Crookshank lets 10,000 sq ft in Cheadle

The Greater Manchester, Merseyside and West Yorkshire pension funds have appointed 27 companies to provide services across their combined £46bn property portfolio, to enable "a more cost-effective approach".

BT’s 175,000 sq ft letting at English Cities Fund's Four New Bailey saw office take-up for the final quarter of 2020 hit 350,000 sq ft, taking the total for the year to 800,000 sq ft, the first time total annual transactions in the city centre have dropped below 1m sq ft since 2013. 

The group bought the 37,300 sq ft industrial property from Guernsey-registered Jolivet Investments for £2.5m.

The financial giant's merchant banking division, working with operating partner Pitmore, has acquired a 918-home portfolio of North West rented houses from Gatehouse Bank.

The £4.5m laser combat venue is looking to open its first UK site later this year after plans to change the use of 25,000 sq ft of units at Barton Square were lodged with Trafford Council. 

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.