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The announcement on 15 February that CBRE Group had agreed a $1.2bn deal to buy most of ING's real estate investment management business to create the world's largest property fund [...]

Three years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the world of property finance in the UK has changed beyond recognition. The days when any Tom, Dick and Harry property investor [...]

At the age of 25, when most young surveyors are dreaming of a pay rise or a first promotion, Ray Bloom bought a famous Mayfair-based firm that was founded in [...]

The term 'rollercoaster ride' could be used to describe the journey most property companies have been through in the last 10 years, but New Star Property Unit Trust has to [...]

Roger Bright will leave the Crown Estate on a high after the best set of annual results in his 10 years at the helm. The Crown yesterday reported its highest-ever [...]

Actors, they say, should never work with children or animals. Property investors, it seems, should avoid the sick and the elderly. Tenants run out of cash, fail to pay their [...]

Britain's obsession with getting on the property ladder is not one Andrew Cunningham shares. The CEO of Grainger, the UK's largest residential property owner, has a vision for the company [...]

Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz (far right), the high-profile property entrepreneurs, were among nine people arrested on Wednesday in police raids connected with a probe into the collapse of Iceland's Kaupthing [...]

Pramerica Real Estate Investors is a property fund manager, but not as we know it. It might sound like an airline but Pramerica, the real estate investment management business of [...]

Prime, the Worcester-based primary healthcare property company, is to list on the London Stock Exchange next month in the largest UK property company flotation this year. The company, headed by [...]

Property Week Interview For a country half the size of Wales with a population of just 1.7 million, Qatar punches well above its weight on the global arena. Thanks to [...]

Confidence in the UK commercial property market has plummeted. Lloyds Banking Group's fifth quarterly Commercial Property Confidence Monitor reveals that a third of UK property professionals believe the market will [...]

Ireland's National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is aiming to create a residential REIT for the thousands of flats in and around Dublin that it effectively owns. Claiming that NAMA wants [...]

Rockspring Property Investment Managers has completed the fundraising for a £670m UK fund. The Rockspring UK Value Fund received £336m of equity from 12 investors in four countries in Europe [...]

A financially strong South American bank is poised to give a boost to beleaguered UK property investors when it opens for business here this month. People's Bank of Colombia, which [...]

Property company share prices around the world performed strongly last year, as credit market concerns eased and balance sheets were repaired more quickly and easily than expected. The latest quarterly [...]

Quintain is the most unconventional UK-listed property company and Adrian Wyatt is the most unconventional property company chief executive. Mischief and fun were in the air from the word go, [...]

The mood of cautious optimism that returned to the UK property market last September still prevails, but concerssssns about the longer-term strength of the recovery have begun to emerge. Lloyds [...]

KEVIN MCCABE, THE SUCCESSFUL PROPERLY entrepreneur and Sheffield United football club chairman, is to take charge of the reconstruction of Valad Property Group, the struggling Australia n company that bought [...]

Landlords on back foot as recession deepens RELATIONS BETWEEN LANDLORDS AND TENANTS dominated debate at the Retail Summit, as retailers are extracting a range of concessions that would have been [...]

'TO MAKE MONEY OUT THERE TODAY YOU NEED to have brains, balls and have access to lots and lots of cash but, if you've got the first two and not [...]

STEPHEN HESTER PROVIDED A BOOST TO THE beleaguered property market this week, by declaring that the bottom of the market should be 'some time next year'. The British Land chief [...]

COULD JP MORGAN CHASE'S EMERGENCY TAKEOVER of Bear Stearns be the real estate deal of the year? JP Morgan agreed on Sunday to buy Bear Stearns, the stricken US investment [...]

WHEN BILL HUGHES TOOK THE HELM OF LEGAL & General's 13.2bn £ property fund management arm at the beginning of January, friends questioned the timing of the move, as it [...]

PLAZA CENTERS, THE DEVELOPER IN EMERGING markets, was the star property performer on the main London stock market last year. The Motti Zisser-founded company's shares rose 18% in 2007, compared [...]

LAND SECURITIES IS PLANNING TO END 63 YEARS of history as the UK property sector's flagship company by splitting into three. The UK's largest listed property company and long-time FTSE [...]

WHEN A SUCCESSFUL UK PROPERTY ENTREPRENEUR sells the bulk of his empire to an overseas company at the peak of the market, you tend to think he will run off [...]

KEVIN MCCABE WILL WALK AWAY WITH 150M [pounds sterling] from the sale of his UK and continental European property empire to Australian fund manager Valad Properb/Group. The founder and chairman [...]

BRITISH LAND WILL NEXT WEEK BEGIN marketing up to 75% of its 1.7bn £ Meadowhall regional shopping centre near Sheffield. The company has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle, Colliers CRE and [...]

THE MARMARIS KEBAB AND FISH BAR in Great Yarmouth is the sort of property you would expect to find at an auction, not in the portfolio of a publicly listed [...]

ARLINGTON, AKELER AND EURINPRO are three of the best-known companies in the European business park and logistics sectors, launching the careers of Raymond Mould, Patrick Vaughan, Mark Glatman, Trevor Silver [...]

IF THE PERFECT COMPANY CHAIRMAN IS SOMEONE who has an unsurpassed breadth of business experience and contacts, close links to the government and the Bank of England, a strong reputation [...]

AUGUST IS A TIME WHEN MOST investors put their feet up, but for one quoted property company it is the busiest month of the year. The staff of Unite Group, [...]

URBAN REGENERATION IS A PHRASE that is all too often banded around by developers to describe anything erected on a brownfield site. If true urban regeneration is, as the government [...]

WHEN THREE YOUNG DEVELOPERS attract financial backing from Peter Cummings, Elliott Bernerd and Sir Stuart Lipton, respectively the top banker, property deal-maker and developer of their generation, then it is [...]

1997: Sir Peter Hunt, chairman and managing director of Land Securities, died on 8 December 1997 after heart surgery, aged 64. Few developers have won as much respect for their [...]

CLAUDE ROSENBERG'S FORESIGHT IN SETTING up a company in Chicago in 1975 to take advantage of US institutions starting to invest in real estate has not been forgotten. Thirty-one years [...]

FEBRUARY HAS LONG BEEN A satisfying month for Jeremy Helsby. Iris when the head of Savills' 482-strong commercial division tells his department heads the size of their bonus pot, which [...]

CB RICHARD ELLIS IS IN TALKS TO BUY ONE OF ITS biggest global property services rivals, Trammell Crow, in a $1bn (560m [pounds sterling]) deal. A merger of the Los [...]

WRIGHT-PHILLIPS DARTS UP THE WING, GOES PAST the left back, crosses perfectly for Crouch to head down for Rooney, winning his 50th cap, to volley the ball past the hapless [...]

LAND SECURITIES IS IN TALKS TO TAKE A STAKE IN one of London's highest-profile office projects and to buy retail parks worth up to 640m £. Property Week can reveal [...]

SUNRISE SENIOR LIVING, THE US-BASED provider of upmarket care homes, has secured a 1bn [euro] (715m [pounds sterling]) development funding package for a huge expansion in the UK and Germany. [...]

A HORTICULTURAL SHOW IN PERTH IN 1962 PROVED prophetic for John Roberts. The Perth-born builder named his new construction company--which was set up to build an effluent pipeline--Multiplex after a [...]

FRANK LOWY IS WITHOUT QUESTION THE most successful person Property Week has ever interviewed. Starting without a penny to his name, when he arrived as an immigrant in Sydney in [...]