All Property Week articles in 21 October 2016 – Page 4
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MarketsRinging the changes: James Dipple on the next phase in MEPC’s evolution
Seven decades in any industry is a major achievement, but in the property industry it is a minor miracle given the extreme peaks and troughs that businesses have to endure during each cycle.
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NewsResi investors take a shine to commercial assets at LSH auction
Lambert Smith Hampton raised £12.5m at its October sale, as growing interest from residential investors in commercial properties boosted sales.
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NewsAcuitus breaks sales record after bumper autumn auction
Acuitus sold more than £70m worth of property at its latest auction and is set to smash its annual sales record for the second year running.
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InformationRegional city centre office take-up dips
Office take-up in regional city centres plummeted to its lowest level since 2012 in the third quarter because of concerns about Brexit, according to Bilfinger GVA’s Big Nine report.
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InsightRestaurant leases: time to turnover a new lease?
The rise of Deliveroo and other delivery apps, including recent arrivals to the UK Amazon Restaurants and UberEATS, has changed our restaurant industry forever.
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NewsToynbee Hall regen plans get green light
London Square has been given the go-ahead to redevelop the Toynbee Hall charity HQ in Spitalfields alongside two other sites that will together deliver 409 new homes in London.
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InsightModernise or die? More like modernise or pay
It’s all very well Mark Farmer warning in his review of the UK construction labour model that the construction industry needs to “modernise or die” - but should he really be putting the onus on property developers to, in his own words, “bail it out”?
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NewsInspired lands development loan from Henley for Croydon project
Inspired Asset Management has secured a £19.1m development loan from Henley Investments for its fourth project in Croydon.
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NewsCarlisle City Council picks Chancerygate to manage estates
Carlisle City Council has made the unusual move of appointing a private sector company to asset manage two industrial estates totalling more than 200 acres.
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InsightHUBba bubba!: Steve Sanham and Robert Sloss interview
“Why not?” is a question residential developer Hub’s newly promoted managing director, Steve Sanham, likes to ask a lot - and why not if you are one half of a double-act that prides itself on providing “aspirational yet attainable homes for hard working Londoners”?
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NewsPanellists debate strength of market following Brexit vote
How robust is the UK property sector in the wake of the EU referendum vote? This was the question debated last week at NatWest’s 11th Annual Political Economics Reception, which was supported by LandAid, the British Property Federation and media partner Property Week .
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ProfessionalHow troubled Brent Cross was revived by a happy public-private partnership
The phrase ‘development hell’ was coined in the film industry, but is easily transferrable to property - certainly, the parties involved in the redevelopment of Hammerson’s Brent Cross Shopping Centre have had numerous opportunities over the last 15 years to think that some malign force was acting against them.
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MarketsInfinity and beyond: science and innovation centre opens in Derby
The latest stage of Derby’s manufacturing renaissance was revealed earlier this month with the opening of the £12m iHub science and innovation centre.
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NewsSouth Banks it: DNV-GL first sign-up for Hermes & CPPIB Southwark scheme
Hermes Investment Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) Consultant have signed up the first tenant to their South Bank Central scheme in Southwark in the latest sign of the area’s growing appeal.
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NewsUK banks boost commercial property debt market share
UK banks and building societies increased their share of the commercial property debt market in the first half of 2016 after several years during which their market share has fallen significantly.
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NewsStarters orders: Government appoints agent for rollout of starter homes programme
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has finally “started the ball rolling” on the government’s long-awaited £2.3bn starter homes programme.
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MarketsPaddington comes of age as an office location
Paddington has long been an unloved and underutilised district of central London, but now it is finally coming of age as a major office hub.
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NewsHalkin goes after mixed use with Angelo Gordon backing
Michael Kingshott’s Halkin has secured the backing of US investment giant Angelo, Gordon Co to pursue mixed-use development projects and separately signed a 62,000 sq ft letting on London’s South Bank for its expanding serviced office portfolio.
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InformationProperty Week Digital Edition - 21 October 2016
Starter homes - Shoreditch v South Bank - HUB Interview - East Midlands & Office Parks Focuses
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NewsRagged School hits market as £20m attractive asset
A former Victorian school in Clerkenwell, London, founded in 1878 to educate the area’s destitute children, has been put on the market for £20m.
