All articles by Samuel Horti – Page 9
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News
Platform_ picks Sheffield for first new-build development
Private rented sector developer Platform_ is set to deliver its first new-build scheme after buying a Sheffield city centre site for a 300-unit, £75m project, Property Week can reveal.
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Insight
Hill defies tough year with bumper results
Last year was a tough one for housebuilders. The Brexit vote sent the share prices of the big listed companies tumbling, and many held off on land acquisitions because of the market uncertainty, particularly in central London.
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News
Silvertown to house Europe’s biggest ‘esports’ hub
The Silvertown Partnership plans to build a 300,000 sq ft hub for competitive video gaming as part of the first phase of its £3.5bn regeneration project at the Royal Docks.
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Insight
Regeneration of Meridian Water starts to take shape
The regeneration of Meridian Water in Enfield, north London, has been a long time coming. It has been seven years since Enfield Council first started assessing the site and four years since it drew up its masterplan for the area, which sets out proposals for 10,000 homes, making Meridian Water ...
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Insight
The man with a 20-year plan: Craig McWilliam interview
Grosvenor Britain Ireland’s chief executive Craig McWilliam is looking to inject some hustle and bustle into genteel Mayfair and Belgravia. In his first interview since taking the role, he explains how.
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Online
C&W targets £30m investments for Basingstoke Council
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has appointed Cushman Wakefield to advise on a possible £30m of property investments.
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Online
Knight Frank bolsters student property team with Goode hire
Knight Frank has appointed Jonathan Goode to its student accommodation valuations team.
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News
Chinese developer gears up for major London push
Chinese property giant Country Garden has set its sights on building tens of thousands of homes in London as it looks to take advantage of the “golden opportunity” political uncertainty provides for overseas capital, Property Week can reveal.
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Insight
Are green shoots appearing in prime London resi market?
London’s beleaguered prime residential market appears to be showing the first tentative signs of recovery.
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News
Lure of large projects behind Ealing chief’s Be First switch
Ealing council’s housing chief, Pat Hayes, is leaving the local authority to become managing director of Be First, Barking and Dagenham’s arm’s-length regeneration company.
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Markets
StreetDots brings street-food boom to Buchanan Galleries
In July 2016, Land Securities appointed digital trading platform StreetDots to manage the food and beverage offering at its Buchanan Galleries shopping centre in Glasgow.
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Markets
Has Aberdeen’s beleaguered office market turned a corner?
In the Granite City, oil is everything. The trend lines for office take-up and oil prices are virtually indistinguishable.
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News
Invesco and PLATFORM_ set up build-to-rent partnership
Invesco Real Estate and PLATFORM_ have formed a joint venture partnership targeting build-to-rent (BTR) properties across the UK.
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Insight
Peabody details its vision for Thamesmead transformation
Peabody’s Thamesmead Waterfront site is currently a vast expanse of unkempt grass, dirt tracks and dense trees set on a bend in the River Thames in south-east London.
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Peabody to develop 1m sq ft of commercial space at £4bn Thamesmead Waterfront
Housing association Peabody is working up plans to develop 1m sq ft of commercial property as part of an 11,500-home regeneration scheme in south-east London and will launch a search for development and investment partners later this year.
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Insight
Will others follow Chinese developer R&F to Nine Elms?
The slump in the prime residential market in London has left some doubting the strength of the Nine Elms regeneration project.
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News
Developer backs out of major Aberdeen regeneration deal
The developer behind plans for a major regeneration project in Aberdeen that would have seen more than 450 student beds and a 193-bed hotel come to the city has pulled out of the scheme, it has emerged.
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News
Hill and Peabody join forces in east London
Housebuilder Hill and housing association Peabody have launched a joint venture to kickstart £350m worth of development in east London.
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News
West Campus scheme in Aberdeen up for sale
M G has appointed Knight Frank to sell a 211,000 sq ft mixed-use office and industrial HQ development in Aberdeen, quoting an asking price of £38.75m.
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Insight
L&G racks up deals to expand BTR portfolio
Legal General’s £47.5m purchase last week of a site in Bath for the development of 171 homes for rent is just the start of a major acquisition push from the insurer this year, build-to-rent (BTR) fund manager Dan Batterton reveals.