All articles by Mike Phillips – Page 3
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Insight
Word on the boulevard: 10 messages from MIPIM
MIPIM is really property’s New Year. It marks the point when the deals hanging over from the previous year are more or less signed off, and the themes for the rest of the year come into clearer focus.
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MIPIM 2014: Bernstein and Anderson call for economy to be rebalanced
The Mayor of Liverpool and the chief executive of Manchester City Council today said that the UK economy needs to be rebalanced if it is to return to sustained growth.
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MIPIM's Silver Jubilee
Property Week caught up with delegates who have attended the annual real estate show over the years. Mike Phillips reports.
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News
First UK residential REIT to float
London estate agency Ludlowthompson plans £100m AIM float to invest in property to rent in and around capital
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News
Rabo puts €1bn mixed Frankfurt giant on block
Palais Quartier on sale with significant amount of office space to let
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Top agents list reveals talent but lacks diversity
Let the debates commence. The results of our search for Britain’s best agents are in, and by now you’ll be either nodding in agreement or howling with anger (p27).
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We need town centre pilots - not endless reports
The British Retail Consortium and EY’s radical report into the business rates regime caused a small stir this week (news, p11; Graham Ruddick, p31), but we are still awaiting the government-backed study into the retail sector that was commissioned last year.
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GVA’s German suitor fits Bould’s mould
GVA, as revealed by Property Week on Tuesday evening, is in advanced talks to sell the company to listed German construction, real estate, engineering and infrastructure firm Bilfinger.
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News
Australian investment bank to provide funds for Royal Docks regeneration
Australian investment bank Macquarie Capital has agreed to fund the initial stages of the £2.5bn Silvertown Quays development in London’s Royal Docks.
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GVA in advanced talks with German firm
GVA is in talks to sell the business to a listed German firm, Property Week can reveal.
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GVA in advanced talks with German firm
GVA is in talks to sell the business to a listed German firm, Property Week can reveal.
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News
Canadians land in London but find ‘a different planet’
Alberta Investment Management Co sets up London office but cautions on playing politics with investors
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Insight
About time property had its own happiness index
When David Cameron launched the Conservative Party’s “happiness index” in 2010, it was roundly derided as either cynical or an attempt to measure and control people’s emotions - or both.
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Carpe diem before property falls out of favour
The news that Kennedy Wilson wants to raise as much as £750m from stock market investors to invest in European distressed assets is another sign that the wider investment world is taking notice of property.
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News
Isobel sale signed off with a profit
Blackstone and RBS recoup face value on most of portfolio’s biggest loans. Mike Phillips reports
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L&G leads way in getting Britain’s housing in order
The announcement that Legal & General would be willing to put £5bn or more into developing entire new towns rightly garnered a lot of attention this week
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End of an entrepreneurial era
Back in 2009, people were lauding Gerald Ronson’s courage and ability to time the cycle.
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News
LondonMetric duo exit to form investment firm
REIT’s former directors, Stewart Little and Jeremy Bishop, will seek to mirror London & Stamford strategy
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Insight
Expect politics and Chinese pinnacles in 2014
The new year is already off to a flying start — more than £2bn of UK deals were announced this week.
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2014 is looking rosy after a bumper year of deals
UK transaction volumes are set to hit £45bn in 2013, show data from Real Capital Analytics, and could be even higher if big deals such as Blackstone’s sale of 50% of Broadgate or Chiswick Park get across the line before the clock chimes 12 on 31 December.