Richard Hook
Former web editor Richard writes online news on a freelance basis and supports on online strategy, production, technical and SEO issues for the Property Week website.
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- 020 8253 8741
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- richard.hook@propertyweek.com
OnlineThe Power of Proptech 2020: get your views heard
As much of the property sector’s workforce sits at home trying to virtually recreate their work environment, the importance of technology and proptech has been brought into sharp focus. It is against this backdrop that we have launched the 2020 edition of our Power of Proptech industry-wide survey.
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Elifar challenge 2019: The ultimate challenge
Retail property teams take on 20 quirky contests to raise funds for Elifar charity.
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Property Week Cup
Savills beats rival Colliers to claim the 2019 Property Week Cup, raising £10,000 for charity.
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The Power of Proptech 2019: get your views heard
Property Week and Freeths’ 2018 Power of Proptech survey revealed a growing understanding among real estate businesses of the benefits of investing in technology – with rapid change continuing across the sector over the past twelve months, we’re now pleased to launch the 2019 edition of our Power of Proptech ...
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B&M expands to take former Carpetright space at Barnsley East Retail Park
Ediston Properties has secured a replacement tenant for a unit formerly occupied by Carpetright at Barnsley East Retail Park in Yorkshire.
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DTZi buys multi-let Birmingham retail scheme
DTZ Investors has acquired the Caxtongate II retail scheme in Birmingham from LaSalle IM for £12.45m.
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Rushbond teams with Gold and Amber for Leeds goods yard resi conversion
Investor Rushbond has teamed up with residential developer Gold and Amber and unveiled plans to deliver a resi-led scheme featuring more than 1,000 new homes, commercial, leisure and amenity space on the former Marsh Lane Goods Yard in Leeds city centre.
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Mipim Tennis Classic 2019: Meet a true tennis ace
VIP coach Tim Henman speaks to Richard Hook about the fifth annual Mipim Tennis Classic, which is set to be bigger and better than ever before.
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Record PRS investment in 2018
Institutional investment into the UK’s private rented sector (PRS) reached a record total of £3.1bn in 2018, up 33% year-on-year.
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Invesco makes Portuguese debut
Invesco Real Estate has acquired a fully-occupied logistics park in north Lisbon, on behalf of one Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK) for its first logistics purchase in Portugal.
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Savills IM enters outlet centres with €300m double acquisition
Savills Investment Management has made its first acquisitions in the retail outlet centre market with a €300m (£262.3m) deal for two McArthurGlen designer outlet centres in France.
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Video: the forecast for outlet centres in 2019
KLM Retail founding partner Ian Kitchen talks to Property Week about the outlook for outlet centres in 2019.
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Designer boutique Cricket comes to Metquarter Liverpool
Super-luxury retail boutique Cricket has signed for a flagship store at the Metquarter Liverpool in its first relocation in close to three decades.
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Merrill Lynch real estate lead comes to Cromwell to head up European transactions
Investor Cromwell Property Group has appointed a director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s real estate team to the newly created role of senior transactions manager in Europe.
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Leyburn takes on new EMEA senior leadership role at Colliers
Peter Leyburn has been appointed to a new dedicated senior leadership role of head of cross-border tenant representation EMEA at Colliers International as the company targets expansion of advisory services for multi-region firms.
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BlackRock adds first two assets to Eurozone property fund
BlackRock Real Estate has completed on the acquisitions of a pair of German office and logistic sites to add the first two assets for its €415m (£361m) Eurozone Core Property Fund.
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Mercury raising for Savills IM's Italian retail fund
Savills IM has added €183m of assets to its sale-and-leaseback investment vehicle for Italian retailer Conad, the Mercury Fund.
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Powdrill plugs in to Delancey's residential team
Delancey has appointed Guy Powdrill as residential investment director with a focus on expanding the portfolio of its co-owned Get Living platform.
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Helical scores letting to FA and Chelsea's law firm at Barts Square
Specialist sports law firm Northridge has signed a five-year lease at Helical’s Barts Square estate on the outskirts of the City in London.
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M7 fully invested in French Active Fund
M7 Real Estate has agreed to acquire four multi-let office and light industrial assets for a combined €35.5m (£30.8m) across separate transactions to take its M7 French Active Fund to fully invested.
