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Insurer finds two thirds of real estate investors reconsidering UK ventures due to disruption
Almost two thirds of the UK’s top institutional investors are considering pulling cash out of UK real estate due to “widespread and long-lasting disruption” in the market, according to a study by insurance giant Gallagher.
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Pizza Express considers bid to gatecrash £506m TRG deal with Apollo
Pizza Express is considering a bid for The Restaurant Group (TRG), the listed company that owns Wagamama, Sky News has reported.
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Haysmacintyre’s Paul Atkins on why careful management of tax liabilities is key to navigating cashflow
For developers, the current environment is proving difficult to navigate. After several years of sustained growth in the housing market, prices have been dropping, which, combined with wider economic challenges – not least a sharp rise in interest rates – and the introduction of stringent new regulations, has left developers ...
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Fidelity buys WeWork office block in London
Fidelity International has acquired 99 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London from troubled serviced office group WeWork.
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WeWork president and COO Anthony Yazbeck leaves company
WeWork’s president and chief operating officer Anthony Yazbeck has reached an agreement to leave the company.
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RICS publishes new ‘evolution’ of UK valuation rules
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has introduced new mandatory rotation rules for valuations after publishing an updated UK segment of its ‘Red Book’ master document for the profession globally.
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UK real estate delivers second-weakest half year of new loan origination since Brexit
UK real estate lending fell by nearly a quarter in the first half of 2023 compared with the first half of last year, making it the second weakest half year of loan origination since pre-Brexit, as interest rate rises and falls in property values took their toll.
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Bruntwood SciTech secures £500m of fresh funding as new partner joins
Bruntwood SciTech has secured £500m of funding for its life sciences property platform and added the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) to the partnership.
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Development partner sought for major Sutton regeneration project
The London Borough of Sutton is seeking a development partner for a major regeneration project including up to 180,000 sq ft of commercial space and 1,000 homes.
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Newcore snaps up four South East sites for £20m
Social infrastructure fund manager Newcore Capital has snapped up four assets across South East England for £20m on behalf of its fifth value-add fund and two core-plus strategies.
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Investor interest in PBSA jumps by a third, reports Investec
Student accommodation is now the most attractive market for investors within the living sector after interest jumped by 32% of the last two years, according to the latest report from Investec, Property Week can reveal.
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FORE Partnership’s Basil Demeroutis on the bonfire of politics
The storms lashing our economy have been mirrored by the battering the green transformation has taken these last few weeks. Grasping a straw from the Uxbridge by-election, prime minister Rishi Sunak has retreated on, well, just about everything
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Labour’s Reeves pledges to overhaul ‘antiquated’ planning system
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged to overhaul the “antiquated” planning system and fast- track planning applications for major infrastructure projects in Labour’s pitch to “get Britain building again”.
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Kroll’s John Slade on navigating the current property landscape
There is no point sugar-coating it: 2023 has so far been a tough year for the UK’s commercial real estate market.
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Labour to reform Homes England, planning and development policy in manifesto
An early Labour manifesto described as the party’s full final policy platform has leaked ahead of the party conference next week.
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Brookfield acquires £1bn UK wind farm business
Brookfield Asset Management has acquired Banks Renewable, one of the UK’s largest independent developers of onshore wind farms, valued at nearly $1bn (£823m), for an undisclosed price.
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Sunak accused of undermining decades of planning by axing HS2 northern leg
A dismayed property sector has accused the government of undermining decades of planning by businesses, developers and local authorities in cancelling the northern leg of HS2.
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M&G invests £62.7m in 370 housing associations shared ownership homes
M&G has struck a trio of deals worth a combined £62.7m to acquire 370 homes.
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Patron Capital’s Keith Breslauer on why bigger is not always better for funds
Headlines often sway towards hyperbole and the stories that get attention are the ones that speak of record highs or lows.
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Puma Property Finance signs Inspiring Diversity in Property pledge
Specialist development leader Puma Property Finance has become the latest firm to sign up to Property Week’s diversity, part of the Inspiring Diversity in Property Campaign, joining other signatories including Watts and Ademchic.