All Property Week articles in 14 March 2014 – Page 5
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Co-op Group chief Sutherland resigns
Co-operative Group chief executive Euan Sutherland (left) offered his resignation this week as he said the group had become “ungovernable” and said that “an individual, or individuals, [are]determined to undermine me personally”.
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Old-fashioned landlords are drinking in last chance saloon
It was late. I was at my local, quietly enjoying a perfectly drawn Stella — the magically designed glass cloaked in condensation, conjuring a plume of fine bubbles, swirling quickly upwards to replete the creme crowning my pint.
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Deptford hot for Hong Kong buyer
Hong Kong-based investment house IP Global has exchanged contracts to buy all of the 121 flats in Cathedral Group’s £48m Deptford Project.
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Warwick does Shard business
Warwick Business School is close to signing for 15,000 sq ft in the Shard at London Bridge.
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A bubble-wrapped pollution solution
Giant plastic bubbles that cover entire cities could alleviate pollution. Sarah Townsend reports
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Double running and honest brokers who say 'don't do the deal'
I can’t address a group of investment agents without raising a truly significant problem, which in my view represents a matter so serious that it could extend to undermining the entire professional investment agency world: conflict management.
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‘Smart city’ term enshrined in British vernacular
‘Smart city’ term enshrined in British vernacular
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Listed giants LandSec & British Land downgraded
Analysts at investment bank Jefferies have downgraded the UK’s two largest listed property companies, Land Securities and British Land.
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London’s uber-rich cannot buoy Britain forever
One of the joys of MIPIM in recent years has been the presence of a substantial Russian pavilion, where teams of delightful young ladies offer limitless investment opportunities, often in places most of us have never heard of.
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Entente in war of Bradford's White Rose
Shopping centre space in Yorkshire to increase by 800,000 sq ft. Christine Eade reports
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People Moves: Savills, JLL, Brabners, GCW and more...
Henderson Global Investors has appointed David Moese as head of property investment, Austria, based in Vienna.
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Returns from private-rented sector shouldn’t be resi’s best kept secret
As the real estate world’s investors, brokers, consultants, lawyers and the like enjoy a week on the sandy beaches of Cannes, I am among a growing band of specialists acquiring build-to-rent UK housing trying to be heard over the din of commercial deal making, schmoozing and “my yacht is bigger ...
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Bananas for Yorks spec sheds
Unit is biggest to be speculatively developed in Yorkshire since 2008. Christine Eade reports.
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Azerbaijani firm Nobel Oil lease in Mayfair
Azerbaijani firm Nobel Oil has agreed to lease space at £100/sq ft at 3 Burlington Gardens, making the Mayfair office building fully let.
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Finger of blame points away from surveyors
New legal precedent places liability with firms, not individuals. Sarah Townsend reports
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Property risks being swept away by new wave of lending
Over the past few months we have seen a significant redrawing of the map of lenders in the UK. The property sector suffered from a shortage of debt from 2008 to 2012, but in the past 12 to 15 months there has been a seismic shift in lending appetite.
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Celebrating apprentices
Apprentices delivered £1.8bn of economic benefits to UK businesses during 2012/13, research by the Association of Accounting Technicians published last week to coincide with National Apprenticeship Week shows.
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American Realty’s regional round-up
US REIT American Realty Capital Global Trust has made a £57m investment in real estate in the north of England as the country’s regional property market continues to rally.
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Glennys lads slope off to Alps
MIPIM week is an appropriate time to speculate that the good times could be back — and Essex firm Glenny is making the most of the recovery by organising its first ski trip since the recession, to L’Alpe D’Huez in the French Alps this month.
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Britain's Best Agents: Best in the business
The biggest names in the world of agency assembled at the Midtown London office of Irwin Mitchell on 26 February to find out who had been crowned as Britain’s Best Agents.