All Property Week articles in 6 October 2017
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PATRIZIA acquires global ‘fund of funds’ business SPI
PATRIZIA Immobilien AG has acquired Copenhagen-based Sparinvest Property Investors (SPI), a global real estate fund of funds investment manager with €1bn AUM.
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L&G forward-funds £53m Birmingham BTR development
Spitfire Bespoke Homes has secured £53m in forward funding from Legal General to develop a new Birmingham build to rent site at Newhall Square.
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AIB takes full pre-let of 10 Molesworth St
IPUT has pre-let the entire of 10 Molesworth Street to Irish financial services group Allied Irish Banks on a 20-year lease.
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Whitbread funds Shoreditch hotel in £52m deal
Whitbread has completed a £52m forward funding deal for its new hub by Premier Inn hotel in Shoreditch, East London.
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Dunelm boosted by strong sales figures
Shares in Dunelm surged on Wednesday after the homeware retailer reported unexpectedly strong sales growth.
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LXI raises £60.2m to fund new deals
Long-income specialist LXI REIT has successfully raised gross proceeds of £60.2m in a share placing to fund new acquisitions.
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New lettings totalling 135k sq ft at Fort Kinnaird
The Gibraltar Limited Partnership, advised by British Land, has signed thirteen new lettings and four re-gears totalling more than 135,000 sq ft at the Fort Kinnaird retail park in Edinburgh.
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Hotel investment volumes up
Hotel investment volumes could increase by more than 25% this year, according to two new reports by Savills and JLL.
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L&Q director quits for Telford Homes
Jerome Geoghegan, executive director of development at the L Q Group, has quit his role at the housing association to join Telford Homes.
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Avignon and McCafferty launch property management service
Avignon Capital has teamed up with McCafferty Asset Management to launch Platinum Property Management.
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Deutsche AM raises €568m for pan-European fund
Deutsche Asset Management has announced the first close of its new open-ended pan-European, core real estate fund, achieving first commitments of €568m (£509m) from 12 institutional investors from across Europe and the United States.
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West End on track for record year of take-up
Office take-up in London’s West End market in the month of September totalled 857,259 sq ft – bringing take-up in the third quarter to 1.62m sq ft, the highest quarterly total on record, according to Savills.
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HK investor completes £152m Grosvenor Street buy
Grosvenor Europe has completed the sale of 10 Grosvenor Street in London’s West End to a Hong Kong investor for £152m.
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Network Rail releases sites for development
Network Rail has released several sites for commercial and residential development in five locations across Greater London and the South East in the first of a series of multi-site launches.
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Countryside reveals sharp increase in completions
Countryside Properties has revealed a 28% leap in home completions for the year to 30 September in a trading update ahead of its full year results.
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Housebuilders rise on back of Redburn research
Persimmon was the FTSE 100’s biggest riser on Tuesday, following a report from research group Reburn predicted the housebuilding boom can continue into the next decade.
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Telford to increase BTR development
Telford Homes is in discussions on a number of new build to rent (BTR) opportunities, as it further expands its exposure to the sector, the group has revealed in its latest trading update.
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Peel Hunt poaches Lazarus pair
Peel Hunt has made two senior hires to its real estate division.
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Argos takes Reading logistics unit
Rockspring Property Investment Managers and development partner Peel Logistics Property have let a logistics unit in Reading to Argos.
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De Montfort: New lending falls and margins drift out
New lending in the UK commercial property market slumped by 18% year-on-year in the first half of 2017 and interest rate margins drifted out, according to the latest market survey from De Montfort University.