All Property Week articles in 8 April 2016 – Page 5
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News
Land Securities sells off huge tranche of Ebbsfleet garden city site
Land Securities has sold two-thirds of the Eastern Quarry site at the Ebbsfleet garden city project to Henley Camland, a partnership between UK private equity firm Henley Investments and infrastructure specialist Camland, for an undisclosed sum.
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Markets
Scottish university plots change of course to edge-of-town site
After some debate, Hamilton is set to remain a university town after University of the West of Scotland (UWS) announced plans to relocate its facilities from the town centre to a new edge-of-town site.
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Caprice Holdings snaps up new Mayfair restaurant site
Caprice Holdings - which owns The Ivy and Sexy Fish - has bought a new site in Mayfair with a view to opening another upmarket restaurant in the area.
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Markets
Saturated fat: Glasgow’s burger glut threatens to exhaust the market
Has Glasgow reached ‘peak burger’? Stand on the corner of St Vincent and West Nile Streets and you would be forgiven for thinking so.
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Urban & Civic and Aviva land major HCA loan
Urban Civic and Aviva investors have received one of the largest loans from the Homes and Communities Agency’s (HCA’s) Large Sites Infrastructure Fund to accelerate the delivery of their RadioStation Rugby scheme.
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Auction investors decide ‘show must go on’ despite SDLT hike
Allsop residential raised £53m from a 253-lot catalogue at its March auction, as private investors decided that “the show must go on” despite the stamp duty and tax-relief changes affecting the buy-to-let (BTL) sector.
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Graham Penny deal will see Shepherd Direct become largest auction house outside London
Shepherd Direct Group has bought Nottingham-based Graham Penny Auctions in a deal that will see it become the largest auction house outside London.
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Odeon to anchor Durham’s Riverwalk
Durham shopping centre The Gates will be rebranded The Riverwalk and be anchored by a six-screen Odeon cinema following its £30m redevelopment.
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Insight
All UK high streets need is a little imagination
Fuelled by attention-grabbing headlines, the struggle of the UK high street against online competition cannot have escaped anyone’s notice.
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Insight
Panama Papers air more dirty laundering
Anyone hoping the grubby issue of ‘dirty money’ had gone away after David Cameron’s threatened crackdown last year was rudely disabused of that notion this week as the Panama Papers lifted the lid on the extent to which the world’s rich use tax havens to hide their wealth.
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Aussie lingerie & fashion jewellery aiming for London locations
Two Australian retailers have launched separate searches for debut London stores.
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Pacific shed venture lines up portfolio ahead of IPO
Pacific Industrial Logistics REIT, the new venture backed by property veteran Sir John Beckwith, is set to float next week on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market and will simultaneously acquire a £27.6m portfolio.
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The latest in agentspeak
The PRS, or ‘private rented sector’, has been hailed as the solution to the housing crisis, what with its promise of communal roof gardens, residents’ lounges and co-working space.
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BNP PRE wins advisory role with Network Rail
Network Rail has appointed BNP Paribas Real Estate to advise on its national corporate office portfolio as looks to improve the efficiency of its estate.
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Insight
Diversity Charter - Meet the signees A-C
It is now a year since Property Week launched its Diversity Charter and a phenomenal 53 companies and organisations have now committed to the 10 principles it enshrines. See part 1 of our list (A-C) here.
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Markets
Hydrocarbon slump takes toll on Aberdeen
Mothballed rigs, as tall as skyscrapers and crusted brown with rust, crowd the hazy skyline of the Cromarty Firth, their ghostly silhouettes the most visible sign of a decade-long oil-boom-turned-bust.
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Norway sets new real estate target for £600bn sovereign fund
Norwegian government proposals to increase the amount the country’s sovereign wealth fund can invest in real estate are being seen as a shot in the arm for global property.
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Information
Property Week Digital Edition - 8 April 2016
Panama Papers – Jeremy Newsum interview – Diversity Charter – Focuses on Scotland & storage
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News
Morgan Stanley & C2 Capital JV buys swathe of multi-let estates
A Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing and C2 Capital joint venture, industrials.co.uk, has acquired more than 1.1m sq ft of multi-let industrial estates in its first year.
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Professional
Place, tech and people: creating offices of the future
By the year 2020, 50% of the global workforce will be millennials - what challenges will the office real estate sector face in creating space for this new breed of employee?