All Property Week articles in 11 July 2008
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NewsTrevor Wood gets a soaking
Trevor Wood, of Trevor Wood Associates, is drenched with wet sponges after losing a vote at the Belfry for Accessible Retail golf day.
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Planning Bill continues progression
The Planning Bill continued its passage onto the statute books early this morning when it received its second reading in the House of Lords.
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Treveria eyes up split from Dawnay Day
The largest AIM-listed property fund managed by troubled financial and property company Dawnay Day is weighing up whether to split from the company.
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Hypo provides €138m refinancing package in Germany
Hypo Real Estate has provided €138m (£109m) of financing to GREP, an investment vehicle advised by Geneva-based investor Even Capital to refinance a large German property portfolio.
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NewsThe Yorkshire Grand Prix
Development specialists Severfield-Reeve Projects were joined by Leeds’ top property professionals as they hosted the first Yorkshire Grand Prix.
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Henry Boot scores Stoke-on-Trent shed letting
Henry Boot Developments has pre-let the final phase of its Meir Park development in Stoke-on-Trent.
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Raven Russia ties JV knot in St Petersburg
Raven Russia has struck a joint venture agreement to develop a $216m (£107m) warehousing scheme near St Petersburg.
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JLL Hotels opens in Sao Paulo
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels has extended its reach to Brazil following the opening of an office in Sao Paulo.
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OnlineLDA in need of radical reform
The London Development Agency is ‘ineffective’ and must be ‘redefined radically’, a report commissioned by the Mayor said today. The Forensic Audit Panel, chaired by former Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft, said there are failings in the LDA’s ‘leadership, governance and basic controls.’
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LandSecs clears up short-term financing as market slows
Land Securities said today that it had reduced the amount of short-term debt it has to repay, as the slowdown in the property market continued.
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LaSalle’s Bremen buy
LaSalle Investment Management has purchased a trio of offices at Airport City Bremen, Germany, for its €1bn (£793m) German Income & Growth Fund.
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Vultures start to circle Dawnay Day trust
Activist investor Laxey Partners has snapped up almost 8% of Dawnay Day Sirius.
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OnlineBallymore wins consent for Minoco and Baltimore Wharves
Ballymore has won planning consent for two large developments in East London
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OnlineDTZ poaches JLL research guru McGough
DTZ has poached Jones Lang LaSalle’s director of forecasting and the economy Tony McGough.
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Margin calls force more Dawnay Day share sell-offs
The embattled owners of Dawnay Day have been forced to sell off more shares in the AIM-listed property trusts they manage.
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Thames Valley occupational deals 59% down
The Thames Valley occupational market could follow the downwards spiral of the investment market in the region, with take-up in the second quarter of this year down by 59%, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
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Gloomy forecast for capital values
Property professionals believe capital values will fall by more than another 10% this year.
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Jurys booked in for Hammerson’s £250m Aberdeen scheme
Jurys Inn has been confirmed as the operator of a 203-bed hotel in the heart of a £250m regeneration project in Aberdeen.
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NewsThe 2008 RICS and Macdonald & Company Continental European Salary Survey
Win free tickets to MIPIM next March by filling in the second Continental European Salary and Benefits Survey conducted by the UK’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and property recruitment consultancy Macdonald & Company.
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OnlineSir Simon Milton lined up for deputy mayor job
Boris Johnson has nominated Sir Simon Milton to be his deputy mayor for policy and planning.
