couple of months.
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London Assembly backs Boris to control Olympic legacy
18 January 2012
The London Assembly has today voted unanimously in favour of the establishment of a mayoral development area covering the area in and around the Olympic Park.
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London mayoral adviser Dolphin waves goodbye to life of planning
20 January 2012
A senior planning adviser to the mayor of London stood down last week, Property Week has learned.
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Luxury homes continue to spread in the West End
20 February 2012
Approximately 2m square feet of offices in London’s West End have been granted planning consent to be converted to homes as developers continue to take advantage of the area’s soaring residential market.
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M&G buys Marylebone hotel
16 January 2012
M&G Investments has bought a 92-bedroom hotel in London’s Marylebone for £15.35m.
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Make the most of what office space you've got
20 January 2012
Sir, Old office stock is undergoing something of a facelift as the trend for refurbishment dominates the developer agenda
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Malaysian wealth fund in talks on £1bn KanAm portfolio
11 January 2012
Malaysian investment fund PNB is in talks to buy some or all of a £1bn City office portfolio being sold by German fund manager KanAm.
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Meadowhall sale sparks overseas cash courtship
20 January 2012
Mould and Vaughan to sell 50% stake in Sheffield mall, while Whittaker reveals CSC could follow suit
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Meliá Hotels to open first UK Innside hotel in Manchester
18 January 2012
Spanish hotel group Meliá Hotels has chosen the 20-acre Manchester city centre gateway site First Street as the location for its first Innside hotel in the UK.
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Mixed bag of results masks true high street woes
20 January 2012
Inflation and discounting lift Christmas sales figures but more misery looms. Rachel Hunter reports
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Moorfield studies in Exeter
20 January 2012
Moorfield has bought the former Printworks site on Western Way in Exeter, to develop as a 487-bed student accommodation scheme.
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More big names collapsed in 2011 than ever before
20 January 2012
The number of retailers entering administration in 2011 increased by 11% on 2010, Deloitte’s latest figures show. Of the 183 businesses that collapsed last year, 42 went under in the last quarter.
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Morgan Stanley’s St Petersburg shop
20 January 2012
A Morgan Stanley fund has agreed to buy the largest shopping centre in central St Petersburg, Russia, for $1.1bn from Meridian Capital CIS Fund.
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MORNING AFTER: OAS Christmas Party
20 January 2012
The Office Agents Society celebrated their annual Christmas dinner at the Connaught Rooms
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Morton leaves BlackRock UK fund
20 January 2012
Jeff Morton, head of investment for the BlackRock UK Property fund, is leaving the firm to pursue other opportunities.
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Mulberry enjoys 35% Christmas sales growth
19 January 2012
English luxury fashion brand Mulberry today reported a bumper Christmas trading period, with like-for-like retail sales up 35% on the year before.
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NAMA steps up loan sales as head of lending quits
16 January 2012
The Irish National Asset Management Agency has appointed a panel of advisers to ramp up its sale of loans in 2012, and its head of lending has resigned.
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Nationwide withdraws from new commercial lending
20 January 2012
Nationwide Building Society has withdrawn from the new commercial property lending market in the UK.
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Need to know: Struggling chains to watch
20 January 2012
A brief look at struggling chains and how they’re coping
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New body plans to deliver "inspiring" Leeds station
19 January 2012
A new body has been formed with the aim of turning Leeds train station into an “inspiring” gateway that will raise the reputation of the city as a place to do business, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Nine Elms scheme approved
20 January 2012
Cooper Group’s plans for 456 new homes in the Nine Elms regeneration zone have been approved by Wandsworth Council.
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Northern Soul: Exclusive interview with John Whittaker
20 January 2012
John Whittaker gives Property Week an exclusive audience and helicopter tour of his north-west empire. James Whitmore reports.
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Over 100 Woolworths' stores still vacant
19 January 2012
Some 13% of Woolworths’ 815 high street stores are still vacant, three years after the discount retailer collapsed into administration.
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Overseas buyers in industrial action at 2011 year-end
20 January 2012
A slew of portfolio sales at the close of 2011 prompted a 15% rise in UK year-on-year investment activity in industrial and logistics property.
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Past Times enters administration
16 January 2012
Struggling retailer Past Times has collapsed into administration today with administrators at KPMG having been appointed.
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Peacocks and Bonmarché file notices of intention to appoint administrators
16 January 2012
The Peacock Group and Bonmarché have today filed notices of intention to appoint administrators.
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Peacocks blue after admin
20 January 2012
Budget retailer Peacocks plunged into administration this week, in one of the biggest retailing collapses since Woolworths suffered the same fate in 2008.
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Peacocks collapses into administration
18 January 2012
Administrators have today been appointed to The Peacock Group in what is one of the biggest retailing collapses since Woolworths went into administration in 2008.
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People moves: DTZ, Chesterton Humberts, CBRE and more...
20 January 2012
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Picton buys missing piece in Angel office village
17 January 2012
Picton Property Income has bought the final piece of the Angel Gate Office Village in London.
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Portas ‘energises’ MPs to act on retail
20 January 2012
The government has pledged to “provide a very energetic response” to Mary Portas’s high street review, but indicated proposals to toughen up wording of the “town centre first” policy could be ignored.
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Portas encourages betting shop bill
20 January 2012
A private members’ bill calling for a cap on betting shops to stop their proliferation on struggling high streets will have its second reading in parliament today.
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Procession of suitors file through Admiralty Arch
20 January 2012
Potential uses pondered as sale of historic building nears end of first stage. Sarah Townsend reports
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Property company to take over PCT estate
20 January 2012
The government is setting up a national property company to manage the primary care trust estate, it has emerged.
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Pumpkin Patch retreats from the UK
19 January 2012
Children’s clothing retailer Pumpkin patch has decided to appoint administrators to its UK operations.
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PWTV: Sir Terry Farrell calls for a return to "pragmatic" development of London
18 January 2012
World-renowned architect Sir Terry Farrell CBE today called for London to return to the “pragmatic” development of London.
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Q+A: Starbucks’ coffee to go
20 January 2012
Starbucks opened its first UK drive-through in Cardiff in 2008 and now has around 10. It plans to open a further 200 in the next five years.Dale Calcutt, the company’s vice-president of store development in UK and Ireland, explains the strategy.
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RBS beats regional retreat from large loans
20 January 2012
Property lending team in consultation as restructure shifts lending to Glasgow only
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Red Book overhaul is long overdue, 13.01.12
20 January 2012
Sir, During the post-1974 crash, when we did year-end valuations, the chief fund manager would cross out a valuation of £80m and write “£65m”, which was only a small increase over the previous year.
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Restaurants sign up at Trowbridge scheme
19 January 2012
Frankie & Benny’s and Prezzo have signed up to take space at Innox Riverside, a leisure-led mixed-use scheme in Trowbridge.
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Retail investor gets the show on the road
20 January 2012
Roadside Retail was only established a year ago and it already has a portfolio of five development projects that total 270,000 sq ft.
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Rockspring sells Annick Industrial Estate
19 January 2012
Rockspring Property Investment Managers has sold Annick Industrial Estate in Glasgow for £3.4m.
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Sainsbury’s boosted by festive sales growth
11 January 2012
Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has reported its “best Christmas ever” after posting like-for-like sales growth for the third quarter of 4.8%.
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Schroders £1.25bn flagship fund to convert to PAIF
20 January 2012
Schroders plans to convert its flagship UK fund into a tax-efficient property authorised investment fund (PAIF).
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Sean Quinn's Belfry Hotel bought to the market
16 January 2012
Sean Quinn’s Belfry hotel has been brought to the market through Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels.
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Segro lines up £300m sale
18 January 2012
Segro is close to selling £300m of industrial and regional office space, as its £1.6bn disposal of non-core assets kicked into gear, Property Week can reveal.
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Sleath divests Slough £300m
20 January 2012
New chief executive sells sheds and offices to US and UK firms as £1.6bn sell-off continues apace
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Stobart enters agreement to buy portfolio from chief executive
17 January 2012
Stobart Group has entered into a conditional agreement to buy a portfolio of properties from its chief executive.
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Stobart's £101m bond with Moneypenny
20 January 2012
Transport group is buying portfolio of 18 properties from founder’s son
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Swedes buy £230m Paddington asset
16 January 2012
A pair of Swedish Pension funds has bought a building in London’s Paddington for a total of £230m, paving the way for the development of two new buildings in the area.
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Swiss buyer for German portfolio
20 January 2012
Corestate Group, the Switzerland-based private equity investor, has bought a €230m German residential and office portfolio.
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Tesco to open major store in Staffordshire
18 January 2012
Tesco is to open a major supermarket at the £50m Hednesford Gateway town centre development project in Staffordshire.
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Thatcherism architect Lord Harris a "close personal friend" of Kallakis
19 January 2012
Lord Harris of Highcross, a founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs and one of the architects of Thatcherism, was today claimed as a “close personal friend” of alleged multi-million pound frauster Achilleas Kallakis
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The court, the thief, his wife and her solicitor
20 January 2012
The message: Free advice can prove very costly.
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Tishman makes £170m Victoria buy
19 January 2012
US property company Tishman Speyer has bought a government-let building from Land Securities for £170m.
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Townie and out
20 January 2012
Sir, At the risk of appearing to be a tractor spotter, I think your reporter may be a townie.
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Travis drives Toolstation expansion
20 January 2012
Builders merchant pays £24m to solely own hardware supplier. David Hatcher reports
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UBM's South Bank show
20 January 2012
Property Week’s parent UBM has provided a major boost to the central London office market by signing a deal to take more than 100,000 sq ft on the South Bank.
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UK property returns 8.1% in 2011
16 January 2012
UK property generated a return of 8.1% last year, according to the IPD UK Monthly Index.
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Waitrose to open first Birmingham city centre store
18 January 2012
Waitrose has confirmed its first store in Birmingham city centre will open in March, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Welcome boost for mortgage market at end of 2011
16 January 2012
The residential lending market experienced a welcome increase in activity in November last year, data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders has shown.
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Westminster U-turn on controversial parking charges plan
19 January 2012
Westminster City Council has backed down on controversial plans to introduce evening and Sunday parking charges in the West End.
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Whittaker's wisdom will help CSC to fight back
20 January 2012
“The Trafford Centre is not brash, it’s entertainment. It’s not a smart restaurant in Regent Street, but people come here and they like it. I don’t call that brash.”
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Women's Power List 2012
20 January 2012
Who are the most influential women in property?
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Wonga spreads out in London
20 January 2012
Payday loan company seeks new headquarters to accommodate recession-fuelled growth
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Woolworths sale still on
20 January 2012
Around 13% of Woolworths’ 815 high street stores are still vacant, three years after the discount retailer collapsed into administration.
