All Property Week articles in 10 March 2017 – Page 4
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Insight
Economic outlook: optimism amid changes
Over the course of the past year, we have become accustomed to surprising results and changes to the status quo. It might, however, be a little wishful to think that the ship has steadied.
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Online
Holyoake friendship "worst decision" of my life - Nick Candy
Nick Candy has described his friendship with Mark Holyoake as “the worst decision” of his life, in High Court proceedings today.
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Online
Realstar acquires Harrow offices ahead of TfL redev
Quintain has sold a 43,854 sq ft office building and car park at Harrow-on-the-Hill station to Realstar Group.
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News
Lloyds Bank reports steady year-on-year commercial real estate lending levels
Lloyds Bank’s real estate team agreed £8.6bn of new funding to the UK commercial property sector last year, down 4.65% on the £9bn it agreed in 2015.
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Insight
Designer perspective: Brexit's creativity wake-up call
Brexit has been a wake-up call for me and many other business people who deal in the commodities of creativity and innovation.
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Online
Barnsley council to fund £120m retail scheme
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council has committed to a £120m investment to fund the development of The Glass Works retail scheme in the town.
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Online
Arora acquires The Office
Arora Group has completed the acquisition of an office building in Crawley, Sussex.
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Online
Fairacre refreshes brand with plans to double £300m portfolio
Fairacre has outlined plans to double its £300m portfolio of institutional and private equity joint ventures over the next 24 months following a brand refresh.
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Online
Europa & Bayern Projekt buying Munich's Telefónica HQ
Europa Capital have formed a joint venture with Bayern Projekt to acquire Telefónica’s German headquarters at Georg-Brauchle-Ring in Munich.
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Online
New south east office director for LSH
Lambert Smith Hampton’s has hired former Knight Frank partner Ryan Dean to head up the south east division of its expanding office advisory team.
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Online
SEGRO acquires Aviva's stake in APP
SEGRO has bought out its joint venture partner in the Airport Property Partnership (APP) and announced a rights issue to raise £573m.
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Insight
Talking shops: West End prospers amid global change
It would be an understatement to say last year presented the consumer market with significant change.
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Labour shortages key concern for construction post-Brexit
At a careers fair for sixth-formers I attended recently, an unhelpful teacher described working in the built environment as being a bit like being an elevator attendant - with an equal number of rises and falls on a daily basis. He exaggerated, but he had a point.
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Markets
A new dawn for the Port of Tyne
The Port of Tyne has a long, rich history. Founded by the Romans in the second century as a trading post for goods, in the 1600s the port truly began to thrive, thanks to steady growth in the export of coal.
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Insight
Supreme Court rates ruling is only first step in right direction
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the owners of stripped-out office developments should not have to pay business rates was hailed by experts as a “victory for common sense” - but questions still remain over the impact of the decision.
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Insight
With great power comes great responsibility
It’s that time of year again when half the industry is preparing to decamp to the south of France for the annual jamboree that is Mipim - and the other half is thanking its lucky stars it isn’t.
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News
Ex-Blackstone MD builds transatlantic PRS platform Node
New private rented sector (PRS) company Node, which was set up by former Blackstone managing director Anil Khera last October, has already amassed a portfolio of assets on both sides of the Atlantic.
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News
SACO to expand its Locke brand throughout Europe
SACO Property Group has kickstarted a £100m-plus Europe-wide expansion drive for its Locke serviced apartment brand with the purchase of three UK sites.
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News
BCBS considers toning down Basel IV reforms for EU banks
Speculation is mounting that the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is planning to dilute the Basel IV reforms amid concerns European banks will struggle to meet the higher capital requirements under the current proposals.
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Insight
Soft cell: the Amsterdam prison being transformed into flexible workspace
Prisons are not designed to be the most welcoming of buildings - not when they are being used for their intended purpose, anyway. Once they have come to the end of their natural lives, it is another matter.