Deals done
GPE secures 39,970 sq ft pre-let at 1 Newman Street
Great Portland Estates has pre-let three floors at 1 Newman Street and 70/88 Oxford Street in London’s West End to Exane BNP Paribas.
Barchester Healthcare buys site of former pub for care home
Harworth sells £1.25m of land portfolio
Veritas takes two floors at 1 Smart’s Place
Hines sells Bishop’s Square to GLL Real Estate Partners
Orchard Street sells £12.9m NHS logistics unit
Delancey buys Cardiff office for £13m
Schroders lets former department store to Queen Mary University
Hardington Capital acquires £15m buildings from Investec Bank
ICG-Longbow provides £25m loan to Proximity Data Centres
Coronavirus pandemic poses legal issues for deals and leases
Get Living gets living
Chief executive Rick de Blaby talks to Property Week about its upcoming projects, the importance of ‘neighbourhood living’ and the impact of Covid-19 and changing residential demographics on its business.
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Alexander Graham Bell’s words of wisdom “when one door closes, another opens” are well known, but less famous is that he went on to add “but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us”.