All Property Week articles in 11 September 2015 – Page 5
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Rugby gives young people a sporting chance
Sport helps you learn a great deal about yourself. It pushes you to your limits, and reveals some of the best elements of your personality that don’t always come to light in other aspects of life.
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Rockspring takes a crack at Kent’s Walnuts centre
Rockspring has acquired the Walnuts Shopping Centre in Orpington, Kent, for around £45m.
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Let’s stop calling it the ‘green-belt debate’
The results of your recent poll (‘ Open up the green belt to housebuilding ’, 4 September) contain few surprises - the industry has been calling for a revised position on the green belt for years.
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Housing development at Rugby Radio Station site is a good call
The historic Rugby Radio Station is at the centre of a 6,200-home scheme.
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Bumper post-holiday sales
Strettons and Savills both beat their July sales totals this week, as the country’s auctions returned to action after the August break.
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Stephen Gleave set to join Turley as a board director
Turley has hired Stephen Gleave as a director on its board with a particular responsibility for development of the company’s ‘place-making’ agenda.
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Buzzing Birmingham faces looming office shortage
Birmingham is undergoing something of a boom, but grade-A office space in the city could reach an all-time low by 2017.
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DB Symmetry snaps up big box opportunity in Swindon
DB Symmetry, the Delancey and Barwood-owned industrial developer, has acquired a 96-acre site in Swindon for a £100m logistics scheme.
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Brockton comes out top in bid for Croydon tower block
Brockton Capital is the latest investor to buy into the Croydon story after placing a pair of office blocks under offer for around £100m.
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Buyers looking beyond local market for deals
Investors are increasingly looking further afield to buy properties, new Allsop research has shown.
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Ballymore unveils Embassy Gardens office scheme
Ballymore has revealed plans for a flagship office building in the developer’s Embassy Gardens development in Nine Elms, London.
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Average rent for City office space moves up a band
The average quoting rent for City of London office space has moved up a price band in the first half of the year as strong occupier demand and constrained supply continues to buoy the market, new research from Savills has shown.
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Commercial property auctions enjoy hot summer of sales
Sale rates were exceptional in the July round of commercial property auctions, with 100% of office and London assets finding buyers, according to the latest report from Acuitus and MSCI.
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Ex-Bank of America trio hire top industry figures for new firm
Leon Partners, the new real estate advisory firm founded by a trio of top investment bankers from Bank of America, has recruited some of the industry’s best-known figures.
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Cheltenham’s Brewery now almost fully pre-let
NFU Mutual has secured a trio of lettings at its £30m The Brewery retail and leisure complex in Cheltenham town centre. Fitness First, SOHO Coffee Co and Loungers group brand Cosy Club have all signed up to take a total of more than 12,000 sq ft.
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Don’t tar and feather all foreign investment
Fifty years after gaining independence, during which time it has become a role model for Far Eastern economic powerhouses, Singapore celebrated its golden anniversary this year. But many were surprised that a trip to promote foreign investment there provided the backdrop for David Cameron’s widely promoted speech targeting corrupt foreign ...
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Vilamoura seeks investors to create leading Algarve resort
The company behind the massive Vilamoura scheme in the Algarve, Portugal, is seeking investors to back the second phase of the €1bn (£727m) masterplan.
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The Cadogan Estate aims to enhance Chelsea’s ‘village feel’
Sloane Square, King’s Road, Cadogan Square - these are some of London’s most exclusive areas. And all are under the care of one body: the Cadogan Estate, which has been managing the land and buildings around Chelsea since the 18th century.
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Redefine aims for ‘next tier’ of propcos after Aegon deal
Redefine International is bidding to join the “next tier” of property companies after signing deals to buy £490m of stock from Aegon.
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Northern powerhouse needs cash injection to achieve potential
A new paper from IPPR North examines government policy in the North. One of the authors talksto Property Week about its recommendations