All Property Week articles in 3 November 2017 – Page 5
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Online
Swan replaces L&Q in £1bn Purfleet project
Swan Housing Association is to become Urban Catalyst’s new joint venture partner for the £1bn revamp of Purfleet town centre, after previous partner L Q pulled out.
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Online
New City HQ for Vita Mojo
High-tech healthy eating restaurant Vita Mojo has signed for a new headquarters in the City of London.
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Online
TH Real Estate raises additional €422m for European Cities Fund
TH Real Estate has raised an additional €422m (£371.7m) for its European Cities Fund from five international investors.
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Online
Orchard Street buys west London industrial park at 3.9% yield
Orchard Street Investment Management has acquired a prime west London industrial estate from The Church Commissioners for £19.34m.
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Online
Altus Group acquires CVS
Advisory firm Altus Group has acquired business rates consultancy CVS for £36.3m.
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Insight
Five-year house price growth likely to halve
House prices over the next five years are forecast to rise at half the rate of the past five years, according to Savills’ Residential Property Forecasts.
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Markets
Interview: the billion-pound ambitions of a Kent-based property investor
Shahan Lall is an ambitious man. The Kent-based property investor wants to turn his company, Lall Property Group, into a billion-pound business over the next 10 years.
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News
Coima Res snags Italian offices after bank deal
Coima Res has bought an office complex in Via Monte Rosa 93, Milan, Italy, from Teur for €57m (£50m).
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News
Allsop’s resi result down on equivalent auction in 2016
Allsop raised £55.7m at its sixth residential auction of the year, selling 174 of the 249 lots in the catalogue - reflecting a 70% success rate.
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Pound rallies as markets await BoE meeting
Sterling rallied to $1.33 against the dollar on Wednesday, ahead of the Bank of England’s interest rate announcement on Thursday.
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Markets
Crawley/Gatwick industrial space at a premium as demand soars
The Crawley/Gatwick logistics and industrial market is experiencing a severe disconnect between supply and demand, which restricted take-up in the first half of 2017.
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Insight
A bold chancellor would impose top-end council tax hikes to tackle stamp duty
“Between a rock and a hard place” was how the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) described chancellor Philip Hammond’s predicament as he contemplates his next budget later this month.
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Markets
Redevco aims to add to theatre of Brighton with Hanningtons revamp
Hanningtons, or the ‘Harrods of Brighton’ as it became known, was something of an institution.
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Professional
Blockchain has not yet come of age but we must stay abreast of its rise
Most people have heard or read about blockchain and how it is set to revolutionise the real estate sector.
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Professional
Lendlease determined to improve after reporting 19% gender pay gap
Earlier this month, Lendlease became the first construction and property company to publish its figures under the government’s gender pay gap reporting scheme.
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Information
Thriving tech sends Milton Keynes to top of UK growth table
Milton Keynes has overtaken Cambridge as the UK’s fastest-growing town or city economy, according to Irwin Mitchell and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr).
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News
Murray calls for more cash for London homes
James Murray, London’s deputy mayor for housing, wants the government to “step up” and increase its investment in affordable housing to meet the capital’s housing need of 66,000 homes a year.
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News
Modular-led resi regen scheme in Birmingham gets nod
Urban Splash and Places for People have been given the green light for the first phase of a major residential regeneration scheme with a development value of up to £300m at Icknield Port Loop in Birmingham.
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Professional
Developers are paying too much for permitted development sites
All developers face the issue of how different councils interpret the national permitted development (PD) policy.
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News
Quidnet offers block for £25.7m-plus
Quidnet Capital has brought the Astral Towers building in Crawley to the market with a price tag of more than £25.7m.