All Property Week articles in 11 May 2018 – Page 5
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British Land signs £735m RCF with 12 banks
British Land has signed a £735m unsecured revolving credit facility at an initial margin of 90 basis points (bps) with 12 banks.
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Online
World’s Biggest Property Bike Ride Blog: pedalling to make a change
As the 2018 World’s Biggest Property Bike Ride draws closer, CBRE’s UK managing director Ciaran Bird reflects on the previous fantastic four years’ and how the bike ride has become a fixture in the property calendar.
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Tunstall appoints Manns as senior advisor
Tunstall Real Estate Asset Management has appointed Europa Capital Partners co-founder Noel Manns as a senior advisor.
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Schroders buys 20% of A10 Capital
Schroders has snapped up a 20% stake in A10 Capital, the American real estate lending group.
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GLP launches $1.6bn ‘logistics ecosystem’ fund
Singapore-based logistics giant GLP, which paid £2.12bn for UK industrial group Gazeley at the end of 2017, has revealed its first fund investing outside real estate.
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FTSE up, but pound falls as BofE keeps rates on hold
London shares rose on Thursday as the pound fell after the Bank of England kept interest rates on hold and cut its forecasts for inflation and growth.
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BlackRock seals four deals in logistics push
Lettings are part of strategy to increase logistics weighting of UK property fund.
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Insight
Germany’s listed market overtakes UK’s for first time
Underperforming stocks, investor wariness and a weak pound are blamed for UK’s fall from top spot.
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Insight
Supermarket merger puts spotlight on future of convenience shopping
The recent announcement on the proposed combination of J Sainsbury and Asda is big news for the world of convenience shopping and seems an opportune moment to examine what the future has in store for the UK’s retail parks, as historically car-led convenience was this retail sector’s USP.
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Markets
How shopping centres are dealing with the terror threat
Shopping centre management teams are looking at how to stop terrorist attacks and mitigate the damage when they occur.
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Professional
Businesses must take tax evasion facilitation offences seriously
The new corporate offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion came into force last year. For obvious reasons, this is something that all involved with property transactions must get to grips with.
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Markets
Will Grenfell tragedy revolutionise building management?
Property managers are under increasing pressure from landlords and developers to ensure higher standards of safety.
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Insight
Why boosting supply won't solve the housing crisis
“Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist,” said Thomas Carlyle.
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Insight
Sainsbury’s-Asda merger: when two become one
Property Week assesses the likelihood of the Sainsbury’s-Asda merger being approved by the CMA and the impact it could have on the store estates of the two supermarkets.
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Professional
Good design is key to making overlooked areas desirable
There is a chronic shortage of residential land available for redevelopment around transport hubs and local centres, particularly in London, where most of the sites with potential for residential development are situated in fringe, severely constrained locations.
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BTR is not the panacea to all the housing sector’s ills
Is it just me or is anyone else starting to get a distinct whiff of the emperor’s new clothes from build-to-rent?
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Property Week Digital Edition – 11 May 2018
BTR in focus – Local election results – Sainsbury’s-Asda merger – Property management market – LFA preview
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News
Midlands shed boost: Siemens’ owner to take 1.1m sq ft at MLP
Europe’s leading home appliances manufacturer, BSH Home Appliances – the company behind global brands such as Bosch and Siemens – is on the verge of securing a deal for a new 1.1m sq ft distribution centre in the Midlands.
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Insight
Office space availability in Midtown declines during Q1
The availability of office space in London’s Midtown fell during the first three months of the year despite a year-on-year decline in take-up, according to data from Farebrother.
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Agent P: embracing the future
8:45am, Titanic Room: Geek Boy slopes in 15 minutes late, skeletal in his usual mucky T-shirt. He starts on. I stop him, annoyed. “No! I’m not taking your loony plan to Them Upstairs.”