All Property Week articles in 22 September 2017 – Page 7
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News
Edge scores portfolio of mixed-use assets
Edge Real Estate Property Investments has acquired a portfolio of mixed-use assets previously owned by the family of former Wigan FC chairman Dave Whelan for £50m.
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Professional
Happy, healthy and hard-working: new programme helps retailers boost wellbeing
Last week, the UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) launched the second iteration of its Wellbeing Lab programme.
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News
New business park takes off near Heathrow
Aviva Investors and Crest Nicholson have kicked off the letting campaign for a new 850,000 sq ft business park close to Heathrow Airport.
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Insight
Are flying warehouses just pie in the sky?
It seems that the only way is up for warehouse stock.
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News
Atlas and IPIM back £55m Salford waterfront scheme
US firm Atlas Residential and Singaporean asset manager IP Investment Management (IPIM) have agreed to forward-fund a major build-to-rent (BTR) scheme in Salford’s MediaCityUK.
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Fiorucci to open new HQ on London’s Brewer Street
Revamped Italian fashion brand Fiorucci is making a return to bricks-and-mortar retailing in the UK with a new store at 39-43 Brewer Street in London for its headquarters in the UK.
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Markets
Convenience culture fuels demand for forecourt shopping
In May, the vice-president of BP’s European retail division, Alex Jensen, made a very telling statement. In the UK, she said, half of BP’s customers don’t even buy petrol when they visit a filling station. “Fifteen years ago it was just fuel,” she said. Now people are there to shop ...
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Insight
Shed of the future: automatic for the people
A driverless vehicle docks at a remote warehouse in the Scottish Borders. Inside the four-storey facility, a workforce of more than 1,000 robots simultaneously picks items of stock and packs them into boxes ready for delivery to customers’ houses via an army of unmanned drones.
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Insight
Sally’s new army: Sally Duggleby interview
There are plenty of examples in the agency world of people who have previously worked for landlords, developers or both.
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Insight
AI, drones and smart technology are reshaping the warehouse
A few short decades after scientists began working towards its invention, artificial intelligence (AI) is finally here - and it is set to transform manufacturing plants and distribution centres.
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Insight
Home address: Alok Sharma speech
At RESI 2017, the new housing and planning minister Alok Sharma gave his first major public speech since he replaced Gavin Barwell in June and took the opportunity to address the key priorities set out for him by industry leaders in Property Week last month.
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Information
Property Week Digital Edition - 22 September 2017
RESI highlights - Spec shed growth - Retail wellbeing - Automotive & roadside focus
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Professional
Now that tribunal fees are unlawful, it's time to evaluate risk
The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed Unison’s appeal against the legality of the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal fee system, marking an end to the trade union’s four-year fight.
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News
DCLG provides funding for Neighbourhood Plans
Housing minister Alok Sharma has announced a new £22.8m package of support to provide communities with specialist support to help develop a neighbourhood plan.
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News
Allsop’s best-ever September auction raises a record £71m
Last week, Allsop Residential had its best September auction ever, helped by the sale of a number of offices with permission for conversion into apartments under permitted development rights (PDR).
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News
Barnard Marcus up year on year
Barnard Marcus raised £24.6m at its 11 September auction, helped by a large NHS sale. The auctioneer sold 163 lots from a catalogue of 239 - reflecting a 69% success rate.
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News
Headline tenant sought for ‘unique’ former courthouse
A new tenant is being sought for The Old Sessions House – a former courthouse in Clerkenwell which has been redeveloped into a ‘unique headquarters building or a members’ club concept’.
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Insight
Bitcoin burnout?
It was interesting to see the growing use of bitcoin in the property sector highlighted in David Parsley’s piece on the Scottish power couple offering bitcoin payment for luxury Dubai apartments .
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Insight
MEES regulations: it’s not easy being green
A fifth of industrial buildings could need alterations to meet new energy regulations - are landlords ready?
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Insight
Javid shows housing associations are 'serious business'
Forget for a moment the content - sweeping as it was - of Sajid Javid’s speech yesterday ; it’s the language that finally marks an end to the Cameron government’s spleen-fuelled approach to housing associations.