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NOMA has come a long way since Federated Hermes and the Cooperative Group joined forces to build a new Manchester neighbourhood back in 2014. The former Co-op campus, which is [...]

The global Covid pandemic has made life tough for student accommodation providers. But challenging market conditions didn't stop developer and operator Scape closing a [pounds sterling]500m fund with European pension [...]

The flexible workspace boom was in full swing before Covid-19 hit. While WeWork was wobbling, it had set the stage for a wave of new operators to come into the [...]

Abandoned. Redundant. A place you wouldn't want to walk through at night. Mark Lawler, managing director of Baltic Creative, says the area where his business owns and operates 22 office [...]

Since 2010, the government has slashed Blackpool Council's funding by 49%, equating to around [pounds sterling]850m of lost budget. So bad had things become that a Financial Times article on [...]

What do you picture when someone says the word 'surfing'? Sun, sea and sand? Hordes of bronzed surfers with wetsuits tied around their waists and boards under their arms? An [...]

The best of the residential sector gathered last week to celebrate the winners of this year's RESI Awards. The spectacular 90-minute virtual event kicked off with a cocktail-making masterclass with [...]

OBI Property's biggest break started inauspiciously with Allied London's chief executive storming out of a meeting room. Mike Ingall had been negotiating with OBI co-founder Will Lewis, who was refusing [...]

Student Roost has graduated with flying colours since its previous incarnation, as the student arm of Avenue, was snapped up by Brookfield four years ago. At the time of the [...]

HB Reavis's UK chief executive Steven Skinner is surrounded by foliage. He is not standing in a park in a leafy London suburb, though. He is standing in a secret [...]

It has been a tumultuous 2019 so far for RDI. In January, the FTSE 250-listed REIT refinanced its [pounds sterling]275m debt facility with Barclays, RBS and HSBC and extended its [...]

As launch dates go, they don't get much more inauspicious. September 15 2008 will always be remembered as the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a global financial meltdown. But as [...]

HILARY DEVEY ENTERED her company's 20th anniversary party with a person on each side holding her up. As the trio inched its way to the stage, it looked as if [...]

IT IS AN IMAGE that will haunt the industry for ever. A red tipper on its side, load strewn across the ground, with the front of the vehicle completely ripped [...]

When it comes to rent collection, the residential sector has been one of the lucky ones during the Covid-19 pandemic. With the exception of the student accommodation sector, which was [...]

The husband and wife team at the helm of Prestons of Potto worked together for 50-plus years. CM discovers how they made it work LOVE STORIES COME in all shapes [...]

Last week, Landsec's flexible workspace brand Myo opened the doors to its second location, at Dashwood House in Liverpool Street, London. The building will also feature 'blank canvas' grade-A office [...]

Last month, Property Week revealed that in partnership with Legal & General (L&G), Bruntwood SciTech had completed the acquisition of the long leasehold of Melbourn Science Park in Cambridge from [...]

Last week, Property Week revealed that housebuilding veteran David Montague CBE had joined ESG-focused developer Joseph Homes as its chair. Montague left L&Q last September after 32 years at the [...]

International student volumes and mental health and wellbeing were among the most-discussed topics when the student accommodation sector came together at the close of a rollercoasteryearforthe annual Student Accommodation Conference [...]

Nathan Goddard: What is the single biggest challenge the purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector has faced over the last six months? John Kenny: All our emergency response procedures were tested. [...]

During the national lockdown, build-to-rent (BTR) developer Moda Living stayed in touch with customers via its app and gave virtual tours of its flagship Manchester scheme Angel Gardens (pictured)- even [...]

Huckletree co-founder Andrew Lynch joined the business on a Monday morning in May 2014. The next day, he toured the Alpha Beta building in Shoreditch, just after finding out his [...]

After a bumper 2019, during which it opened its flagship scheme in Sheffield and forward-funded more than [pounds sterling]200m worth of schemes, student accommodation firm Student Roost started this year [...]

Steven Skinner is sitting in his garden drinking a cup of tea, surrounded by trees and sporting the grade-one buzzcut that has become the official UK lockdown haircut. But he [...]

Former Get Living chief executive Neil Young has relaunched the business he stepped away from to get the build-to-rent giant off the ground back in 2014. With the original Young [...]

Shortly after the UK entered lockdown, housing secretary Robert Jenrick advised people planning to move home to cancel their plans. How big an impact the freeze will have on residential [...]

The champions of the UK student accommodation sector were crowned at Property Week's 2019 Student Accommodation Awards last month. A record 700-plus people descended on the Intercontinental London at the [...]

On the eve of the general election, record numbers gathered at the 02 Intercontinental Hotel in London for Property Week's Student Accommodation Conference and Awards. The conference, which featured talks [...]

EARNED RECOGNITION will be officially launched at the CV Show next month, the DVSA has confirmed, after an extended pilot involving approximately 20 road freight operators (CM 1 February). Speaking [...]

Mark Allan, chief executive of Landsec, has been appointed juniorvice-president of the BPF. BPF president and chairman of Argent Related David Partridge announced Allan's appointment at the BPF's 47th Annual [...]

Lloyds Banking Group has entered the private rental sectorwith the launch of rental brand Citra Living. Its focus will solely be on buying and renting newly built properties. The first [...]

Great Portland Estates has pre-let 15,200 sq ft at 70 Oxford Street to Boom Battle Bar. The competitive socialising operator has signed a 15-year lease at an annual rent of [...]

HousebuilderVistry has increased the size of its land bank over the last year as it prepares to ramp up home building activity. Formerly known as Bovis Homes, it said in [...]

Foxtons chairman Ian Barlow has resigned after eight years at the London estate agency following a major shareholder revolt due to weak stock prices. The board's biggest shareholder, Hosking Partners, [...]

Headlines blaring 'unprecedented' this and 'uncertain' that have dominated the news over the past year and a half. But when we take a step back from the Covid coalface in [...]

>> Savills says trend has peaked >> Occupiers take space off market The flood of new tenant-controlled office space coming on to the central London market is slowing down as [...]

Andrew Hulme has returned to CBRE as executive director of UK property investment. He joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate, where he ran the retail and alternatives teams. He built [...]

Savills Investment Management has secured planning permission for a net-zero-carbon-ready industrial development on the outskirts of Cambridge known as Bourn Quarter. The project will deliver a 260,000 sq ft warehouse, [...]

CSquared RE has hired former Cushman & Wakefield and BNP Paribas Real Estate agents to launch a Bristol office agency team. C&W agents Andy Heath and Seonaid Butler and former [...]

British Land has secured four new F&B lettings at 155 Bishopsgate. Plant-based burger restaurant Neat Burger has taken 2,700 sq ft; Hawaiian restaurant Honi Poke has signed for 500 sq [...]

Residential property manager Fresh has appointed Richard Harbard as director of property. Harbard joins from East Village and was previously part of the senior leadership at Get Living. Emma Shone [...]

Upward-only rent review clauses in retail leases have 'had their day' according to property experts, after ajudge ruled that the annual rent for a retail unit in central London should [...]

In last week's Property Week, we reported that PLATFORM_acquired a site from Burberry in Leeds with its joint venture partner Northwood Investors (p8 18.06.21). PLATFORM_ actually acquired the site as [...]

British Land has announced its commitment to develop phase 2 of Aldgate Place, a 136,000 sq ft residential-led, mixed-use scheme on the City fringe. Emma Shone News editor [...]

Evans Randall Investors has sold Bureau, a Midtown office building that is the London headquarters of AB InBev, for [pounds sterling]118m to the real estate arm of German asset manager [...]

Legal & General is to invest [pounds sterling]350m into Bristol Temple Island to transform the disused site into a new urban quarter. L&G said Temple Island would complement the wider [...]

Harrods is accelerating plans for its H beauty standalone concept by opening another three stores across the country, totalling 127,000 sq ft. It will open stores in Edinburgh, Bristol and [...]

Regeneration specialist Harworth Group has secured planning approval for the development of up to 1.1m sq ft of logistics and manufacturing space at its site in Wingates, Bolton. Emma Shone [...]

>> Office space per person to change >> Huge implications for businesses The British Council for Offices (BCO) is preparing to change its guidelines on office density in a move [...]