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Aussie label takes shape in UK
Antipodean plus-sized women’s fashion brand finds debut shop in Solihull and plans rollout across regions
Aussies book £100m profit with Bullring sale
Hammerson, in a joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, has bought Australian Future Fund’s stake in the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham, for £307m.
Free school in play for best Edgbaston sites
A search for a site or building in Edgbaston to accommodate a giant 120,000 sq ft free school has commenced.
FedEx appoints agent to deliver new Coventry base
Barberry’s revised Bishop Gate scheme likely to be considered.
Morrisons plans further West Midlands expansion despite Tesco’s caution
Morrisons continues to expand its portfolio of stores in the West Midlands, despite subdued sentiment in the food store market.
Grand Central developers aim for £250m sale after completion
The long leasehold of the new Grand Central shopping centre at Birmingham New Street station will be sold 18 months to two years after completion.
Law in order for Birmingham offices
Occupiers with large requirements face diminishing supply. David Hatcher reports
Need to know: HS2’s impacted sites
The development of the High Speed 2 rail line between London and Birmingham will impact on sites around the proposed Curzon Street station.
Birmingham city centre office data
Research compiled by Savills shows that office take-up in Birmingham city centre stood at 90,767 sq ft in the first quarter of 2013.
Australian fund cashes Bullring chips
The Australian Future Fund is preparing to sell its 33% stake in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre.
Investor corners light industrial trio
Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers has bought three properties totalling more than 570,000 sq ft in three transactions totalling £35m, taking its light industrial holdings to 2.5m sq ft.
Realis mulls discount debt buyback to fire up City Sentral
Debt purchase would free up capital to advance development of mall.
West Midlands mall is first Propinvest asset to be sold
The first shopping centre held in Glenn Maud’s collapsed Propinvest Gemini portfolio is being prepared for sale.
Coventry seeks developer for £200m revamp
Coventry City Council has launched a search for a development partner for a £200m city centre retailled scheme.
Birmingham’s £800m public paradise package
Funding agreement unveiled today allows city to retain increases in rates to kick-start developments
Realis and CSC lock horns over Stoke-on-Trent’s retail future
Realis Estates and Capital Shopping Centres have conflicting views on Stoke-on-Trent’s retail future.
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West Midlands analysis
Regions are fine, thanks
Sir, Another issue goes by with publications like Property Week and city surveys ignoring Nottingham, Leicester and Derby.
They don’t like the French and they don’t care about returns
It has been quite a year so far. We all came back into work in January with huge enthusiasm for the challenges in front of us and generally the level of confidence was high.
Unhappy reality of United Kingdom is that it is not united at all
So we aren’t in a triple-dip recession — at least not yet.
Property Awards 2013: The night's big winners
Battersea Power Station, King’s Cross Central and Jones Lang LaSalle were the big winners at the 2013 Property Awards yesterday evening.
Thatcher's era holds lessons good and bad
What can today’s politicians and property learn from Baroness Thatcher?
REITs to the rescue of housing shortage
Sir, We read with interest the news that Prudential is to return to the private rented sector (finance, 05.04.13).
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People Moves: Carter Jonas, Environ, Christie & Co, Workman and more...
Carter Jonas has appointed Anna Gadd as a graduate town planner in the London planning team.
People Moves: 17 May
Carter Jonas has appointed Anna Gadd as a graduate town planner in the London planning team.
London beats regions in battle for office-to-resi exemptions
Deputy mayor “quietly confident” ahead of decision day.
People Moves: Dentons, Forsters, Tesco, Monmouth Dean and more...
Citygrove has appointed Catharine Ireland as an associate development director, responsible for securing new development opportunities.
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