All Property Week articles in 26 October 2018 – Page 5
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Insight
We must consider environmental impact of new buildings
The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” These are the profound words of adventurer and environmentalist Robert Swan who became the first person in history to walk both the North and South Poles.
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Will Saudi investment be banned? Should it be?
The most startling image in the news this week has to be that of Jamal Khashoggi’s son Salah shaking the hand of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday three weeks after his father’s brutal murder. What must he have been thinking as he met the man allegedly ...
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How will sale of LEO affect serviced office valuations?
Sale price of £475m is well below £700m sought two years ago, raising questions about values in the sector.
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Insight
Retail landlords should invest in ease of access
With residential property, it is often said that location accounts for all three of the most important measures. Could retail landlords, currently under severe pressure, especially on the high street, learn from this mantra too – not least to counter the rise of online shopping?
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Property professionals have duty to come clean about dirty money suspicions
Dirty money has no place in the UK. Criminals who seek to use this country as a place to launder their ill-gotten gains should know that they have nowhere to hide.
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CDL buys London’s former Stock Exchange for £385m
Singaporean investor City Developments Limited has paid Blackstone £385m for 125 Old Broad Street in the City of London, Property Week can reveal.
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Information
Property Week Digital Edition – 26 October 2018
Brexit’s regional impact – Intu enters PRS – Neil Young interview – Thames Valley and Welsh markets in focus
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Markets
Yr Egin provides Carmarthen with a creative and digital hub
This week, Carmarthen is celebrating the opening of its latest new development in style.
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Markets
Blot on Porthcawl's landscape could soon be replaced with new scheme
A semi-derelict seafront site looks set to get a new lease of life thanks to Bridgend council
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Markets
Creatives drive take-up as Cardiff attracts a new wave of occupiers
Following BBC Wales’ relocation, media firms are flocking to Cardiff.
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News
Acuitus sale scores 78% success rate but takings fall £17m year on year
Acuitus raised £47m at its fifth auction of the year, selling 87 of the 112 lots on offer and reflecting a 78% success rate.
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Build-to-rent could help bail out retail
Western cities were largely created to accommodate cars and with this came the huge boom in retail parks and shopping malls across Britain and the US. Shopping and cars are both changing, though.
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Retirement Living 2018: coming of age
Once hailed as the new student accommodation, retirement living has not reached the tipping point yet. Could this be the year it finally comes of age?
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Retirement living: a sector in flux
The wider specialist housing market for older people is currently in a state of transition and structural change, and it’s probably no exaggeration to say that in five year’s time, the market might look unrecognisable to the sector we have today.
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Schroder Real Estate Investment lets City Tower units to Lidl
Schroder Real Estate Investment has agreed terms with Lidl for a 10,985 store in Manchester’s City Tower.
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Insight
What's next for the resi land market?
Developers and agents debate topics ranging from PDR to modular construction.
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News
Aviva says now is not the time to invest in BTR
Fund manager argues that currently sector ‘doesn’t meet an investor need’.
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Insight
Kensington and Chelsea ups ante on affordable housing
Borough to require financial proof from developers claiming they cannot deliver 35% affordable homes.
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Markets
Thames Valley markets: future prospects for Luton stadium, intu Watford, Link 9, Westcott Venture Park
Capital Regional opposes the club’s plans because of the retail element, but the club says they are the only way forward.
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News
Ivanhoé Cambridge plans to launch co-working operation
Investment giant seeks to offer flexibility within its office buildings and may partner with a specialist.