All East of England articles – Page 12
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Markets
Hutchison Ports and ABP embark on investment push
Many ports have suffered from a lack of land for distribution uses, constrained as they are by sea on one side and the towns and cities that have grown around them on the other.
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Rockspring buys £47.5m Ipswich retail park
Rockspring Property Investment Managers has acquired Euro Retail Park in Ipswich from Helix Property Advisors for £47.5m at a yield of 7%.
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Insight
Why Cambridge is pulling ahead of Oxford
Oxford and Cambridge may be neck and neck on the academic front, but when it comes to economic growth, Cambridge is pulling ahead.
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AXA Real Estate buys Chelmsford care home for £17.6m
AXA Real Estate has bought the freehold of the 112-room Manor Lodge care home in Chelmsford from Aprirose REI for £17.6m.
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Cycle shop rides into first regional store
Cycle Republic has opened its first store outside of London at the Castle Mall Shopping Centre in Norwich.
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News
Staples to trim down UK store portfolio
US office supplies giant Staples is embarking on a UK-wide store downsizing programme in a move that will flood the retail park market with up to 278,400 sq ft of space.
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Persimmon to build new HQ for Anglia business
Housebuilder Persimmon is to construct a new head office for its east of England business in Broadland Business Park in Norwich.
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Dyson largest landowner in England
Billionaire vacuum inventor Sir James Dyson has bought a 3,000-acre estate in Lincolnshire from the Crown Estate.
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News
Apollo lands RBS portfolio in huge PRS deal
The Royal Bank of Scotland has sold a £210m residential portfolio to a US private equity firm in one of the UK’s largest ever PRS investment transactions.
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Government pilot scheme to commission its own homes 'shows innovation'
Forget the Autumn Statement, perhaps the most innovative government policy announcement in terms of housing supply came last week from the National Infrastructure Plan.
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Turnstone Estates plots £50m seaside leisure scheme
Developer Turnstone Estates has agreed the conditional purchase of a 5.7-acre site in Southend-on-Sea, where it plans to build a £50m leisure and residential development.
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Markets
Thorny question of housing in Cambridgeshire
Why two Cambridgeshire councils are taking different approaches to housebuilding.
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Markets
New Ipswich restaurant rises from the ashes of failed development
When the mixed-use Quayside Bar & Grill development in Ipswich’s Regatta Quay closed without warning last February, locals lamented its demise.
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Markets
Long-term vision for shopping centre in Chelmsford pays off for Aquila
After more than a decade, Tony Chambers sees his dreams come true.
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Online
Crest Nicholson wins £1bn Wyton Airfield appointment
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has appointed Crest Nicholson lead development manager at Wyton Airfield, Cambridgeshire, where a £1bn “garden village” will deliver 4,500 new homes, infrastructure and other facilities.
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News
Sterling 9.1% yield at 2.5m sq ft northern industrial estates lot
A portfolio of industrial estates totalling 2.5m sq ft has been brought to the market with a price tag of £84m.
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Online
Westrock adds Bedford to PRS pipeline
Westrock has acquired the Merton Centre in Bedford for a £36m residential conversion.
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News
Tesco Pension Fund in £44m bid for Lincoln retail complex
The pension fund of troubled supermarket Tesco is on the brink of becoming a shopping centre owner for the first time, after trumping Rockspring with a £44m bid to buy the Waterside in Lincoln.
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Major tenants for Fraser House in Ipswich
Unex Group has agreed two new office lettings at Fraser House, Ipswich, to Brewin Dolphin and Suffolk County Council (MyGov).
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Picton ploughs into Peterborough retail
Picton has bought two high street retail units in Peterborough for £9.1m, at a yield of 6.5%.