Jamie Bennett-Ness
Jamie is deputy news editor at Property Week.
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NewsHUB and Bridges agree £108m deal to forward fund 500-home Leeds scheme
Developer HUB and impact investor Bridges Fund Management have signed a £108m forward-funding deal with Realstar to deliver 488 build-to-rent (BTR) homes in Leeds, renewing a partnership between the firms.
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Serviced office provider Hubflow sets sight on 100 new London locations
A flexible workspace start-up from Belfast is launching a rapid expansion of its office network with a five-year plan to open 100 new locations in London.
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Levelling-up funding flawed but agenda is here to stay
Experts say government needs a more ‘strategic approach’ to how the fund can make the biggest difference.
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Hong Kong developer pays Landsec £349.5m for Deloitte City HQ
Landsec has sold City office building One New Street Square to Hong Kong property developer Chinachem Group for £349.5m.
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TFT Consultants achieves B Corp status
Real estate and construction adviser TFT Consultants has gained B Corporation status, a designation recognising high standards of social and environmental performance.
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MPs slam levelling-up agenda in dispute over funding round
Cross-party committee calls bidding process ‘confusing’ and questions whether policy can deliver change.
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Bericote and Tritax Big Box sell Dartford business units to Logicor
Tritax Big Box and Bericote Properties have reportedly pre-sold 20 units at the former Littlebrook Power station in Dartford to Logicor for £25m, Property Week can reveal.
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Vodafone agrees sale and partial leaseback of UK HQ amid downsizing
Vodafone Group has sold its 490,000 sq ft Newbury campus and long-term UK headquarters, The Connection, in a deal that will see the downsizing telecoms firm lease back just over half of the site’s office space.
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Knight Frank and Berkadia form global capital markets platform
Knight Frank and Berkadia, a US-based commercial real estate group and joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group, have joined forces to establish a new global capital markets platform.
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Plans for giant mixed-use Oxford scheme lodged ahead of developer hunt
Nuffield College and Oxford City Council have submitted plans for a massive mixed-use neighbourhood on the brownfield city centre Oxpens site, with the joint venture also hunting for a developer.
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Oxford-Cambridge Arc life science sector makes hot start after record 2022
Life sciences real estate investment in the Oxford-Cambridge arc region has got off to a hot start in 2023, after hitting a record £1.65bn in 2022, according to Savills.
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Government hands out £2bn in levelling up funds amid claims of unfairness
The government has released more than £2bn in long-awaited levelling up funding to over 100 projects across the UK.
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WeWork to cut 300 jobs globally
WeWork has announced it is slashing around 300 jobs from its global staff base amid a cost-cutting drive.
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Socius and Railpen to develop major £500m Cambridge office scheme
Mixed-use developer Socius and Railpen, the investment manager for the £35bn railways pension scheme, have teamed up to develop a 500,000 sq ft office scheme in Cambridge.
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Liverpool kicks off regeneration of Anfield
Liverpool City Council has appointed a team to market and sell the plot of land next to Liverpool Football Club’s famous Anfield Stadium.
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Get Living faces test case over £27m fire safety upgrade bill
Triathlon Homes launches legal bid to make landlord foot remediation bill at London Olympic Village flats.
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Lendlease JV submits new plans for £3.5bn Silvertown megascheme
Lendlease has put forward fresh plans for its £3.5bn redevelopment to create a new neighbourhood at Silvertown in east London.
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Land Registry set for mass civil servant strike action in February
Mass strike action within the civil service next month could impact the housing market as workers from the Land Registry and Registers of Scotland are set to join thousands of government colleagues in walking out.
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Gigafactory firm Britishvolt enters administration
UK battery manufacturing giant Britishvolt, the UK firm behind plans for a £3.8bn gigafactory in Northumberland, has collapsed into administration.
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Hammerson unveils plans for major office overhaul of Birmingham John Lewis
Hammerson has submitted plans to turn the former John Lewis store in Birmingham’s Grand Central shopping centre into a major office development.
