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Derwent agrees £131.8m sale of central London Burberry HQ

Horseferry House in Westminster, which is fully let to Burberry on a lease running to 2043, was snapped up by Indonesian developer Sinar Mas.

Uniqlo's flagship UK store and offices on Regent Street

GPE JV sells Uniqlo’s Regent Street flagship store and offices

The JV with Ropemaker Properties sold the property to a private client of JLL, taking GPE's sales in the past 12 months to £490m.

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L&G puts prime Newcastle city centre office up for sale

Savills has been appointed to market the fully let 12-floor building, which is at the heart of the city's Helix innovation district.

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LPA calls for upgrade in offices’ planning status as shortages threaten to ‘choke growth’

The London Property Alliance wants offices to be designated as critical infrastructure, after reporting that 14m sq ft of office floorspace has been lost since 2018.

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Queensway to transform City office building into 239-bed hotel

The scheme will include a ground-floor café, a co-working space, a bar and a lounge area.

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Canary Wharf gets green light for revamp of 33 Canada Square

The office building, which the group is bringing forward on a pre-let basis, will span more than 545,000 sq ft of workspace, plus retail amenities.

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Tishman Speyer snaps up Lazari’s Pall Mall office

50 Pall Mall comprises 33,888 sq ft across nine floors and is 87% let.

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City of London Corporation approves plans to upgrade No. 1 Poultry

The consented proposal aims to decarbonise the grade II-listed landmark City building and keep it commercially viable, without compromising its architectural significance.

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British Land and AustralianSuper win approval for revisions to Canada Water masterplan

The joint venture partners proposed major amendments to their masterplan for the 53-acre mixed-use development in early 2025, including changes to the heights, massing and uses of several buildings.

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JP Morgan looks for business rates discount to unlock £3bn Canary Wharf office project

Tower Hamlets Council is set to agree a business rates discount for the planned 3m sq ft tower, which would be the largest and most expensive office building in London.

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Brown & Brown takes 52,303 sq ft at City Developments’ office building

The Singaporean investor bought the 211,000 sq ft Aldgate House for £183m in 2018.

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Landsec slaps £450m price tag on flagship Piccadilly Circus island site

Landsec placed the famous island site at London's Piccadilly Circus up for…

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DWP leases 100,000 sq ft at West Bar offices in Sheffield

The government department will occupy the first completed office block in the £300m West Bar scheme, which is being developed by Urbo Regeneration and Peveril Securities.

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Cost of building London skyscrapers up 40% since 2020, report shows

The cost of building towers over 20 storeys is second only to New York and now exceeds Seoul by more than three times and Mumbai by 10 times.

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Q&A with IWG founder Mark Dixon: ‘Work is becoming something that’s done on a platform’

Mark Dixon, IWG founder and chief executive, tells Property Week's Jamie Bennett-Ness about the flex workspace firm’s capital-light growth strategy.

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IM Properties launches appeal to develop £343m Warwickshire business park

The appeal was launched after North Warwickshire Borough Council and Birmingham City Council failed to reach a decision on the Thrive scheme application.

Building 90 at Bicester Motion, the new home of AMCI

AMCI Europe signs lease for Bicester Motion headquarters

The events and training specialist has taken Building 90 at the Oxfordshire automotive and aerospace hub.

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Stanhope hires Mace to bring forward £450m South Bank office scheme

Mace has has started enabling and piling works on the Red Lion Court development between London Bridge and Southwark Bridge.

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Global Holdings secures £105m ING green loan for London Xylo scheme

The sustainable office development in Clerkenwell will be the UK’s largest all-timber frame office building.

Planned revamp of Regents House in Islington

SENG secures £65.5m loan for two London office conversions

ASK and Firma Partners are backing the planned conversion of an Islington office block into a hotel plus leisure and retail uses, and the residential conversion of office building Chiswick Tower.

The new Marlow Studios headquarters. Credit: Neil Marshment Photography

Marlow Studios snaps up HQ building for £1bn Buckinghamshire project

The 12-acre site provides 230,000 sq ft of high-grade office space, adjacent to the 90-acre development site.