All articles by Richard Hook – Page 4
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Schroders completes £31m portfolio purchase from NorthStar
Schroders’ Regional Office Property Unit Trust (ROPUT) has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of three UK assets from NorthStar Realty Europe.
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Avant acquires £36m plot at Chesterfield Waterside
Housebuilder Avant Homes has acquired a significant parcel of land at Chesterfield’s £340m Waterside development and plans to develop 177 new homes.
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Gramercy grows Dutch logistics assets with €40m double deal
Alistair Calvert’s Gramercy Europe has completed two acquisitions of Dutch logistics properties for a combined €40m (£35.44m).
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New partner and investor lead for Orchard Street
Investment manager Orchard Street has expanded its senior team with the promotion of Tom Chadwick to partner and creation of a new position of head of investor relations.
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BlackRock buys Morrisons in Borehamwood for £46.5m
BlackRock has acquired a Morrisons supermarket in Borehamwood for £46.5m in an off-market deal from a private investor for its UK Long Lease Property Fund.
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Big Yellow records rise in like-for-like revenues
Big Yellow Group, the self-storage group, has reported a 6.4% rise in like-for-like revenues in its third quarter trading update.
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BA Pension Trust touches down in Vauxhall with Keybridge House acquisition
British Airways Pension Trust has teamed up with Jacob Loftus’ General Projects to acquire a 999-year leasehold interest in the commercial element of Keybridge House in Vauxhall.
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BMO REP backs Brion to support pan-European open-ended strategy
Canada’s BMO Real Estate Partners has promoted Adrien Brion to director and head of operations for its Paris office to lead on European growth.
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Marks & Spencer earmarks next store closure locations
Struggling high street retail giant Marks Spencer has confirmed the location of the next tranche of stores it plans to close as part of restructuring plans.
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Chris Stewart development director Chris Vaughan passes away
Scottish developer Chris Stewart Group has confirmed the loss of colleague Chris Vaughan, who passed away on 5 January aged 53 having suffered from cancer.
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Swiss Life secures €650m at close of Foncière Vesta JV
Ampere Gestion and Swiss Life Asset Managers Real Estate France have raised €650m (£578.7m) for the closing of its Foncière Vesta joint venture.
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CapitaLand makes massive Asian expansion with $4bn Ascendas acquisition
CapitaLand has announced plans to acquire Singaporean real estate group Ascendas-Singbridge in a $4bn (£3.11bn) deal that it claims will create “Asia’s largest property group”.
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Swiss-Asia's Campkin joins Colliers to create corporate capital solutions team
Colliers International has recruited industry veteran Robert Campkin to launch a new EMEA corporate capital solutions (CCS) team.
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Double appointment as Apex Airspace eyes growth
Specialist developer Apex Airspace has made two new senior appointments as it targets expansion in ”a significant year in the growth of airspace development”.
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McAleer and Rushe secures Deloitte as anchor tenant for Belfast's Bedford Square
Deloitte has agreed to make McAleer and Rushe’s new Bedford Square development in Belfast its new Northern Irish headquarters having signed for 100,000 sq ft to consolidate its offices in the principality.
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Merseyside Pension Fund backs historic Liverpool hotel redevelopment
The Merseyside Pension Fund has agreed a £20m senior loan to support Marcus Worthington Group’s regeneration of the Grade-II listed North Western Halls from student accommodation into a 202-bed hotel.
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Air Canada extends Heathrow stay for another decade
SEGRO has secured a 10-year extended lease with Air Canada on its 87,400 sq ft freight handling facility at Heathrow Cargo Centre.
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Scottish pizza start-up takes slice of Bullring for English debut
Scottish pizza brand @pizza has secured a letting at Hammerson’s Bullring Estate to make its debut in England.
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Questions for Quiz after retailer issues second profit warning
High street fashion retailer Quiz has issued a second profit warning in three months amid “challenging trading conditions”.
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UBS AM raises £1bn for European infrastructure debt fund
UBS Asset Management’s Real Estate Private Markets (REPM) business has surpassed its fundraising target and hit its hard cap of €1bn (£900m) raised for its second European infrastructure debt fund, Archmore Infrastructure Debt Platform II.