LaSalle sells former B&Q headquarters to Ageas

LaSalle Investment Management today announces that, on behalf of a pension fund client, it has completed the sale of Portswood House on the Hampshire Corporate Park in Chandlers Ford to insurance company, Ageas. more...

Friday, 11. May 2012

Capita Symonds launches hotel sector partnership

Property and Infrastructure consultancy Capita Symonds has announced a partnership with hotel developer Oxford Hotels and real estate investment vehicle Equiture to specifically target investment and asset management opportunities across... more...

Friday, 11. May 2012

FTSE to launch FTSE UK Commercial Property Index Fund

FTSE Group announces the licensing of MSS Real Estate LLP to create the FTSE UK Commercial Property Index Fund Limited, a new closed-ended investment company to be listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange which tracks the... more...

Thursday, 10. May 2012

Salmon Harvester Opportunity Fund acquires Droitwich shopping centre

Salmon Harvester Opportunity Fund, the £150 million investment fund formed by Salmon Harvester Properties and NFU Mutual, has acquired the St Andrews Square shopping centre in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire for £19.8m. This represents... more...

Thursday, 10. May 2012

Double office letting at Solar House

Topland Group, advised by Bray Fox Smith and SBH Page & Read, has let two office suites at Solar House, 915 High Road, North Finchley, London. more...

Thursday, 10. May 2012

Europa Capital and St Congar invest in substantial brownfield site in South-East England

The English Residential Land Partnership, the Joint Venture between Europa Capital and St Congar Land, has completed the purchase of the HSBC Training Facility to the south of St Albans in Hertfordshire. more...

Thursday, 10. May 2012

Equinox fitness club set to open its first international location in London

Equinox, the fitness and lifestyle club in the US is set to open its first club in the UK at the iconic 32,000 sq. ft former Rainbow Room site, located below Kensington Roof Gardens in London. The club is planned to open in the autumn of... more...

Wednesday, 9. May 2012

Le Petit Four Francais to let in Derby

A new baguette takeaway shop is to open in the centre of Derby. LSH has acquired the ground floor and basement of 54, St Peter’s Street, Derby on behalf of Le Petit Four Francais, known as LP4. The premises were acquired from Lush,... more...

Wednesday, 9. May 2012

Orchard Street sells industrial unit in Huntingdon

Orchard Street Investment Management LLP has sold a 50,757 sq ft industrial unit at Hinchingbrooke Business Park, Huntingdon to Dacre Property Holdings for 3.69 million British Pounds. more...

Wednesday, 9. May 2012

After Gagfah now Griffin - Tender procedure for residential portfolio

After it was made known that Gagfah will be selling 38.000 residential units in Dresden, to pay off their debts, it transpires that apparently for the same reason the Danish funds Griffin wants to get rid of 4.900 residences in NRW. To... more...

Wednesday, 9. May 2012

Chelsea make offer to buy Battersea Power Station

Chelsea Football Club has submitted an offer, together with property development partner Almacantar, to acquire the 39-acre Battersea Power Station site. The joint bid was submitted in accordance with the sales process established by the... more...

Tuesday, 8. May 2012

Assura to appoint Jenefer Greenwood of Grosvenor as non-executive director

Assura, the primary healthcare property group, has appointed Jenefer Greenwood as a Non Executive Director, with immediate effect. more...

Tuesday, 8. May 2012

UK house prices to increase by 8 per cent over next three years

Although values will fall marginally in 2012, UK house prices will start to rise again next year and could increase by as much as eight per cent over the next three years, CBRE revealed in its latest house price forecast. Prime central... more...

Tuesday, 8. May 2012

diamond innovation centre to be built in the UK - Photo: diamond innovation centre to be built in the UK

Element Six announces £20m innovation centre investment at Harwell Oxford

Element Six has announced it is to start construction of the world’s largest and most sophisticated synthetic diamond supermaterials research and development facility. The £20m... more...

Tuesday, 8. May 2012

Malcolm Shaw, Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH), UK - Photo: Malcolm Shaw, Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH), UK

LSH grows health and safety team

Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has launched a dedicated health and safety services team in recognition of the need from businesses of all sizes to comply with challenging health and safety legislation. The new team is aimed at dealing with the... more...

Tuesday, 8. May 2012

UK property enters technical recession, says IPD

Commercial property values declined for the second consecutive quarter during the first three months of 2012 (by -0.7%), marking the onset of a double dip and a return to negative growth after the deepest decline of property values on... more...

Tuesday, 8. May 2012

Progress across Terrace Hill foodstore development portfolio

Terrace Hill Group reached significant milestones at three of its foodstore developments. The sale of the Group’s site in Whitchurch to Sainsbury’s, was completed on 24 April 2012. This follows the award of a detailed planning... more...

Tuesday, 8. May 2012

EC Harris wins major Lloyds Bank commission

Arcadis announced that its subsidiary EC Harris, the global Built Asset Consultancy, has been appointed by Lloyds Banking Group, the UK's largest retail bank, as its single source Professional Services Provider (PSP) for the next three... more...

Tuesday, 8. May 2012

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