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Knight Frank appoints Beeson-Wright to bolster resi development team
Property consultancy Knight Frank has appointed Faith Beeson-Wright as partner to bolster its residential development team.
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Vita reveals plans for second Birmingham scheme
Developer MRP and Vita Group have submitted plans for a second Vita Student residence in Birmingham with 540 bedrooms.
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CBRE director Sanchez Diaz jumps ship to P-THREE
Raquel Sanchez Diaz, director of shopping centre leasing at CBRE, has joined P-THREE in a new director role, Property Week can reveal.
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Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen & Bar opens at Liverpool ONE
Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen & Bar has launched its first location outside London at shopping destination Liverpool ONE.
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JD Gyms joins Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre
The owners of Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre in Kent have completed the refurbishment of the scheme’s East Mall entrance and signed a deal with JD Gyms.
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MCR Property Group secures £100m debt facility with ICG Real Estate
MCR Property Group has secured a £100m debt facility from ICG Real Estate to fund the purchase, refurbishment and expansion of six multi-let commercial developments.
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Otium Real Estate buys Wigan leisure park
Otium Real Estate has bought the Robin Leisure Park in Wigan on behalf of its Otium Leisure Ventures II Fund.
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DLA Piper take 40,000 sq ft at Two Chamberlain Square
DLA Piper has taken 40,000 sq ft of office space on a 15-year lease at Two Chamberlain Square in Birmingham’s £700m Paradise development.
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ION takes new offices at 10 Queen Street Place
ION Trading has acquired new office space at Riverscape, 10 Queen Street Place, London.
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Future High Streets Fund set to expand to 50 more areas
Boris Johnson has announced that the £1 billion Future High Streets Fund will expand to 50 more areas, as part of the government’s plan to reshape town centres and high streets.
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RDI eyes German exit as part of new strategic plan
RDI REIT has pledged to take “decisive action” to reduce leverage, reduce its retail exposure and be more focused in its capital allocation after seeing its EPRA NAV per share fall 4.4% to 204.4p in the six months to the end of February.
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Landmark ruling on lease renewals could shift landlord-tenant balance of power
Imminent ruling could challenge landlords’ right to refuse to renew tenants’ leases when planning major redevelopments.
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Councils may push for reform to empty property relief after policy
Since 2008, when empty property relief was first introduced, the use of short-term lease arrangements as a form of business rates mitigation has become commonplace. This typically involves tenants taking short-term leases on properties, often on very favourable terms, allowing the landlord or property agent to reduce their business rates ...
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Canary Wharf case could spell danger for UK landlords
Legal experts have said that a case brought by Canary Wharf Group against the European Medicines Agency (EMA) over whether or not Brexit has ‘frustrated’ the latter’s 25-year lease could have significant ramifications for landlords across the country.
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High Court challenge to the Government’s Right to Rent check rules
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (“JCWI”) has been granted permission to pursue a judicial review that will challenge the legality of the government’s Right to Rent rules.
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Appeal decision is crucial in the fight against property fraud
Much has been written about the Dreamvar case – Dreamvar (UK) v Mishcon de Reya and others – because it concerns who bears liability in a fraudulent property transaction.
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Consent to assign – taking the good with the bad
The legal profession was surprised in 2016 to learn that in the case of No.1 West India Quay (Residential) Ltd v East Tower Apartments Ltd the court ruled that one bad reason for refusing consent to assign a lease effectively trumped two other, good reasons.
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Negligence claims against the NHS pose a property conundrum
We have heard lots about the perilous state of the NHS recently, including the fact that it is being crippled by rising clinical negligence claims, which cost it nearly £1.7bn last year.
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PLA praises proposed revisions to counteract 'staircase tax'
The government has amended its draft bill on business rates in multi-occupied properties ahead of its second hearing in the House of Commons.
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Case news: recovery of leaseholder service charges for re-cladding costs
Douglas Rhodes, partner at Trowers Hamlins, considers the first-tier tribunal’s first ruling on the recovery of service charges for the cost of re-cladding works following the Grenfell Tower fire.