Leon Black’s Apollo Global Management is the preferred bidder to take control of Citi Property Investors, the real estate investment arm of Citigroup.
Terrace Hill has bought two sites for supermarket developments, in Sunderland and in Whitchurch, Shropshire, and also submitted a planning application to redevelop Heaton Park Retail Park in Manchester.
Derby City Council is to close regeneration body Derby Cityscape and bring its powers in-house under a new structure to deliver £1bn regeneration in the town.
The Conservatives yesterday seized on a Property Week investigation to berate the government over alleged failures in its flagship housing policy.
Jones Lang LaSalle has poached Andrew Gardiner, head of Matthews & Goodman’s office agency team in Manchester, to join its office agency team in the city.
Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA) has today launched the search for a development partner for a £1bn redevelopment of the New Covent Garden Market in Vauxhall, London.
CB Richard Ellis Investors, the global real estate investment management firm, today launched the first UK direct property fund for defined contribution pension investors.
Henderson Global investors’ €900m European retail fund has bought a warehouse park in Germany.
Almost six per cent of shops in outer London are available because of retailer administrations, while the Midlands region was the UK's worst retail performer according to Cushman & Wakefield.
ROM Capital Group has submitted plans for at a six-screen multiplex cinema at the Clacton Factory Outlet park and won consent for two large stores at Bescot Retail Park
Housing and planning minister John Healey said yesterday he had provided a "triple boost" for councils tackling climate change by updating planning rules, granting nearly £10m to improve green skills and backing further progress with the...
Hamptons International has unveiled plans to expand further into new markets with the introduction of a valuation division.
Compass Hotels has negotiated a management lease to Travelodge on the Best Western Stansted Manor Hotel in Essex.
The gap between the returns generated by the best and worst-performing institutional property investors last year was a huge 24 percentage points, Investment Property Databank said today.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has appointed a head of real estate and made two other senior appointments to its executive management team.
P. H. Moriarty, aka Hatchet Harry from Guy Ritchie's Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, spoke to PWTV about why he will be attending the Sparks Golf Challenge in Portugal this summer.
Richard Harman, senior director of industrial and logistics at CB Richard Ellis, is leaving the firm to join Dowley Turner Real Estate.
The government plans to overhaul three planning policies to help councils deal better with planning applications for sustainable developments.
English Cities Fund has appointed King Sturge to market the residential element of its £140m Merchant Gate scheme in Wakefield City Centre.
HM Revenue & Customs faces a financial backlash from a 20-year property contract signed with Mapeley in 2001, according to a report from the Treasury Committee released today.
Politicians were warned today that they need to “wake up to the mounting housing crisis” as the shortfall in supply approaches one million homes.
Standard Life Investments’ Life Property Fund and Neptune Land have signed the first tenant at the Ealingcross office scheme at 85 Uxbridge Road, in Ealing, London.
Kevin McCabe has set up a company to develop food store schemes but has ditched a plan to work with Brendan Flood, the former managing director of Modus Ventures.
Vice Admiral Tim Laurence has launched an Office of Government Commerce campaign to improve property asset management across the public sector.
Hatfield Philips has enforced a €159m loan that was part of a pool held in the Credit Suisse originated Titan Europe 2006-1 commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) vehicle.
Local surfwear specialist Lobster Bob and luggage retailer Departures have agreed to open units at Moorfield’s Capitol Shopping Centre in Cardiff.
Housing supply is outstripping demand as new sales instructions outpaced buyer interest for the second consecutive month, according to the RICS.
Liberty International is to split its company into two separate businesses – Capital Shopping Centres and Capital & Counties – which will trade on the London Stock Exchange.
Twenty-two young people from the five Olympic boroughs have been appointed to a panel to help shape the future of the Olympic Park.
So-called independent financial advisers have been given a roasting in the press this past week – and most of my contacts in the property world are secretly rubbing their hands with glee.