All Property Week articles in 20 November 2015 – Page 6
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Online
Paris beats London as place to be for international retailers
The number of new international entrants to the Paris retail market is set to outstrip London this year, according to research by Savills.
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Markets
Q&A: U+I's Richard Upton on the Movement development
Last week U+I, the new brand for the merged Development Securities and Cathedral Group, held a street party to celebrate the completion of its Movement project in Greenwich.
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Online
E-tailing driving surge in demand for sheds
The rapid growth of ecommerce is set to drive a huge surge of demand for industrial real estate, with as much as £20bn (£14bn) in investment required across Europe to meet retailers’ and distribution companies’ requirements.
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Insight
The challenges of delivering a ‘City in the East’
The mayor of London’s recently released ambitions for housebuilding in the capital, encapsulated in the City in the East plan, is very much a reflection of the market’s independent view on housing supply in this part of the market.
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Markets
Peel aims to build £1bn logistics platform to rival the big hitters
With an industrial land bank of 5,674 acres built up over decades by its parent company, Peel Logistics already had the potential to be a force in the sheds world.
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Markets
UK should follow Japan’s example and embrace multi-storey sheds
The multi-storey shed concept has been floating around in the UK for some time, but to date ‘shedscrapers’ haven’t gained any traction on these shores despite the fact that suitable land for new industrial development is becoming increasingly scarce.
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Markets
Shed development stymied by out-of-date local plans
In 2007, the credit crunch had yet to curdle into the UK’s most severe post-war recession and the internet accounted for just 2.7% of total retail sales.
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Markets
Report warns of lack of shed space
The latest research from Savills and the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) is intended to wave a red flag to political decision-makers to take seriously the UK’s chronic shortage of warehousing space.
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Professional
Check, Challenge, Appeal proposal will only add bureaucracy and cost
Reducing the number of appeals against business rate assessments has long been a stated government aim, and the end of October saw the publication of its latest proposals.
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News
London office space delivery to exceed long-term average
The delivery of new office space in the three years to 2019 in central London is expected to exceed the long-term average and act as a brake on rental growth, Deloitte has said.