Estates Gazette 1515 – 18 April 2015

Estates Gazette 1515 – 18 April 2015 The week 5 Editor’s comment 6 Briefing: London’s 18,000 lost affordable homes News 27 Candys unwrap resi treat 27 Landsdowne in at Hammerson HQ 28 New Frontier swoops for UK malls 28 BL slices up £310m Project Orange 28 Aberdeen fires up £450m retail sell-off 28 Deals 29 Tories’ annual £9.1bn homes sale 29 Sainsbury’s adds flats to food in Whitechapel 29 Test screening for Paramount Park 29 WELPUT eyes St James’s refurb opportunity 30 Zara in east Oxford St stampede 30 Blackstone brings rebranded Lacon to market 30 Stratton St offices live on as resi plan shelved 30 Top stories from EGi 31 Apple on train to New Street 31 Portfolio sales feed starved regional market 31 Savills poaches Hamptons duo for PRS push 31 Brompton’s expansion plan unfolds 32 Largest global megadeal signals cash of the titans Finance 35 Finance star quits to go solo 35 BAML’s €445m CMBS takes off in Frankfurt 35 TIAA Henderson completes debt vehicle close 36 GE Capital waves goodbye with €315m financing 36 Schemes help tighten PRS yields 36 RBS sells of £171m Jupiter refi 37 Rebecca Worthington: We are living in a world of ultra-loose montary policy Auctions 39 Savills sale pulls in £53.4m 39 ASR lot offers historic potential 39 East London lots fuel £11m Strettons sale 39 In brief 42 John Townsend: Hive of activity erupts at UK’s major commercial auctions Comment 44 Melanie Leech: Beware, one size policies do not fit all 45 David Atkins: Are there lessons to learn from the French after all? 46 Alexandra Anderson: More Help to Buy will boost sales and may win votes, but risks fuelling claims again valuers Interview 48 The disruptors: Appear Here In depth 52 Political manifestos: Who gets your vote? Focus: Finance 55 Islamic finance: Prophetable investment 60 Private equity: The hard core 62 Peer-to-peer: Saviour of SMEs 66 AXA profile: Anne Kavanagh Focus: Yorkshire 68 Around the market 70 Occupiers: Who will take the new space? 74 Retail: Light and shade 78 Development: Four spring blooms 82 Infrastructure: Hoping for the green light 84 Sheffield: Shop tactics 87 York: You’ll have to wait 88 Industrial: Turning a corner? 91 Reception: Looking up in Leeds Practice & law 92 Mines and minerals: Going underground 95 Planning notes: Important lessons need to be learnt 96 Squatting: Rise of the property guardians 98 Practice point: The surrender of a lease by operation of law left a tenant with nothing to sell 98 Practice point: The Upper Tribunal sounds a warning in relation to claims for compensation for the compulsory acquisition of land 99 Landlord and tenant: What is in store for ‘generation rent’? 100 Compulsory purchase: A quest for greater efficiency 101 Legal notes: 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