All Property Week articles in 14 October 2022
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Revolution Bars picks up Peach pubs in £16.5m deal
Revolution Bars Group is paying £16.5m to acquire The Peach Pub Company to create what it says will be a “more balanced and diversified business”.
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Property market in demand despite market uncertainty as PM resigns
Sterling rallied to $1.13 and rose above the dollar today and government borrowing costs slipped as investors reacted to the resignation of prime minister Liz Truss.
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SSE and Oxford Properties plan UK-wide EV charging network
SSE Energy Solutions, part of the FTSE-100 energy group, has signed an electric vehicle (EV) charging partnership with real estate investor Oxford Properties (Oxford).
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Longfellow, PSP and Norges to invest £1.5bn in UK life science real estate
Longfellow Real Estate Partners has teamed up with PSP Investments and Norges Bank Investment Manager (NBIM) to invest £1.5bn in the UK life sciences property market.
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Hines hires boost project management and development teams
Hines UK, part of the global real estate firm, has made four new appointments to bolster its project management and development teams.
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Shortage of development sites props up land values
Regional development land values have continued to increase in Q3 2022 despite a challenging economic backdrop, Property Week can reveal.
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MSCI reports fall in commercial returns and values
A negative return of 2.3% year on year has been recorded for September’s MSCI’s UK Monthly Commercial Real Estate Index.
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West End office take-up down 23% year on year in Q3
Companies committed to 1.2m sq ft of London West End office space in the third quarter of 2022, down 23% year on year but “in line with the long-term average”, according to Knight Frank.
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Railpen funds Sunderland NHS mental health development
Pension manager Railpen is to fund the redevelopment and extension of a mental health facility in Sunderland for the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
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Wetherspoon to sell historic cinema site
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon has appointed agents CBRE and Savills to sell the historic State Cinema building in Grays, Essex.
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PLP begins speculative construction of Stafford big box site
Industrial property owner PLP, owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge, Macquarie Asset Management and Peel L&P, has begun developing a 344,478 sq ft speculative logistics unit at Stone Business Park, Stafford.
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Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister
Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after just 44 days in the role, sparking a new Conservative leadership election.
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Bath post office to get Fashion Museum makeover
Bath and North East Somerset Council (BNESC) has acquired a 30,000 sq ft, grade II-listed post office building to rehouse Bath city’s Fashion Museum.
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BTR market could ‘rise fivefold and be worth £170bn by 2032’
The number of completed build-to-rent (BTR) homes could increase fivefold to reach 380,000 in a decade, with the sector’s worth growing to £170bn, according to Savills and the British Property Federation (BPF).
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Supply shortages continue to boost SEGRO
SEGRO has told investors that its industrial and logistics property portfolio is benefitting from a continuation of limited supply and should “continue to support high levels of rental growth”.
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M7 opens up for business in Dubai
M7 Real Estate has opened its first office in the Middle East in an effort to capitalise on strong demand for European real estate from investors in the region.
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Alcohol duty U-turn could cause ‘mass collapse’ for night-time sector
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s surprise decision to scrap the proposed freeze on alcohol duty has piled further misery on the embattled hospitality sector, with the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) warning of the likely closure of one third of its members’ venues.
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Cadillac Fairview and Stanhope to buy Cambridge Science Park
Canadian investor Cadillac Fairview, the real estate arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and UK developer and asset manager Stanhope have entered a partnership to purchase a 110,000 sq ft trio of properties at Cambridge Science Park.
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Cortland appoints Tracey Hartley as COO
Cortland, the built-to-rent (BTR) real estate investment, development and management company, has appointed Tracey Hartley as its chief operating officer for Europe.
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Residential sector split over viability of affordable housing targets
Two reports on the number of new affordable homes needed in England have failed to find common ground and highlighted divisions in the residential sector over the viability of targets.