All Property Week articles in 07 October 2005

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  • Online

    LandSecs completes £123m Hatfield Galleria purchase

    2005-10-07T13:30:00Z

    Land Securities completed the purchase of the Galleria Outlet Centre in Hertfordshire from Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners for £123m yesterday.

  • Online

    Nine Queens Moat Houses hotels sell for £100m

    2005-10-07T10:38:00Z

    Jefferson Hotels, a new company created by the multi-millionaire Rosenberg and Landesberg families and Galliard Homes, has bought nine Queens Moat Houses hotels for around £100m.

  • Professional

    Trouble on site

    07 October 2005

    Family division

  • News

    Silverstone

    07 October 2005

    Silverstone racing circuit is set to receive a £600m redevelopment. Developers have been asked to submit bids by the middle of this month and it is understood that property companies including British Land and Helical Bar have expressed interest. Part of the 800 acre (320 ha) site in ...

  • Pastures new: the need for good-quality space and light, airy offices led to an exodus from the agents’ traditional heartland of Hanover Square
    Insight

    The screen test

    07 October 2005

    Plasma television screens have come to symbolise property advisers’ new offices. Over the next six pages, Heather Greig-Smith sees whether their exodus from Hanover Square has been a success (p36-37), and looks at the plans of the next wave of firms to relocate (p38-39). Photographs by Gautier Deblonde

  • Ship shape: Portland Harbour will host the watersports for the Olympics in 2012
    Markets

    Sailing into Weymouth

    07 October 2005

    The 2012 Olympics look set to provide a development dividend for the south coast town. Deirdre Hipwell reports

  • News

    Whip round

    07 October 2005

    It is a tough task judging the Industrial Agents Society awards, trawling the country for two days to find the stars of the sheds world.

  • Markets

    Reuters

    07 October 2005

    News agency Reuters is close to taking 25,000 sq ft (2,322 sq m) at Landmark Developments and Royal London’s Chapel Quarter scheme in central Nottingham. A further 10,850 sq ft (1,008 sq m) is under offer to local radio station Trent FM. Letting agents DTZ and Lambert Smith Hampton ...

  • News

    UK plc

    07 October 2005

    London strengthens position as best city for business Asda buoys Teesport with 20m scheme The laws of attraction Worth their weight in gold Regions to be cheerful

  • News

    Syndicate of private overseas

    07 October 2005

    A syndicate of private overseas investors has sold the freehold interest in a distribution unit in Alconbury Cross, Cambridgeshire, to Legal & General for £12m. The 15,795 sq m (170,000 sq ft) property is let to Westland Horticulture on a 15-year lease expiring in November 2018. The price reflects ...

  • Future perfect: Chancerygate could roll out its Business Centre concept on the site
    Markets

    Swede nothings

    07 October 2005

    Chancerygate has spent more than £9m on a site for which Ikea failed to secure planning permission.

  • Insight

    Networkers

    07 October 2005

    Garner Wood was established in 1987 in Portsmouth and specialises in the commercial property market in the Solent corridor.

  • Professional

    Monitors should be participants, not policemen

    07 October 2005

    There is more to being a development monitor than correcting spelling mistakes, says Paul Boden

  • Coal-fired: the Arkwright surface mine is part of UK Coal’s 50,000 acre portfolio
    Markets

    A rich seam to mine

    07 October 2005

    A consortium is considering a bid for UK Coal, which has a property portfolio worth £260m focused in the east Midlands. Stuart Watson reports

  • Markets

    The market in minutes

    07 October 2005

    Deirdre Hipwell gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region

  • Top priority: second speculative phase at Barlborough Links
    Markets

    The market in minutes

    07 October 2005

    Stuart Watson gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region

  • News

    Could it be Magic?

    07 October 2005

    John Farmer’s GML Estates, the Northern Ireland subsidiary of Orana Group, gathered retail agents at the Four Seasons hotel on London’s Park Lane last week to celebrate its work with Land Securities for the Outlet centre planned at Bridgewater Park near Belfast.

  • Lot 7
    News

    Lots to watch

    07 October 2005

    Jones Lang LaSalle, Langham Hilton hotel, London, 17 October

  • News

    Strong results push MWB to top of share league

    07 October 2005

    Marylebone Warwick Balfour is the best-performing property share of the year so far, topping Property Week’s property share performance league table after the third quarter of 2005. The company surged from 11th place to first after securing £105m of funding for its Malmaison division in July, which it intends ...

  • Professional

    Toyo Ito

    07 October 2005

    Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal, one of architecture’s most prestigious prizes. The medal is awarded each year to a group or architect who has had an international influence. Among the buildings Ito has designed is the Dome Park baseball ...