All Property Week articles in 13 August 2004
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Bristol office plan unveiled
Royal London Asset Management today unveiled plans for a 360,000 sq ft (33,444 sq m) flagship office scheme at a site on Temple Way in the heart of Bristol city-centre.
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LandSecs and Slough ponder industrial/retail swap
Land Securities today announced it was in exclusive discussions with Slough Estates to swap its £400m industrial portfolio for a selection of the shed specialist’s £600m retail assets.
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Equion and Amey clinch £45m south-west court contract
John Laing subsidiary Equion and support services company Amey today announced they had signed a £45m PFI contract to build, finance and manage two courts in Bristol and Somerset.
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£51.3m Channel Islands share swoop
C.I Traders, the largest operator of retail and leisure sector businesses in the Channel Islands, today announced it is to buy Jersey-based property investor ComProp for £51.3m.
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Center Parcs secures funding for expansion
Center Parcs, the upmarket UK holiday park operator, today announced it had secured £28m of capital to invest in its four centres over the next three years.
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PFM in takeover talks
Property Fund Management, one of the UK’s two quoted specialist property fund managers, is in takeover talks with an undisclosed party, it was announced yesterday.
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Morley launches £1bn European expansion
Morley Fund Management announced today that it intends to invest up to £1bn in property in continental Europe.
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Hearts FC to sell stadium
Edinburgh-based football club Heart of Midlothian today announced it had entered into a conditional agreement to sell its Tynecastle football ground to property developer Cala Management for around £22m.
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Lend Lease chief: expect faster growth next year
Lend Lease chief Greg Clarke, today told investors to expect an acceleration in growth in 2006/2007, as the company announced a convincing return to profitability in the last financial year.
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Downing secures Home Office for Liverpool
Downing, the Merseyside-based private property company, today announced it had secured the biggest office letting in Liverpool city-centre this year.
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NAI Fuller Peiser wins Battersea Park Centre instruction
NAI Fuller Peiser, the property consultancy company, today announced it had won the instruction to sell Battersea Park Centre in south-west London.
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Warner sells £16m office to fund
Property investment company Warner Estate Holdings today announced it had sold a £16m office building from its core portfolio to its Skipper Regional Office Fund.
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Sainsbury's buys northern convenience store chain
Sainsbury’s today announced it had added a further 114 stores to its expanding regional portfolio, with the acquisition of independent convenience store chain Jacksons.
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City office take-up slump
Office take-up in the City of London fell by almost a third in July, but demand for space in the City fringe remains robust, according to the latest Ingleby Trice Kennard Floorspace Survey.
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CBRE named as Swiss Re joint agent
Swiss Re, the owners of one of the most recognisable City landmarks, 30 St Mary Axe, EC3, has enlisted the services of CB Richard Ellis as joint letting agent.
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Millennium pulls out of New York’s Plaza Hotel
Millennium & Copthorne, the UK hotel operator, is to pull out of New York’s famous Plaza Hotel, it was announced this morning.
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Who’s suing whom
Tesco seeks damages On 8 June 2004, Tesco Stores sued its solicitor, Berwin Leighton, for damages in relation to an alleged breach of contract and negligence in advising on the purchase of a property at Ash Road, Litherland, Sefton.
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MarketsThe white stuff
Suffolk’s flat rural landscape is an unlikely setting for the world’s largest indoor ski slope, but that is what developer Onslow is proposing as the centrepiece for a scheme just outside Ipswich.
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InsightOpposite number
The Tories hope to woo back their traditional allies in the property industry. Shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin tells former Lobby correspondent Christine Eade his views on Stamp Duty and subterfuge, economic policy and planning. Photographs by Toby Glanville
