All Property Week articles in 04 November 2016 – Page 5
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Property Week Digital Edition - 4 November 2016
Mega HMRC letting - Chris Hayward interview - PWMA winners - Kent focus
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Workplace Solutions Supplement - 4 November 2016
‘Toxic offices’ - Terrorist threat - Big data - Healthy buildings
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Chinese group’s €1bn push underscores confidence in UK
Chinese property investment company COS Capital has shrugged off the Brexit threat to kick off a major investment programme in Europe.
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Middle East investors buy into Midtown redev
Evans Randall Investors has completed the purchase of Thavies Inn House in Holborn for £33m alongside one of JR Capital’s Middle Eastern clients.
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Call for more powers for big cities to tackle housing crisis
The government must devolve more powers over housing to city regions such as Greater Manchester, Liverpool and the West Midlands to tackle the housing crisis, according to a new report.
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Housebuilders face grilling over failure to boost supply
When MPs met bosses of the UK’s three biggest housebuilders in Westminster on Monday, they didn’t shy away from asking tough questions.
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M&G bolsters resi team
M G Real Estate has strengthened its UK residential property team with a new appointment and promotion.
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Retirement housing developing to meet increased client demands
With recent ONS figures predicting that in 10 years’ time the proportion of the UK population over the age of 60 will reach 27%, the need to address the significant undersupply of retirement housing has never been greater.
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September proves property funds’ best month so far in 2016
Property funds for retail investors had their best month of capital inflows so far this year in September.
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Capsule living goes upmarket
The phrase “not enough room to swing a cat” has been tactfully avoided by many estate agents describing rooms, or sometimes even cupboards, up for rent in London - but for this advert in Hong Kong it would be a perfectly apt description.
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£70m extension of Tunbridge Wells shopping centre will extend retail space and boost town’s leisure offer
What is the thinking behind the extension to Royal Victoria Place shopping centre?
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Bringing a much-maligned garment back into fashion
The red trouser, which has become stigmatised by its association with hooray Henry-types, sometimes even leaving their owners too shy to wear them, was back in vogue at Cushman & Wakefield for the inaugural Red Trouser Day.
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Nottingham strong for Savills
Savills raised £3.5m at its October auction in Nottingham, ringing up its second-best regional sale of the year so far.
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Q&A: Sean Tompkins on how the industry can do more to boost the role of women
Sean Tompkins, the chief executive of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, recently made a pledge to avoid speaking at property events which do not also include women among the panellists, whenever possible.
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‘Rare’ buildings boost sales total at Barnett Ross auction
Barnett Ross raised £15.4m at its October auction, after just two of the 48 lots were left unsold.
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Can Smart Cities solve the UK's housing crisis?
As statements go, they don’t come much bolder: “We genuinely believe we will solve the housing crisis”.
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To protect your property, make sure to be aware of flood risk
As we move towards winter, it is worth looking in detail at the government’s National Flood Resilience Review.
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New affordable rental model makes for Smart Cities
A company claiming it will “solve the UK housing crisis” is set to go public with its first two affordable housing and workspace developments, offering 1,100 apartments at around 40% of market rents.
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Retirement housing shortfall laid bare
The UK may have a rapidly aging population, but retirement housing accounts for just 0.6% of all UK housing stock – a figure that underlines the vast gulf between supply and demand in housing for older people.
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Goodman and L&G market last ABPP assets for £400m
Australian developer Goodman and Legal General Property are calling time on their Arlington Business Parks Partnership (ABPP) fund by marketing the remaining assets for £400m.