All articles by Mike Phillips – Page 7
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Blogs
Battersea launch puts you inside new world order
Yesterday’s event marking the start of the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station was an incredible occasion, for lots of reasons.
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Insight
Institutions help property to go cold turkey
Like a junkie kept stable on methadone, global financial markets are being fed cheap government money after a decade hooked on the heroin of the credit boom.
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News
Pendragon hits road with Blackstone
Car seller in negotiations with Blackstone to restructure £189m debt. Mike Phillips reports
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News
Blackstone parks Soho landmark
Brewer Street car park sold in off-market deal for possible redevelopment.
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Markets
Giant new loan extension enables £1bn Docklands sale
A German bank has extended one of the biggest single property loans in UK history to enable the completion of a complex £1bn Docklands office sale.
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Insight
Agency 2013 remains a game of two firms
“Between CBRE and Jones Lang LaSalle you have no other players that can enter. There have been number threes attempted that can’t get in.”
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Insight
Regional rankling spills from property to politics
Inequality — the disparity between London and the regions in particular — is property’s grand narrative, and will also be key to the next election in 2015.
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Insight
London’s cash overflow will find outlet in regions
The London investment market is overrun by cash-rich domestic and international investors and 47 lenders that are seeking £100m-plus deals — but there is no suitable property available.
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Professional
Teens give Cameron piece of their mind
Prime minister will read about 13-year-olds’burning issues. Mike Phillips reports
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Insight
Chinese occupiers will follow Chinese owners
BBC Radio 4’s documentary, the Chinese Grand Tour, last month gave a fascinating insight into the mindset of the increasing number of tourists venturing outside China to the UK for the first time.
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Insight
Property Week London supplement 2013
London’s future in their hands: The masterminds of the capital shaping tomorrow
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Insight
Focus on Europe will hamper UK recovery
In a recent PropertyWeek.com poll, you were split down the middle - 56% for, 44% against - on whether Britain should stay in the European Union.
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News
General Healthcare spirals towards £700m debt black hole
Hospital operator attempts restructuring of boom-fuelled £2.1bn debt.
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News
US REITs flock to £1.2bn Barchester assets
A debt sale earlier this month has raised the prospect of a battle between a group of huge US REITs for the £1.2bn portfolio of one of the UK’s biggest carehome owners.
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Insight
Portas and policy makers' high street headache
“Portas is a legacy of Blair’s celebrity culture, but she’s not Sir Bob and the high street isn’t Africa. She’s a distraction not a solution,” — @tpfv23, aka Jones Lang LaSalle head of retail Tim Vallance.
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Insight
Vital Signs: The De Montfort report
De Montfort lending report shows signs of optimism for first time in seven years. Mike Phillips reports
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Insight
Vital Signs: The De Montfort report
De Montfort lending report shows signs of optimism for first time in seven years. Mike Phillips reports
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News
News International headlines at the Place
Rupert Murdoch’s publishing arm eyes move to London Bridge Quarter.
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Insight
Your solutions to London conundrum
It’s the conversation that won’t go away. No matter what the starting point, it always ends up in the same place.