Built Environment Networking Blog: South East News

Kadans secures planning consent for purpose-built laboratory and office building at Merlin Place, Cambridge

Kadans Science Partner has received planning approval from Cambridge City Council for the development of a new, purpose-built laboratory and office building at Merlin Place, Cambridge, a new Gateway Building for the Cambridge North Cluster. The six-storey 139,000 sq ft building allows for full flexibility from a single to multi tenant split. The design includes south-facing balconies […]

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Kennedy Wilson acquires premier office campus on the South Coast in £61m deal

Global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson has acquired Forum, a wholly-owned institutional quality office campus for $81 million. Located on the South Coast of the UK, midway between Southampton and Portsmouth, the Forum includes 252,000 square feet of office space across five buildings on a picturesque 30-acre site with lakes, trails, and lush landscaping. […]

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Kennedy Wilson adds Two UK Industrial Warehouse Assets

Global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson has acquired two industrial warehouse assets in the UK totaling c. 181,500 square feet via separate transactions. The properties occupy prime distribution locations within the UK’s logistics Golden Triangle and core South-East market. Situated only eighteen miles north-east of central London, the single-let unit at Westside Business Park […]

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King’s Oak to acquire McKay Securities residential conversion in £19m deal

McKay Securities Plc (McKay), the only UK REIT specialising entirely in the South East and London office, industrial and logistics markets, announces that it has exchanged contracts to sell the freehold interest of Great Brighams Mead, a prominent office building located in Reading’s town centre, to residential property developer King’s Oak. The sale price of […]

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Kingsbridge Estates acquires strategic logistics development site at Segensworth, near Southampton

Leading commercial property developer Kingsbridge Estates has completed the purchase of a 4.7-acre site at Segensworth, near Southampton, and will bring forward plans to deliver a new industrial development. The Chichester-based developer, working with a joint venture partner, has acquired Chartwell Court and proposes to submit a planning application to develop a new 110,000 sq.ft […]

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L&G and Oxford University set to deliver accommodation as part of £4bn partnership

Legal & General and Oxford University are pleased to announce that they have agreed the development of Court Place Gardens, an estate containing new postgraduate homes specifically designed for families, as part of Legal & General and Oxford University’s £4bn partnership. The development of Court Place Gardens, in Iffley, Oxfordshire, is the first residential site […]

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L&G buys six UK industrial estates from CBRE Investment Management

Legal & General (L&G) has acquired a portfolio of six UK industrial estates from CBRE Investment Management for an undisclosed amount. CBRE Investment Management, which sold the Porto Portfolio on behalf of a separate account client, said the 403,087sqft portfolio comprises multi-let industrial estates located in Oxford, Maidstone, Southampton, Huntingdon, Bristol and Gloucester. Richard Dean, the […]

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Land at Preston Down Road, Paignton

Boyer’s Cardiff and Bristol office are pleased to have secured Full Planning Permission for up to 101 dwellings (including 30 affordable homes) on either side of Preston Down Road, Paignton on behalf of Torbay Development Agency (TDA). The landscape-led development will deliver a broad range of high-quality accommodation in the form of a variety of […]

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Legal and General IM acquires 6.2-acre site for logistics scheme

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM Real Assets) has acquired a 6.2-acre freehold estate in Horsham, West Sussex on behalf of its Industrial Property Investment Fund (“IPIF”). LGIM Real Assets and its development partner, Graftongate, plan to speculatively develop a prime multi-unit industrial/logistics scheme on the site of Wilberforce House in Southwater, south of Horsham […]

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