All Property Week articles in 16 June 2017 – Page 4
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Markets
Speculative refurbishment and development drive Surrey rents
Due to a growing supply/demand imbalance for office stock in Surrey, developers have finally hit the speculative trail over the past 12 to 18 months, according to new data from Strutt Parker.
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News
Canford snags care homes
Canford Healthcare has acquired two new nursing homes from a private operator for £30m, Property Week can reveal.
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News
No secs please we’re Landsec
Metropolis was interested to hear this week that Land Securities was being rebranded.
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News
New JV targets student sector
Europa Capital Partners and Generation Estates have formed a joint venture called Europa Generation to manage a new UK student accommodation fund.
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Insight
Does new directive signal the death of the long lease?
It seems that a week doesn’t go by without another significant announcement involving the serviced office sector.
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News
Sloane Street luxury deals
Italian luxury retailers Fendi and Versace have both taken sizeable new stores on London’s Sloane Street.
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Insight
Measure twice – you only get to cut once
In my column in March, I described how I was encouraged by the industry’s dialogue with government and observed that, despite most people’s views that Brexit was bad for the UK, it appeared we were looking to the future and trying to make the best of a challenging situation.
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Markets
Q&A: Nick Elphick on plans to create the 'top enterprise zone in England'
Since winning its bid to become a local enterprise partnership in 2011, Enterprise M3 has striven to drive economic growth in the M3 corridor.
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News
WeLive closes in on first London scheme
WeWork is edging closer to launching its residential brand WeLive in London and is eyeing a number of office blocks in the capital with the potential to be converted to co-living units, Property Week understands.
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Information
Lower build cost inflation could present opportunities
Development costs in some sectors of the commercial property market are starting to plateau, according to the latest edition of Savills’ Programme and Cost Sentiment Survey (SPECS).
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Information
Survey: industry braces itself for worst following election
Last week’s shock general election result is expected to have a broadly negative impact on all sectors of the real estate industry, a snap survey of Property Week ’s readers reveals
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Markets
Margate's art-driven regeneration gathers momentum
A decade ago, the north Kent seaside town of Margate had hit rock bottom. Its high street was awash with voids and in the picturesque old town, pretty much the only businesses trading were pubs and a local pharmacy.
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Insight
So many questions after Grenfell Tower tragedy
What an awful quirk of fate that just as Borough Market was observing a minute’s silence in memory of those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack 10 days earlier firefighters in another part of London were desperately trying to contain the Grenfell Tower inferno in north Kensington to ...
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Property Week Digital Edition - 16 June 2017
Election fallout - Fly-tipping - Darius Ziatabari interview - Surrey, Sussex & Kent focus - Paris climate agreement
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News
Drone racing gets offices buzzing with excitement
Forget paintballing - competitive drone racing could be the next big thing in office bonding.
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Online
New head of letting at Dacre
Emma Kerrywood has joined Leeds-based Dacre, Son Hartley overseeing lettings across all of the firm’s 20 offices.
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News
Separated at birth: Eddie Jones and Ross McNulty
When Metropolis heard Robertson’s new director had a strong rugby pedigree, we were not expecting a titan of the game like England head coach Eddie Jones. But alas, it was his lookalike, ex-Scottish international Ross McNulty.
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Insight
London Living Rent could 'distort' market
London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plans to introduce a discounted London Living Rent (LLR) could “distort” local markets and change where developers locate their schemes, a new report warns.
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Insight
Popularity of PRS soars but some still see it as too risky
Investment in the UK private rental sector (PRS) is set to increase by £45bn over the next five years, reveals new research - but some of the UK’s largest investors still perceive it as too risky.
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Insight
Tipping point: the surge in fly-tipping
If you think fly-tipping is something that only happens down dirt tracks in remote rural locations, think again.