All Property Week articles in 13 October 2000
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Markets
Shorefront success
The revival of the waterfront is not confined to the city centre. Further downstream, once-proud industrial areas have become sluggish economic backwaters. But they too are feeling the tug of a new economic tide. Inverclyde council has just clinched outline consent for a £100m shorefront and Town ...
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Markets
A scientific scramble for space
As hi-tech companies crowd Cambridgeshire, rents are reaching peak levels.
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News
Property share performance
The Real Estate Index surged ahead last week to outperform the stock market for the fourth time in five weeks. Real Estate climbed 1.94% to 2152 from 2111, while the All-Share was up 1.22% to 3066. The performance of the week came from MWB Group whose shares jumped 11% ...
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Markets
Outsiders not welcome
The Government Office for the East of England wants to consolidate and relocate in Cambridge, but will Cambridge have it? Regulations barring non-locals from moving within its prestigious city limits may prove the undoing of a massive redevelopment scheme.
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News
Property values lowest in a year
All-Property Capital Values fell by 0.5% in September, cutting monthly total returns to just 0.1%, according to the latest Insignia Richard Ellis Monthly Index. All-property returns, year on year, fell back to 11.1% in September, down from 12.3% the month before their lowest level since ...
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Markets
Only Lion Yard makes a killing
City centre retail lettings have been very low this year with one scheme seeing most of the action.
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Insight
Hooked up, but not hooked in
A survey for Property Week shows that agents are only 'slightly less backward' than lawyers when it comes to using the internet and IT as business tools. Kristina Smith and David Lawson review the survey's findings and look at some of the innovations emerging in the property sector
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Insight
Voice recognition to help property technophobes
After all these years, most people in the property industry still wince at the sight of a computer, writes David Lawson. Training specialist Colin Howman is more polite, preferring to suggest the profession lacks keyboard skills . Not that he worries: in fact the exact opposite, as he ...
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News
Planning guidance review
English Heritage will assess the effectiveness of planning guidance for conservation areas and listed buildings as the next step in its review of historic environment policies. Interviewed by Property Week, English Heritage s chairman Sir Neil Cossons said: The next stage, I think, might be to look at ...
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News
Weatherall Green & Smith ready to sell majority stake
Firm is weeks away from tying up with two international agencies France s Auguste Thouard and Germany s Müller
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Markets
Glasgow's suite success
As IT companies' demand increases in Glasgow, it will be the early bird that catches available supply.
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Markets
Planning: preparation is rife as Scotland exercises new powers
It is now well over a year since the establishment of the Scottish parliament and the transfer of powers to the Scottish Executive. The preparation of development plans continues with the Glasgow and Clyde Valley plan produced in finalised form earlier this year. The plan covers the period up to ...
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News
The Real Estate Index
The Real Estate Index surged ahead last week to outperform the stock market for the fourth time in five weeks. Real Estate climbed 1.94% to 2152 from 2111, while the All-Share was up 1.22% to 3066. The performance of the week came from MWB Group whose shares jumped 11% ...
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News
E-fail for surveyors
A survey for Property Week by the Property Computing Show has shown that all surveyors are using e-mails and the internet on a day-to-day basis at work. However, the results, which came from a survey of 44 surveyors, show that they are failing to use the internet to improve efficiency, ...
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Markets
Hunting down opportunities
Demand and supply for industrial property has been slow, but this is set to change.
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News
Dissidents urged to drop demand for vote
RICS top brass in last-minute plea over proposed merger with Institute of Building Control
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Markets
Demand for riverside homes
One of the biggest surprises on the waterfront is the demand from residential developers for apartment sites. Previous residential development has been fitful, with some schemes having to be scaled back or taking a long time to develop in the face of sluggish demand. But, after years of ...
