All Property Week articles in 2 December 2022
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OnlineStrettons offers trio of Falmouth buildings guided at £1.75m in December auction
A vacant property in Falmouth, Cornwall, has been valued at a guide price of £1.75m in Strettons’ December auction.
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NewsKitching Bower named RTPI’s North-West chair
Emilly Kitching Bower, a senior town planner at engineering giant Arup, has been elected chair of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) North West region for 2023.
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NewsLendInvest completes first loan under resi portfolio product
LendInvest, the asset manager for property finance, has completed a £37m loan secured against a nationwide portfolio of mainly residential investment properties.
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NewsWhitbread and Dominvs plan Manchester PBSA scheme
Whitbread and Dominvs Group have joined forces for a mixed use 1,014-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development at One Medlock Street in Manchester.
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News’Retrofit first, not retrofit only’, call from London Property Alliance
London developers and investors are calling for changes to planning policy to allow a ‘retrofit first, not retrofit only’ approach to futureproofing buildings
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NewsRainier Developments acquires 68,000 sq ft Farnham shed
Property firm Rainier Developments has purchased 68,000 sq ft of warehouse and office space on Farnham Trading Estate, Surrey, from access solution provider Southco Manufacturing.
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NewsStudent Accommodation Conference: Campuses must adapt to ‘hybrid’ teaching
The future of higher education will need to feature the “best of both worlds” in terms of online and remote learning attendees of the Student Accommodation Conference heard yesterday (6 December).
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NewsFormer Countrywide CEO Grenville Turner named chair of lender Silbury
Grenville Turner, the former chief executive of the UK’s largest estate agency Countrywide, has been named as chairman by development lender Silbury Finance.
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NewsPlymouth, Solent and Teeside freeports given final approval
Freeports in Plymouth, Solent and Teesside are now up and running after being given final government approval by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).
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InsightMaterial reuse and the benefits of early supply chain involvement
Material reuse and the adoption of circular economy principles are at the heart of the industry’s drive towards net zero carbon.
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NewsNorfolk and Suffolk to gain greater building powers in £1bn devolution deal
The counties of Norfolk and Suffolk will gain the right to set building policy in a devolution deal revealed by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).
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NewsStudent Accommodation conference: Skills gap holding back PBSA’s sustainability aims
A lack of skills is holding the student accommodation sector back from achieving its sustainability targets, delegates were told at Property Week’s Student Accommodation Conference yesterday.
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NewsStudent Accommodation Conference: UK in an ‘exciting’ place, say investors
The UK student accommodation sector is in an “exciting place”, despite current market challenges, according to investors in the market.
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NewsHKA appoints Clack as regional chief executive
Ex-CBRE executive director and former RICS global president Amanda Clack has joined consultancy firm HKA as regional chief executive of its Europe, Middle East, and Africa region.
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NewsLambeth plans 6m sq ft office expansion
The London borough Lambeth has launched a blueprint for what it describes as the capital’s biggest increase in office space over the next decade.
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InsightProperty Raptor’s Justin Lau on the property tech sector setting records in venture funding
According to Future Market Insights, the proptech industry is expected to grow in value from $18.2 bn (£15.24bn) in 2022 to $86.5bn (£71.01bn) in 2032, while FinLedger reported that the first half of 2022 saw a record $13.1bn (£10.75bn) invested in real estate tech and proptech companies. If it continues ...
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OnlinePurplebricks ‘on course to meet full year expectations’ as it faces vote on future of chairman
Online estate agency Purplebricks has told shareholders it is on course to meet full-year expectations and that its turnaround plan is “being delivered at pace’, as it faces criticism from an activist investor.
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OnlineStudent Accommodation Awards winners crowned
An agency team that oversaw £3.8bn in property deals in a year and the 23-year-old founder of a student room booking service are among the winners of Property Week’s Student Accommodation Awards 2022.
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OnlineStudent Accommodation Awards 2022 winners
The much-anticipated winners of this year’s Student Accommodation Awards have been revealed.
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OnlineStudent Accommodation awards 2022: Hall of Fame winners
David Tymms and Mark Allen inducted into Property Week’s Student Accommodation Awards Hall of Fame.
