All Property Week articles in 01 August 2008
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APC Advice - Week 5: Recording your experience
Understanding the competencies is a good start, but you need to record your experience effectively says Jon Lever. Meanwhile, Ben Elder covers the negotiation competency.
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Frontier seals Jenks deal in Milton Keynes
Frontier Estates has let 315,000 sq ft to food marketing company Jenks Sales Brokers at a distribution hub in Milton Keynes.
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Atisreal reshapes London residential team
Atisreal has reshaped its London development and residential consulting group following the decision of current head Nigel Durman to step down.
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Whitbread plots £100m investment drive to exploit downturn
Whitbread has allocated £100m to develop hotels and restaurants on sites prevously earmarked for residential or office development.
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Q Developments gets green light for Southwark scheme
Q Developments has got the go-ahead for a mixed use scheme in London’s Southwark.
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Bank of England interest rate hold labelled ‘ludicrous’ by property industry
The Bank of England rebuffed mounting concerns over the rapidly weakening economy today and held interest rates at 5% to prevent soaring inflation.
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OnlineNovotel hotel comes to Paddington
Development Securities’ and Morley’s is set to open a 206-bedroom four star Novotel hotel at Paddington Central in London next month.
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Everton’s Kirkby plans called in
Plans for Everton and Tesco’s Kirkby stadium and retail scheme have been called in.
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Regis backs away from Grainger bid
Regis Group, the residential property company, has backed away from a bid for Grainger due to current housing market problems.
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Quinlan sells 50% hotel stake to Omani fund
Quinlan Private has sold a 50% stake in its Jurys Inns hotel chain to Oman Investment Fund.
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Ex-Eurohypo duo poach Citigroup debt fund team
A company set up by the former directors of Eurohypo Asset Management has hired a mezzanine debt team from Citigroup ahead of starting up a new fund.
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Thornfield to revise its Smithfields plans following rejection
Thornfield is to re-submit revised proposals for its redevelopment of Smithfield’s market in London following the decision this morning by the secretary of state to reject its scheme.
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Local Shopping REIT plans 2009 shopping trip
Local Shopping REIT, the real estate investment trust investing in shopping parades, plans to buy when values drop further in 2009.
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Schroders and Stanhope get final green light for Croydon development
The Government has given Schroders and Stanhope the green light to commence the Croydon Gateway development, alongside East Croydon railway station.
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OnlineGE pomotes Hutchinson to lead International unit
GE Real Estate has promoted Mark Hutchinson to president of its GE Real Estate International division.
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OnlineThornfield Properties loses battle to develop Smithfield Meat Market
Thornfield Properties and the City of London’s plans to redevelop the famous Smithfield market are in disarray after Hazel Blears rejected the scheme.
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Hammerson confident but rent free periods spiral
Hammerson said that it expected its income to increase significantly due to developments completed this year, but incentives it is offering to retail and office tenants are increasing rapidly.
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Southampton housing scheme gets go ahead after five year legal battle
The High Court has paved the way for a 184-apartment scheme near Southampton after ruling the local council ‘irrationally’ withheld consent for a road which was vital to the scheme.
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Cheapside attracts US law firm
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has agreed to take 75,000 sq ft at 107 Cheapside in the City of London in the second large deal agreed within two weeks.
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Notorious Johnson family members jailed for UK's biggest heist
Five members of the notorious Johnson family, who once bragged that they would gladly steal from “sirs and ladies”, stole antiques worth tens of millions of pounds. Their biggest burglary, at a mansion owned by the property developer Harry Hyams, brought them a haul estimated by art experts to be ...
