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New figures show 86% fall in business rates appeals
The number of appeals started in the 15 months since the 2017 rates revaluation has fallen year-on-year by more than 86% according to the VOA’s newest figures.
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Drum reveals distillery-anchored Pacific Quay regeneration plans
Drum Property Group has submitted plans for the £30m first phase of its mixed-use regeneration project at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, featuring 20,000 sq ft of Grade A office space and an urban whisky distillery.
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£275m Brum resi scheme given green light
Manchester-based investor MCR Property Group has been granted planning permission for a £275m, 1,000 unit residential scheme at Monaco House in Birmingham.
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TRIUVA takes on Frankfurt's Junghof Plaza with forward purchase
PATRIZIA-owned TRIUVA has agreed the forward purchase of Frankfurt’s mixed-use Junghof Plaza from PGIM Real Estate and FGI Frankfurter Gewerbeimmobilien.
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Brokenshire unveils £200m Midlands Right to Buy pilot
Housing and Communities Secretary James Brokenshire has launched a £200m pilot project which aims to enable more housing association tenants in the Midlands to buy their homes.
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OakNorth backs Select Manchester resi towers
Investor Select Property has secured a £40.2m development loan from challenger bank OakNorth to develop 356 homes across two residential towers in Manchester.
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CLS's share price falls 7%
CLS Holdings saw its share price drop 6.9% on Wednesday to 220.5p after reporting a £64.9m fall in profit from £119.4m a year earlier when the company sold its Vauxhall Square investment.
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G-Star RAW kicks off expansion plan with Meadowhall move
Fashion retailer G-Star RAW has signed for a flagship store at Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping centre as part of an expansion plan for the brand that will see its double its store estate to 10 by the end of the year.
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Video: surveying apprenticeships with UCEM
Across two interview videos, UCEM principal Ashley Wheaton talks to Property Week about the institution’s history from providing correspondence courses to becoming the leading provider of supported online education in the Built Environment, with more than 4,000 students worldwide.
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Mayor announces new London Development Panel for public land
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced the developers, housing associations and contractors which will bring forward up to £20bn of new housing on public land as part of the LDP, as well as a handful of new public sites that will be contracted out to panel members.
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Industrial investment remains buoyant in Q2 2018
UK institutions upped their share of the buoyant industrial investment market in Q2 2018.
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Homes England-backed York Central Partnership unveils 2,500 home scheme
Plans have been submitted for a 110 acre residential-led redevelopment as part of the York Central development project.
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Botany bay plans given green light
Chorley Council has recommended to approve planning for the redevelopment of FI Real Estate Management’s (FIREM) Botany Bay site.
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Salmon Harvester sells retirement village project
Salmon Harvester Properties, the NFUM/Salmon joint venture, has sold its freehold 25-acre site to the Royal London Pension Property Fund (RLPPF).
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Quartet of Octopus deals grow regional lending by £35m
Specialist property lender Octopus Property has completed four loans worth a combined £35.2m across separate developments in Birmingham, Derby, Manchester and Edinburgh.
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Four new signings take Coal Drops Yard to 80% full
The King’s Cross Partnership has announced Aesop, Fred Perry, Rains and Superga as the latest retailers to sign up for stores at Coal Drops Yard.
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Green light for office phase at £400m Belfast Waterside
Belfast City Council’s planning committee has granted planning permission for the 250,000 sq ft grade A office element of Vanguard Real Estate’s £400m Belfast Waterside masterplan scheme.
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Brokenshire invites more bids for garden town funding - property reacts
Communities secretary James Brokenshire has called on local authorities and developers to apply for additional government funding for the development of new garden towns.
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South Korean investment in UK commercial property in H1 2018 double total for whole of 2017
South Korean investment in UK commercial property has risen to £1.1bn in the first half of 2018, which is already more than double the £530m invested in the whole of 2017.
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WMCA acquires seven acre Darlaston site
Brownfield developer St Francis Group has sold a seven acre plot of land at Bentley Point in Darlaston to the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).