All Property Week articles in 21 October 2016 – Page 5
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Online
Prologis pan-European occupancy up to 96% in Q3
Prologis Europe has ended the third quarter with 96.1% pan-European occupancy, an increase of 50 basis points from its Q2 figure.
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Insight
Leading ladies: Women in Property
It is rare to look around the room at a property event and see more women than men - unless you’re at an event hosted by the Association of Women in Property (WiP), that is.
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Online
Manchester’s House Of Fraser hits market for £84.5m
A private investor has brought to market the iconic grade II listed building let to House of Fraser in Manchester for a guide price of £84.5m.
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News
Ale and hearty at RESIFEST
When Metropolis bumped into Residential Land boss Bruce Ritchie recently, we got to chatting about how great this year’s RESI Conference had been and it emerged that it wasn’t just the speaker line-up that had gone down well.
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Online
Highways England drive into first deal of new Savills instruction
Highways England has taken office space at Norflex House in Darlington in the first deal of its new instruction with Savills.
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News
Separated at birth: Michael Vaughan and Len Rosso
He’s rarely stumped in the industrial and logistics sector and Metropolis reckons that’s fitting given the resemblance Colliers’ Len Rosso bears to former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan.
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Three new regional leads for Carter Jonas
Carter Jonas has strengthened its national planning and development network by appointing three new leads in the North, East and South East of England.
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Javid hints at property taxation changes in Autumn Statement
Communities secretary Sajid Javid has told the industry to “keep an eye out” for changes to real estate taxation in this year’s Autumn Statement.
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Information
UK Cities supplement October 2016
Government’s hub search - EU grant cuts - Regional office investment
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Insight
Apprenticeship levy – an industry opportunity?
As Adam Branson’s recent feature ‘Laying the foundations for tomorrow’s construction careers’ alluded to, the upcoming apprenticeship levy will change the face of the UK workforce, including in the property industry.
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Insight
The battle between speed and convenience
Speed or convenience? Which is more important to you and your family as shopping habits rapidly change? The answer probably varies between generations (it does in my house) but the Queen line “I want it all and I want it now” does seem apt.
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Insight
May will deliver a Brexit that will emphatically work in our favour
This column is headed ‘The Politics of Property’ and these days that means one word - Brexit.
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Retail fund sell-off limits Q3 investment slowdown
Net selling by UK institutions hit its highest level since the financial crisis in the third quarter and helped limit the wider slowdown in the investment market, according to data from Lambert Smith Hampton.
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Insight
How flexible workspace is rewriting rules of business
While economic uncertainty following the EU referendum result is a concern for many people and especially for those in the property world, for others now is an incredible time to run a business.
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Markets
Hinckley’s Crescent shows value of developers ‘holding tight’
It took eight years of blood, sweat and delays - not to mention a recession - before Tony Baker of the Tin Hat Regeneration Partnership was able to succeed where others had failed and deliver a new shopping destination for Hinckley.
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Insight
Why public sector needs to embrace build-to-rent
The uncomfortable truth facing London at present is that not enough homes are being built. The fact that home ownership is at its lowest rate for 30 years is merely one indicator of this.
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News
Online cosmetics retailer embraces physical stores
Online cosmetics retailer Models Own has opened its first store at Westfield Stratford City and will open its second at Trinity Leeds later this year as part of a push into bricks and mortar retailing.
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Markets
Council takes charge of Chesterfield's transformation
It is known as a mining town that has been left behind. Since the closure of the pits and the demise of the coal industry, Chesterfield has found it difficult to convince investors and the government that it was worthy of attention in the age of the digital economy.
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Professional
To tackle London’s housing crisis we need to relax space standards
The issue of permitted development rights (PDR) resurfaces every time the London housing crisis is mentioned, which seems to be every other week.
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Insight
Farmer Review: Developers told to support innovation in construction
After eight months of waiting, Mark Farmer’s government-commissioned report into the state of the construction industry is finally here.