All Property Week articles in 14 April 2000
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Markets
Unhappy union
Norwich Union s merger with CGU will flood the office market with second-hand space just as a swathe of 25-year leases expire. Is it all gloom in Norwich?
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Markets
Offices Opportunities in refurbishment
The office market in Norwich is centred on the limited availability of newer offices.
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News
Lift for Leeds office market with pre-let
hermes and St James Securities are close to securing a pre-let at their speculative office development at Wellington Place in Leeds city centre. The developers are in discussions with consulting firm Watson Wyatt to take 1,300 sq m (14,000 sq ft) at the 2,800 sq m (30,000 sq ft) ...
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Professional
Opportunity knocks
Jones Lang LaSalle director Duncan Preston clears his diary for two days a week in order to organise himself better. Renée Barnes reports on how his life has improved
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News
Helaba replaces team
German bank Helaba has found replacements for its lending team, which left in February to join rival Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank, by poaching two key players from Halifax 's commercial property team. Peter Wilson, former head of commercial property lending at the Halifax, and senior property manager Chris Alsop will both join ...
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Insight
Strikes, gales and gravestones
US bank Merrill Lynch has had to cope with a myriad of obstacles as it builds its £100m new City headquarters. Giles Barrie discovers the lessons that other occupiers large and small can learn from its experiences
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Professional
Provision for the future
Act now to minimise the effects of the new Inland Revenue proposals for personal pensions
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Markets
Milton Keynes Stage is set for further growth
Momentum has been maintained across all sectors of the market.
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Markets
New frontiers
For years more cruel elements of society said that Milton Keynes should be blown up, but now it is set to explode in quite a different way. Stuart Watson looks at how the town s plans to become a hive of commercial activity are finally taking shape
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News
E-upheaval prompts Oracle to release space in Reading
IT giant Oracle is poised to release space at Thames Valley Park in Reading as part of a plan to streamline its worldwide property holdings. The move, which is in dramatic contrast to the massive lettings over the past few weeks to Cisco and MCI WorldCom in the town, is ...
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News
West End frenzy fills Shell-Mex
Witkoff s £300m scheme full one year before completion as tenants sign up for entire 480,000 sq ft
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News
Puddle Dock scheme makes a splash
Malory Clifford s Blackfriars Investments lodged an application to develop 2 Puddle Dock on the former site of the Mermaid Theatre, last Friday. The 27,500 sq m (296,000 sq ft) office building, being developed by Blackfriars and Frogmore Estates , is designed by Alsop & Störmer. The scheme is part ...
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News
Lease proposals could spell disaster, warn retailers
Retail organisation hits out at Accounting Standards Board s plans for leases, but RICS, NACORE and IPF support change
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News
Developers in two-way Paddington tower tussle
Landowners battle it out to submit planning applications before the capital s new mayor gets involved
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Markets
Industrial: sustained and improved demand is driving the market forward
Activity in the Norwich industrial and warehousing market is dominated by Broadland Business Park to the east, Longwater Business Park to the west and Gateway 11 at Wymondham, south of Norwich. Bespoke premises for occupiers have been completed at all three schemes. Sustained, improved demand throughout the Norwich area drives ...