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London & Stamford profits up but still 'cautious'
Aim-listed London & Stamford, which has been one ... The company, which was founded by veteran investors ... The company raised £248m when it listed on ... Mould, the non-executive chairman of the company, said ... Mould said: "There are tentative signs of recovery...
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London leads the way for house hunting banks
More banks took up residence in London than ... London accounted for 36%, or 819,198 sq ft, ... European banking uptake dropped 53% over the period ... The rest of Europe is set to bottom ... Guy Douetil, head of Cushman & Wakefield’s Emea ... London has been boosted by property deals including...
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Cash floods UK property managers
Institutional investors are so enthusiastic about UK commercial ... The Association of Real Estate Funds said unlisted ... UK property fund assets totalled £21bn at the ... The turnround was well-flagged, according to the asset ... But the sudden wave of assets is raising...
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Cohen launches ethical property vehicle
Bridges Ventures, a socially-driven private equity firm, chaired ... Bridges has raised £26m (€29m) and hopes to ... "This builds off Bridges Ventures' experience in regeneration. ... The firm, which targets investments that will have ... The fundraising has come as the firm eyes...
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Billionaire's former wife puts estate on block for $100m
Patricia Kluge, the former wife of billionaire John ... The property includes a 45-room neo-Georgian main house...
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Lenders back rebound in UK property market
More than 20 banks are now willing to ... Research by property adviser Savills found that 23 ... William Newsom, UK head of valuation at Savills, ... “Despite this, lenders are treading a path of ... The analysis comes after property investors announced several ... The news of more lenders coming to the...
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The hills are alive… with luxury properties
Super-luxury property developments are taking root across the ... A development of two and three-bedroom luxury apartments ... The €225m Du Parc project will involve the ... The project has 60% backing from Switzerland’s fourth-largest ... Nearby in Vevey, a six-bedroom lakeside manor in...
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Switzerland prime property booms as wealthy move in
There is a well-worn legend that a labyrinth ... Switzerland’s 26 cantons are attracting more high net ... Zurich and Geneva score high in surveys that ... Nicholas Barnes, director of London-based independent property consultant ... “Prime property prices have actually increased 5% every...
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ANZ Bank to buy ING JV in Australia For €1.1B
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has agreed ... The deal, which is likely to close by ... It also continues a recent run of acquisitions ... ANZ Bank, which currently owns 49% of the ... "ANZ has been able to take advantage of ... "(The ING deal) also gives us the flexibility...
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Banks get back into property
Banks are starting to lend money on low-risk ... A large number of substantial debt agreements were ... Last month, Nick Leslau’s Max Property Group agreed ... Large institutions are also making the most of ... John Knowles, head of corporate finance at property ... The turnround by banks has been quite sudden....
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Property boutique aims for first low-tax fund launch
Clavis Walden, a real estate boutique started earlier ... The company has filed an application to launch ... Iain Keys, managing director at Clavis Walden, said ... In onshore authorised funds, a fifth of their ... Deborah Lloyd, a partner in the indirect investment ... Asset managers including Aviva Investors, Standard Life Investments...
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UK property deals start to build
The property market, like the mergers and acquisitions ... While some investment banking teams have done well ... According to data from Thomson Reuters, since the ... However, things are looking up, with prime UK ... Jonathan Thompson, global head of real estate at ... The interest surrounding British Land, the UK’s second-largest...
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Aviva prepares to rebuild its property portfolio
The manager of the UK’s largest open-ended property ... Philip Nell, manager of the £1.3bn (€1.5bn) Aviva ... He believes the market for UK commercial property ... Two years ago, the fund had 145 properties ... Nell’s fund is still selling properties strategically to...
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Wealth manager launch new property venture for UK market
The former head of real estate from a ... Iain Keys, who was director of £800m (€941m) ... The company’s website says “there are signs of ... It will eventually provide open-ended and closed-ended funds, ... Clavis Walden is the latest in a string ... Other investors making the most of the decline...
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Mainstream managers move on to hedge funds’ turf
The West End of London, home to hedge ... Twenty fund management companies gained authorisation from the ... All of the 20 fund management companies are ... The long list of fund manager launches confirms ... The newly registered companies include Independent Franchise Partners,...
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Property veterans set to refill war chest
London & Stamford, the AIM-listed property company backed ... London & Stamford said it is raising the ... The news comes after other property companies have ... But investors were willing to back Max Property, ... The London & Stamford deal received significant attention...
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Financiers buoy top end of London’s property market
Estate agents claim bankers are buying £1m-plus London ... Investment bankers from Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Barclays ... Estate agents said record second-quarter profits and hefty ... Tim Wright, a partner at estate agent Knight ... Roarie Scarisbrick, a partner at Property Vision, a...
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UK real estate holds allure
The UK property market has some of the ... Jack Foster, managing director of real estate at ... The UK commercial property market recorded positive growth ... Foster declined to name the vehicle, but said...
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Pramerica hires property managers for UK push
Pramerica Real Estate Investors, a subsidiary of US ... A spokeswoman at UBS confirmed that Charles Crowe, ... Dennis-Jones is fund manager of the flagship £1.3bn ... The news of a new investor in the ... UBS itself lost another senior real estate manager ... UBS has set about restructuring its UK real...
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Few roots for green shoots in London property
Since the wheels fell off London’s top-end residential ... Fourteen months after the market’s peak prices have ... High-end agent Knight Frank was bullish in last ... Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight ... Independent Knightsbridge-based consultant Charles McDowell has also become...
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