All Property Week articles in 18 January 2019 – Page 6
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Online
Howard de Walden Estate completes £280m private placement issue
Howard de Walden Estates has completed a £280m private placement issue with eight institutional investors from the UK and US.
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RDI refinances £275m facility
RDI REIT has refinanced its £275m debt facility with Barclays, RBS and HSBC and extended the duration of the facility for five years.
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Octopus raises £133.5m for care home fund
Octopus Healthcare has raised £133.5m for its Octopus Healthcare Fund and has agreed to acquire seven care homes.
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Workspace Group sees lettings rise in Q3
Workspace Group has seen an increase in lettings per month in the third quarter of 2018.
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NewRiver retail occupation remains steady
NewRiver REIT saw retail occupancy levels remain stable at 95.5% in the third quarter of 2018.
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Bovis Homes share price rises on trading update
Bovis Homes share price rose 3.82% on Wednesday to 967.3p after the company issued a trading update saying it is set to reveal a record annual profit.
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Insight
How to improve the planning system: GL Hearn forum
GL Hearn’s latest annual planning survey identified the key sticking points in the planning process and the practical steps that can be taken to overcome them. A panel of developers and planning authorities discussed the findings and explored best practice guidelines.
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Markets
Are amenity-rich BTR schemes really worth the cost?
Gavriel Hollander reports on whether renters really want to live in new BTR developments that offer everything from rooftop yoga to ‘Bobs’
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Lendlease outlines ambitions for Birmingham Smithfield
Developer to create new cultural and leisure district with 2,000 homes in £1.5bn council-backed project.
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News
Valeo plots £750m push into UK student housing sector
Group aims to spend around £150m a year on new UK sites as part of pan-European acquisitions strategy
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New Watkin Jones CEO backs BTR
Watkin Jones is to continue its push into build-to-rent (BTR) development under new chief executive Richard Simpson.
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South East office take-up hits 10-year high
The South East office market recorded the highest take-up in over a decade last year, new data from CBRE has shown.
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Professional
Why has the CMA warned care home operators about contracts with residents?
In an open letter to care home providers, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said that its research has prompted concerns “that some care homes may be treating residents unfairly and potentially breaking consumer law”.
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M7’s Croft funds Suffolk start-up lab
M7 Real Estate chief executive Richard Croft is funding a new start-up lab to support entrepreneurs in his home county of Suffolk.
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Professional
What can be done to ensure women are better represented in panel debates?
A couple of years ago, Women in Property made a decision: we would not support industry events unless there was reasonable gender balance among the list of speakers.
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Insight
Tech not politics is market driver
There’s no point speculating on where our exit (or indeed non-exit) from the European Union is headed anymore.
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Insight
Regeneration should be less toxic
In recent years regeneration as a concept has become toxic, a byword in the public mind for gentrification, social cleansing or some other negative practice. It is often thought of as something done to communities, not for them — and certainly not by them.
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Knights’ St Peter’s Square move
Knights Solicitors has walked away from a letting at Manchester’s 101 Barbirolli Square and taken the penultimate floor of Two St Peter’s Square instead.
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Sony Music signs for King’s Cross
Property Week understands music label is closing in on a deal to take 124,000 sq ft across six floors at 4 Handyside Street.
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Insight
Wide open Spaces: Martijn Roordink interview
Launched in the financial crisis, co-working provider Spaces has since gone from strength to strength. Martijn Roordink talks to Emma Shone about its expansion plans and those sale rumours