All articles by Gwyn Roberts – Page 2
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News
Sony to take 100,000 sq ft at Kensington landmark
Record label agrees deal for third and fourth floors at recently sold Derry & Toms building
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Online
Marks & Spencer's above-store flats
Retailer appoints planning specialist to review London and south-east portfolio
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Markets
European institutions fall out of love with residential
Experts predict falling returns and a correction in prices, says PwC and Urban Land Institute report
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Markets
Base matters
Residential towers are failing to address their relationship with the surrounding streets.
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Markets
George Wimpey in talks for £11m Millennium Dome site
Housebuilder negotiates with Quintain and Lend Lease for 300-home site on Greenwich Peninsula
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Markets
Trouble in clubland
Might the market be turning on property investment clubs and their debt-laden investors? Gwyn Roberts joined a club meeting in Farnborough to investigate
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Markets
Circle-Anglia begins review of 33,000-property portfolio
Registered social landlord appoints Savills to assess stock and identify disposals
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Markets
Report dashes ODPM’s hopes for sustainable city centres
New policy research says urban districts will never be family friendly
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Markets
Prophet of boom
The chief executive of private residential developer Gladedale precipitated the takeover frenzy in the sector and predicted the rise of shared equity. What else does he know?
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MarketsSitting pretty
David Pretty is chief executive of Britain’s best-known housebuilder. Now he is moving closer to the commercial property world. Gwyn Roberts met him on site.
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Markets
Tilfen sets ball rolling on Thamesmead redevelopment
Developer appoints CBRE and David Lock Associates to weigh up options
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Markets
Berkeley in £32m Notting Hill housing association sale
Notting Hill Housing Group buys affordable residential scheme in west London
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Markets
British Land and Delancey enter home reversion market
Joint venture to invest £70m in equity release venture Retirement Plus
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MarketsRegeneration TV
A Yorkshire town is undergoing a transformation – and Channel 4 is there to document it. But will the cameras spell good or bad news for the project?
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InsightAfter the flood
New Orleans is struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Gwyn Roberts reports from the Big Easy. Photographs by Stephen Bradley and Gwyn Roberts
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MarketsThe pub landlord
Through his firm Oracle, Epsom-based David Burke has moved from pub operator to property developer in just five years.
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Markets
To have and to hold
Housebuilders have rejected accusations that they hoard land, arguing that tough market conditions will demonstrate the importance of a well-managed land bank.
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Markets
£60,000 design competition: first winners announced
Government chooses Barratt, Wimpey and SIXTYK Consortium to build more than 500 homes
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Markets
Barratt Homes to buy key Manchester residential site
Final plot at south Manchester’s Withington Hospital to be developed as 400 homes
