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Opus North aims to develop the first speculative office building in Leeds city centre for years. By Simon Creasey. Andrew Duncan is a man on a mission. His aim? To develop the first speculative office building in Leeds city centre for years. While some people might view this as a risky endeavour, Opus North director Duncan […]

Danescroft Land, backed by the Palmer Land Opportunity Trust, has bought two adjoining sites for £13m in Bromley-by-Bow, east London, for a major residential-led redevelopment. The first property, Access House on Imperial Street, comprises 1.1 acres with existing offices and warehouse on the ground and first floors totalling around 10,594 sq ft. It was bought from […]

Palmer Capital has formed a joint venture with CBRE Global Investors to launch its latest, and largest, opportunistic fund. The venture capital and fund management firm’s new UK opportunistic and value-add vehicle, Palmer Capital Development Fund III, has taken in £75m from CBRE Global Multi Manager in a first close and aims to grow to […]

Finzels Reach, Bristol Purchaser Cubex & Palmer Capital Type of deal Acquisition from receivership Size 4.7 acres Price Undisclosed Chosen by Julian Harbottle, director, development department, Savills (Bristol) I consider that when Cubex, backed by Palmer Capital, acquired Finzels Reach it could not have sent a more positive message to the market that city-centre mixed-use […]

Location Finzels Reach, former Courage Brewery site Size Total 1m sq ft mixed-use commercial/residential scheme – next phase originally consented for 170,000 sq ft offices, 90,000 sq ft retail Value £150m when fully built Developer Cubex Funder Palmer Capital Status Ongoing review, public realm works on site from January 2014 Completion Mid-2016 After grinding to a […]

Show homes signal progression after previous owners’ abandoned plans. Christine Eade reports Finzels Reach had yet another relaunch on 15 February. To those who attended the site of the derelict brewery buildings in the bend of Bristol’s Floating Harbour, it must have seemed like one more plan in a succession of schemes that never happened […]

Warsaw office is fifth in CEE region for property fund management firm February 26 — Palmer Capital, the commercial property fund management company, has augmented its presence in Central Europe with the opening of a new office in Warsaw. The office is situated in the heart of Warsaw’s business district at 79 ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie […]

With its headquarters in Great Shelford, just south of Cambridge, Wrenbridge has often been taken as an archetypal local developer. It’s a perception chief executive Ben Coles is keen to dispel. “We’ve never been a Cambridge developer,” he says. “We’re a developer based in Cambridge.” This isn’t simply a quibble about semantics. The lack of […]

Palmer Capital and Manse, advised by GVA, have sold a 45,900 sq ft warehouse on the Badentoy industrial estate in Aberdeen to Royal London Property Fund for £7.5m – a 6% yield. The pair have also offloaded 104,600 sq ft at Bilston Glen industrial estate in Edinburgh to Kames Capital UK Active Property Trust for […]