All Property Week articles in 2 October 2015 – Page 5
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Insight
Investors focus on the conditions of their loans
Talk of late has centred on where we sit within the cycle, with certain industry analysts calling the top.
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Markets
Shoreditch leads the way with transport, clustering and culture
Fighting the talent war used to be a lot simpler: you offered an engaging job at a high salary and workers would flock to your offices. These days, however, getting the best people to work for you requires a lot more than a big pay cheque.
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Markets
WELPUT strays from West End to make its first purchases in the City
Just over a year ago, WELPUT, the central London property trust, decided to expand its horizons away from its primary investment location of the West End and Midtown to include other areas of the capital.
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News
Standard Life to sell Grosvenor Building
Asset management company Standard Life Investments is to sell the Grosvenor Building in Glasgow city centre for around £20m.
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News
Building a future for UK renters
The burgeoning demand for rental property - particularly in London - means developers of build-to-rent schemes have a captive market, but everything else from valuation to finance and planning seems to be stacked against the sector significantly expanding.
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Markets
Media and tech businesses build up share of City office towers
Media and technology firms are increasingly snapping up the most expensive space in City of London towers, new research from Savills has revealed.
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Insight
Brazil or bust: Will the World Cup and Olympics leave a lasting legacy?
What impact will the development associated with these major sporting events have on the country’s property market?
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News
Boris Johnson picks SEGRO for massive east London development deal
Listed industrial developer SEGRO has secured a deal with the Greater London Authority (GLA) to develop a huge land portfolio in the undersupplied east London market.
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Insight
Boosting council housebuilding is the right move
The Labour party’s target of at least 100,000 publicly funded social homes a year would help the country get closer to the required 240,000 new homes a year that are needed in England alone (‘ Labour mulls massive public housebuilding drive ’).
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Insight
Boris was wrong to call in Bishopsgate Goodsyard
The Bishopsgate Goodsyard call-in by mayor Boris Johnson (‘ Boris calls in Bishopsgate Goodsyard scheme ’) has caused fear and anguish within the local business and residential communities and the two councils, Hackney and Tower Hamlets.
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Markets
Big towers staging a comeback in the City
If London’s office market in 2015 is going to be remembered for anything, it is as the year big office developments came back onto the agenda.
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Insight
Property bears up to global instability
How would we cope if 16 million refugees arrived on Britain’s shores?
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News
Super-prime deals for Battersea Park
French-Lebanese developer Arnaud Touret has acquired two adjoining Victorian properties near Battersea Park that will be redeveloped into super-prime mansions.
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News
Schroders banks on Mercedes-Benz building for Berlin boost
Schroder Real Estate has exchanged contracts to buy the Mercedes-Benz Bank building in central Berlin for just over €100m (£73.85m) in its second major deal in Germany in two months.
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News
Spanish bakery cooks up London expansion programme
One of Spain’s biggest bakery chains is to expand across London after signing a deal for its first permanent store.
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News
Aviva to focus on building global platform
Aviva Investors’ real estate business has been through a period of upheaval. A number of senior figures have left the business over the past two years and Aviva has sold several real estate funds, suffered capital outflows from some funds, and wound down others.
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News
Brendons rebrands as Phillip Arnold Auctions
London specialist auction house Brendons Auctioneers has split from its estate agent parent company Brendons Group and rebranded as Phillip Arnold Auctions.
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News
Andrews & Robertson enjoys strong demand for limited stock
Andrews Robertson posted sales of £14.8m at its September sale, just short of its total for the same month a year ago.
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Markets
Cheap isn’t always cheerful – Manchester’s surge in upmarket shops and restaurants
Manchester’s surge in upmarket shops and restaurants shows that value retailing is not the only success story.
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News
Allsop extends October auction in London
Allsop has launched a 224-lot catalogue for its October commercial auction, which will now run over two days due to increased supply.