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Welcome to the East of England property coverage at PropertyWeek.com, giving you all the news and views across Cambridge, Ipswich, Norwich, Norfolk and Suffolk.
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Tilbury Port

Roxhill hopes Tilbury dock scheme swings tide in its favour

5 April 2013

Roxhill is to start preparation work on its London Distribution Park scheme at the Port of Tilbury.

Centrica Headquarters Oxford Business Park

Centrica sale is cooking on gas

28 March 2013

Energy company’s Oxford headquarters attracts 25 prospects at 6% yield. Christine Eade reports

Beaumont House

Medical angle for Oxford’s East Point offices

28 March 2013

Cancer Partners, the private chain of treatment clinics, is about to revamp an office property that has been empty for several years, and create a bunker within the walls for cancer therapy.

Vauxhall site Luton

Vauxhall masterplan augurs well

28 March 2013

Luton Borough Council is within days of receiving a masterplan showing the future uses of the Vauxhall site near the town centre.

Two Kingdom Street

AstraZeneca’s bitter Paddington pill

22 March 2013

Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca is planning to close its Cheshire and Paddington campuses, as it cuts jobs and moves staff to a £330m Cambridge scheme.

Two Kingdom Street, PaddingtonCentral

AstraZeneca to quit Paddington and Cheshire campuses in massive jobs cull

19 March 2013

Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca is to shift hundreds of positions from Paddington, where it has its global headquarters, and Cheshire to a £330m Cambridge campus after announcing plans to cut 1,600 jobs globally.

The Lion Walk

Area and Sovereign’s Lion buy

22 February 2013

Area Property Partners and Sovereign Land have signed to buy the long leasehold of the Lion Walk shopping centre in Colchester from LaSalle Investment Management’s UK Ventures fund.

Cambridge

Cambridge plans £281m of digs for staff and students

1 February 2013

The University of Cambridge is preparing to launch a search for developers to undertake the £281m first phase of its massive North West Cambridge scheme, which it approved this week.

Cambridge Science Park

Dev Secs submits Cambridge office plan

28 January 2013

Development Securities has today submitted plans for 133,000 sq ft of office space at Cambridge Science Park.

Shopping

East of England expansion for discount chain

8 January 2013

Value retailer QD Stores has acquired the Suffolk-based discount chain, Thingmebobs, which operates in the east of England.

Wickes

MIPP makes double buy

18 December 2012

Metric Property Investments today said that Metric Income Plus Limited Partnership has acquired two properties for £9.8m, reflecting a net initial yield of 7%.

Broers  Cambridge

Autonomy founder’s new HQ

23 November 2012

Billionaire entrepreneur Mike Lynch has taken a headquarters for his new venture capital business in Cambridge.

Aerial View

First phase of £1bn development approved by university

28 January 2013

The governing body of the University of Cambridge has approved the first phase of the North West Cambridge development.

Parkway

La Salle Investment Management makes leisure buy

20 December 2012

A cinema and leisure complex in Bury St Edmunds has been sold to La Salle Investment Management for £9.8m.

FrancisHouse-Interior-RevB

Cambridge clamours for good-quality office space

23 November 2012

Record-breaking rents on the cards as developers capitalise on low stock

Haverhill visualisation

Islamic bank to fund Sufffolk research park development

15 November 2012

BLME, the largest Islamic bank in Europe, is funding the development of Haverhill Research Park, a 29.5 acre business and residential site in Suffolk.

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We’re working our asanas off on asset management

17 May 2013

My latest life-changing acquisition is a piece of luggage on wheels.

Resi Awards 2013

RESI Awards 2013: the night's big stars

1 May 2013

Candys, Pidgley and Battersea big winners at sparkling RESI Awards.

Giles Barrie

Dodgy dossier rubs salt in rates delay wound

16 November 2012

It goes from bad to worse: the government’s ludicrous assertion that delaying the national rates revaluation is good news for business is unravelling faster than Eric Pickles orders his beloved curry.

Nigel Hugill Royal Shakespeare Company

Chairman of the Bard

24 August 2012

Nigel Hugill is playing a leading role in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s future. David Hatcher reports from Stratford-Upon-Avon. Photographs by Trent McMinn

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Peter Chapman

Marry up empty rates and green policy to prevent demolition of vacant property

3 May 2013

Despite its absence from the recent Budget, the subject of business rates remains a hot topic.

Michael Davies

People Moves: Cluttons, Auction People, Harrods Estates, CBRE and more...

26 April 2013

CBRE has promoted Michael Gold to senior associate of retail service in Chicago.

Amy Leader

People Moves: Sequoia, Turley Associates, Jackson Coles, Bruton Knowles and more...

22 March 2013

Richard Jackson Building Consultants has appointed Amy Leader as a senior building surveyor at its Hadleigh office in Suffolk, where she will primarily be in a project management role.

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Carter Jonas: Cambridge office and laboratory markets - June 2012

Carter Jonas: Cambridge office and laboratory markets - June 2012

8 June 2012

Closer to home and in more recent times, the Cambridge area has been identified by successive national governments as a model for economic prosperity and development.

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