All Property Week articles in 30 June 2017 – Page 5
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Ezylet to fundraise £1.5m with Invesdor
Proptech start-up Ezylet has announced it is partnering with Nordic equity crowdfunding firm Investor in order to fundraise £1.5m.
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Pastor expands with Cook appointment
Pastor Real Estate has announced plans to expand into Kensington and Chelsea by hiring new sales negotiator Philip Cook.
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Jacobs takes lease up 62,099 sq ft at Bothwell Street
Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate has agreed a new lease with Jacobs at 95 Bothwell Street in Glasgow, to take the global engineering firm up to 62,088 sq ft let in the eight storey building.
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Colliers International appoints Cubitt as head of Birmingham office
Colliers International has announced the appointment of James Cubitt as new head of its Birmingham office.
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Shopping centre transactions significantly slowdown in H1 2017
The UK shopping centre market witnessed just 15 transactions in the first half of 2017 totalling £1.168bn, down 24.2.% on the same period in 2016.
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Amazon's Duggleby moves to Savills
Savills has appointed former Amazon UK’s head of real estate Sally Duggleby to head up the development of its industrial and logistics occupier services offer.
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Flexible workspace up 18% in a year
The global flexible office market has grown by over 18% in the last 12 months, new research has found.
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Hansteen completes bond sale and conversions
Hansteen Holdings has concluded the sale or conversion of the outstanding €100m (£87.7m) Hansteen (Jersey) Securities 4% guaranteed convertible bonds.
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Purplebricks shares jump
Shares in Purplebricks were up 3.9% on Thursday after the online estate agent reported revenues up 151% to £46.7m.
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Voice of property must be heard in these uncertain times
The voice of commercial property is silent. Newspapers overflow with reports of the negative effects of property development and overseas investment on our society - who is spelling out the real facts? Who is fighting for fair taxes and regulations of our sector?
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Factor flexibility into thinking, says Strutts
Traditional real estate investment models need to be shaken up in light of shortening commercial lease lengths, according to Strutt Parker research.
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WeWork in talks to open its first centre in Hammersmith
WeWork is in negotiations to open its first workspace in Hammersmith, west London, as it continues to branch out from central London.
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Gap between London and regional office costs shrinks
The gap between office occupancy costs in London and the UK’s regional cities has narrowed slightly from last year’s record highs, according to Lambert Smith Hampton’s Total Office Cost Survey (TOCS).
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Incoming ULI UK chair Choa to bang the drum for cities
AECOM’s director of cities and urban development, Chris Choa, has been named the new chairman of the UK branch of the influential Urban Land Institute (ULI), Property Week can reveal.
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Bridges backs new assisted living business
Bridges Fund Management is financing a new assisted living business called Birchgrove through its fourth fund, which has just closed on more than £220m.
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Growth of the mega agents doesn’t tell the full story
This year’s agency survey reveals a sector of striking contrasts. Put crudely, there are the biggest beasts in the jungle and then there is the rest of the food chain.
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Student accommodation providers must up their game
Investor interest in student accommodation has yet to show signs of a slowdown, with investment volumes for Q1 2017 up £0.7bn on the same period last year, according to the recent Quarterly Student Housing Index from JLL.
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Hill to deliver 450 homes in Cambridge for Marshall Group
Housebuilder Hill has entered into a joint venture with Marshall Group Properties to build the first 450 homes at Wing, a development in Cambridge that will deliver 1,300 new homes.
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Year’s best result for Barnard Marcus as sale raises £30.5m
Barnard Marcus’s fifth auction of 2017 achieved the best result of the year so far - despite the lowest success rate to date.
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Agency 2017: Stellar CBRE and JLL results distort overall picture
On the face of it, the agency world has had another robust year. Total revenue among the 40 biggest agents has risen by 16.2% since 2016, from £3.68bn to £4.28bn, compared with 13% between 2015 and 2016, according to Property Week ’s Agency 2017 survey .