All Property Week articles in 23 June 2017 – Page 6
-
Online
LandAid Grenfell appeal raises more than £120,000 to date
The property industry has responded to LandAid’s urgent two-week appeal to help those affected by the Grenfell Tower tragedy by pledging more than £120,000 to go directly to the British Red Cross’s London Fire Relief Fund.
-
Insight
Five minutes with: Carolyn Dwyer of City of London Corporation
The City of London Corporation’s director of the built environment on the Balancing Barn, Cuba and stovies.
-
Online
Berkeley Group JV sells 68 flats to rehouse Grenfell Tower survivors
A joint venture of the Berkeley Group and Prudential has sold 68 flats at its Kensington Row apartment development to rehouse survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire.
-
News
Separated at birth: Antony Cotton and Richard Palmer
Metropolis is inclined to order a pint of Newton and Ridley from Richard Palmer, new associate partner at Carter Jonas, so close is his resemblance to Antony Cotton, the actor who plays Coronation Street’s barman Sean.
-
Professional
Local sourcing can bring material benefits to procurement
We recently announced the winners of a student competition to find Wales’s brightest design talent. The winning students - James Gould (University of South Wales) and Emily O’Reilly (Carmarthen School of Arts) - are now developing furniture and fabric designs for the new ID:SR Sheppard Robson-designed BBC Wales Broadcast Centre ...
-
Online
St Modwen and Vinci sell Nine Elms site to Wanda HK for £470m
St Modwen and Vinci have exchanged contracts for the sale of their 1,900-home site in Nine Elms to Wanda Commercial Properties (Hong Kong) for £470m.
-
Professional
Charities expert becomes a director at Mayfair Capital
Clare Berthoud has joined specialist property investment manager Mayfair Capital Investment Management as a director of business development.
-
Insight
Grenfell tragedy makes social housing top priority
The horrifying event last week at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington and resulting anger will force the industry and Government to face up to the challenge of funding for the delivery of affordable housing, as well as its quality and safety.
-
Professional
New global sustainability chief for AXA IM
AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets has promoted Nehla Krir to global head of sustainability, reporting to Nathalie Charles, regional head of asset management and transactions, southern Europe.
-
Insight
Store Wars: the Empire Fights Back
Physical stores generally have been given the ultimate vote of confidence from the unlikeliest of sources. Supposed high street tormentor-in-chief Amazon is to fully traverse the divide into store-based retailing through the $13.7bn purchase of Whole Foods.
-
News
Brookfield puts IDI Gazeley up for sale for £1.5bn
Brookfield Property Partners has put the European arm of its logistics firm IDI Gazeley up for sale for a price thought to be close to €1.7bn (£1.5bn).
-
Online
World’s Biggest Property Bike Ride Blog: final week
Lisa Commins, a senior surveyor at CBRE talks about taking on the World’s Biggest Property Bike Ride for the first time ever.