All Property Week articles in 24 August 2018
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Insight
Measuring the impact of tech on property firms
Earlier this year, Property Week, in association with Freeths, surveyed members of the property industry to find out what impact technology is having and will continue to have on their business over the next few years.
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Online
British Land's Canada Water regen opposed by Canary Wharf Group and Historic England
Canary Wharf Group and Historic England have lodged formal objections to British Land’s proposals for its 53-acre Canada Water scheme.
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Online
Cable confirms Lib Dems proposals to replace ‘broken business rates’
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has called for a new “commercial landowner levy” to replace what he has described as the UK’s “broken business rates system”.
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Online
New healthcare MD and SIPUT fund manager in shake-up at Henley
Henley has made six new appointments as part of a restructuring of its investment management team including Andy Brandon becoming managing director of Henley Healthcare Investments (HHI).
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Online
CBRE appointed Royal Albert Dock property manager
CBRE has been appointed by Royal Albert Dock Liverpool freeholder Gower Street Estates to provide property management services across the whole of historic dock which spans more than 1.25m sq ft.
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Knight Frank expands Scottish healthcare valuation team
Knight Frank has added Iain McGhee to its healthcare valuation team in Scotland to meet growing demand in the sector.
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Unite CFO joins Helical in non-exec role
Developer Helical has appointed Unite chief financial officer Joe Lister as a non-executive director.
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Online
Panasonic to take European head office out of Bracknell in Brexit-related move
Electronics giant Panasonic has announced plans to move its European headquarters from Bracknell to Amsterdam in October in move triggered by Brexit-related tax issues.
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Online
Dyson hoovers up extra space at Hullavington for electric car test site
Dyson has confirmed plans to expand the company’s testing facility at Hullavington in Wiltshire as part of a £200m investment proposal focused on electric-vehicle testing.
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St Francis and iSec secure record South West industrial let
MSF Filton, a joint venture between St Francis Group and iSec, has secured the largest industrial letting in the South West this year on a 115,000 sq ft speculatively built unit at its Horizon38 scheme.
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News
ReSI appoints new chief finance officer
Residential Secure Income’s investment manager parent company TradeRisks has appointed Richard Stubbs as chief financial officer with responsibility for financial strategy and operations.
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Online
Countrywide shares fall on emergency funding approval
Countrywide’s share price dropped 2.99% on Wednesday to 12.7p after shareholders voted through the estate agent group’s emergency £140m funding plan.
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News
Moodys removes WeWork bond rating
Moodys has withdrawn its credit rating of WeWork’s bonds, issued in April, citing ‘insufficient or otherwise inadequate information to support maintenance of the ratings’.
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Online
New managing director for Clarion
Housing association Clarion Housing Group has appointed Sue Cocking as its new regional managing director for the Midlands and North West.
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Sidra Capital buys Holborn office for £97m
Sidra Capital UK has completed the acquisition of Weston House in London’s Midtown.
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News
New Japanese-Indian fusion restaurant to open on Greek Street
Japanese-Indian fusion restaurant Gamma Gamma has signed for a 1,722 sq ft space on London’s Greek Street in Soho for its debut restaurant.
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Online
Thinktank calls for freeze on land prices as solution to 'broken housing market'
The Institute for Public Policy Research has called on the government to give local authorities new powers to zone land for development and freeze land price designated for housing.
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News
Tristan Capital Partners to raise €1.5bn for new fund
Tristan Capital Partners, the European real estate focused private equity fund manager, is aiming to raise €1.5bn (£1.35bn) for a new fund.
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Invesco Real Estate forward-funds £400m EcoWorld London BTR developments
Invesco Real Estate has forward-funded EcoWorld London’s two BTR sites in the capital, which are valued at almost £400m, on behalf of a North American pension fund client.
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Aviva Investors appoints retail asset management director
Aviva Investors has announced the appointment of Sue Jarvis as director of retail asset management in its direct real estate business. For the last eight years, she was group property director at New Look.