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London Post | 11 May 2021 NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY BRINGS CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOPS TO YOUNG PEOPLE IN CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL The extension of the programme to include Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has made been possible by renewed support from Delancey and their new Earls... Download PDF View article

Property W... | 04 May 2021 The go-ahead comes as the Earls Court Development Company – a joint venture between Delancey and Transport for London – plans to unveil its wider masterplan at the Zone 1 location that previously housed the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Download PDF View article

Property W... | 29 April 2021 It is now almost 10 years since the notoriously media-shy boss and founder of Delancey acquired the 67-acre Olympic Village with a view to regenerating it into the mammoth neighbourhood scheme East Village. Now, the member of real estate royalty is turning his attention to the west of the capital, where he is drawing up plans for the former Earls Court exhibition centre, which Delancey and Dutch pension manager APG bought for £425m in late 2019. Download PDF View article

Estates Ga... | 28 April 2021 The London Pensions Fund Authority has provided £50m for the London Fund, backing build-to-rent in the capital. The new finance brings the total capital investment to £150m, against a target of £300m…The fund focuses on BTR alongside affordable housing, regeneration and specialist accommodation, including senior living and co-living. It has provided investment for Delancey and Oxford Residential’s DOOR build-to-rent platform, supporting Get Living’s development at East Village in Stratford and Elephant and Castle. Download PDF

The Stage | 20 April 2021 Underbelly has announced plans to launch a new festival in west London this summer. Located on the site of the former Earls Court 2 Exhibition Centre, the festival is called London Wonderground, the name of a former summer event run by Underbelly on the South Bank. London Wonderground is a partnership between Underbelly and owners of the site, Earls Court Development Company, which operates on behalf of a joint venture between Delancey and Transport for London (TfL). Download PDF View article

Evening St... | 20 April 2021 Acts who prove a hit in Scotland will be on stage as part of London Wonderground, which is set to take over the Earls Court 2 Exhibition Centre from July to September, the site of The Earls Court Development Company which operates on behalf of a joint venture between Delancey and Transport for London (TfL).The free-to-enter event includes a mixture of free and ticketed shows as well as bars, fairground rides and an outdoor beach. Shows will be performed in two indoor venues including a 36-metre Big Top with plans for socially-distanced seating if that is still needed when they open. Download PDF View article

IREI | 9 April 2021 NW1 Partners, a niche-focused value-add real estate investment management firm, has appointed Jon Sandstrom as a principal. Based in New York, Sandstrom will be responsible for sourcing and managing investment opportunities with emerging operating partners on behalf of NW1’s institutional limited partners. Download PDF

Evening St... | 24 February 2021 Football Manager maker Sports Interactive has doubled its office space at Delancey’s London tech hub Here East and taken on more than 50 staff following a lockdown boom in gaming. The developer - which is currently advertising 30 more roles - has signed 26,320sq ft at the campus in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and said its move “demonstrates that appetite for office space is still strong” for growing firms. Download PDF View article

Estate Gaz... | 18 January 2021 NW1 Partners has sold a £50.8m last-mile logistics portfolio to InfraRed Urban Logistics Income Fund. The 261,000 sq ft portfolio comprises eight urban industrial assets predominately located in Greater London and the South East, with two assets in Manchester and Birmingham. Download PDF

Your Local... | 7 January 2021 Company Minerva acquired Delancey two years ago which saw a redesign on an original rejected scheme, which included two towers and 1,000 apartments. Download PDF View article

EG Radius | 30 October 2020 If there has ever been a time to hold on to something positive and celebrate greatness, best practice and just doing something good, it is now. And that’s why we are so happy to announce the winners of this year’s very special EG Awards Download PDF View article

CITY AM | 25 September 2020 London is a great city – and much of it could be on your doorstep Gavin Poole is chief executive of Delancey’s Here East and sits on the advisory board for Tech London Advocates. Download PDF View article

London Pos... | 21 September 2020 Castle Square, the brand-new retail and leisure destination in Zone 1’s Elephant & Castle Town Centre redevelopment by Delancey, will celebrate its opening this weekend (26 and 27 September) . Playing host to a number of Elephant & Castle’s much loved established traders, restaurants and leisure facilities. Download PDF View article

Property I... | 28 August 2020 Delancey and Oxford Properties’ co-investment platform, Delancey Oxford Residential (DOOR), has raised further commitments of £260 million and £150 million for the Get Living portfolio. Download PDF View article

Homes and ... | 28 August 2020 London's most Instagrammable balconies have been revealed — and they include a theatre box style, a jungle-themed space and a poolside retreat. Residents of Delancey’s East Village in Stratford were inspired to make the most of their outside spaces during lockdown after their landlord launched a competition to find the UK’s best balcony. Download PDF

Housing To... | 25 August 2020 Developers Delancey and Oxford Properties have together raised £410m to invest in the build-to-rent developer Get Living, which turned the former athlete’s village on the 2012 Olympic Park in east London into rented homes. Download PDF View article

Property W... | 20 May 2020 Many of us have had trouble sleeping since the lockdown began. Rick de Blaby is no different. As the country ground to a halt, the chief executive of Delancey’s residential investment company Get Living was not only worried about his nearest and dearest, he was also concerned about the 5,000 residents living in the company’s properties. Download PDF

London Pos... | 05 May 2020 Elephant & Castle’s ‘Virtual Community Hub’ (www.communityhubSE1.co.uk)set up by Delancey’s Elephant and Castle Town Centre project team, set up to help locals through the quarantine period, and which has gone from strength to strength since launching five weeks ago, is excited to announce it is adding even more online activities to its free activity line-up this week. Download PDF View article

Evening St... | 16 April 2020 An opera singer has taken to her balcony in London to perform for her neighbours during the coronavirus lockdown. Singer Phoebe Haines sang classical renditions of Amazing Grace and You Raise Me Up on Wednesday evening from her home in London’s Delancey’s East Village in Stratford. Download PDF

VERDICT | 6th March 2020 Just a stone’s throw from London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is Delancey’s Here East. With 3800 people working and studying onsite, the 1.2 million square foot campus is home to an eclectic mix of organisations including BT Sport, University College London, luxury retailer MatchesFashion, charity Scope and Ford Mobility. The site was formerly the media complex for the London 2012 Olympics, the base for the 20,000 journalists from around the world covering the games. However, it was converted by property firm Delancey and Infinity SDC with the aim of reimagining it as a tech hub for East London. Download PDF View article

Estates Ga... | 30 January 2020 Delancey’s Here East is ramping up expansion plans, after successfully adapting the London 2012 Olympics press and broadcasting centre for commercial use.The owners of the Stratford-based office scheme are in talks with landowners in the regions and overseas to set up another Here East. Download PDF View article

Property W... | 12 December 2019 Last week, global construction business Mace launched a new modern method of construction (MMC), High Rise Solutions (HRS)…HRS was officially launched at Delancey’s Get Living’s East Village in Stratford, where it is being used to build the developer’s N06 scheme. Download PDF

Reacy News | 15 November 2019 Capital & Counties has exchanged contracts on the sale of its interests in the Earls Court projects, excluding Lillie Square, to Delancey and Dutch pension fund giant APG for £425m. Completion of the deal is expected to take place before the end of November 2019 and payments will be made to Capco on a phased basis, with 45% payable on completion and the balance over two years. Download PDF View article

City AM | 15 November 2019 More people in London are renting for longer… The rest of the top ten were Delancey’s Elephant Central in Elephant & Castle, Queens Park Place in Queens Park, Alto in Wembley Park, No.16 Sutton Court Road in Sutton and Delancey’s East Village in Stratford. Download PDF

London Pos... | 05 July 2019 Following the loss of its long-term home a few months ago, Dads House – a charity which supports single fathers with the practicalities of raising their children alone – are thrilled to announce they will be setting up a temporary London hub in the former Southwark Works space, in the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. Launching later this summer, the announcement of the new Dads House London outpost comes as the team gets ready to mark the second ever annual National Single Parents Day, today, Wednesday 3 July. Dads House will be visiting Speaker's House in Westminster for a celebration lunch, hosted by Rupa Huq MP and Lord Balfe. At the event, the charity's founder, William McGranaghan, will be presented with an award in recognition of the support Dads House provides single dads. The new drop-in space at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre will offer various support to single fathers. This will range from a cup of tea and a friendly chat, to family law advice surgeries, cooking classes, Saturday morning Dads and kids breakfast clubs and many other sources of help and advice as well as fun social activities. Download PDF

Property W... | 18 April 2019 Build-to-rent operator Get Living is gearing up to launch buildings in London and Greater Manchester. The company, which is backed by Delancey Oxford Residential, APG and Qatari Diar, is readying the 482-unit Victory Plaza tower at its huge East Village development on London’s former Olympic site. Download PDF

Financial ... | 25 January 2019 The East Village from Delancey— which bears no resemblance to its Manhattan namesake — is a purpose-built rental community owned and managed by a single corporate landlord. Its tenants enjoy a full calendar of organised events, on-site maintenance teams and ramped up security. New arrivals do not pay deposits, and can sign up for three-year tenancies. Download PDF

Estates Ga... | 12 December 2018 The Greater London Assembly has approved Delancey and APG’s £1bn redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle shopping centre, SE1. The plans for the phased, mixed-use redevelopment will see the existing shopping centre demolished and replaced with buildings of up to 34 storeys, with 979 homes and commercial space, along with a new Underground station entrance. The decision was taken under delegated authority by the deputy mayor for planning, regeneration and skills, Jules Pipe. Transport for London has a land holding at the site and Sadiq Khan, London mayor and chairman of the TfL board, had a conflict of interest. Download PDF

Property W... | 11 December 2018 Delancey and APG’s Elephant and Castle shopping centre redevelopment plans have been rubberstamped by City Hall. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has approved the £1bn plans, which propose a phased, mixed-use redevelopment of the existing mall and London College of Communications sites. Download PDF View article

BBC One | 26 November 2018 Delancey’s East Village featured in a BBC documentary called ‘Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village.’ Download PDF

Evening St... | 31 August 2018 The curator of this motley mix is a tall, clipped ex-military man with a touch of Daniel Craig in his appearance. He’s been involved with the project since working on the original bid for it seven years ago, when private developer Delancey, which also owns the Olympic village, and its joint venture partner Infinity SDC took it on, beating a host of competitors for the space. Download PDF View article

Time Out | 18 September 2018 Alongside activist initiatives like London Renters Union, a slew of new companies like Delancey’s Get Living are competing for lifestyle renters’ business with big, well-designed spaces made for co-living. Download PDF

Prime Resi | 16 July 2018 Slovakian-based property developer / investor J&T Real Estate has made its first foray into the London development arena, snapping up a significant prime residential scheme next to Tate Modern from Delancey’s client fund Dv4. Download PDF View article

Property W... | 11 July 2018 Delancey and Oxford Properties have formed a new co-investment platform focused on the build-to-rent market with initial capital commitments of £600m, called Delancey Oxford Residential (DOOR). Download PDF View article

Bdaily New... | 05 July 2018 The studios have been delivered through the investment from Delancey’s DV4 fund, the property development company. 80% of the studios will be offered to creative businesses based in the Hackney Wick community. Download PDF

IPE STAFF | 18 May 2018 A joint venture between client funds of real estate investment advisory company Delancey and the LRC Group, sold the Royal Mint Court site, to the People’s Republic of China for an undisclosed sum. Download PDF View article

Evening St... | 18 October 2017 A £3 billion makeover is finally turning one of the capital’s largest ugliest ducklings into a good-looking swan. Elephant and Castle has lost its scary central roundabout and the Heygate housing estate, their grim brutalism replaced by the sleek new Elephant Park development. In the next few years “The Elephant” will also get a new town centre and shopping centre, plus new campuses for London College of Communication and London South Bank University. Download PDF

Evening St... | 23 August 2017 Hundreds of new rental homes have been unveiled at Elephant and Castle, the rapidly regenerating Zone 1 address. Available from next month, 374 stylish and fully furnished flats will be priced for a professional salary from £410 per week – so they’re not cheap, but they are definitely convenient and come with flexible contract terms plus “lifestyle extras”. Operated by Get Living London, which established the capital’s first purpose-built neighbourhood for renters at Stratford on the site of the former Olympic Athletes’ Village, the development is at the heart of the bustling south-of-the-river regeneration area, next to two Tube stations and on the cycle superhighway. Download PDF

Bisnow | 24 July 2017 The main plank of this is the former Athletes’ Village, where 3,000 residential apartments were created once the athletes moved on…Delancey is again involved, purchasing 1,500 of the units for £500M alongside Qatari Diar and using it as a platform to create one of the U.K.’s first large-scale private rented sector owners and managers, Get Living London, providing apartments leased at full-market rent. Download PDF

City AM | 5 June 2017 Plexal is a joint venture between ENTIQ (the accelerator specialists behind Level39), DV4 (Delancey’s evergreen investment fund), and Claire Cockerton who was founding CEO of fintech firm Innovate Finance. Download PDF

Property W... | 22 March 2017 The developer purchased the 200,000 sq ft tower and the 250,000 sq ft St George’s Walk development site – including the listed Segas House – from Minerva, which is owned by funds advised by Delancey and Ares Property Partners. Download PDF

Business I... | 27 October 2016 Plexal has been developed by technology consultancy firm Entiq and British property developer Delancey, who bought the Olympic Village with the Qatari ruling family in 2011. Download PDF View article

Property W... | 22 September 2016 Developers: Delancey, Diar, Triathlon Homes and the Olympic Development Authority. East Village - formerly known as the Athletes’ Village - represents regeneration on a massive scale. The unprecedented investment gifted to east London by the London 2012 Olympic Games has enabled some 2,818 homes to be created on the 27-hectare site next to the Westfield shopping centre, Stratford International railway station and the Olympic Park. Download PDF View article

Business M... | 1 August 2016 A proposal to remodel and refurbish the historic building, called Royal Mint Court, has received planning permission from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, reports CityAM. The plans by Delancey and the LRC Group, are for a campus of five buildings with a mix of office, retail and leisure space over a 5.2-acre site. Download PDF View article

Business I... | 25 July 2016 The investment arm of Delancey, a British property developer that bought the Olympic Village with the Qatari ruling family in 2011, has teamed up with the technology consultancy firm Entiq to launch what it says will be Europe's largest "technology innovation centre. Download PDF

Evening St... | 25 May 2016 The first detailed images of the plans for the transformation of the notorious Elephant and Castle shopping centre have been unveiled.…The area is undergoing a wider £3 billion regeneration. Subject to planning permission from Southwark council, construction on the latest proposals could start in early 2018 and be finished by the end of 2021. Jamie Ritblat, chief executive of developer Delancey, which is behind the scheme alongside pension fund asset manager APG, said: “Our ambition is to create a new and improved town centre for Elephant and Castle, one which complements, celebrates and builds upon the existing diversity and vibrancy that this key Zone 1 location is already so renowned for. Download PDF

Evening St... | 09 July 2015 Jamie Ritblat, chief executive of developer Delancey which is behind the scheme alongside APG, said: “The exhibition will show for the first time our emerging plans to deliver a fantastic new town centre at the heart of Elephant and Castle. Download PDF View article

Property W... | 24 June 2015 Delancey’s fund DV4 and European pension fund asset manager APG have formed a partnership with University of the Arts London (UAL) to provide a new campus for its London College of Communication at Elephant and Castle… Jamie Ritblat, on behalf of Delancey and APG, said: “It is our ambition to build upon the vibrant culture of the area and excellent zone one transport links to create a thriving new destination for London and the local community – complete with world class educational and cultural facilities, increased residential provision and an improved retail offer. Download PDF

Estates Ga... | 14 March 2015 Cathay Life has completed its acquisition of the Walbrook, EC4, from Delancey and Ares Management’s Minerva.It is the second major UK acquisition completed by the Taiwanese life insurer following its purchase of the Woolgate Exchange, EC2, last year. Download PDF View article

Property W... | 16 January 2015 Industry heavyweights Barwood and Delancey have joined forces to launch a new industrial and logistics developer, with ambitions to rival the likes of SEGRO and Prologis in the sheds market. Jamie Ritblat's Delancey has bought a 60% share in Barwood's development arm Barwood Development Limited (BDL) to form the new property development company, called DB Symmetry. Download PDF

Evening St... | 03 December 2013 South London’s notorious Elephant & Castle shopping centre - once famously painted bright pink to make it less depressing - has been sold to developers for £80m million...The new joint owners, property company Delancey were also involved in converting the Olympic Park’s Athletes Village into a new residential area called East Village where tenants started moving in last week. Download PDF View article

16 May 201... | 16 May 2013 The former Olympic broadcast studio, which was home to 20,000 members of the media during the Games, will be converted into one of Europe’s largest data storage facilities…A 200 year lease was today signed between the Mayor’s Olympic legacy and iCITY, a consortium of Infinity and property developers Delancey which also owns half of the Olympic village. Download PDF

Financial ... | 15 March 2013 With Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund Qatari Diar, Delancey will turn the Olympic Village into new private housing, from studio apartments to four-bedroom town houses. The Qatari Diar-Delancey consortium paid £557m in 2011 to take on the 1,439-home project, now known as the East Village. It’s a big deal for Ritblat but it will also help determine the success or otherwise of the Olympic legacy, and is being closely watched by government, which wants to widen the private rented sector. Download PDF View article

Financial ... | 22 February 2013 Meanwhile, the former athletes’ village, rechristened East Village, is being converted into some 2,800 apartments by QDD, a joint venture between Qatari Diar and Delancey. Download PDF View article

The Times | 28 November 2012 Sir John, whose son Jamie Ritblat’s Delancey Real Estate manages the DV4 fund that owns Alpha Plus, said: “I have always liked education and been heavily involved in it — and when we bought Alpha we thought it was a very attractive addition to our main business, which is developing shop, offices and homes. Download PDF View article

The Daily ... | 30 June 2011 The London property developer Minerva has recommended a £202.6m offer from a consortium led by Delancey and private equity group Area Property Partners. Download PDF View article

Growth Bus... | 17 December 2007 Alpha Plus, a group of independent schools, colleges and nurseries throughout the UK, has been acquired by property investment specialist Delancey. Download PDF View article

Design Wee... | 30 June 2005 Dickins & Jones has assigned the building’s lease, which runs until 2038, to Shearer Property Group and Delancey Estates. These companies are planning to redevelop the site with a combination of retail, office and residential units and will start work next January. The two remaining Dickins & Jones stores in Richmond and Epsom will continue to trade. Download PDF View article

The above are selective press articles, reflecting news announcements from Delancey, as well as initiatives and activities being undertaken by Delancey client related platform businesses, in respect of client assets.