All Property Week articles in 13 November 2015 – Page 7
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News
Central London office vacancy rate hits 14-year low
The office vacancy rate in central London has dropped to the lowest level in 14 years - and is expected to hit a record low in the next two years, according to Knight Frank’s Central London Quarterly Report.
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News
Hunter splashes £14.2m on first retail deal
Hunter Real Estate Investment Management has bought three high-street assets totalling £14.2m in the first deal for its new UK Retail Trust fund.
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News
Andrews & Robertson hits £15.1m
Andrews Robertson raised £15.1m from a 75-lot catalogue at its November sale amid enthusiastic bidding for flats and houses.
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Online
AEW buys Celsius portfolio for £475m
AEW Europe has bought the Celsius shopping centre portfolio from the CBRE Retail Property Fund France Belgium CV for £475m.
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News
Blackstone to sell unworked assets gained in GE takeover
US private equity giant Blackstone has struck a deal to sell a £215m portfolio of unworked assets.
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News
Deka Immobilien to buy Atria for £100m
German investment company Deka Immobilien is under offer to buy a flagship office scheme owned by Edinburgh council for around £100m.
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Online
Housing delivery hits six-year high
The number of new homes in England rose 25% in the last 12 months, reaching its highest level in six years.
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Professional
JLL hires regional director to lead resi investment team
JLL has appointed Simon Scott as regional director to head the residential investment team in London.
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Markets
Need to know: government plans for ‘outdated’ prisons
George Osborne and justice secretary Michael Gove this week confirmed plans for the government to sell off a raft of outdated inner-city prisons, with the sites to be redeveloped.
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Professional
Adding housing to major infrastructure projects may not be a developer’s dream after all
Changes to the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project regime to include housing in schemes is no panacea.
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Markets
London housing out of reach of many on modest incomes
London housing is close to becoming almost completely unaffordable for key workers and other people on modest incomes making it more difficult for businesses to retain and recruit staff, a wide-ranging report has warned.
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Insight
Interview: Sheila King talks luxury, premium and travel retail
After 18 years with Hammerson, leasing director Sheila King decided to strike out on her own in April last year.
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Insight
Private rented sector: remove the bells and whistles
KISS is an acronym for ‘keep it simple, stupid’
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Markets
Five minutes with: Trevor Pereira of Intu
The commercial and digital director of Intu on Crystal Palace FC, world cuisine and cars
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Markets
Budget gyms go from strength to strength
Ten years ago, no one had ever heard of a ‘budget gym’. Now there are close to 60 operators of every size, accounting for 10 per cent of the UK’s £43bn gym market.
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Markets
Shopping centres go the green mile
When Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, told insurers in a speech in September that climate change was a “tragedy on the horizon”, he reignited a debate on green issues that had gone quiet in some circles.
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Markets
Restaurants are fit to burst
When it comes to eating out, we are approaching the point where more choice is too much choice.
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Markets
Secondary but not second rate for retail investors
Historically, towns such as Rugby, Wrexham and Workington didn’t feature highly on the radar of retail investors. They were drawn more by the bright lights of the UK’s major cities and shopping centre schemes.
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Markets
The rise of easyHotel
No-frills hotels don’t come less frilly than not having windows in the rooms, but easyHotel reckons the tactic is a recipe for success - along with the rock-bottom price, of course.