All Property Week articles in 4 December 2015 – Page 4
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Insight
A better-quality rental offer is vital for London
Every six days another floor is built on the tallest tower so far consented in the Elephant Castle regeneration zone.
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Insight
What a rollercoaster week it’s been for retail
The past week has been terrible for high-street retailers, yet the best ever for online retailers.
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Let’s focus on achieving real and lasting change
This year roughly 83,000 of our young people will experience homelessness. Nearly 4,000 of them will sleep rough for at least one night. And this is in the fifth-wealthiest country in the world.
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Online
Metlife and TH Real Estate fund Gaw Capital £274m office deal
MetLife and TH Real Estate are to provide a commercial mortgage loan of £274.1m to a consortium of investors, led by Gaw Capital Partners, to finance the acquisition of a landmark office building complex in London’s West End.
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Online
Pre-tax profit dips at Berkeley as it increases investor return
Housebuilder Berkeley Group has reported a fall in interim pre-tax profits to £293.3m from £304.9m, after completing fewer ground rent sales.
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Online
ECB stimulus fails to impress markets
The FTSE 100 plunged 2.3% on Thursday after stimulus measures from the European Central Bank failed to impress.
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News
Potential office shortfall in Manchester
Development of office space in Manchester will need to be sustained at current levels if the city is to avoid a shortfall over the next decade.
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News
Holmes and Henry in Pole position for Shackleton trek
After months of training - which included dragging a tyre around the grounds of Celtic Manor in south Wales during Property Week’s RESI Conference - property duo Tim Holmes and David Henry have set off for their epic expedition to the South Pole.
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Power given to local leaders by Osborne should not be seen as a green light for a mass sell-off
Last week’s Autumn Statement didn’t just see the chancellor throw down the gauntlet to the nation’s housebuilders (27.11.15), he issued a challenge too to Britain’s local authorities - to get more out of their assets.
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Markets
Peloton Properties switches focus towards the institutional market
When it launched in 2010, North West-based asset manager Peloton Properties set out its stall as a hands-on asset management service for the increasing number of London-based institutional investors looking north for better returns on office and industrial investments.
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News
LendInvest kicks off development lending
LendInvest has recruited Steve Larkin, a real estate veteran from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), to spearhead a push into development finance.
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News
Confidence high but concern grows over tax and planning
Confidence among senior industry executives in the outlook for UK property is high but concern is growing about tax and the lack of reform to the planning system, this year’s Smith Williamson annual property survey has found.
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News
HSBC client set to snap up Standard Life’s HQ
A private overseas client of HSBC has placed the 190,000 sq ft Edinburgh headquarters of Standard Life under offer for around £90m.
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Markets
Rising city-centre rents are Quay to Salford’s surge in office lettings
Office lettings in Salford Quays have sky-rocketed in 2015, sitting 238% up on the 2014 total at the end of quarter three.
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Markets
Manchester enjoys surge of Chinese interest
The Manchester property market continues to go from strength to strength.
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Markets
Insurance giants get flexible in the Cheesegrater
The Leadenhall Building has won a string of plaudits since it opened earlier this year and its characteristic form has rapidly become a familiar feature of the City office skyline. But what is the building like for the occupiers who have moved in?
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News
McNamara set to tackle rugby cup challenge Down Under
The Rugby World Cup ended in misery for the Home Nations (and total embarrassment for the English), but Arca Property Risk Management’s Gary McNamara is hoping to make amends at the Tag Rugby World Cup.
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Professional
People Moves: CBRE: JLL, Iceni Projects, Hanover Green etc
All the latest moves and appointments from across the property sector.
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News
CBRE sells off Dutch portfolio
CBRE Global Investors’ Dutch Retail Fund has sold a portfolio of 33 assets totalling 251,000 sq ft and worth around €60m (£42m) to French real estate investor Sofidy and Royal Properties Group.
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Insight
Interview: Rishi Passi of Oblix Capital
At 35, Rishi Passi has already bought, sold and developed residential property on three continents. Now his UK alternative development finance firm Oblix Capital has growth ambitions of a different sort in the UK.