All Property Week articles in 19 February 2016 – Page 7
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News
Acuitus achieves an almost perfect success rate at sale
Acuitus sold all but two of the lots on offer at its February auction, making for an “exceptional” success rate of 98%, according to Acuitus auctioneer Richard Auterac.
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Insight
Property Week Salary Survey 2016
Property continues to offer attractive rewards, with salaries in the industry at their highest level for nine years. However, as Property Week ’s pay survey reveals, clouds may be gathering on the horizon
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Brockton closes Fund III with £2.5bn investment firepower
Brockton Capital has closed its third fund with total equity commitments of more than £860m - making it the largest UK-only value-add fund ever raised.
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Information
Property Week Digital Edition - 19 February 2016
Salary survey – Defence Infrastructure Organisation – planning fees – Kent – 4G mobile connectivity – viability tests – Property Awards Hall of Fame
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News
Bristol mayor: ‘£1bn devolution deal close’
Bristol mayor George Ferguson has confirmed the city is “pretty close” to a devolution deal with the government that is likely to see the creation of a new ‘super-council’ and a ‘metro mayor’.
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LSH raises over £450,000 at first online auction
Just four lots were offered at Lambert Smith Hampton’s (LSH’s) first online property auction, but they attracted a whopping 318 bids between them and raised £451,750 - against a total guide price of £70,000.
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Markets
London transforms into city where renting is the norm
London is being transformed from a city where nearly two-thirds of residents are owner-occupiers to one where renting is the norm - with 60% of Londoners forecast to be renters in less than 10 years.
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Markets
Why moves to shine light on viability tests could backfire
Developers looking to bring residential schemes forward in Greenwich will now be forced to publish commercially sensitive information about those schemes if they are unable to meet the borough’s affordable homes quota.
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Markets
Five minutes with: Andy Gulliford of SEGRO
SEGRO’s chief operating officer on how to drink sake, the value of instinct and good timekeeping
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Markets
Interview: North Rae Sanders
The start of 2016 saw the biggest Midlands industrial agency North Rae Sanders merge with the highly acquisitive Canadian firm Avison Young in one of the most surprising unions in a recent spate of M A activity.
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Professional
Will proposals to increase fees speed up the planning process?
Planning departments, like other parts of local government, have been hit by the impact of the recession and subsequent austerity in recent years, with the result that many in the development industry now question whether the planning system is fit for purpose.
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Markets
Welcome to the leisure domes
The burger vans that reside on the industrial estates of Britain aren’t really set up to cater for children.
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Insight
Interview: David Mitchard of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation
The DIO’s new chief executive David Mitchard is on a mission to rationalise the defence estate.
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Markets
Soaring land costs hit sheds
Two of the big challenges facing the sheds market at the moment relate to land.
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Insight
Who’s your call for the Hall of Fame?
We all know who the property legends of old are. Think Harry Hyams, Sir Charles Clore, Jack Cotton, Lewis Hammerson, Paul Reichmann, Ronnie Lyon, Lord Samuel… the list goes on. But who are the legends of today, the people who have transformed and in some cases, continue to transform, the ...
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Markets
Why multi-let industrial isn't part of the development boom
Visitors to most UK towns these days are greeted by the sight of cranes, hoardings and roadworks.
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Markets
Big boxes hit by lack of supply
Has the froth come off the top of the sheds market? New research appears to suggest so.
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Insight
Imbalance between supply and demand for logistics
Basic economics dictates that when demand outstrips supply, prices are likely to rise.
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Markets
Amazon and its search for shed space
A copy of the PlayStation game Call of Duty: Black Ops III is ordered by a customer at 10:06am. It is then shipped from Amazon’s Erdington delivery station, in Birmingham.