All Property Week articles in 27 July 2012 – Page 8
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Insight
A gourmand’s guide to hunting for some Great British assets
The search by fund managers for attractive investment opportunities in a market full of doom and gloom and low economic growth is not an easy one. A reasonable analogy, perhaps, is truffle hunting. Some value is out there, but you have got to dig around to unearth it.
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Professional
Property’s junior apprentices: you’re hired
Applications are up, but more companies need to offer placements. Emma Haslett reports
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Insight
It’s all quiet on the western front as UK investors desert REITs
A US investor I spoke to this month likened UK REITs to a 1960s’ western.
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Markets
Thomson airs next episode of BBC property programme
Chief operating officer talks to Nick Johnstone about progress of broadcaster’s strategy
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News
Wrenbridge pilots Norwich airport park
India’s Air Livery prelet means development can begin at 850,000 sq ft scheme
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Markets
Greggs aims for upper crust of UK bakery market
Chain launches upmarket artisan concept in north of England. Rachel Hunter reports
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Insight
CBRE and Jones Lang LaSalle continue to motor ahead of rest
Top two firms transact more then £8bn in first half; London accounts for 58% of activity
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Professional
At last, property owners can speak out against telecoms troubles
It is “one of the least coherent pieces of legislation on the statute book”, said Lord Justice Lewison in a 2010 judgment. Few would disagree.
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Markets
Carey muses on life after Berkeley
Tony Carey does not, he insists, bear a grudge against his old boss, Tony Pidgley, despite a less-than-amicable departure from his job as a director at Berkeley two years ago after a dispute over strategy.
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News
Space shortage in West Mids after shedloads of lettings
Occupiers in talks on nearly 1m sq ft in region as lack of spec development drives occupiers into vacant units
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News
CBRE’s industrial action in Aberdeen
CBRE Global Investors has bought Wellheads Industrial Estate in Aberdeen from F&C Reit Asset Management, as investor appetite for the oil-rich economy continues.
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News
MedicX injects 31 primary care centres
MedicX Fund, the healthcare property investor, has bought 31 primary care medical centres for £91.9m through a corporate acquisition.
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Markets
Freightnet let leaves one unit left at X2
Segro has let a second unit to cargo handling company Freightnet at X2, leaving just one unit vacant at the double-decker shed by Heathrow airport.
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Insight
1960s Olympics site was squalid and smelly
Sir, My agency career, which commenced in the early 1960s, included many visits to 22 Marshgate Lane, Stratford — a site that today would be in or very close to the Olympics athletics stadium (Property Week International).
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News
Great Portland seeks 100 Bishopsgate exit
Brookfield negotiates to buy stake as REIT’s portfolio value rises 3.1% in three months
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Markets
Al Gore's firm breathes easy at Air W1
Property Week was granted a first look around Generation Investment Management’s new office on the top floor of the Crown Estate’s Air W1, after the company moved in last month.
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News
Blackstone rolls up $1.5bn of global sheds
Private equity firm buys in US, UK and France, where new chairman will lead push
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News
Real estate body paves way for CMBS 2.0
CRE Finance Council Europe this week launched a consultative document designed to stimulate the moribund European commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market.
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Online
NAMA reports €247m annual profit
Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) made a net profit of €247 million in 2011 after incurring an impairment charge of €1.27bn to cover bad loans.