Flannels and Sports Direct open flagship stores at Metrocentre
Retailers Flannels and Sports Direct are to open new flagship stores for the North East in Metrocentre, Gateshead after exchanging contracts with the Metrocentre Partnership.
Mike Ashley’s Fraser Group offloads £205m retail park portfolio
Frasers Group, the retail group owned by Mike Ashley, has offloaded a portfolio of retail parks to investment vehicle RI UK 1 in a £205m deal.
Software firm takes 30,000 sq ft at Dublin office park
Software and analytics firm Cubic Telecom has taken out a long-term lease for nearly 30,000 sq ft of Dublin office space at The Hive Sandyford.
Six new lettings at Thames Valley’s Lexicon retail scheme
A joint venture between Schroders Capital UK Real Estate Fund (SCREF) and Legal & General Capital has secured a flurry of new signings at new retail and leisure scheme The Lexicon in Bracknell.
Lewis Ellis bolsters team with two hires
Real estate investment adviser Lewis Ellis has strengthened its team with the addition of a new salaried partner and a team assistant.
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Vita proposes 987-room PBSA scheme at Nottingham regeneration site
Vita Group has revealed plans for a PBSA-led development creating 987 student rooms at Nottingham’s Guildhall regeneration site.
Palace Capital’s Starr latest to step down
Palace Capital’s executive property director Richard Starr is to step down from the property investment company’s board.
Derwent half-year profits up but office deals ‘taking longer to complete’
Derwent has reported pre-tax profits of £137.1m for the six months to 30 June 2022, a 13.2% increase on the £121.1m reported for the first half of last year.
Demographic swing to make Surrey a later-living hotspot
Surrey is on course to see an almost 10% rise in the number of over-60s residents over the next four years, according to research by proptech firm LandTech.
Dream Factory takes Shoreditch office spot
Truman Estates has signed content creation company The Dream Factory to its 4 Chance Street building in Shoreditch, replacing previous occupiers Gucci and Beats by Dre.
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Derwent half-year profits up but office deals ‘taking longer to complete’
Derwent has reported pre-tax profits of £137.1m for the six months to 30 June 2022, a 13.2% increase on the £121.1m reported for the first half of last year.
Capital & Regional resumes dividend after ‘exceptionally busy’ first half
Capital & Regional, the shopping centre-focused retail property REIT, has “stabilised the balance sheet” and swung to a profit in the first half of 2022 after restructuring debt and refocusing the portfolio on London and the South East.
Revenues surge but profits slide in Savills half-year results
Savills has reported first-half 2022 revenues up 11.2% on a year earlier at £1.04bn, its highest turnover at the half-year point.
Q&A: GII’s Gupta on Marriott partnership
Chief exec of the firm’s development business discusses luxury Chelsea scheme
More affordable housing is needed
In its latest study into the UK’s ‘broken’ housing system, charity Shelter announced the worrying news that despite huge demand, only 6,644 social rent homes were delivered in 2019-20 – a decrease of more than 83% since 2010.
Big interview with the Vita Group COO: ‘We’re a consumer-focused brand’
Vita Group chief operating officer Max Bielby tells Andy Hillier how focusing on quality and lifting the customer experience have helped to set the student specialist apart in a fast-growing market
Developers look to the skies as building costs rise ever higher
Adding storeys to new or existing buildings is making projects financially viable and environmentally friendly.
Inflation and flexible working are pushing Londoners out of town
Both private and buy-to-let buyers based in London are increasingly looking beyond the capital for suitable properties, according to the latest research from Hamptons.
East Midlands tops boom for shed building
Exclusive Savills data shows 16.5m sq ft of warehouse space over 100,000 sq ft is under construction in England. Andy Hillier reports
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We must future-proof our world
Why high-density housing is key
Infection resilience can be built in
Fears for the market are overinflated