Anthropologie, the US retailer, has signed up for its second UK store.

London mayor Boris Johnson, has approved plans for a major regeneration project, which will create a new town centre at Brent Cross in Cricklewood, north London.

CB Richard Ellis has approached industrial specialist M3 about a possible takeover of the company.

UK commercial property annual values rose for the first time in two and a half years in February.

CB Richard Ellis’s director of industrial investment John Adcock has resigned to join Dowley Turner Real Estate.

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CB Richard Ellis Loan Servicing (CBRELS) today confirmed it has begun to market the sale of eight of the nine properties held in the White Tower 2006-3 commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) vehicle.

Department store retailer Liberty has confirmed it has received a take over approach.

Hansteen said this morning it was no longer considering making an offer for the €330m Kenmore European Industrial Fund (KEIF).

Retail warehouses and London offices are the most popular UK sectors for investors in a market that is continuing along a plateau.

Manchester City Council, New East Manchester (NEM) and Manchester City Football Club (MCFC) have signed a formal agreement to collaborate to create a transformation plan for east Manchester, focussed on the area around the City of Manchester...

Legal & General has placed 26 Red Lion Square in London’s Midtown under offer for more than £52m at a yield of around 8.2%.

Plans for a £30m business park and hotel development at the eastern end of Edinburgh City Bypass called Lothian Park have been revealed.

University Partnerships Programme (UPP) “eco residence” Carnegie Village at Leeds Metropolitan University has been selected as the UK 2010 BREEAM Award winner in the Multi-Residential category.

Delancey owned Centros has bought a shopping scheme in Hoddesdon Tower Centre, in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and plans a major revamp of the scheme.

Henry Boot Developments has been found innocent of fraudulent misrepresentation in a case brought against it by six retailers at a motorway retail scheme in Kent.

Fund manager to join Stanhope and Carbon Trust to create £300m vehicle to invest in and “retrofit” property

Ingall’s developer leads bidders to buy city centre Caltongate scheme

Bill Hancock and Robert Kingsmill — two former directors of US fund manager JER Partners — have set up a specialist asset management and debt advisory business

Newcastle and Plymouth are unattractive for developers because they are too reliant on public sector jobs, a conference in London heard today.

BNP Paribas Real Estate made profit before tax of €76.4m in 2009, €60m less than in the previous year.

Some performances are more important than others. When you’re Jeff Bridges or Sandra Bullock, you probably know if you’ve pulled it off by the time anyone else sees the result.

The Prince’s Regeneration Trust has been appointed to restore Bletchley Park, the hub of Britain’s World War II code decryption operations.

Former Brookfield Europeanproperty head Scott Parsons is to rejoin Land Securities.

The British Property Federation today condemned moves by serviced offices provider Regus to use insolvency practices to cut its rates bill – despite being a profitable business.

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Standard Life Investments, one of the largest property fund managers in Europe, has purchased a second Tesco Extra Supermarket in Shrewsbury, Shropshire for £46m on behalf of its Pooled Property Pension Fund.

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.

Anthropologie, the US retailer, has signed up for its second UK store.

London mayor Boris Johnson, has approved plans for a major regeneration project, which will create a new town centre at Brent Cross in Cricklewood, north London.

Department store retailer Liberty has confirmed it has received a take over approach.

Manchester City Council, New East Manchester (NEM) and Manchester City Football Club (MCFC) have signed a formal agreement to collaborate to create a transformation plan for east Manchester, focussed on the area around the City of Manchester...

Plans for a £30m business park and hotel development at the eastern end of Edinburgh City Bypass called Lothian Park have been revealed.

Delancey owned Centros has bought a shopping scheme in Hoddesdon Tower Centre, in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and plans a major revamp of the scheme.

Standard Life Investments, one of the largest property fund managers in Europe, has purchased a second Tesco Extra Supermarket in Shrewsbury, Shropshire for £46m on behalf of its Pooled Property Pension Fund.

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.

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.

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

Compass Hotels has negotiated a management lease to Travelodge on the Best Western Stansted Manor Hotel in Essex.

Local surfwear specialist Lobster Bob and luggage retailer Departures have agreed to open units at Moorfield’s Capitol Shopping Centre in Cardiff.

Gala Bingo has signed up to anchor St Modwen’s town centre regeneration scheme in Farnborough, Hampshire.

Whitbread-owned Premier Inn hotel has signed up with Westfield, the Australian shopping centre developer, to open a 267-bedroom budget hotel at Stratford, next to the Olympic Stadium.

Aviva Investors Property Trust has bought a shopping centre from The Mall fund, which is fund managed by Aviva Investors.

Three former British Land directors Andrew Jones, Valentine Beresford and Mark Stirling have revealed plans to float a specialist retail property investment company.

Gerald Ronson’s Heron International has submitted a planning application for its £500m Heron Plaza scheme in the city of London.

Gresham Hotel Group is selling the Park Inn Hyde Park in London for around £35m.

CB Richard Ellis has approached industrial specialist M3 about a possible takeover of the company.

CB Richard Ellis’s director of industrial investment John Adcock has resigned to join Dowley Turner Real Estate.

Hansteen said this morning it was no longer considering making an offer for the €330m Kenmore European Industrial Fund (KEIF).

Richard Harman, senior director of industrial and logistics at CB Richard Ellis, is leaving the firm to join Dowley Turner Real Estate.

ProLogis has let a 372,571 sq ft shed to 99p Stores at ProLogis Park Pineham in Northampton.

UK property valuation gains of 8.9% in the second half of the year buoyed Segro’s year results, revealed this morning.

Industrial specialists Keith Dowley and David Turner launched their new business, Dowley Turner Real Estate, this week.

Industrial developer Gazeley has been granted detailed planning permission on two of its key development sites: G Park Bristol and G Park Strood in Kent.

The London Development Agency (LDA) has completed two land deals at Beam Reach 8 in Rainham to allow 60,000 sq ft of new development for data centre operators.

Rising UK property values and declining European values contributed to flat NAV growth Prologis European Properties (PEPR) in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Legal & General has placed 26 Red Lion Square in London’s Midtown under offer for more than £52m at a yield of around 8.2%.

Plans for a £30m business park and hotel development at the eastern end of Edinburgh City Bypass called Lothian Park have been revealed.

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.

Gerald Ronson’s Heron International has submitted a planning application for its £500m Heron Plaza scheme in the city of London.

BNP Paribas Real Estate has agreed its headquarters move from 90 Chancery Lane to 5 Aldermanbury Square.

Bupa International has ended a drought of major lettings in Brighton by agreeing to take 45,000 sq ft at Invista Foundation Property Trust’s Victory House in Trafalgar Place.

Manchester Council is planning to invest in the Spinningfields office district in order to accelerate development.

Business centre operator Oxford Innovation Centres has bought the business development arm of Fasset, an operator of regional technology parks, as a part of a national expansion plan.

Milk, a pan-European digital media agency, has become one of the first businesses to open an office in Manchester as a result of a new public and private sector initiative giving new investors 12 months’ free desk space.

Rreef Investment GmbH has bought the Park Tower office building in Frankfurt from a Morgan Stanley fund for around €123m.

Lancashire County Pension Fund has bought 10 Brook Street in London’s Mayfair for £30.2m, representing a 5.1% net initial yield.

Pinsent Masons has completed its deal to occupy Greycoat’s 30 Crown Place scheme in the City of London.

The Legal Ombudsman has signed up for a new 40,000 sq ft office at Targetfollow’s Baskerville House.

Architect Kieran Timberlake has won the design competition for the new United States Embassy on the banks of the River Thames in London.

Invista Foundation Property Trust has agreed to forward purchase an office in West Bromwich, near Birmingham, for just under £15m.

London & Stamford has sold 1 Whitehall Riverside in Leeds to NFU Mutual Insurance Society for £51.3m, around nine months after buying it for £37.6m.

Matterhorn Palos Partnership, a joint venture between Simon Conway and Anthony Lyons and Brett Palos, has bought an office, leisure and retail block in Newcastle City Centre.

Maxim, the giant 756,000 sq ft speculatively built office park near Glasgow, has signed its first office tenant.

CPC Group has sold the freehold of its Cromwell House building, which is the HQ of Candy & Candy, to an owner occupier for just under £35m.

Canada Life has submitted a planning application for two new office buildings at the Aztec West Business Park near Bristol.

The Conservatives yesterday seized on a Property Week investigation to berate the government over alleged failures in its flagship housing policy.

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...

Politicians were warned today that they need to “wake up to the mounting housing crisis” as the shortfall in supply approaches one million homes.

UK gilt yields will rise, if there is a hung parliament, Citi believes – which would put pressure on property yields to increase.

The government must resist cutting back on public sector spending in order to ensure the recovery of the economy and the property industry according to first minister of Scotland, Alec Salmond.

David Cameron today unveiled the Conservative Party’s long awaited policy paper on planning describing it as “the most radical policy any government could ever introduce”.

Housing minister John Healey has responded to criticism of the government’s track record on residential supply with a scathing attack on Conservative proposals to ease the UK housing shortage.

Residential estate agents came under renewed pressure today to improve customer service as the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) called for a shake-up in how homes are sold, including updating legislation to allow new entrants to the market.

Blackstone Group and Prupim have both signed up to the Better Buildings Partnership scheme to cut carbon pollution and reduce energy costs from commercial property in London.