All Property Week articles in 17 November 2017 – Page 5
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Professional
People Moves: AXA IM, Carter Jonas, Hibernia REIT and more
This week’s latest moves include six promotions at Deloitte Real Estate and a new head of UK retail occupancy for Cushman Wakefield.
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Insight
PW Tech Bytes: how to tackle the tech test
Earlier this month, experts gathered at Mishcon de Reya’s offices for the first in a series of Property Week TechByte seminars to discuss the way forward for the industry on its daunting but necessary proptech journey.
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Information
Property Week Digital Edition - 17 November 2017
Retirement living challenge - Google’s smart technology - Mark Bourgeois interview - West Midlands focus
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Insight
Retirement and retail at critical junctures
Retirement living used to be synonymous with care homes - and its prospects were seen as about as enticing as being sent to one. Not anymore.
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Insight
A make-or-break Budget for the Tories
This Budget really is make or break for the current Conservative government. What seems like an endless series of gaffes and mishaps has left it clinging to the rafters - with the small matter of Brexit still to deal with.
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Insight
London home to almost half of offshore-registered properties
More than two-fifths of the properties owned by companies registered in ‘tax havens’ are located in Greater London, newly released Land Registry data reveals.
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News
Retirement developers launch legal challenge against mayor's planning guidance
Four of the biggest retirement housing developers are mounting a legal challenge against the mayor of London’s new planning guidance on affordable housing.
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Insight
Sexual harassment must not be swept under the carpet
The laws prohibiting sexual harassment have been around for some time. However, the recent revelations about Harvey Weinstein and other public figures have focused the spotlight on this area of law again.
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Insight
Harnessing the spend of the baby boomer generation
Groundhog Day – sorry, the Budget – is upon us again. Far from freeing up the green belt, turning up borrowing for social housing or seed-funding modular factories, we’re likely to see more pointless demand-side levers or the training of more brickies (a bit like shuffling the deckchairs on the ...
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Markets
A brand-new mini town for Rugby is changing the West Midlands map
Sajid Javid, secretary of state for communities and local government, took time out of his busy schedule to visit the RadioStation site on the outskirts of Rugby during a visit to the West Midlands last month.
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News
ABP launches £3.5bn arm to develop 21 major ports
Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s leading port operator, has launched a £3.5bn property arm and will look to develop its 2,372-acre land bank held around major UK ports.
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Professional
New PDR for light industrial won’t be a panacea for developers
Last month, a new permitted development right (PDR) came into force that allows the change of use of a building from light industrial to residential. The right is temporary, lasting for three years from 1 October 2017.
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Professional
Driverless cars could transform cities for better and for worse
There’s a lot of excitement about the future of driverless cars, or ‘autonomous vehicles’ to use the parlance preferred by the professionals.
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News
Aberdeen Standard aims to double real estate holdings
Aberdeen Standard Investments is aiming to more than double its real estate assets under management to £100bn by 2025.
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News
Fabrix seeks £50m for second fund
Fabrix Capital is looking to raise £50m for its second fund, which is being launched little more than a year after the company was founded.
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News
Making an urban splash at Salford Boat Shed launch
Messing about on boats is a pastime property folk usually indulge in in the sunnier climes of Cannes at Mipim.
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News
Separated at birth: Martin Hamer and Rob Walker
Come on, Edwards & Co director Martin Hamer, give us a blast of “Let’s get the boys on the baize!” Metropolis bets you even sound just like BBC snooker MC Rob Walker.
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Professional
New head of office agency for JLL in Glasgow
JLL Scotland has appointed Alistair Reid as its new head of office agency in Glasgow.
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News
Crowdfunding start-up offers strategic land to private investors
A new platform has been launched to allow private investors to invest in strategic land.