All Property Week articles in 4 December 2015 – Page 3
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Rebranded bakery targets expansion
The Cornish Bakery has appointed agents at GCW to seek 20 new stores over the next two years.
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Knight Frank makes four new equity partners
Knight Frank has promoted four UK staff members to proprietary partner.
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Logicor grows European platform with Italy and Belgium buys
Logicor, Blackstone’s European logistics arm and the largest owner of logistics facilities in Europe, has acquired 19 assets in Italy and Belgium.
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London’s largest contractors decline one in two bids
London’s largest building contractors are turning down one in every two bidding opportunities amid signs that average construction cost inflation across the capital’s office and residential building bonanza has jumped to 10%.
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Family ties revealed in Ashley property investment fund
Mike Ashley has put his daughter’s boyfriend in charge of the £250m investment fund and the roll-out of Sports Direct’s new fitness superstore brand revealed by Property Week in September.
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Madison acquires St Stephen’s stake
Madison International Realty has acquired a 35.4% stake in St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, Dublin, from Irish Life Assurance for €61m (£43.8m).
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Helical buys new home of Top Gear team
Helical Bar has bought the home of the former Top Gear presenters’ new programme in Chiswick, west London.
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Cairn and Lone Star buy Dublin resi portfolio for €503m
Irish housebuilder Cairn Homes and US equity giant Lone Star have paid €503m (£334m) for Project Clear, a residential property loan portfolio.
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Plans for City’s tallest building revealed
Plans for the tallest building in the City of London have been unveiled by Eric Parry Architects.
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Derwent sells Wedge House for £33.5m
Derwent London has sold Wedge House, 40 Blackfriars Road, to Ennismore for £33.5m.
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The week ahead
While it’s not a big week for property company announcement’s this week, there’s plenty to keep an eye out for.
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Berkeley shares rocket as dividend is hiked
Berkeley Group shares rocketed on Friday 7.5% after the London homebuilder promised to return more cash to shareholders.
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Value Retail agrees £425m Bicester refinancing
A club of five banks have provided a £425m loan to Value Retail for the refinancing of Bicester Village in Oxfordshire.
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Agents to face double dipping test
Five of the largest property agents are launching a new training programme to combat the practice of ‘double dipping,’ including a test for investment agents.
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Bolton to head up out of town retail at CBRE
CBRE, the global real estate advisor, has appointed Will Bolton to head its out of town retail agency business in the UK.
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The balance of economic power is reversing
I’m at Mipim Asia in Paris’s Asian investor presentation. The cross-channel competition for Asian capital is roughing up as the Paris panel carves up ‘les rosbifs’.
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Javid unveils plans for ‘Midlands engine’
Business secretary Sajid Javid has outlined government plans to boost trade and investment in the Midlands.
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Carlyle Group confirms St James’s Market as new HQ
Asset manager The Carlyle Group has confirmed that it will take 60,000 sq ft at St James’s Market for its new London headquarters.
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Criterion gets go-ahead for £300m Slough scheme
Criterion Capital’s plans for a major mixed-use development centred around Slough’s Queensmere Shopping Centre have been given the go-ahead.
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Recent burst of euphoria from housebuilders doesn’t last long as shares tumble
Fickle things, shares. Just when the housebuilders were suggesting, in the words of two past prime ministers, that they had never had it so good and things could only get better, their shares took a tumble.