All Property Week articles in 19 January 2024
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NewsLandsec fully lets landmark Lucent West End scheme
Verition Fund Management signed for final floor of scheme behind Piccadilly Lights.
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NewsNext 485-home phase of SP+ & Lovell’s Salford scheme gets greenlight
Lovell Together and SP+ secure consentfor 485-home phase of Pendelton scheme.
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NewsMayors in talks to revive HS2’s northern leg with private investment
Andy Burnham and Andy Street hatch plans to revive West Midlands to Manchester branch.
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NewsTelford Homes gets go ahead on 1,000-unit Ilford BTR scheme
Reworked plans for east London residential scheme get the green light.
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NewsCourt of Appeal delivers blow to Adler’s €6bn debt restructuring plan
Lower court’s approval for restructuring to save German property group from insolvency is overruled
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OnlineScape Living secures £105m loan for Hammersmith student scheme
NatWest and Virgin Money to fund west London development.
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OnlineI-RES repeats plea to investors to reject activist investor proposals
The board of Irish Residential Properties REIT has urged investors to vote against all resolutions proposed by Vision Capital, a 5% shareholder in the company.
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OnlineAbrdn reveals £150m cost-cutting plans
Investment giant abrdn has confirmed it is set to shed around 500 jobs as it seeks to slash annual costs and make its business more profitable.
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OnlineCrest Nicholson CEO to quit after posting 70% slump in annual profit
Crest Nicholson chief executive Peter Truscott is quitting the company after the housebuilding giant revealed a 70% slump in annual profit.
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InsightJo Cowen Architects’ Jo Cowen on creative repurposing of buildings
The creative repurposing of older, underused buildings has major environmental, social and economic benefits, particularly in the living sectors. But it also has its challenges.
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InsightAlastair Stewart on why quantity surveyors are survivors
Blessed are the quantity surveyors, to paraphrase St Matthew, for they shall inherit the Earth. Just like the cockroaches. That’s not to denigrate QSs. Nor cockroaches.
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OnlineSimon Murphy to step down as Battersea Power Station CEO
The chief executive of the south London regeneration project will depart in March.
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NewsExperts warns mooted 99% mortgage scheme would be unaffordable
Government plan to help first-time buyers could spur house price inflation, industry figures say.
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NewsCross-party MPs criticise DLUHC’s ‘thin gruel’ levelling up progress
MPs slam rate at which government has allocated funds
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News@peterproperty on the future of shopping malls
Landsec boss Mark Allan last week signalled a desire to spend up to £1bn on retail. Half may go on Liverpool One.
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NewsBPF launches public-private partnerships pilot to drive regeneration
Organisation aims for three or four local authorities to join scheme this year.
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NewsLGIM lands Colgate letting at Woking office development
Toothpaste company is latest tenant at Legal & General’s Woking office development
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NewsCREI offloads Milton Keynes warehouse for £8m
Custodian Property Income REIT has sold the 52,000 sq ft warehouse on Bradbourne Drive, Tilbrook Industrial Estate, to an unnamed buyer.
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NewsKKR acquires two BTR blocks in Wembley Park
The investment firm has bought a pair of west London assets from Quintain.
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OnlineNorthern Ireland Investment Fund provides £28m loan on Belfast hotel
JMK Group lands development finance for Titanic Quarter hotel scheme.
