All Property Week articles in 25 September 2015 – Page 5
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Blackstone leads pack in £500m autumn sales rush
Investors are preparing themselves for a flurry of portfolio sales worth almost £500m as the autumn rush continues to gather pace.
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DB Symmetry set to develop 46-acre site
DB Symmetry, the Delancey and Barwood joint venture logistics property development platform, has been appointed by Arla Foods to bring forward a 46-acre site near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
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Orchard buys 4 Coleman St
Institutional investor Orchard Street Investment Management has acquired a City of London office building in an off-market deal for around £60m, reflecting a yield of 3.8%.
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Brack seeks $326m to kick-start NY apartment redevelopment
Dutch real estate investment and development firm Brack Capital Real Estate is seeking $326m (£212m) for a long-stalled apartment block in Greenwich Village, New York.
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Mike Ashley warms up for £250m fitness store rollout
One of the UK’s most colourful business figures, Mike Ashley, is set to launch a property investment company with an initial £250m to spend rolling out Sports Direct’s new fitness superstore brand across the UK.
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EJF gives Urban Exposure a £2bn boost to its firepower
In a landmark deal announced this week, Urban Exposure and US hedge fund EJF Capital have formed a joint venture with the firepower to lend £2bn on residential developments in London and the South East.
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Rapleys makes first acquisition in 60-year history
Property and planning consultancy Rapleys has acquired chartered surveying firm Biscoe Craig Hall, the first acquisition in its 60-year history.
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Westrock gets planning for Crawley block
Real estate investment and development company Westrock has been granted the final stage of planning consent for the conversion of a 130,000 sq ft Crawley office building into flats.
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Residential Land primed to buy luxury flats in London
Bruce Ritchie’s Residential Land has exchanged contracts to purchase 122 luxury flats in a red-brick Victorian mansion block refurbishment in Hammersmith, west London.
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Scottish government plans ‘root and branch’ review of planning system
The review will focus on streamlining systems, while eradicating blockages in the decision-making process.
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Q&A: Lands Improvement gives Telereal big resi boost
Telereal Trillium last week acquired strategic land specialist Lands Improvement Group from BlackRock for £120m.
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NLA reveals top 100 ‘radical’ ideas to tackle housing crisis
As London’s housing crisis becomes more acute, the solutions are becoming increasingly creative - as New London Architecture (NLA) found when it launched a competition to find the top 100 potential solutions to the problem.
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How sheds are going greener
Energy efficiency regulations unveiled in February may have disastrous consequences for sheds that are given a low rating. How have owners have been reacting and what measures have they put in place?
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The rise of the multi-let estate
Once seen as the poor cousins to large single-user sheds, multi-let industrial estates are coming into their own and attracting new investors into the sector.
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The rise of shared consolidation sites
The dire shortage of shed space and the need to reduce traffic congestion means that logistics providers are increasingly adopting shared consolidation sites to serve a range of different clients.
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Five minutes with: Charlie Howard of Logicor
The UK managing director of Logicor on Marmite and apples, crashing cars and catching butterflies.
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Carriers pass the parcel test
The growth of ecommerce ought be an attractively wrapped gift for parcel carriers. However, the market has not been kind to everyone seeking to make a buck delivering internet purchases.
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Three is the magic number for Logistics Capital Partners
James Markby, Andrea Benvenuti and Kristof Verstraeten teamed up to create Logistics Capital Partners less than six months ago. The trio has already bid on nearly £440m of stock and secured an 850,000 sq ft site for Primark