All Property Week articles in 08 November 2013 – Page 5
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News
Livingstones land Portman
London & Regional Properties has obtained a controlling interest in the Portman Hotel off Baker Street in London’s West End, after buying around £90m of debt on it.
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News
Greenwich Knight time
Knight Dragon is to hire Quintain staff and make further development team appointments in anticipation of taking full control of the 14m sq ft Greenwich Peninsula site.
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Markets
Second homes for London’s global super-rich are nothing new
Boris Johnson and George Osborne’s sales trip to China last month was fascinating. “Come and invest in our transport infrastructure and our developments,” urged the mayor of London and the chancellor. Yet they did not say, come and buy a house or a flat in the capital.
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Podcast: Green's Gunne grilled as Ireland "kicks off," plus Fleet Street Fox
Green REIT is to focus on Dublin’s improving tech-focused office market, according to its co-founder Pat Gunne, who spoke on Property Week’s monthly podcast after closing €178m of deals in the past fortnight as Green “kicked off the new market”.
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Markets
Five Guys muscles in on UK-wide sites
US burger chain Five Guys has “aggressive growth plans” to open 20 to 30 restaurants across the UK in 2014, says John Eckbert, UK managing director.
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Markets
Take five: Wembley goals for students
Wembley may be known as the home of English football, but it could soon be a home away from home for thousands of students as well.
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Insight
Global property values are still measured by US fiscal yardstick
Whether you look at UK gilts, mortgages or commercial property, both the basis of valuation and the cost of borrowing are dictated less by financial conditions in Britain than by the yield on US treasuries.
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News
Twitter flies from Facebook property
Micro-blogging site to sublet space at 10 Brock Street and search elsewhere
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Markets
Fear is secondary retail’s worst enemy
At the extreme ends of any market cycle, sentiment is often driven more by fear or greed than by cool-headed analysis.
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Markets
Q+A: Loungers rests easy in the regions
As Loungers prepares to open its 40th restaurant, Felicity Francis speaks to founder Alex Reilley about why he is disinclined to bring the flourishing concept to London.
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News
Octopus envelops Dragonfly
Bridging loan company Dragonfly Property Finance has been taken over by asset manager Octopus Investments.
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Professional
Property tries to move with the times on diversity
White male-dominated sector attempts to change its spots. Sarah Townsend reports
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Professional
Jones Lang LaSalle offers facilities management diploma
Jones Lang LaSalle is to launch an accredited, in-house facilities management course, in response to concerns that technological advances and changes to Building Regulations are fast outdating industry skills.
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Markets
Round Hill hopes Europe digs Nido student model
US investor looks to expand Nido after buying it for £415m in 2012. Hannah Brenton reports
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Markets
London pipeline struggles to meet soaring student demand
Imminent introduction of levy rates will also impact supply. Hannah Brenton reports
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Insight
RBS drops dead weight
Creation of “bad bank” will accelerate £19bn sell-off of property loans and hasten state-backed bank’s return to lending. Mike Phillips reports
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Professional
Crown Estate's space race
The Crown Estate is using space shuttle technology to power its £400m Quadrant 3 development on London’s Brewer Street.
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Google maps territory at King’s Cross
Google is firmly ensconcing itself in London’s King’s Cross, where it is in talks with Axa Real Estate Investment Managers to take the remaining 160,000 sq ft offices at its 350,000 sq ft 6 St Pancras Square.
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Insight
Time to look at supply side for solution to housing crisis
I have spent most of my career in commercial property and I used to get very annoyed when politicians, journalists and even friends would open conversations with: “Tell me, Ian, how is the property market doing?”
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Professional
High Court rules experts can be trusted
The message: Even if a decision maker is wrong, they may not be “manifestly wrong”.