All articles by Nick Johnstone – Page 11
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Recovery Special Podcast: Alistair Darling on dark days at Downing Street and Lehman Brothers' “unbelievable” collapse
Former chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling talked to Property Week about the 2007-08 banking crisis, his conversations with US treasury secretary Hank Paulson, and what it was like to be woken up with an “unbelievable” call about the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
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Recovery Special Podcast: Alistair Darling on dark days at Downing Street and Lehman Brothers' “unbelievable” collapse
Former chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling talked to Property Week about the 2007-08 banking crisis, his conversations with US treasury secretary Hank Paulson, and what it was like to be woken up with an “unbelievable” call about the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
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Westfield’s home start
Westfield is preparing to sell half of its stake in the vast residential element of its White City extension in west London to enable it to start development of more than 1,500 homes.
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Westfield’s home start
Westfield is preparing to sell half of its stake in the vast residential element of its White City extension in west London to enable it to start development of more than 1,500 homes.
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Resi REIT trailblazer goes to ground
Brooks Macdonald fund buys ground rent portfolios. Nick Johnstone reports
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M&G nears £312m Land Securities buy
M G is to become the latest UK fund manager to buy a major slice of London office property, after placing under offer Land Securities’ Bankside 2 3.
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Roof-top running track for Google, as planners decide on 1m sq ft London campus
Camden council planners have delivered their verdict on Google’s giant new London headquarters at King’s Cross, which features a roof-top running track and swimming pool, as fresh images of the scheme are unveiled.
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Cushman EMEA capital markets chief departs for Brookfield
Brookfield Financial has today confirmed that Michael Rhydderch, head of EMEA capital markets at Cushman & Wakefield, is to join the firm as a partner.
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Mansion tax would hit 775,000 homes
A detailed assessment of the proposed Mansion Tax by Knight Frank suggests that the government’s revenue targets would not be met at the current proposal for a £2m threshold, and that homeowners in London and the south-east would be “overwhelmingly” affected.
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Quintain close to selling £40m portfolio in “reverse takeover”
Listed property company Quintain is close to selling a fund that holds a high-yielding portfolio of regional property to an AIM-listed investor that is set up to buy secondary assets.
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West End asset sold for £99.9m
Residential developer Alchemi Group has exchanged contracts to buy Great Minster House North for £99.9m.
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Independent retailers hit hard as store closures accelerate
Almost as many independent retailers closed in the first six months of 2013 as opened in the whole of 2012, as the number of UK shops “at risk” accelerates.
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West End asset sold for £99.9m
Residential developer Alchemi Group has exchanged contracts to buy Great Minster House North for £99.9m.
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Markets
Regional private-rented sector takes off
New research from Strutt & Parker shows UK-wide increase in PRS housing. Nick Johnstone reports
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Barclays' Manc
Barclays poised to choose Carlyle scheme over Ask’s First Street as occupational recovery spreads
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Barclays' Manc
Barclays poised to choose Carlyle scheme over Ask’s First Street as occupational recovery spreads
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Berkeley embarks on £500m voyage of discovery
Housebuilder outbids Mount Anvil at Marco Polo House site that neighbours Chelsea Bridge Wharf
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Manchester’s First Street captures 25,000 sq ft tenant
Construction services company Jacob Engineering has taken a 10-year lease on 23,526 sq ft of space at Ask Property Developments’ Number One First Street in Manchester, as tipped by Property Week.
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James Andrew hires BNP director to open City office
James Andrew International is to open its first City of London offering, after poaching a City of leasing director from BNP Paribas Real Estate, Property Week can reveal.
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Industrial company enters administration
Industrial asset manager Warner Estate Holdings is to be placed into administration after Aviva Investors withdrew its support for the company’s management of Aviva’s £460m Ashtenne Industrial Fund and appointed a new asset manager.