All articles by Kat Baker – Page 12
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British Land and USS poised to buy Drake Circus for £230m
British Land and Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) are poised to buy the Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth for more than £230m.
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Grosvenor cuts agents to five
Savills, CB Richard Ellis, Knight Frank, DTZ and Gerald Eve win
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20-30-40-50: Egan Property Asset Management director Geoff Egan
Every week, we meet a property person from a different age group. This week, Kat Baker talks to 55-year-old Geoff Egan, a former bin man turned managing director of Egan Property Asset Management
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Broadway Malyan appointed to transform NIA Birmingham
Architect Broadway Malyan has been appointed to transform the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham into a state-of-the-art venue.
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Desigual and NAO Do Brasil sign at Bluewater
Desigual is to open a 2,856 sq ft flagship at Bluewater, alongside Brazilian footwear brand NAO Do Brasil.
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Landed estates’ freehold flipping fury
A legal loophole that could result in the gradual break-up of landed estates will become the subject of a Supreme Court battle
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Attention at St John’s Wood Barracks
The St John’s Wood Barracks, in north-west London, are to be put up for sale in the new year and could command as much as £200m
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DE&J Levy poaches Cluttons partner to set up new resi and mixed use division
DE J Levy is set to launch a new residential and mixed use development division after having poached a Cluttons’ partner.
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Irwin Mitchell expands in 40 Holborn Viaduct
Law firm Irwin Mitchell has agreed to lease the ground floor office space at 40 Holborn Viaduct, in central London, a building in which it already occupies space.
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Show of Norse
In one of the most significant property deals of the decade, the Crown Estate yesterday announced it will join forces with the manager of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global in a £1.8bn Regent Street partnership
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Central casting
Walking around King’s Cross’s goods yards in its Victorian heyday, one would encounter herds of cattle, vast piles of coal and potatoes, and even, for a short time, cadavers. Even though the clanking freight trains are now long gone, the site’s stakeholders are hoping its future will be as diverse ...
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Piccadilly Estate deal collapses
The sale of the 1.3 acre Piccadilly Estate in London’s West End has collapsed and will be remarketed from today.
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Lights of London
London’s great and good assembled at City Hall last Wednesday night for a debate on the “Future of London”.
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£1bn West End deal-fest
The West End investment and development market caught fire this week with hundreds of millions of pounds of deals going under offer or being agreed
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BNP Paribas Real Estate poaches Allsop west end agents
BNP Paribas Real Estate has poached two West End investment agents from agent Allsop in a bid to expand the firm’s West End influence.
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Meyer Bergman teams up for £100m Mayfair buy
European real estate investment and fund management firm Meyer Bergman is thought to have teamed up with Thor Equities to buy the £100m Burlington Arcade in Mayfair.
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Central St Giles leads West End lettings leap
The West End office market has enjoyed a surge in lettings, as deals are agreed at some of London’s most prominent properties, lead by the newly completed Central St Giles
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Royal & Sun Alliance shines on Manchester
Royal Sun Alliance is poised to sign for 61,000 sq ft of offices in Manchester, in one of the biggest lettings in the city this year. The FTSE 100 insurance firm has placed the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth floors at the 200,000 sq ft 3 Piccadilly Place ...
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Mayfair steps in at Hyde Park scheme
Property fund manager Mayfair Capital Investment Management and private equity firm Partner Capital One have teamed up to finance a £60m residential development in London’s West End
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Payback time for Europe's powerhouses
The mood among listed property companies at the annual EPRA conference in Amsterdam last month was upbeat. Kat Baker and Claer Barrett report