All Property Week articles in 07 September 2007
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OnlineRok gets go ahead for Wilmslow offices
Rok Development has got the go ahead for a £60m office scheme at Wilmslow Office Park, in Cheshire.
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Safeland grows Flexspace fund
Fund manager Safeland has grown its active management fund to £200m.
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US REIT in £160m Brum buy
US REIT Liberty Property Trust and Doughty Hanson have bought the Blythe Valley Park business park in Solihull from British Land for £161m.
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OnlineJaguar Capital sells 60 St Mary’s Axe
Irish company Jaguar Capital has sold 60 St. Mary’s Axe to Invesco for around £41.75m at a net initial yield of 4.6%.
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Halabi faces £70m bill
The intrigue surrounding Simon Halabi and his health and fitness-club chain Esporta deepened this weekend as it emerged that the Société Générale bank lent him more than £70m in its £475m acquisition. Sunday Times
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Highcross buys Kenmore Homes
Highcross has bought residential property developer Kenmore Homes for an estimated £20m. Sunday Times
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Credit crunch hits buy-to-let lending
A Morgan Stanley-backed lending specialist set to raise its rates on prime buy-to-let products in the first sign that the global credit crisis could impact on the main UK mortgage market. Financial Times
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Tchenguiz and Gadaffi in Libya defence tie-up
Vincent Tchenguiz has signed a $20m (£9.8m) agreement with Colonel Muammer Gadaffi’s government to help foreign defence and aerospace groups to operate in Libya. Financial Times
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Housebuilding drop-off casts doubt over Brown’s target
Gordon Brown’s drive to increase the pace of housebuilding is looking increasingly unrealistic, as figures show a drop-off in housing starts in the first half. Financial Times. The Sunday Telegraph
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HIP pain persists as net widens
Homes information packs has been plagued with teething problems since their launch last month, with many of the first packs having to be scrapped because they have been deemed invalid. The Sunday Telegraph. The Times. The Daily Telegraph. Financial Times
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Foxtons tycoon’s subterranean Kensington palace
Jon Hunt, who who earlier this year sold the Foxtons estate agency for £390mi, is to give his own property an extraordinary makeover. The Sunday Telegraph
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Banks freeze City recruitment
Investment banks in the City of London have stopped hiring staff as they wait and see how the credit crisis plays out. The Daily Telegraph
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Real estate faces £10bn writedown
CB Richard Ellis is to wipe up to £10bn off the value of Britain’s commercial property market when it carries out its quarterly valuations at the end of September. The Sunday Telegraph
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Crunch time for Qataris and Sainsbury’s
Delta Two is understood to have been given the green light from Qatar to increase the cash component of its £10.6bn bid for Sainsbury’s as it seeks to gain access to the supermarket group’s books later this week. The Sunday Telegraph. The Times
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Hermes St James's deal collapses
IVG Asticus has pulled out of £150m deal for a prestigious Hermes site in the heart of London’s West End because of the recent hiatus in the market.
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Candys' Middlesex hospital gets green light
The Candy brothers' CPC Group were last night given planning permission for their 891,000 sq ft scheme at the site of the former Middlesex hospital. Westminster City Council unanimously approved the scheme after it was reported on propertyweek.com last Wednesday that the application was likely to pass through with ...
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EPRA 2007: Asia fallout from debt crisis
World-wide liquidity problems are starting to hit Asia’s top real estate markets, warned Jones Lang LaSalle chief executive for Asia, Peter Barge at the EPRA conference in Athens this morning.
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EPRA 2007: Credit crunch to lead to London office freeze
Large office requirements from financial institutions in London are likely to be put on hold as assessments are made on the affects of the global credit crunch, JP Morgan Cazenove warned today.
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Candys move into Rodeo Drive
Candy Candy has opened its first office in Los Angeles to manage sister company CPC’s 8 acre site development.
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Town Centre Securities to make REIT conversion
Leeds-based investment and development company Town Centre Securities announced plans to convert to a REIT this morning.
