All Property Week articles in 28 March 2014 – Page 3
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Mill Group appoints Aberdeen man
Mill Group has appointed Andrew Smith as executive director for its investment management team, charged with building a private-rented portfolio.
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Peabody to unlock 100-acre Thamesmead 'garden suburb'
Peabody Group is to unlock a new garden suburb through a 100-acre redevelopment of Thamesmead, south-east London.
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Schroders buys £34m Tata Steel hub
Schroder UK Property Fund has acquired Tata Steel’s UK distribution hub, The Steel Park from Threadneedle Property Investments Management for £34.1m, reflecting a net initial yield of 9%.
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GIC opens Brazil office
GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has opened a new office in Brazil to focus on Latin American investment opportunities.
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TH Real Estate launches
TIAA Henderson Real Estate has launched today, with a focus only on real estate.
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Silvertown Quays plans unveiled
The Silvertown Partnership has unveiled detailed plans for its transformation of Silvertown Quays, delivering more than 7m sq ft of new development.
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Mark Hix to open restaurant in Southwark
Hix Restaurants will be opening Hixter at Workspace’s Metal Box Factory on Great Guildford Street, Bankside.
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Mayor gives green light to Convoys Wharf
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has approved Hutchison Whampoa’s redevelopment of the 40-acre Convoys Wharf in Deptford.
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LondonMetric to develop 1m sq ft distribution hub
LondonMetric has exchanged contracts to develop a 1m sq ft retail distribution centre on the A14 in Islip, Northamptonshire, as tipped by Property Week.
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Spanish REIT announces IPO
A new Spanish REIT, Merlin Properties, led by former Brookfield Asset Management partner David Brush, has announced its intention to float on the Spanish Stock Exchange, as first tipped by Property Week.
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Lodha completes Canadian High Commission buy
Indian developer Lodha has completed its acquisition of the Canadian High Commission on Grosvenor Square.
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Arsenal FC tower plans given red-card
Arsenal Football Club has lost its battle to build a 25-storey student accommodation tower next to the Emirates Stadium.
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OFT oversight of estate agents passed to Welsh councils
A service that will regulate the work carried out by estate agents across the UK will be carried out by Powys County Council from 1 April, it has been announced.
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Middle Eastern toy retailer seeks UK stores
Middle Eastern retailer The Toy Store is looking to open its debut UK stores across London and the country’s top regional cities.
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Hammerson appoints multichannel head
Hammerson has appointed a new head of multichannel to drive its strategy combining online and physical stores.
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Chinese investor in £450m House of Fraser talks
A Chinese conglomerate, Sanpower Group, has launched a bid to buy department store retailer House of Fraser for more than £450m.
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Norges in €425m Parisian buy
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is in exclusive talks with BlackRock to buy a prime office and retail development in the centre of Paris for €425m, in a deal which will be its first investment without a partner by its side.
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Ukrainians overtake Russians as biggest CIS investors in London
Ukrainian nationals have overtaken Russian nationals as the biggest investors into the London property market from the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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KKR buys €104m French shopping centre portfolio
US private equity investor KKR, in a joint-venture with Seefar, has bought a portfolio of four shopping centres in France from Corio for €104m.
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Serviced Office Group takes new London site
Serviced Office Group has exchanged contracts to establish a new business centre at 3 Tenterden Street, in London.