All Property Week articles in 25 April 2014 – Page 5
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Professional
Power to the people: property crowdfunding site in the works
CrowdPower wants to engage residents to fund local developments. Sarah Townsend reports.
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Insight
Will property courses start crumbling?
The shockwaves over the planned closure of a top university’s surveying & planning school will be felt by the industry for years, says Rhiannon Bury
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Professional
RICS data points to rising costs
Last month Property Week reported development costs could rise by up to 10% as labour shortages and construction materials prices squeeze margins (Analysis, 21.03.14).
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Professional
Despite technological progress, many property issues remain constant
Although I am very much continuing my legal career, having stepped down as head of real estate at Irwin Mitchell, the time has come for me to pen my last Property Week column - after 20 years of filing more than 150 of them.
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Professional
Garden city project has yet to spring into growth
Garden cities designed to combat urban sprawl are behind schedule. Sarah Townsend reports.
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News
City set to invoke CPO over Generali development
The City Corporation is poised to use a compulsory purchase order (CPO) to kickstart Generali’s 400,000 sq ft site at 120 Fenchurch Street.
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Professional
Expanding cities need to smarten up
Cities are struggling to sustain growth without endangering people, environments and economic diversity, a new study has found.
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News
Hallowed ground up for grabs as church sells Mayfair estate
The Church of England’s 64% stake in central London’s historic Pollen Estate is on the market.
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Professional
People Moves: CBRE, Savills, Forsters, Matthews & Goodman and more...
NHS Property Services has appointed Robin Williams as its new chair. He has extensive experience in chairing boards of private companies as well as NHS organisations. He also chairs NHS Professionals, another limited company wholly-owned by the Department of Health.
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Markets
Canning Town opens up for regeneration
Benefitting from the Olympics buzz and Docklands, Canning Town is on the up. Rhiannon Bury reports.
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News
Prologis to keep buying as logistics market heats up
Prologis saw leasing activity in Europe dip in the first quarter of the year, despite the steadily increasing optimism in the logistics market.
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Insight
The growing build-to-rent market is a canny investment choice
This is relatively unchartered territory - unlike some countries, we do not have an established market for newly built homes specifically for private rent. But already we’ve identified institutional investors, both inside the UK and abroad, with aspirations to plough more than £10bn into the build-to-rent market, including pension funds ...
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News
Legal firm to sublet in Orion/Quadrant building
Law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is to take 40,000 sq ft in Orion Capital Partners and Quadrant Estates’ Carmelite Riverside at 50 Victoria Embankment.
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Insight
RBS right to make clean break from West Register
Royal Bank of Scotland’s decision to close down its West Register property division will not mean that its £2.7bn of assets are sold off any quicker - but it does mean that the next time a downturn arrives, RBS won’t be using it to try and mitigate property loan losses.
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News
Mann steps up to Verdion board
Verdion, the logistics property investor and developer backed by the giant Canadian pension fund Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, has appointed a new non-executive director to its board.
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News
Mike and Nick - separated at birth?
With his blue eyes, fair hair and rosy cheeks, Nick Taylor, Savills’ director of UK out-of-town lease consultancy, looks rather like Tory education secretary Michael Gove - excepting, of course, the classic politicians’ speechmaking grimace.
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Markets
Canmoor’s spec shed and other big-box deals
The Greater Manchester area has seen the number of big boxes available fall dramatically, as demand continues to far outweigh supply, and two further deals have been announced last week.
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Insight
It is wise to study past property cycles before jumping on for the ride
Everyone involved in UK commercial property is aware that the market is cyclical. One can argue that cycle is more important than applying the science of stock selection.
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News
Troubled Co-op Bank offloads Brum Temple
Birmingham’s Priory Court and Temple Court sold to L&G property fund.
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News
Property man defies Turkey Twitter ban
Turkey has lifted a nationwide ban on Twitter after a court decided it was (surprise, surprise) a breach of freedom of expression.The decision, however, came too late for delegates at the International Council of Shopping Centres’ European conference in Istanbul.But the intrepid Nigel Gillingham, a partner at Bruce Gillingham Pollard, ...