Piers Wehner

  • Knight Frank targets Asian investors

    Knight Frank has set up a Hong Kong overseas development office to sell buy-to-let properties in the British regions to Asian investors.

  • Rift over NAEA seller’s pack u-turn

    Former head Dunsmore-Hardy says body’s opposition to pack is “self-indulgent and damaging. The former chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents has attacked the organisation for its “damaging…

  • Cathedral Group

    Cathedral Group has sold its riverside development site in the Lockmeadow district of Maidstone to Wilson Connolly for £25m. Cathedral received planning permission last month for 195 urban-style apartments, designed…

  • Industry backs Britain’s Olympic bid

    A joint letter on behalf of 230,000 surveyors, engineers, planners and architects has been drawn up in support of the 2012 London Olympic bid.

  • T-Mobile increases presence at Hammersmith Embankment

    T-Mobile has taken a further 15,000 sq ft at the Waterfront building at Hammersmith Embankment Office Park. The company already occupies 25,000 sq ft on a lease agreed in 2000…

  • Battle waged over Dome housing

    Mayor Ken accuses Prescott of undermining his London Plan strategy to build affordable homes. Mayor Ken Livingstone has claimed the government’s deal for the Millennium Dome threatens his London Plan.

  • T-Mobile dials up more space at Hammersmith office park

    T-Mobile has taken a further 15,000 sq ft at the Waterfront building at Hammersmith Embankment Office Park. The company already occupies 25,000 sq ft on a lease agreed in 2000…

  • Analysts tip operators rather than asset strippers for Somerfield

    Analysts are predicting that bidders for supermarket chain Somerfield will probably run the chain as a going concern, despite the unrealised value of the company’s property portfolio.

  • Developer attacks Livingstone’s waterfront policy

    Capital & Provident (C&P) has attacked London mayor Ken Livingstone’s proposals to safeguard London’s wharves – a policy that will force C&P to scale back plans for its Peruvian Wharf…

  • Livingstone sparks Dome row over affordable housing

    Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has sparked a fresh row over the Millennium Dome by arguing that the 35% affordable housing allotted for the site is too little.

  • Mayor’s wharf protection plans set to scupper riverside schemes

    Plans to comprehensively redevelop some of east London’s waterfront sites will be blocked by new proposals to safeguard wharves. The policy, unveiled this week by mayor of London Ken Livingstone,…

  • Civil service move will jeopardise Victoria schemes

    The Victoria office market has been dealt a severe blow by Gordon Brown’s Budget announcement that in excess of 20,000 civil servants could be relocated to the regions.