All articles by Nick Johnstone – Page 4
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SWIP to be sold to Aberdeen for more than £500m
Aberdeen Asset Management is to buy Scottish Widows Investment Partnership from Lloyds Banking Group in a £500m deal.
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HCA deal paves way for 17,000 homes
The Homes Communities Agency has completed a funding deal with councils in Lancashire to bring forward 17,000 homes.
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Lambert Smith Hampton appointed by Wirral Borough Council
The northern public sector team at Lambert Smith Hampton has been chosen to act as property advisor to Wirral Borough Council.
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Oz briefs on Manchester hunt
Acquisitive Australian law firm seeks 100,000 sq ft of offices as it grows UK market share
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Q+A: Docklands’ Alan Selby joins CBRE fold
CBRE now has a residential office in London’s Docklands — its first official presence in Canary Wharf, following its acquisition of family firm Alan Selby & Partners last week. Its eponymous founder talks to Property Week about last week’s sale.
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Receivers hire agents to sell €250m Dublin scheme
Savills and Jones Lang LaSalle are to sell the Central Park development site in Dublin on the joint instructions of William O’Riordan and Declan McDonald joint receivers of Devano Developments.
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Agents instructed to market £120m Thames-side Ofcom HQ
IVG ImmobilienFonds, the fund management arm of German property company IVG, is putting up for sale South Bank landmark Riverside House, the headquarters of communications watchdog Ofcom.
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Derwent London nears £100m of new deals
Derwent London has bought 19 Charterhouse Street in Clerkenwell for £39.25m, and has another £60m property under offer.
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Allied unveils TMT space at Spinningfields
Allied London has applied for planning permission to build a 10-storey office building in Spinningfields, Manchester, that it hopes will appeal to the creative and technology sectors.
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Essential’s Nick Cuff switches roles
Nick Cuff, former development manager at Essential Living, has joined London developer Pocket as public land director.
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Chinese to buy Chiswick Park
China Investment Corporation is to buy Chiswick Park from Blackstone for around £800m.
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L&G buys Canterbury student scheme at 5.14%
Legal General Property has agreed to forward fund the development of an 193-bed student accommodation scheme prelet to Canterbury Christ Church University for a total of £15.7m, reflecting a net initial yield of 5.14%.
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Wainbridge lands 75,000 sq ft west London letting
Wainbridge has secured a first letting of 75,000 sq ft to engineering and construction firm Bechtel Corporation for the 160,000 sq ft office building FC200 in Park Royal, west London.
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Londonmetric buys Travis Perkins distribution warehouse
LondonMetric Property has bought a Travis Perkins Distribution Centre in Brackmills, Northampton for £9m, reflecting a net initial yield of 8.8%.
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Tritax to launch £200m logistics REIT
Tritax is planning to raise up to £200m to invest in a portfolio of “big box” UK logistics properties by establishing an industrial REIT listed on specialist fund market of the London Stock Exchange and the Official List of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange.
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Chinese to buy Chiswick Park
China Investment Corporation is to buy Chiswick Park from Blackstone for around £800m.
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Livingstones land Portman
London & Regional Properties has obtained a controlling interest in the Portman Hotel off Baker Street in London’s West End, after buying around £90m of debt on it.
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Podcast: Green's Gunne grilled as Ireland "kicks off," plus Fleet Street Fox
Green REIT is to focus on Dublin’s improving tech-focused office market, according to its co-founder Pat Gunne, who spoke on Property Week’s monthly podcast after closing €178m of deals in the past fortnight as Green “kicked off the new market”.