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UBS scraps Grant Thornton sublease as it moves Credit Suisse staff out of Canary Wharf
UBS has cancelled its deal with Grant Thornton to sublease nearly 105,000 sq ft to the accountancy firm as the Swiss investment bank starts moving Credit Suisse staff from Canary Wharf to its City of London HQ.
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Law firm Proskauer chooses City tower 8 Bishopsgate for HQ
Stanhope and Mitsubishi Estate London have signed law firm Proskauer and engineering software company Bentley Systems for a total of 70,000 sq ft at 8 Bishopsgate, taking the office tower to 75% let or under offer.
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Orega takes additional flex space at City offices
Flexible workspace provider Orega is to open 37,000 sq ft of new workspace at 70 Gracechurch Street in the City of London.
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Barings secures consent to add two floors to City offices as part of refurb
Barings has secured planning permission to add an additional two floors on to its grade-A City of London offices at 25 Moorgate as part of a major refurbishment of the building.
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Stanhope and Perennial revive plans for City’s tallest ‘Trellis’ tower
Singapore-based developer Perennial Group and development manager Stanhope are planning to submit reworked plans to build the City of London’s tallest tower.
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China walks away from London super embassy plans
China has shelved plans to build a new ’super’ embassy in London at the old Royal Mint near Tower Bridge.
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Vietnamese investor snaps up £200m Lion Plaza in biggest City deal of the year
A private Vietnamese-based investor has completed the largest City of London office investment of the year on its UK debut, acquiring Lion Plaza on Old Broad Street for “in excess of £200m”.
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Dominus pays £27.5m for Square Mile ‘trophy’ office block
Dominus Real Estate has snapped up the RBS office building 5-10 Great Tower Street in the Square Mile from NatWest for £27.5m with an eye on converting it for alternative use.
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City planners approve Schroders and Stanhope’s £600m 55 Bishopsgate skyscraper
Schroders and Stanhope’s 55 Bishopsgate, a £600m skyscraper providing 1.1m sq ft office space, is set to join the London skyline after receiving approval from the City of London planning authority.
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HSBC to leave Canary Wharf for St Paul’s offices in the City
HSBC has decided to leave its long-term Canary Wharf headquarters at 8 Canada Square for a City of London office development nearly half the size, a memo sent to staff has revealed.
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Major US tech investor to open first international offices in London
Major US tech investor Andreessen Horowitz has unveiled plans for its first-ever international offices in London as it plans to establish a UK crypto outpost.
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Patrizia lodges plans for major City of London office development
Patrizia has submitted plans for a major sustainability and wellness-led office development at a historic Aldgate site in the city of London.
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WeWork reopens flagship City of London flexible office
WeWork’s flagship flexible office location in the City of London has reopened following a major revamp to “meet the evolving needs of the modern workforce”, Property Week can reveal.
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GPE completes £190m sale of 50 Finsbury Square
Great Portland Estates (GPE) has completed the sale of City office block 50 Finsbury Square to a subsidiary of German family office Wirtgen Invest Holding for £190m.
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China’s Tower Bridge ‘super embassy’ plans thrown out
China’s bid to build Europe’s largest embassy, on the site of the old Royal Mint near Tower Bridge, has been thrown out by Tower Hamlets council.
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Landsec and Lendlease exchange on £809m City office
Landsec has exchanged contract for the landmark sale of Deutsche Bank’s London HQ 21 Moorfields to an investment vehicle managed by Lendlease for £809m.
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LaSalle gets nod for One Exchange Square City office refurb
LaSalle Investment Management (LIM) and development manager M3 Consulting have secured resolution to grant planning permission to redevelop One Exchange Square in the City of London.
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Derwent lets top two floors of City office asset at prime rent
Derwent London has let the top two floors of its Featherstone Building in EC1 to media company Dept Agency at £90 a sq ft, Property Week can reveal.
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Lenders get serious about green debt
When Property Week launched The Climate Crisis Challenge in partnership with UKGBC just over a year ago, we on the finance desk lauded the initiative, but warned that there was no agreed basis for validating and comparing green real estate debt – and the potential for a lot of ...