All Property Week articles in 19 June 2015 – Page 5
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Markets
Office-to-resi conversions transform South East towns
Towns and cities across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire all share a similar problem: all have experienced rising house prices and stagnant office rents, with a great number of residents commuting.
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News
Inspired makes Impact with Croydon resi conversion
Inspired Asset Management has exchanged contracts on one of Croydon’s tallest buildings, which it plans to transform into a £65m residential scheme.
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Markets
Taking the pressure out of construction
The buoyant property market in the UK has ensured that the cranes are firmly back on our city skylines.
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Insight
Concern over office-to-residential conversions
Brockton Capital’s anticipated acquisition of City Liberty’s 33 Horseferry Road development raises a fascinating and potentially pivotal question for the market over the future use of the building.
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News
Nationwide set to up commercial lending
Nationwide is looking to ramp up its lending to the commercial property market this year.
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Election good for commercial property values
Commercial property values have bounced in the month following the general election.
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Insight
Is the UK commercial lending market overheating?
Much of the commentary concerning the latest release of Savills’ Financing Property presentation has centred on increasing competition in the UK lending market.
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Insight
Has the garden city concept gone to seed?
The Lib Dems loved the garden city. The Tories not so much. What now for the concept once hailed as the future?
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News
Office firm chooses Cheapside
Serviced office company Business Environment has taken a further 13,374 sq ft on the sixth floor at 107 Cheapside, in the City.
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Videos
Town centre retail still has the upper hand
The much-trumpeted death of the high street in the face of the challenge from online retailing has been overstated, with the true state of the retail sector far more complex, a new report from CACI has claimed
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Professional
People Moves: CBRE, DTZ, HML Holdings, Goodman Nash etc
All the latest moves and appointments from across the property sector.
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Insight
Capita think tank: Public sector solutions
With huge tranches of public sector land from both central and local government offering development opportunities, Property Week brought together some of the sector’s leading experts to discover how industry can work with officials to make the most of development and regeneration opportunities.
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Markets
Business park developer injects life into rural East Sussex
John Shaw, chief executive of SeaChange Sussex, a not-for-profit property development company, lives the dream of every property developer as he witnesses partitions being taken down from Glovers House, a mile outside Bexhill.
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Insight
Interview: Grosvenor's Britain & Ireland chief executive Peter Vernon
Grosvenor has taken full advantage of the recovery with its imaginative approach to placemaking.
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News
Bourne in Knightsbridge move
A serviced office company has taken a 17,000 sq ft floor at Lancer Asset Management’s 1 Knightsbridge Green in west London.
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Insight
Outer London boroughs are capital’s real success story
Did you know there are no Starbucks or Costa Coffees in Barking Dagenham? That Barnet has 122 primary schools, and that the average house price in Brent at the northern reaches of London is £416,506 compared with £281,341 in Bexley in the south?
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Professional
Simpler tax system would boost liquidity in the real estate market
Tax is simple. That is, if the Office for Tax Simplification and the Tax Law Rewrite Project are to be believed.
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Professional
BNP Paribas recruits logistics veteran for Europe investment
BNP Paribas Real Estate has named Logan Smith as head of logistics investment for Europe.
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Videos
Bed behaviour: Grainger staff encouraged to sleep on the job
Some jobs can be a right snorefest. None so much as listed residential property group Grainger, where 20 of its employees recently ‘road-tested’ the beds at the company’s first purpose-built rental accommodation in east London.
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London Paramount theme park faces serious hurdles before becoming a reality
For the first time in its seven-year history, a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) will be about fun.