Henderson Global investors’ E900m European retail fund has bought a warehouse park in Germany.

Apollo Management has agreed to buy Citigroup’s property investment unit in a move that will more than triple the value of the private-equity firm’s property assets, a person with knowledge of the deal said yesterday.

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.

Six councils have today sealed funding from the government's Building Schools for the Future programme to rebuild or refurbish schools.

Following the incredible success of our first online live discussion on APC Submissions we are happy to announce that our expert panel has agreed to reconvene - this time to answer all your questions about Final Assessment Interviews.

Public bodies in Lewisham could save up to £15m annually through jointly managing their property, a report has shown.

Scandal erupted on the second night of Property Come Dine With Me as Victoria Silver, hit by faulty freezers and broken crockery, failed to provide her diners with part of the billed meal at her home.

CIT Group has bought a residential site in London overlooking Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill in St John’s Wood for £51m.

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

Henderson Global investors’ E900m 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.

Danish brand Bestseller has signed up to take an Oxford Street store in London at Salmon Harvester Properties and NFU Mutual’s £40m redevelopment.

British Land has appointed a replacement for Andrew Jones as head of retail.

Scottish Widows Property Trust has bought The Bridge, a property including retail, two restaurants, a banking hall and the five star boutique Missoni hotel, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh for £41m.

Meyer Bergman, the private equity real estate fund manager, has bought a 50% stake in the Bentall Centre in Kingston, London from Aviva Investors for around £130m.

The Grosvenor Estate has agreed terms to lease its building at 38 Bridge Street, Chester to restaurant operator Carluccio’s.

NewRiver Retail, the AIM-listed company set up by Halladale founder David Lockhart, has formed a joint venture with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) to spend up to £250m on UK retail property.

The joint administrators for Selhurst Park stadium, home of Crystal Palace football club, have instructed CB Richard Ellis as marketing agents.

AIM-listed Dolphin Capital Investors has secured a €100m facility to help fund two projects in Greece and Cyprus.

Delancey-backed Centros has been selected by Anglo Irish Bank to asset manage the 400,000 sq ft Houndshill shopping centre in Blackpool.

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.

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.

Regional office leasing markets outside London will see a recovery as the UK economy improves, but this is likely to be a result of declining supply rather than increasing demand, Jones Lang LaSalle has predicted.

Lebanese investor M1 Real Estate has bought Victoria house in Bloomsbury Square from Irish-based Moritz Group for around £175m.

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.

The government has stumped up £60m of cash to finance the building of 600 “eco-show-homes”.

British Property Federation chief executive Liz Peace joined the panel on the BBC's Politics Show to look at Tory planning proposals.