All articles by Graham Lanktree – Page 14
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London’s build-to-rent sector investment rises 85% in 2018
Investment in London’s build-to-rent (BTR) sector rose 85% last year pushing it up two places to become the fourth best performing in Europe, according to JLL’s new European Multifamily Report.
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Commercial property investment in Cambridge beats Oxford by 52%
Investment in commercial property in Cambridge has outpaced Oxford by more than half over the past three years.
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JLL appointed to sell Thomson Reuters Docklands data centre
JLL has been tapped by Thomson Reuters to sell its London Docklands Technical Centre.
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Knight Frank to carry out digital overhaul
Firm to launch series of initiatives including an ‘Internet of Things’ consultancy
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Fall in commercial property investment levels accelerates in Q2
Investment in UK commercial property slumped 27% between the first and second quarters of this year, according to JLL data.
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H1 investment falls 20% year on year amid Brexit uncertainty
Ongoing Brexit uncertainty sent UK property investment plummeting 20% in the first half of the year, new data from JLL has revealed.
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Housing secretary Brokenshire leaves post
Housing secretary James Brokenshire has announced his departure from his front bench post, just a day after the naming of Boris Johnson as the next Prime Minister.
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Smart building proptech firms attract $745m in Q2 2019
Smart building proptech firms attracted 20.6% more funding globally in Q2 2019 than they did the year before, according to research by smart building research specialist Memoori.
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E-commerce driving demand in distribution take-up in H1 2019, says report
Retailers continued to drive take-up in the first half of 2019 with e-commerce making up 31% of Grade A occupancy in the UK, according to JLL’s new Big Box Industrial Logistics Market report.
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Community engagement app maker Built-ID hires key staff
Community engagement app maker Built-ID has hired three new team members to grow its business and support its Give-My-View platform.
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London industrial voids leap as rent hikes drive occupiers out
Voids in multi-let industrial property have soared in inner London over the past two years as smaller occupiers have escaped the capital to avoid steep rent increases, according to new research from Gerald Eve.
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Government offers tech firms £1.25m to monitor house building
The UK government is offering technology firms more than £500k each from a £1.25m pot to help councils better monitor house building.
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Arcadia will fight legal challenge against CVA in US
Sir Philip Green’s troubled retailer Arcadia will defend itself against a legal challenge from its landlords in the US against its Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVA) agreed last month.
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London Mayor rejects Tulip plans
London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has rejected plans to build a new skyscraper in the City called The Tulip.
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Retailers see 50% dip in online sales in areas without physical store
Retailers in the UK have seen 50% lower online sales in areas where they do not maintain a physical store, according to new research by consumer intelligence specialists CACI.
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Matterport buys software firm Arraiy to integrate real and virtual worlds
The 3D capture and virtual reality specialist Matterport has announced plans to buy Arraiy, a firm that uses machine learning to seamlessly stitch together real and virtual worlds.
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Brexit accelerates SME shift to shorter-term leases
Brexit uncertainty is driving more of the UK’s small businesses to look for shorter office leases, according to new figures from the Citibase Business Confidence Index.
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LandAid reaches housing target for vulnerable youth a year early
Property industry charity LandAid has announced it has reached its goal of providing 450 homes for vulnerable youth a year early.
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Brexit uncertainty boosts real estate investor interest in France and Germany
France and Germany have gained from Brexit uncertainty after the UK slipped 4% as the preferred market for international real estate investors in the past year, a new survey shows.
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Developer caution slows UK growth of multi-storey warehouses
Developers’ reluctance to build taller is the main barrier standing in the way of multi-storey warehouses being built in London, data and analysis from Carter Jonas suggests.