All Property Week articles in 21 November 2014 – Page 5
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Insight
Why retailers need to embrace ‘click & commute’
Customers are demanding to shop how and when best suits them. Our challenge as retailers is to ensure that we enable our customers to shop with us in the most convenient way.
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Markets
Occupiers leave West End and the City to head to Midtown
Existing occupiers account for less than 50% of all take-up, writes Hannah Brenton.
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News
Report shows stepping out in New York City costs retail tenants a pretty penny
New York’s Upper Fifth Avenue has overtaken Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay as the world’s most expensive shopping destination.
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Professional
Lionheart charity embarks on communication crusade
The chief executive of the organisation that helps surveyors explains why it does what it does.
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Online
Why property matters to charities
This week saw the publication of the Charity Property Matters Survey 2014 by leading UK property advice charity the Ethical Property Foundation.
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Markets
High Holborn Estate ‘personifies the changing face of Midtown’
Blackstone’s Midtown projects epitomise the area’s evolution. Felicity Francis reports.
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Professional
People Moves: Thrings, LSH, DTZ, CBRE ... and more
The latest appointments from across the Property Sector.
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Markets
Q&A: TIAA Henderson’s Clive Castle on the company’s plans for Midtown
In July, TIAA Henderson lost its battle to redevelop Smithfield Market, when communities secretary Eric Pickles upheld the planning inspector’s view that plans to demolish some of the historic buildings were “wholly unacceptable”.
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Markets
Thorny question of housing in Cambridgeshire
Why two Cambridgeshire councils are taking different approaches to housebuilding.
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Markets
Cambridge office space predicted to suffer huge drop, prompting new spec developments
Savills report predicts vacant space in the city could fall to less than 10,000 sq ft, writes Christine Eade.
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News
Hong Kong’s Chanco in West End buy
A Hong Kong property investor has made its debut acquisition in London in an off-market deal with WELPUT.
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News
Mapfre snaps up central Bristol office
Spanish insurer Mapfre Abraxas has agreed to lease M G Real Estate’s One Victoria Street in the heart of Bristol.
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News
KPMG takes new office as Bristol space race hots up
Accountancy giant KPMG is poised to take new office space in Bristol, in a major fillip for the South West office market.
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News
Watches of Switzerland breaks record rent for Oxford Street
Watches of Switzerland’s record zone-A letting sees Oxford Street catching up with London’s top retail rents.
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Insight
How equity became toast
In July 2007 the property market began a collapse like none we had ever seen.
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News
BAE sells Humber Hawk jet site in East Yorkshire
Defence giant BAE Systems has sold an 86-acre former manufacturing factory in the north with 1.3m sq ft of office and industrial space.
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Professional
LSH employs Tilt as industrial team associate director
Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has appointed Matthew Tilt as associate director in its industrial and logistics agency team in Birmingham.
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Markets
New Ipswich restaurant rises from the ashes of failed development
When the mixed-use Quayside Bar Grill development in Ipswich’s Regatta Quay closed without warning last February, locals lamented its demise.
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Markets
Long-term vision for shopping centre in Chelmsford pays off for Aquila
After more than a decade, Tony Chambers sees his dreams come true.
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News
Mill Group set to test investor appetite for a residential REIT
The UK’s first residential REIT has also taken the unusual step of using crowdfunding to raise capital