All Property Week articles in 19 December 2014 – Page 3
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Newcore makes first investment into child nurseries
Newcore Capital Management has made its first investment in childcare nurseries for its new £100m syndicate business.
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Weston Homes buys Wellcome Factory site for £80m ‘village’ scheme
Weston Homes is set to build 400 homes on the former Wellcome factory, near Dartford Town Centre.
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Central London leasing at pre-recession levels, report finds
Central London leasing activity totalled 12.4m sq ft in 2014 - the highest volume since 2007 and 15% ahead of 2013 totals.
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Swansea Council HQ sale to fund redevelopment
Swansea Council is lining up a sale of its civic centre to fund plans to redevelop the city centre.
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Aviva buys Orchard Street assets
Orchard Street Investment Management has completed two disposals on behalf of St. James’s Place Property Unit Trust to Aviva for around £9.4m.
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Peter Rees named CBE
Professor Peter Rees has been made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list.
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Capital & Regional converts to a REIT
Capital Regional has confirmed that as of today it has achieved its goal of becoming a REIT.
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Songbird rebuffs QIA and Brookfield as formal £2.6bn bid is tabled
Songbird Estates has claimed the formal offer for the owner of Canary Wharf “does not reflect the full value of the company”.
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Mayor moves to establish new development corporation for Old Oak Common
Plans to build up to 24,000 new homes at Old Oak Common in west London have moved a step closer after mayor of London Boris Johnson sought to establish a development body for the scheme.
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House price growth lowest for a year
The annual pace of house price growth in the UK is now at its slowest in more than a year, figures from mortgage lender Nationwide have shown.
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Redefine CFO steps down
Redefine International’s chief financial officer Andrew Rowell has resigned after nine years at the company.
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Candy's CPC and Inland Homes make brownfield play
Inland Homes has teamed up with Christian Candy’s CPC Group to fund the acquisition of brownfield sites for residential development across the South East of England.
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Cathedral signs JV with Weston Homes at Telegraph Works
Cathedral Group has signed a joint venture agreement with Weston Homes to undertake a residential-led regeneration development at the Telegraph Works site on the Greenwich Peninsula in London.
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Rockspring buys into German retail
Rockspring Property Investment Managers has acquired a German retail portfolio for around £86m.
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Dyson largest landowner in England
Billionaire vacuum inventor Sir James Dyson has bought a 3,000-acre estate in Lincolnshire from the Crown Estate.
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Intu pays hefty price for Spanish retail jewel
Intu’s €451m acquisition of the Puerto Venecia shopping centre and retail park looks like a Bluewater moment for the Spanish market.
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MoJ sells four listed prisons
Specialist heritage developer City Country has acquired four former UK listed prisons from the Ministry of Justice.
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Boris backs 'slender and elegant' Bishopsgate Goodsyard scheme
Mayor of London “strongly supports” controversial £800m high-rise development in Shoreditch, but calls for extra affordable housing and a reduction in scale of two of the seven towers.
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Intu makes big Spanish acquisition
Intu has acquired the Puerto Venecia shopping centre and retail park in Zaragoza in northern Spain for €451m (£354m)
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Brentford FC sign for new stadium with Willmott Dixon
Brentford Football Club and residential developer Willmott Dixon have signed a development agreement to deliver a new 20,000 capacity stadium at Lionel Road South, in Brentford, together with new homes, shops and other community facilities.