All Property Week articles in 16 October 2015 – Page 4
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News
Flexible workspace portfolio up for sale
Europa Capital has put a portfolio of flexible workspace assets on the market with a guide price of £28m, which represents a yield of 8.5%.
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Professional
Parker joins Moda Living as director of projects
Moda Living has appointed Andrew Parker as director of projects.
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Insight
Can devolution solve the UK’s productivity puzzle?
It has been a whirlwind summer in the world of local government.
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Insight
Starter homes: vital to get detail right
The announcement by the prime minister on starter homes and the change to the definition of affordable housing was a clear demonstration that the Conservatives are putting home ownership at the very top of their thinking (09.10.15).
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Markets
Derby’s residential market picks up – but at expense of offices
Derby’s city centre office market continues to be hit by the conversion of office buildings to residential, while the second phase of the city centre’s flagship office development is now likely to be developed for student housing.
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News
Standard Life fund signs Liverpool lettings deal
The Standard Life Investments Pooled Pension Property Fund has completed a deal with Mann Island Finance, part of Investec Bank, for one of the largest office lettings in Liverpool this year.
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Insight
More office-to-resi permitted... but at what cost?
After all the delays to the widely trailed extension of permitted development rights (PDR), the industry breathed a sigh of relief this week as the government confirmed plans in its Housing and Planning Bill to make them permanent - and threw an unexpected bone to developers and housebuilders.
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Insight
We must encourage further investment in regional city regeneration
Urban regeneration is not simply about chasing investment returns.
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News
Sorgente RES drops plans to list citing weak demand
Italian real estate investment company Sorgente RES this week withdrew its plans to list on the Milan bourse, blaming the quantity and the quality of the demand received.
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Insight
People Moves: Savills, Stupples Chandler Garvey, Kirkby Diamond etc
All the latest moves and appointments from across the property sector.
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News
Skanska office portfolio sale is its largest ever in CEE region
Skanska Commercial Development Europe has sold a portfolio of four office buildings in two Polish regional cities in the largest sales transaction conducted this year in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) office market and the largest transaction in the history of Skanska’s activity in the region.
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News
JP Morgan Cazenove’s Fowlds stands down
JP Morgan Cazenove’s Robert Fowlds, one of the most respected and best-known real estate investment bankers, has retired.
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Markets
Royal burial helps revive Leicester
It may be overstating it to say that Leicester’s long ‘winter of discontent’ is going to come to an end thanks to the discovery and ceremonial reburial of the body of Richard III in the cathedral earlier this year.
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Insight
The living wage and building up goodwill
One of the lasting effects of the financial crisis was the reputational battering taken by the business community and a view that many companies had lost sight of some fairly fundamental values in the quest for higher profits (and bonuses).
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News
Property brochures hot off the press...
Brochure printing companies are having a field day at the moment.
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Insight
Interview: Kyran Bracken on tackling the housing crisis
Former rugby star Kyran Bracken may be exasperated by England’s dire performance in the Rugby World Cup, but he is optimistic about the future of modular construction.
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News
BM enjoys October fest
Barnard Marcus raised £25.1m at its October auction, a £7m increase on September.
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Professional
PaddingtonNow BID selects Vaughan Smith as chairman
Vaughan Smith has been announced as the new chairman of the PaddingtonNow business improvement district (BID).
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News
Allsop offers resi lots pitched at ‘encouraging’ prices
Allsop has launched a 296-lot catalogue for its October residential auction, with lots pitched at what it describes as “encouraging” prices for buyers.