Estates Gazette 1537 – 19 September 2015

Estates Gazette 1537 – 19 September 2015 The week 5 Editor’s comment 6 Briefing: MIPIM UK – three days in October News 37 Deutsche snaps up FCA HQ 37 L&G hits the headline as Cycle to MIPIM sponsor 38 Blackstone puts St Enoch on the block 38 Queensberry tucks into demand with Friars Walk sale 38 Osprey on course to sel Navigator portfolio 38 BCSC news in brief 39 Deutsche division zig zags into Victoria 39 Lothbury to forward fund Kampus project 39 Bloomberg tops out new City HQ 39 NCP founders drive £160m portfolio sale 40 The passing of a legend: leaders pay tribute to property industry’s greatest mentor 40 Crosstree set to put on the Ritz 40 Deals 41 Partners pull in to Ashford Quarter 42 Collective action in Stratford 42 Starwood feeds the Beagle with Aldgate sale 42 JLL: London resi boom tailing off 42 Global round-up 43 Analysis: State of the cycle Finance 47 Blackstone goes back to GS 47 Carlyle’s US fund rakes in $4.2bn 47 In brief 48 IPF sees 14% returns as optimism rises 48 Investors chasing demand shrink regional PRS yields 49 Randeesh Sandhu: Where is all this capital coming from? Auctions 51 Risk demand boosts sales 51 Coffee time lord’s lair makes £23,000 51 Auction House London hits 81% in £14.5m sale 51 In brief 54 Nicholas Redman: Commercial auction volumes are on the up Comment 56 Juliette Morgan: The sharing economy needs to become a reality 57 Alistair Elliott: Graduates – don’t rush your career 58 Print publishers left with only M&A to save themselves from the global digital onslaught Question time 60 Manchester – go North and prosper Interview 64 Sherin Aminossehe: Civil fixer 68 Zinzan Brooke: Game on Focus: South West 74 Around the market 78 Exeter and Plymouth: Mixed fortunes 84 The art of regeneration 86 Bristol – running on empty? 90 Bath – blocked pipeline Focus: Auctions 97 Bidding for their betterment 100 Debt finance markets – The loan arranger rides again 102 Alternative assets – Out of the ordinary 106 Money laundering – Clean or dirty? Practice & law 110 Development: easy as MDC? 113 Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC: In the arbitrator’s mind 114 Forfeiture: Waving goodbye to waiver 116 Practice point: A “quaint chancery conceit”, the “hedge and ditch” rule, continues to serve a valuable purpose 116 Practice point: Negative screening opinions and the continuing duty on a local planning authority 117 Litigating against litigants in person 118 Andrew Wallis: Washing hands of dirty money 119 Legal notes: Who’d be a high court judge? 120 Case summary: Westminster City Council v UKI (Kingsway) Ltd and another 121 West Berkshire District Council and another v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government EG life 124 Careers: Climbing to the top 126 EG Awards 2015: The elites emerge 128 Events 129 Mudathon: Property industry plays dirty 138 Diary   Estates Gazette 1536 – 12 September 2015  Estates Gazette 1535 – 5 September 2015  Estates Gazette 1534 – 29 August 2015 Estates Gazette 1533 – 22 August 2015 Estates Gazette 1532 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