All Property Week articles in 19 June 2015 – Page 6
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NewsPraxis beats rivals to secure Blackstone’s Garden portfolio
Investment house Praxis has acquired a business park portfolio from Blackstone for close to £70m.
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InsightDTZ grins... and C&W bears it
If anyone was in any doubt who has the upper hand in the whole DTZ-Cushman Wakefield deal, they are not any longer - at least not as far as the UK is concerned.
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ProfessionalGovernment may be barking up the wrong tree with Right to Buy
It was all rather déjà vu.
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NewsGatehouse Bank primed for major push into world of PRS
Expansion and diversification are the two words that crop up most in conversation with David Swan, Gatehouse Bank’s new head of real estate investment.
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ProfessionalWe must be aware of unconscious bias at work
One research finding that the Association of Women in Property (WiP) has enjoyed relaying came from the University of Illinois last year.
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Firms ignore energy audit
Just 0.5% of companies required to submit an energy audit to the government have done so, according to the Environment Agency (EA).
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InsightHow to navigate the grey areas in real estate
I had breakfast last week with a well-known real estate industry leader who I met in the middle of the crisis, but have not seen for more than five years.
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InsightAre we heading for another spec sheds bubble?
Are we heading for an oversupply of speculative logistics again?
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MarketsGuardian angels provide rate relief
Business rates are a tax on the occupation of non-domestic property that must be paid on most commercial premises including shops, offices, pubs and warehouses.
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NewsSun Life and Bentall Kennedy to join forces in North America
Canadian financial services company Sun Life Financial has agreed a deal to buy real estate investment adviser Bentall Kennedy for C$560m (£291m).
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NewsAllianz buys Deutsche Bahn office
Allianz Real Estate, the property investment arm of Europe’s biggest insurer, has bought German rail company Deutsche Bahn’s Berlin office for €210m (£151m).
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NewsAn a-llama-ing development for St James
Everyone loves a llama, don’t they? There’s even a song about them. But their cousins, the alpaca, get less attention despite their cute little faces.
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ProfessionalProject aims to ensure asset managers are switched on to climate change risk
Most now seem to agree with the collective wisdom of the world’s scientists that climate change presents a real threat to the world’s future.
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Crown buys again in Piccadilly
The Crown Estate has added to its holding in St James’s, London, by purchasing Threadneedle’s headlease interest at 207-209 Piccadilly.
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NewsScottish commercial property value dropped £5bn in crash
Around £5bn was wiped off the value of commercial property in Scotland in the eight years to 2013, a report by the Scottish Property Federation has found.
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Axiare makes £36.7m Madrid deal
Spanish real estate investment firm Axiare Patrimonio has signed an agreement with Spain’s bad bank Sareb to buy a 116,000 sq ft office in Madrid for €51m (£36.7m).
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NewsBritish Land chief exec enjoys 25% pay boost
The total pay package of British Land’s chief executive Chris Grigg has jumped by a quarter to £6.76m, the firm’s annual report has revealed.
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News100 Cheapside lands its first tenant
FTSE 100 company Ashtead has signed a deal to let the top two floors at Standard Life Investment’s 100 Cheapside building (pictured) in the City of London for £75/sq ft.
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NewsMansford prepares to offload £100m of regional property
Private investment firm Mansford is to sell £100m worth of retail, leisure and office assets throughout the country, including one of Cardiff’s top leisure destinations.
