Everyone loves a list. So how about 14 for 2014? From the people to the deals, the arrivals to the losses, and the overseas markets to the top political moments – bacon sandwich-gate included – we can’t think of a better way to look back at what has been one hell of a year. Consider it an early Christmas present from all of us here at Estates Gazette
14m
sq ft estimated take-up in central London by year end, the highest since 2006
8,924
office-to-resi conversions applied for in London under permitted development rights in the first year.
Ten times higher than the decade average prior to the legislation being enacted
1,200
miles one Samantha McClary-shaped nutter ran/cycled in 15 days, raising £75,000 for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
£23.5m
invested in offices in the year to the end of October – back to pre-recession levels
47
planning applications for new Aldi stores. Terror shakes middle-class suburbia as the value retailer lodges 40% of all supermarket applications, overtaking Waitrose’s seven in the year to the end of April
7
years of stock in the North West at current take-up levels. The region has the UK’s largest amount of big-shed space in planning
10,000
new residential units could be provided by vacant office stock in London
14,480
new homes could be built on London’s industrial stock under shed-to-resi rules
17%
of property professionals feel discriminated against at work based on gender, age, race, sexuality, or disability, according to the EG Salary Survey
25%
decline in Scottish commercial property investment prior to the referendum
1
tank museum up for sale under the government’s right to contest land
358
planning applications per capita in the East Midlands, the highest outside the South East and above London in the year to the end of August
80%
of total office investment was channelled into London
2
steel bolts broke on the Cheesegrater, EC3
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