All Property Week articles in 20 January 2023 – Page 2
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Spring announces leadership reshuffle to target £100m acquisitions
National home-buying and part exchange firm Spring has reshuffled its leadership team to drive its plans to hit £100m in acquisitions and sales this year.
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Silbury passes £500m lending milestone
Silbury Finance has passed half a billion of committed lending in the UK Living sector in under two years.
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Watkin Jones blames Kwarteng’s mini-budget for annual revenue and profit falls
Student accommodation and build-to-rent group Watkin Jones has blamed Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss’ mini-budget on a last-minute hit on the group’s annual figures after revealing falls in both revenue and profit for its last financial year.
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Bericote and Tritax Big Box sell Dartford business units to Logicor
Tritax Big Box and Bericote Properties have reportedly pre-sold 20 units at the former Littlebrook Power station in Dartford to Logicor for £25m, Property Week can reveal.
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Ashby Capital’s Peter Ferrari on whether life sciences can throw a life line to London
After a turbulent second half of 2022, exemplified by shrinking investment volumes as buyers kept their powder dry amid elevated inflation, rising interest rates and geo-political uncertainty, predictions for 2023 were understandably gloomy.
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Teesside Uni launches London campus at Here East
Teesside University has launched a new campus at Here East in London’s Olympic Park, adding to the number of universities and students based at the innovation and tech facility.
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St Modwen buys Birmingham and Manchester business parks
St Modwen Logistics, owned by US private equity giant Blackstone, has acquired business parks in Birmingham and Manchester totalling 175,000 sq ft.
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Vodafone agrees sale and partial leaseback of UK HQ amid downsizing
Vodafone Group has sold its 490,000 sq ft Newbury campus and long-term UK headquarters, The Connection, in a deal that will see the downsizing telecoms firm lease back just over half of the site’s office space.
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HUB buys three London buildings to kickstart urban living venture
Residential developer HUB has launched HubCap, a vehicle to acquire redundant commercial buildings for retrofitting into modern living options including aparthotels and co-living.
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Energy and cost crises force Q4 2022 hospitality closures above previous year
A combination of energy and cost crises have driven the number of closures of licensed premises in the fourth quarter of 2022 above the Covid-hit period in the previous year.
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Knight Frank and Berkadia form global capital markets platform
Knight Frank and Berkadia, a US-based commercial real estate group and joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group, have joined forces to establish a new global capital markets platform.
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Hammerson hosts Sandbox VR at Birmingham shopping centre
Virtual reality firm Sandbox VR has selected Bullring & Grand Central, Birmingham’s largest shopping centre owned by property giant Hammerson, for its largest site and first UK location outside London.
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Crown Estate sues Twitter over unpaid rent
The Crown Estate has filed a claim against tech giant Twitter in the High Court over unpaid rent at its London headquarters near Piccadilly Circus.
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Valuation shifts hit pre-tax profit at Henry Boot
Development firm Henry Boot has told investors it will fall short of pre-tax profit forecasts despite record underlying figures for the year to the end of December, due to a reduction in investment property values.
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OnTheMarket appoints new finance chief
OnTheMarket has appointed Tom Carter as chief financial officer (CFO) and as a member of the property portal’s board.
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LondonMetric adds £2.4m to rent roll
LondonMetric Property completed 62 occupier deals during the final quarter of 2022, adding £2.4m to the group’s annual rental income.
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Redrow announces introduction of heat pumps as standard
Housebuilder Redrow has announced that all of its new detached home development will use air source heat pumps and underfloor heating as standard, as part of its plan to achieve net zero carbon by 2050.
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Welsh shopping mall gets green light for business centre makeover
Mercia Real Estate (MRE) has been given the green light to change the use of the former Festival Park shopping centre in Ebbw Vale, Wales to an employment-led business centre.
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Ex-housing ministers back report slamming brownfield housing policy
A swathe of former housing ministers have come out in support of a report slamming the government’s current housing policy, claiming that building solely on brownfield sites cannot deliver the amount of homes needed in Britain.
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Godwin appoints Lesley Roberts as BTR director
Property developer Godwin Developments has appointed Lesley Roberts as director of build-to-rent (BTR) operations.