City core
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Safra selected for Gherkin
A company controlled by the Brazilian banking billionaire Safra family has been selected as preferred bidder to buy the Gherkin, EC3
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Derwent serves up Conran and Atherton
Derwent has secured two of London’s best-known restaurateurs for its Turnmill development in Clerkenwell, EC1.
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Deutsche Bank shelves mega City consolidation
Deutsche Bank is in talks to regear several of its major London leases, kicking the City’s longest-running office requirement into the long grass for a further five years.
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TIAA-Henderson opens Can of Ham
TIAA-Henderson Real Estate is close to agreeing a lease surrender that will pave the way for the long-stalled Can of Ham at 60-70 St Mary Axe, EC3, to start on…
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Deals: 1 November 2014
Singapore-based Ho Bee Land, through subsidiary HB St Martins Pte, has paid £43.9m – a 3.8% yield – for 60/62 St Martin’s Lane, WC2.
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99 Bishopsgate 100% let
Brookfield Property Partners’ 99 Bishopsgate, EC2, is now 100% let after MBIA Insurance signed a lease for 4,459 sq ft of office space
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Ping An leads life insurers piling into City
Chinese life insurance companies are on track to invest close to £1bn in London this year after Ping An went under offer to buy Tower Place, EC3.
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Fubon Life closes in on City scheme
A Taiwanese life insurer is in pole position to buy LondonMetric’s trophy City development One Carter Lane, EC4.
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Westminster city council unveils MacQueen successor
Ben Denton is to replace Rosemarie MacQueen at Westminster city council.
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AXA tops up Bevis Marks
AXA Real Estate and BlackRock have leased a further two floors at 6 Bevis Marks, EC3.
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Acciuga to open in Farringdon
A new Italian Restaurant Acciuga is to open at Smithfield Eatery, 62-63 Long Lane, EC1, opposite the new Farringdon Crossrail station.
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Acciuga tucks into Smithfield
Italian restaurant Acciuga is to open at 62-63 Long Lane, EC1, opposite the site for the new Farringdon Crossrail station.