23 March 2012
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Benson Elliot rescues German schemes
23 March 2012
Purchase of Speymill units is one of country’s first enforced sales of CMBS loan
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‘Inactive’ Argos on borrowed time
23 March 2012
Plummeting profits prompt analysts’ calls for store closures and innovation. Rachel Hunter reports
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£100m Newport Friars Walk retail scheme gets planning consent
26 March 2012
Newport’s £100m Friars Walk retail and leisure scheme was today granted planning permission by the Welsh city council’s planning committee.
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277 Game shops shut following administration
26 March 2012
Just under half of Game’s stores have been closed today after the retailer collapsed into administration.
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Allsop raises £42.3m at March auction
28 March 2012
Allsop raised £42.3m at its commercial auction last night, with a success rate of 75%.
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Assura CEO resigns; former British Land heavyweight steps in
29 March 2012
Assura Group’s chief executive officer has today resigned from the company, to be replaced by the former finance director of British Land.
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Aviva gets green light for major Crossrail development
27 March 2012
Aviva Investors has been given planning consent for an office-led development above the new Crossrail station at London’s Liverpool Street Station.
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Banks drag their feet over buy-in to NewBuy
23 March 2012
As mad dashes go, this month’s apparent scramble to launch the NewBuy mortgage plan took some beating. In the end, only three banks and the half-dozen largest housebuilders signed up for the 95% loan scheme when it launched on 12 March. But the builders, the banks, housing minister Grant Shapps and prime minister David Cameron appeared to be singing from different hymn sheets.
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Barratt in exclusive talks on NAMA tower
28 March 2012
Barratt Developments has placed under offer a half-built residential block on City Road that is being sold by Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency, PropertyWeek.com can reveal.
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Battersea hit parade
23 March 2012
Ping! More “Battersea power ballads” from readers inspired by plans to hold a music festival this summer at the unwieldy building on the south bank of the Thames.
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Bellway buys Rolls Royce site
29 March 2012
Bellway Homes has exchanged contracts to buy part of the former Rolls Royce engine factory site to the north of Watford.
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Benelux hits Hansteen's NAV
28 March 2012
Hansteen Holdings today reported a slight drop in net asset value as its performance was marred by its portfolio in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Bidders line up for £23bn MoD estate
23 March 2012
Largest public sector portfolio needs dramatic restructuring. Sarah Townsend reports
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Bids sought to cure Collyhurst’s wobbles
23 March 2012
Manchester’s neglected north-eastern corner is next in line for a rebirth. Paul Unger reports
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Big Yellow bullish on VAT changes
26 March 2012
Self storage company Big Yellow has announced plans to mitigate the potential damage caused by the changes to VAT announced during last week’s budget.
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BNP Paribas Real Estate: European Office Market 2012
23 March 2012
The increased uncertainty since autumn 2011 will continue to drag results down throughout the first half of 2012. Only during the second part of 2012 will a recovery emerge.
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BNP Paribas Real Estate: Rome - January 2012
23 March 2012
Direct real estate investments in the Roman market in 2011 were reduced by about one third compared to 2010. This negative resultwas formed substantially in the last three months of the year, when the market was essentially stationary.
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BNP Paribas Real Estate’s team America
23 March 2012
BNP Paribas Real Estate has signed an alliance agreement with US firm Transwestern.
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Bob Neill: Councils are behind the government's planning reforms
27 March 2012
Bob Neill, the under secretary of state for Communities and Local Government, has said councils supported the government’s decision to enforce its controversial planning reforms immediately, despite many being unprepared.
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Bostock and Pollitt appointed to advise on Bracknell regen plans
23 March 2012
The Bracknell Regeneration Partnership, a joint venture between Schroders and Legal & General Property, has appointed London creative agency, Bostock and Pollitt, to draw up plans for the next phase of Bracknell town centre’s retail regeneration.
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Brookfield plots multi-billion property portfolio spin-off
23 March 2012
Publicly listed Brookfield Property Partners will own income-producing assets, shares and funds
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Bruntwood lets 40,000 sq ft at City Tower
27 March 2012
Regional office provider Bruntwood has secured 40,000 sq ft of new lettings at its City Tower in Manchester city centre.
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Capital & Regional to offload £300m Junction fund
26 March 2012
Capital & Regional is to sell a portfolio of retail parks for more than £300m.
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Carrefour bound for Balkans in Macedonia mall opening
23 March 2012
Carrefour, Inditex and Cineplexx have signed to anchor the €90m Skopje City Mall, which will be Macedonia’s first modern shopping centre.
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CBRE: German Hotel Market - 2011
23 March 2012
The brisk investment activities, particularly in the first half of 2011, have led to positive results for the German hotel investment market.
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CBRE: Russian Investment - 2011
23 March 2012
2011 was a record year for investment in Russian real estate. €4.55bn was invested, which is over 1.5 times higher than in 2008, the previous record year.
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CBRE: UK Senior Lending Market - 2011
23 March 2012
The number of lenders in the actively The category shrank by 11, almost doubled since 2010 to currently stand at significant change in sentiment. Lenders remain very risk averse, with preference for good assets and simple, conservative finance structures backed by strong sponsors.
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City of Chelmsford
23 March 2012
Chelmsford in Essex has been given city status as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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Cluttons: West End Office Update - March 2012
23 March 2012
The first months of 2012 have been accompanied by mixed economic messages. Downgrades of economic growth expectations at home and globally have contrasted with an upbeat stock market and positive indicators in the form of increased retail sales and business confidence.
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Colliers International pre-pack sale completes
28 March 2012
Colliers International UK has been bought by its largest shareholder through a pre-pack administration deal.
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Collins to lead Patron’s £1bn UK spending spree
23 March 2012
Patron Capital Partners has appointed former GE Capital Real Estate and Land Securities director Mark Collins as chairman of its UK investment division.
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Co-op seeks further suitors at NoMa project
23 March 2012
The Co-operative Group has widened its search for joint venture partners for its 4m sq ft NoMa scheme in north Manchester.
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Côte signs for West End flagship at Christopher's Place
27 March 2012
Côte Restaurants has signed to open its West End London flagship restaurant at 6-8 St Christopher’s Place.
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Cracking conditional break clause conundrum will be Pyrrhic victory
23 March 2012
Try to explain the law of break clauses to the uninitiated.
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Crown Estate appoints Cushman to manage £1.5bn regional portfolio
29 March 2012
The Crown Estate has appointed Cushman & Wakefield as managing agent for its £1.5bn regional portfolio.
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Croydon Facelift: Westfield and Hammerson's Whitgift battle
23 March 2012
Westfield and Hammerson are battling to redevelop Croydon’s Whitgift shopping centre, which is key to the rundown London borough’s retail renaissance. Kat Spybey reports
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Cushman’s Europe chief says arrivederci
23 March 2012
Carlo Sant’Albano to take charge of European arm
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Customer focus is crucial to future of retail
29 March 2012
“The developer is dead, the redeveloper is born and redevelopment is the future.”
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Cutting edge eco-present
23 March 2012
Many thanks to eco-warrior and Quintain chief Adrian Wyatt, who guest edited last week’s Eco Issue of Property Week, and sent Ludgate a box of carbon-friendly cutlery to round off his point.
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DEFRA cleans up contamination act to aid development
23 March 2012
Sceptics say new guidance is helpful but not groundbreaking. Sarah Townsend reports
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Developing skills in real estate finance
23 March 2012
And so it begins. It has been said that in order to know where you are going, you need to know where you’ve been. Therefore, I will present the activities of the months that have past.
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Dodson Jones’ research pays off at Chesterford park
23 March 2012
Cambridge-based Dodson Jones has been appointed as joint letting agent with Savills at Aviva Investors and Churchmanor Estates’ Chesterford Research Park (pictured), replacing BNP Paribas Real Estate.
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DTZ: Edinburgh - Q4 2011
23 March 2012
Take-up in the city centre fell to 54,000 sq ft in Q4 (Figure 1). Firms from the financial sector, which often underpin occupier demand in the city, were notably quiet.
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DTZ: European Retail Guide - Shopping Centres
23 March 2012
The European economy is still struggling. The ongoing sovereign debt crisis has brought about strict austerity measures, low wage growth and rising unemployment across most of Europe.
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Empty shops reach record high, says LDC
23 March 2012
Shop vacancies in the UK reached a record high last month, according to the Local Data Company.
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Essex’s Knowledge Gateway opens up for students
23 March 2012
Development of the first student accommodation buildings at the University of Essex’s Knowledge Gateway in Colchester will begin in May, following the completion of infrastructure works this month.
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Ex-Elphinstone man's Scottish power
23 March 2012
Scots Renewable Energy, owned by ex-Elphinstone head Ken Ross’s Halhill Developments, last week secured planning consent from East Lothian Council for a 2mW solar-energy farm in Dunbar, south-east Scotland.
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Fact and construction are part and parcel of conveyance
23 March 2012
The message A precise measurement of land in a conveyance may be overridden by other factors.
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FirstService reveals price paid for Colliers UK
28 March 2012
FirstService, the buyer of Colliers International’s UK operations, has this afternoon revealed the price it paid for the business.
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From Bolivia to blogging
23 March 2012
While searching the streets of Potosí in Bolivia for a working scanner to confirm my offer at Reading (suitably dressed head to toe in Alpaca), I never imagined that a year on I would be ready and eager to start my career and, above all, writing a blog for Property Week.
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FSA is gambling with property lending
23 March 2012
First there was a credit crunch and a squeeze. Property borrowers certainly felt the pinch. Now the Financial Services Authority has worse in store. It wants to “slot” us.
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Game almost up for retailer
23 March 2012
Struggling retailer Game is poised to become one of the high street’s biggest casualties, after it suspended trading of its shares and filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators on Wednesday.
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Game collapses into administration
26 March 2012
The Game Group has today collapsed into administration and become the first retailing casualty of the March rent quarter date.
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Genital folk of Southwark
23 March 2012
There is nothing humiliating about needing to see a sexual health nurse. Nothing at all.
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Getting serious: graduating into a difficult market
23 March 2012
The plan was to graduate into a buoyant job market. Nearly half way through my undergraduate Real Estate degree at the University of Reading, this now looks like a bit of a forlorn hope.
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Government publishes controversial planning reforms
27 March 2012
The government has published its controversial new planning framework, and the ‘presumption in favour of sustainable development’ will come into force immediately.
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Great Portland Estates completes Savills prelet
26 March 2012
Great Portland Estates has completed the prelet of its 33 Margaret Street redevelopment in the West End to Savills.
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Green Park pitch relaid
23 March 2012
Oxford Properties has put the prized leasing mandate for its Green Park business park in Reading out to tender.
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Hammerson chief’s pay on par with rivals
23 March 2012
Hammerson chief executive David Atkins earned £1.25m last year, roughly the same as his rivals at the two other December year-end REITs, Capital Shopping Centres and Segro.
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Hatfield Business Park in call to investors
23 March 2012
A fund managed by Goodman and Legal & General is selling part of the 400 acre Hatfield Business Park in Hertfordshire.
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Heated exchange over Exemplar Spitalfields plan
23 March 2012
Developer Exemplar’s plans to convert a 1920s wool exchange building in Spitalfields, east London, into a 300,000 sq ft office and retail complex have been put on hold, following a protest campaign backed by TV historian Dan Cruickshank.
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Henry Boot produces "solid performance"
28 March 2012
Property development and construction group Henry Boot produced a “solid performance” in 2011 but has warned the economic recovery will remain “patchy and protracted”, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Henry Boot sells Manchester Courthouse scheme
29 March 2012
The Courthouse building, being redeveloped by Henry Boot in Manchester city centre, has been sold to the Oddfellows Friendly Society, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Home Retail Group appoints new chairman
29 March 2012
Home Retail group, owners of Argos and Homebase today announced John Coombe will succeed Oliver Stocken as chairman, who will retire from the board this summer.
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Hong Kong bribery probe leads to property arrest
23 March 2012
An executive director at Hong Kong’s Sun Hung Kai Properties was arrested this week as part of a bribery investigation.
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Hotel La Tour plans "rapid expansion" following Birmingham debut
29 March 2012
Independent operator Hotel La Tour says it is targeting rapid expansion across the UK following the launch of its first venue in Birmingham, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Hussey: 'I'm no throwback'
23 March 2012
“It’s not a Seifert thing,” ex-LandSecs London chief Mike Hussey confided on Twitter last Friday.
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Inside the deal: how Trinity College struck Project Gold
23 March 2012
Despite having a property portfolio of £800m, Trinity College (pictured), the wealthiest of Cambridge’s 31 colleges, had not invested in supermarkets until January, when it acquired a 50% stake in a portfolio of Tesco stores.
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Invesco completes £124m Cheapside NAMA deal
27 March 2012
Invesco Real Estate has completed the purchase of 107 Cheapside in the City for £124m, as revealed by Property Week (18.11.11).
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Is it worth becoming a mature student in uncertain times
23 March 2012
Is it worth taking a year out, being a mature student and risking a career move during uncertain times? I definitely would say YES, I am a mature student who after 5 years of work experience decided a ‘change’ is what she wanted.
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Jones Lang LaSalle: Global Capital Flows 2011
3 April 2012
“In Q4 2011 there was $106.2bn direct commercial real estate investment globally, up 4% on Q3.”
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Knight Frank: Residential Investment 2012
23 March 2012
Institutional investment is the life-blood of the UK’s commercial property sector. By comparison the exposure of pension funds and insurancecompanies to residential property is very limited.
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Knight Frank: UK Market Outlook - March 2012
23 March 2012
July 1994: Brazil won the FIFA World Cup, Tony Blair became Labour Party leader, and Wet Wet Wet were number one with “Love is all around”. However, in the property world love was thin on the ground as capital values moved into a double dip that would last for 2 years.
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Knight Frank's Residential Investment 2012: Good yields come in small packages
23 March 2012
Just 1% of housing stock in the UK is owned by institutions, compared with 10%-15% in most European cities.
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LandSecs confirms £234m London sale
29 March 2012
Land Securities has this morning confirmed that it has exchanged contracts to sell one of its largest London development projects.
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LaSalle pays princely sum in Edinburgh
23 March 2012
LaSalle Investment Management has bought the redeveloped 121-123 Princes Street in Edinburgh from Irish developer Deramore Property Group for around £34m.
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Lipton to add lustre to Silvertown Quays
23 March 2012
Mayor picks Chelsfield to develop 40 “showrooms” in interactive retail park at London Development Agency site
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Livingstone brothers check out Cambridge
23 March 2012
Ian and Richard Livingstone, the property tycoon brothers behind developer London & Regional, are in talks to buy the Crowne Plaza in Cambridge.
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Lord Heseltine returns as ‘cities tsar’
23 March 2012
Former deputy prime minister and “cities tsar” Lord Heseltine will conduct a review of how Whitehall and other public bodies can work better with the private sector to boost local growth.
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McKillen v Barclay brothers case hears of £5m management fee
27 March 2012
The court battle between Irish property investor Paddy McKillen and the Barclay brothers over £1.1bn of London hotels yesterday centred over a £5m-a-year management fee McKillen was due to be paid.
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McKillen vs Barclay Brothers: Side deals, backstabbing, and £1.1bn of hotels
23 March 2012
A bloody battle for control of three of London’s most famous hotels, involving the Barclay brothers, Paddy McKillen and NAMA came to the high court this week. Propertyweek.com digs into the events of the first week of the three week trial, and reveals the incredible events of the two-year fight.
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Midweek Bulletin: Inside the Colliers UK pre-pack
28 March 2012
Property Week’s Giles Barrie and James Whitmore discuss the pre-pack sale of Colliers International UK at 3:30am today, what it means for the business and the morality of opting for the administration route.
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Mismatch mayhem is putting property recovery in peril
23 March 2012
The spotlight that is being turned on the real estate lending gap is welcome and essential. Although some of the analysis and commentary seems somewhat optimistic, this is perhaps more a product of wishful thinking than complacency.
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MORNING AFTER: Ecobuild
23 March 2012
This year’s Ecobuild was a great success, with over 1500 exhibitors and thousands of visitors
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MORNING AFTER: MipOut 2012
27 March 2012
While some property professionals worked and played hard at MIPIM in Cannes this month, a group of young surveyors met up in London to celebrate MipOut.
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My gut feeling about Savills placement
23 March 2012
In the first update from our “adopted” Reading real estate students, Sam Salloway celebrates a significant breakthrough after a summer of sacrifice
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Myners slates Bank of England and regulation
27 March 2012
Lord Myners today called for a radical overhaul of the way the Bank of England operates and said that increased regulation of the financial services industry risked driving banks like HSBC and Standard Chartered out of the UK.
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National Planning Policy Framework: The industry responds
27 March 2012
The National Planning Policy Framework, the biggest overhaul of planning in 40 years, was published. Read below for the industry’s reaction…
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Need to know: multichannel retail’s winning ways
23 March 2012
“Our multichannel customers are our best customers,” Debenhams marketing director Richard Cristofoli told delegates at this year’s British retail Consortium (BRC) Multichannel Retail Conference, in London on 8 March.
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No dove lost as Flower gardens
23 March 2012
City agent Digby Flower is relaxing in his garden after defecting from CBRE to Cushman & Wakefield last month.
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North West retail chain in administration
27 March 2012
An Accrington-based retail chain which sold designer menswear ranges from six stores has appointed Leonard Curtis as administrators, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Nothing regulation about forthcoming rules
23 March 2012
Shockwaves from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent global financial crisis continue to reverberate — with the main fallout coming from regulation to prevent a disaster happening again.
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Olympic housebuilder shortlist revealed
28 March 2012
Barratt, Taylor Wimpey and Countryside Properties all feature on a shortlist of three consortia bidding to develop the first phase of housing at the Olympic Park post-Games, it was announced today.
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Opportunity docks
23 March 2012
The Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is on the west side of the south-coast city, and is home to the Ministry of Defence’s 300 acre royal naval base.
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Orchard Street buys £27.2m Taunton retail park
23 March 2012
Orchard Street Investment Management has bought Priory Fields Retail Park in Taunton from a client of AXA Real Estate for £27.2m.
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People Moves: 23 March
23 March 2012
New recruits, promotions and firms
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People Moves: Trebor Developments, Forum Partners, Cordea Savills, Cluttons and more...
23 March 2012
Trebor Developments has hired Richard Whitehouse from Shepherd Developments as development director
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Princesshay pair progress plans
23 March 2012
Land Securities and the Crown Estate are working up plans for a large leisure and retail scheme in Exeter, next to their Princesshay shopping centre.
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Private investor buy Beetham's Trinity scheme
23 March 2012
The Beetham Organisation’s 1m sq ft Trinity scheme has been bought out of administration by private investor Bashir Nathoo.
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Property’s head should rule its heart at Heathrow
23 March 2012
Heathrow third runway or Thames Estuary airport?
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Property’s planning win
23 March 2012
Our campaign demands realised in Budget
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Q+A: LaSalle scales Tower Ramparts
23 March 2012
In December 2011, LaSalle Investment Management bought Tower Ramparts, a struggling 130,000 sq ft Ipswich shopping centre that was built 26 years ago.
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Quintain sells Bristol development site
29 March 2012
Quintain has sold an undeveloped residential site in Bristol for £12m as it increases its financial resources in order to focus on its two London mega-schemes.
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RBKC backs planning policy for CapCo Earl's Court scheme
23 March 2012
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has adopted a new planning policy document intended to bring forward the Earl’s Court regeneration scheme.
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RBS in £300m row
23 March 2012
£578m Deutsche Bank Glanmore Property Fund argues with revaluation as pressure mounts to repay loan
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RBS in £300m valuation row
23 March 2012
£578m Deutsche Bank Glanmore Property Fund argues with revaluation as pressure mounts to repay loan
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Recycling retailer brings online entertainment to high street
23 March 2012
The growing number of customers buying CDs, games and films online has left entertainment retailers on the high street in big trouble.
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Resolution poised to launch new €800m real estate fund
23 March 2012
London-based private equity firm Resolution Property aims to raise around €800m for a new European real estate fund, it has emerged.
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Rockspring and Exton begin Flow construction
27 March 2012
Rockspring and Exton estates have commenced the construction of a 60,000 sq ft speculative office development in Staines.
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Ronson slams "lynching" of RBS boss Hester
27 March 2012
Heron International chief executive Gerald Ronson today launched a passionate defence of Stephen Hester, accusing newspaper editors of “hypocrisy and envy” in their “lynching” of the Royal Bank of Scotland boss.
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Round table: East of England Property Forum
23 March 2012
This month, the inaugural East of England Property Forum was hosted by Cambridge law firm Birketts. An array of agents, developers, bankers and lawyers debated the availability of funds, the prospect of development in the region and the opportunities arising from distressed assets. Sarah Stewart heard what was at the forefront of the industry experts’ minds
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Salford’s 435,000 sq ft Exchange Quay buildings up for sale
28 March 2012
Seven office buildings totalling nearly half a million sq ft in Salford Quays are expected to go up for sale shortly.
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Salway joins IPD board
27 March 2012
Francis Salway will join the IPD board as a non-executive director on 1 April.
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Scottish Government to cut empty rate relief to 10%
27 March 2012
The Scottish Government has proposed a reduction in empty rate relief from 50% to 10% in a bid to encourage owners to bring empty shops back into use.
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Segro director to leave
26 March 2012
David Bridges, Segro’s director of Greater London, is to leave the company.
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Shed sale to Network Rail
23 March 2012
Network Rail has bought a 425,952 sq ft shed in Leicestershire for around £25m, in a rare deal of an occupier buying a property out of receivership.
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Siemens plumps for Kier at Didsbury
23 March 2012
Siemens has picked a partner to buy its 20 acre site in Didsbury, south Manchester, and develop a 100,000 sq ft green technology centre.
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Social housing REITs temper mortgage REIT disappointment
23 March 2012
There was both good news and bad news for REITs in this week’s Budget.
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St Modwen and Vinci picked for Covent Garden Market scheme
27 March 2012
A joint venture between St Modwen and French construction company Vinci has been selected to bring forward the 57-acre redevelopment of the Covent Garden wholesale market in London’s Nine Elms.
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St Modwen reveals £20m West Lancashire plans
26 March 2012
St Modwen has unveiled plans for a new £20m town centre for Skelmersdale, West Lancashire, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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St Modwen selected as Network Rail’s Derby partner
22 March 2012
Network Rail has selected St Modwen as its development partner for its 70-acre Chaddesden Triangle site in Derby.
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Stamp duty raid fires London fears
23 March 2012
Increased resi tax provokes outrage
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Stockholm's first retail scheme in twenty years opens
23 March 2012
The first retail scheme to be seen in Sweden in twenty years opens today.
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Supreme Court rejects government's solar tariff bid
23 March 2012
The government has lost a bid to appeal to the UK’s highest court over its plans to cut subsidies for solar panels.
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Takeover uncertainty at Colliers drags on as shareholders await FirstService bid
23 March 2012
The waiting continues for Colliers International UK’s long-suffering staff.
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The challenges of finding a graduate job
23 March 2012
Finding a graduate job in the UK is proving to be very challenging. This is even more so if you are an international (non-EU) student.
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The number's up: Heathrow's third runway is off the radar
23 March 2012
David Cameron admits that more south-east air capacity is needed, but a third runway at Heathrow is off the radar of the government’s aviation review. David Hatcher reports
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Twinterview: Ben Coles, Wrenbridge
23 March 2012
Cambridge-based developer Wrenbridge undertakes development projects across East Anglia, Birmingham and London.
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UK & European buys Farringdon office
27 March 2012
UK & European Investments has exchanged contracts to buy The Smithfield Building in London’s Farringdon for around £7.5m.
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Urban & Civic scoots ahead with Alconbury town plans
23 March 2012
Urban & Civic was last week given the green light for the first phase of its plans for the new town of Alconbury in Cambridgshire.
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Valad vies with Patron and TPG for distressed Dutch portfolio
23 March 2012
The fate of a distressed portfolio of 220 Dutch office buildings, once valued at €900m, will be settled in Amsterdam on 17 April.
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Values skyrocket in UK’s private rented sector
27 March 2012
The UK’s private rented homes have spiralled in value by 42% in five years and 1.1 million more need delivering during the next half decade, according to a Savills report published today in conjunction with Rightmove.
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Von Essen leaves Lloyds and Barclays £140m out of pocket
23 March 2012
Administrator report for collapsed hotel company shows banks will lose more than half what they lent
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Why your brand could be the biggest asset
23 March 2012
The rules of the property world continue to change. Occupiers and funders have become significantly more discerning and, for a property company, the strength of its brand can be one of the most effective tools in keeping ahead of the game.
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Wrenbridge buys £5m Essex mall
23 March 2012
But CPO issues could thwart Laindon Shopping Centre redevelopment. Sarah Stewart reports
