Estates Gazette 1547 – 28 November 2015

Estates Gazette 1547 – 28 November 2015 The week 5 Editor’s comment 6 Briefing: Going straight to resi News 31 Berkeley signs for West Ham 32 C&W retail to shop elsewhere 32 Gaw buys London HQ in Clerkenwell 32 Rathbone Brothers heads east from Mayfair 32 Deals 33 Perella spin-off raises €900m for non-core push 33 Wave of spec schemes teed up in Glasgow 33 Street feast greedy for expansion 33 Singapore buyer taps in to £1bn riverside resi site 34 Stamp duty rises set to hit landlords 34 Picture perfect site up for grabs 34 Extra cash pushes transport projects forward 34 Spending review in brief 35 Mad men tune in for UBS’s Shoreditch lines 35 Aberdeen offers Kleinwort Benson’s Mayfair HQ 35 Polish investor realises 50% on SW1 office 35 Blackstone pulls £550m City estate 36 LandSec locks down Oxford deals 36 First signing at Aldwych House 36 Blackstone ships out Tiger’s Harbour Island 36 Global round-up 37 Analysis: How councils can make do with less Finance 43 Helical’s Slade steps down after 31 years 43 In his words: Mike Slade recounts the highs and lows 44 BNP Paribas powers Blackstone in EC2 44 Occupier demand boosts Shaftesbury’s NAV by 22% 45 Randeesh Sandhu: London’s housing bubble Residential 47 Reality pips great expectations 48 Guy Gusterson: The regeneration jigsaw Auctions 51 Barnard Marcus toasts £28m result 51 Allsop offers a brace in Bournemouth 51 Lots fall in October as auction market slows 51 In brief 52 John Townsend: Investors swallow Osborne’s tax bombshell Comment 58 Melanie Leech: Property glues great places together 59 David Shaw: Time to bid for more influence 60 Sir Edward Lister: The mayor sets out a collaborative plan to reclaim east London and its vast potential 61 David Erwin: How are we doing? Observations from the garden Debate 62 Development summit: Make hay Question time 64 London: Trying to win the talent contest In depth 68 Deloitte: Is this the office of the future? Interview 74 Office Group: Two up Focus: Scotland 80 Around the market 82 Investment: A curious case 88 Glasgow offices: Grab your spade 91 Market falls by 25% 92 Retail and leisure: Stuck in the sidings 96 Aberdeen: Into the red over the black stuff 98 Inverness: Highlands abundance 101 Reception: Word on the street Practice & law 102 Business rates: A revolution in devolution? 105 Insolvency: All change for pre-pack sales? 106 APC competency: Avoiding the valuation pitfalls 108 Practice point: Surpreme Court shakes up the law on penalties 108 Practice point: When is a contractual provision an unenforceable penalty? 109 Arbitration: A fast, cost-effective approach to litigation 110 Nicky Richmond: PDR extension brings confusion 111 Legal notes: Contracts – penalty kicks 112 Case summary: Walton and another v Allman 113 Case summary: Shortt and another v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another EG life 214 Free working 216 Events: Retail rouleur 226 Diary   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