The freshly-merged Squire Patton Boggs has appointed a new UK head of real estate litigation, with Andrew Walker joining the firm's Birmingham office to fulfil the role.
Walker (pictured), joined the firm earlier this year from CMS Cameron McKenna. He originally founded CMS' real estate disputes practice, before joining Dundas & Wilson in 2012.
He departed Dundas at the beginning of this year, after it merged with CMS Cameron McKenna.
Nick Green, managing partner of Squires' Birmingham office, said: "Andrew is an experienced, well...
Monday, June 30, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Bank of England's Move to Cool Housing Market Lifts Real-Estate Shares
LONDON—Shares in U.K. housebuilders rallied Thursday after the Bank of England'sFinancial Policy Committee outlined softer-than-expected measures to take the housing market off the boil.Moves
in U.K. real-estate stocks Thursday helped to undo some, but not all,
of the weakness in the sector in the weeks leading up to the report.Persimmon advanced 4.2%, Barratt Developments BDEV.LN +4.79% gained 3.7% and Travis Perkins advanced 3.3%. FTSE 250-listed Taylor Wimpey, TW.LN +5.17%Berkeley Group BKG.LN +3.15% and Bellway BWY.LN +3.88% rose...
Friday, June 20, 2014
Which Foreigners Are Looking to Buy U.S. Homes
All eyes may be currently on Brazil, host of the World Cup 2014 – but Brazilians are increasingly looking at us, or, more precisely, at our real estate.
Brazil
accounted for 4.1 percent of all searches by foreigners for homes on
the real estate website Trulia for the first five months of the year.
That’s up 1.3 percent from the same period last year, according to a new Trulia report.
Related: 10 Affordable Housing Markets—On the Beach!
Brazil
still lags behind some other countries when it comes to searches for
U.S. homes:...
PREIT Announces Multi-Brand Agreement with Expanding International Retailer Retail Group of America
PHILADELPHIA, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT/NYSE: PEI) announced today it has executed leases with Retail Group of America (RGA) to bring its international brands F&F, Flormar and Suite Blanco to the Patrick Henry Mall in
Newport News, VA. The additions demonstrate PREIT's successful
execution of its strategy to improve the quality of its portfolio and
enhance the shopping experience across its properties through the
addition of emerging,...
Crombie REIT announces monthly distribution
Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust ("Crombie") (CRR-UN.TO) today announced a distribution of $0.07417 per unit for the period from June 1, 2014, to and including June 30, 2014. The distribution will be payable on July 15, 2014, to unitholders of record as at June 30, 2014.About Crombie Real Estate Investment TrustCrombie Real Estate Investment Trust is an unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust established under, and governed by, the laws of the Province of Ontario. Crombie currently owns a portfolio of 250 commercial...
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