All This week in... articles – Page 7
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NewsThis week in… 2019
Tikehau Capital and Rob Tincknell’s Areli Real Estate completed the purchase of Nicholsons Shopping Centre in Maidenhead, Berkshire, for a price understood to be around £25m.
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NewsThis week in… 2012
Capco was given the green light to develop more than 800 new homes in Earl’s Court, west London.
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NewsThis week in… 2000
The dot-com bubble fuelled a raft of requirements for space in the West End.
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NewsThis week in… 2015
Hammerson reported a 106% leap in pre-tax profits for the year to December 2014 at £703m, up from £341m in 2013, driven by a 11.3% rise in net asset value.
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NewsThis week in… 2012
Pfizer confirmed that it was in early- stage discussions with a consortium led by London & Metropolitan for the sale of its former home Discovery Park in Sandwich, Kent.
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NewsThis week in… 2000
Then shadow chancellor Francis Maude backed Property Week’s campaign against further rises in stamp duty.
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NewsThis week in… 2020
Ocubis secured a resolution to grant planning permission for a 600-bed hotel in London, after it abandoned plans for a residential led, mixed-use scheme on the site.
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NewsThis week in… 2013
Landsec, formerly Land Securities, completed the £111.9m purchase of a 42% portion of the X-Leisure Unit Trust, and acquired 100% of its management company, X-Leisure Limited.
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NewsThis week in… 2011
Then SEGRO chairman Nigel Rich was one of 20 businessmen who wrote to the Financial Times in support of PM David Cameron’s veto of a new European treaty.
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NewsThis week in… 2019
Shares in UK property stocks surged on the morning after the Conservatives secured a large majority in the general election.
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NewsThis week in… 2008
HSBC took control of its eponymous Canary Wharf tower when its owner, Metrovacesa, struggled to meet its debt obligations.
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NewsThis week in… 2016
The British Property Federation (BPF) strongly criticised Love Coffee’s company voluntary arrangement (CVA) proposal.
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NewsThis week in… 2013
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld struck a deal with The Crown Estate to open its debut UK store at 145-147 Regent Street, London, in a unit formerly occupied by Hackett.
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NewsThis week in… 2007
Bahraini investment fund Arcapita made an unsolicited approach to buy discount retailer Peacocks for around £700m, after reports its owners were looking to sell.
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NewsThis week in… 2008
A survey by PwC predicted that one in five high street shops could be empty by the time the economy recovered from the financial crisis.
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NewsThis week in… 2016
London was one of the lowest-ranked global cities in the Urban Land Institute and PwC’s Emerging Trends in European Real Estate report.
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NewsThis week in… 2008
Some of the UK’s biggest companies, including British Airways, Tesco and McDonald’s, called on prime minister Gordon Brown to restore rates relief on empty buildings after the government’s tax change hit the commercial property sector.
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NewsThis week in… 2000
Landsec – or Land Securities as it was – was picked by the Bank of England to redevelop the £175m One New Change site in the City, beating off competition from the likes of Hines Europe and Pillar Property.
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NewsThis week in… 2016
Goldman Sachs completed its £350m purchase of the UK element of the Alecta portfolio.
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NewsThis week in... 2012
Southwark Council gave the green light for Berkeley Group’s One Blackfriars.
