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Despite the jitters, big-fish agencies are doing nicely

23.09.11
On property: Sometimes it's no fun being a property agent. DTZ boss "Big John" Forrester rocked up for dinner with me on Tuesday, only 13 minutes after the 4700-employee business was forced to disclose to the market that it "knew of no reason" why its shares had plunged from 36p to 26p in two days...... more

Boris Johnson approves £125m Saatchi HQ development

20.09.11
Property developer Derwent London has got the go-ahead to redevelop Saatchi & Saatchi's headquarters at 80 Charlotte Street in the heart of Fitzrovia... more

British Land closes $480 million bond issue

08.09.11
British Land closes a $480 million US private placement bond issue, taking the total funds it has raised since May to $860 million... more

Nice day at the office in Angel?

10.08.11
On the shortlist for this year's Stirling Prize is the Angel Building - quite an achievement for Islington's rebuilt, rebooted office block... more

Planners out to put a lid on Pickles over his homes bid

01.07.11
If there really is a bright spark in the Cabinet Office pushing for a radical recasting of the zoning regulations that govern development, my advice is duck. This clever clogs will soon be the target for a number of brickbats from those who control planning in central London... more

Boris backs Saatchi HQ plans despite protests

29.06.11
Boris Johnson is to approve a redevelopment of the Saatchi & Saatchi headquarters in Fitzrovia... more

Derwent in Covent Garden deal

17.05.11
Derwent London joins the wheeler-dealing rush in the central London property market, selling off part of Covent Garden and raising £175 million for new acquisitions... more

Facebook is eyeing HQ in medialand

13.05.11
Facebook, in the eye of a storm over PR spin against Google, is eyeing a prized Covent Garden base for its new UK headquarters... more

Has Westfield's Games mall hit the upmarket jackpot?

25.03.11
In the hut where I got booted and safety-suited before touring Westfield's Olympic-sized mall at Stratford on Wednesday, a note lay by a pair of tan boots indicating they were for Joseph Wan, chief executive of Harvey Nichols... more

Derwent London gears up for property buying spree

18.11.10
Derwent London is readying a £750 million warchest to snap up bargains in the capital as bailed-out banks look to sell assets... more

Old Street ‘white-collar factory’ is smart move by Derwent

05.11.10
Derwent London will be delighted with David Cameron's plans to turn the unlovely area around Old Street roundabout into the UK's "silicon valley"... more

Derwent London's rent lift helps raise profits

25.08.10
West End landlord and developer Derwent London swings back into profit and forecast strong rental growth for the rest of the year... more

Tottenham Court Road eyesore set for revamp

28.07.10
An eyesore in Tottenham Court Road changed hands today for £146 million in one of the biggest property deals in the West End since the crash.... more

Arriva up another gear as German suitor confirms talks

18.03.10
Market Round-up: Shares in transport group Arriva get another shove as Germany’s national rail operator Deutsche Bahn confirms it made an approach over a possible cash offer... more

Derwent London finds 'sweet spot' in West End to escape property downturn

17.03.10
West End landlord Derwent London says business in the capital has picked up sharply in recent months... more

£2 billion developments will rid Oxford Street of ‘tourist tat’ shops

01.03.10
More than £2 billion is due to be spent on new shops, offices, hotels and homes over seven years culminating in the opening of Crossrail in 2017... more

Capital's rent rises set to help Land Securities bounce back

11.01.10
London office rents will rise by up to 14% next year and Land Securities should be the biggest beneficiary, Goldman Sachs predicted... more

Innocent smoothies in the dock but its sales shoot up

23.12.09
Smoothies maker Innocent Drinks signed a deal to move from its Shepherd's Bush home Fruit Towers to a headquarters in west London... more

HSBC warning of more pain to come for UK landlords

30.11.09
Britain's biggest landlords face a nasty hangover next year... more

Derwent signals a property recovery

19.11.09
Landlord and developer Derwent London today hailed the recovery in the commercial property market and said it will start building new offices to be ready from late 2011 ... more

Change is in the air… and not even Charles can stop it

02.10.09
Cheapside and cheerful: No expense has been spared at the stealth-clad One New Change and both Land Securities and the City are happy although the Prince, inset, feels thwarted... more

Turnmills, the 24-hour dance club, to be turned into offices

28.08.09
Site of one of the most famous clubs of the Nineties is facing demolition... more

JPMorgan likes the look of property

16.06.09
US investment bank JPMorgan expects some clear winners to emerge from the commercial property market during the coming months, and has raised share price targets by an average of 5% for the first time in two years... more

Fancy a shares spree? you may have missed the boat

20.03.09
Imagine, if you will, for one delicious moment, you have £9.6 billion in the bank. Then imagine on Monday you buy the entire share capital of seven big property companies in a daring dawn raid... more

Bears howling as insurers are lifted by Pru's strength

19.03.09
Stock-market bears, who have been selling the life assurers aggressively short in recent weeks, claiming they would be the next casualties of the banking crisis, were feeling the pain today as their shares soared.... more

HSBC hits out at property giants after rights flood

19.03.09
HSBC has cast its expert eye over the real estate investment trust sector following a plethora of heavily discounted rights issues, running into billions of pounds, which have been launched recently to shore-up weakened balance sheets.... more

It's all coming up roses in the Cadogan garden

23.05.08
Charles Gerald John Cadogan and his family took a £30 million dividend from the Cadogan Estate in January... more

Noho? No way, this is Fitzrovia

06.03.08
Billionaire brothers have come under fire from angry Bloomsbury residents who accuse them of trying to rebrand the area "Noho". ... more


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