Nerf edges closer to Trafford Centre opening 

The £900m fund set up by Sigma Capital Group in 2017 has acquired 123 fully-let homes in Walkden from investor Blackrock Real Assets, taking the number of properties in its portfolio to 3,163. 

The specialist in chilled goods logistics has expanded into a new head office and distribution centre at a building owned by the COIF Charities Property Fund.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which trades as CPP Investments, has scooped up the mall’s ownership by exercising share rights as the main secured creditor of the asset’s owner, Intu Trafford Centre Group.

One of the collapsed mall owner Intu Properties’ biggest creditors, Canadian pension fund CPP Investments, is close to agreeing an £800m deal to take over the Greater Manchester shopping centre, the culmination of a five-month marketing process.  

The listed developer has sold an 11,000 sq ft unit at the Bury business park to logistics and distribution firm Youthstar, which is relocating from Cheetham Hill in Manchester. 

Cleland McIver Lifestyle has expanded its footprint at the Rochdale business park by agreeing a 10-lease on the final new-build unit at Plot K.

Estate agent Edward Mellor is selling its town centre headquarters on St Petersgate, a site the company says could be redeveloped into a scheme comprising 250 apartments across three towers. 

The developer, which is working in a joint venture with Oldham Council to deliver the £35m Hollinwood Junction mixed-use scheme, plans to sell a brownfield plot at the site and has sought approval from the council.