All Property Week articles in 09 September 2005
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London’s Dolphin Square estate sells for £190m
US property fund manager Westbrook has completed its acquisition of Dolphin Square, London’s biggest single private flat building. The package is expected to be worth more than £190m.
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Reit plans £700m Indian venture
Reit Asset Management, the private property investment company headed by Leo Noé and Kevin McGrath, is planning a £700m drive into the fast-growing Indian property market.
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MarketsTaylor Woodrow
Taylor Woodrow and Gallagher Estates are to deviate from Milton Keynes’ grid system with their Broughton Gate scheme (pictured).
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Switched on
When Chris Armon-Jones went to France to become chairman of Drivers Jonas’s Paris office, he was looking forward to some Parisian sophistication.
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The Scilly season
The Hell Bay Hotel on the tiny island of Bryher in the Isles of Scilly has had one of its best-ever seasons thanks to the ‘property boys’ from London.
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MarketsReading for the off
In the face of local criticism over delays, Amec is now set to develop its Chatham Place site in Reading as a phased mixed-use scheme.
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Networkers
Rogers Chapman’s Thames Valley Office was established in 1994. Its roots are in agency and landlord and tenant work, but it now also provides building surveying, rating and valuation services, and development and investment advice.
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Show them the money
The London Thames Gateway UDC could benefit from more funding, says Doug Morrison
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OnlineProperty software and new media
Digital dictation software can save property firms thousands of pounds
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MarketsThe market in minutes
Sean McAllister gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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ProfessionalThe power list
Over the next seven pages, Mark Jansen, Mark Shepherd and Ettie Neil-Gallacher reveal the findings of a poll they have conducted to find the property industry’s 50 most influential professional and legal figures. Illustration by Ed McLachlan
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Land Securities
Land Securities this week opened the final phase of its £140m Whitefriars shopping scheme in Canterbury. It features 450,000 sq ft (41,800 sq m) of retail and 35 flats. Leslie Furness and Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker are the letting agents.
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Labours Land Tax raid
Should developers pay a levy for planning consent or will the planning gain supplement be a tax too far for the industry?
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MarketsAn Italian job
The arrival of Ferrari at Slough Trading Estate has transformed the park’s image from drab to sexy. Sean McAllister reports
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MarketsThe inquisition
The RICS’s Assessment of Professional Competence system is under fire. Claer Barrett reports on the bane of every graduate surveyor and meets two graduates and their mentors about to undergo the annual trial (overleaf). Photographs by James Winspear
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Mapeley and Highcross race for IBM outsourcing
IBM has shortlisted three bidders, including Mapeley and Peter Gubb’s Highcross, for the £120m sale and leaseback of its UK property estate.
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Hammerson and Savills’ share surge
After a customarily quiet holiday period, property shares soared in the last week of August.
