All Property Week articles in 14 July 2000
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Markets
Working with your socks off
Interactive online training could make traditional training methods a thing of the past. Regus brought new meaning to working from home when it introduced its online learning system two months ago.
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Markets
Unwritten rules
With the government set to give electronic contracts the same standing as written ones, many things could soon change in the property world.
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Professional
Space odyssey
Surveyors may preach the benefits of space management but they are on a voyage of discovery when it comes to appreciating what flexible workspace can do for them.
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Markets
Keeping up with the Joneses
Jones Lang LaSalle unveils its new hi-tech offices next month. Liz Hamson was given a sneak preview
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News
Hyams protests 'will not stop MEPC sale'
Joint venture company is confident of shareholders' agreement to takeover by 27 July
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Insight
Growing pains
Competition within the telecoms sector has become ferocious as firms continue to expand rapidly, and demand customised space. Tim Danaher reports in how MCI WorldCom can teach others with similar requirements
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News
GPE sells off industrial stock
Great Portland Estates sold off another big chunk of its non-core assets this week with a £120m sale of industrial properties to REIT Asset Management . The company, currently the subject of a string of takeover rumours, has sold off a 300,000 sq m (3.2m sq ft) industrial and ...
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Professional
The thin end of the wedge
This year’s Finance Bill improved the regime for Capital Gains Tax Taper Relief, but the various age limits, time limits and datelines could present risks for the unwary
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News
Wharf rise props up Real Estate during dull week
Paul Reichmann's prediction that Canary Wharf would be fully let within 18 months was beautifully timed last week to coincide with the placing of a large line of the company's shares. Stockbroker Cazenove placed 24m shares around 3.5% of the issued capital at 392.5p on Friday, ...
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News
Retail fall drags property down
Further evidence that the property market is slowing down was shown this week, with news that half-year total returns on the Insignia Richard Ellis Monthly Index were 5.4%, down from 7.1% in the second half of 1999. The monthly growth in all-property capital values in June was just 0.1%, ...
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News
North-west turn-off for developers
New regional planning guidance for the north-west could drive developers away from the region, agents have warned. The draft guidance, published last week, imposes the sequential test on all types of commercial development, with the aim of encouraging development on brownfield sites in east Manchester and in Liverpool. Insignia Richard ...
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Markets
Dearth inspires developers
Limited office space is leading to a new wave of speculative developments.
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Markets
At the cutting edge
Development in Sheffield has long been held back by investor indifference and an obstructive city council. Now an initiative involving a US architect and urban regeneration company Sheffield One has been given the chance to change all that.
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News
Regent Street keeps the Crown Estate on its throne
Estate announces 'very satisfactory' performance and sets ambitious targets for next year
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Insight
Offices under control
The latest research from Johnsons Controls shows that despite rising costs following recent rent reviews and Business Rates office occupancy has remained static. Gardiner & Theobald research shows that tender prices are also remaining flat
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Insight
Key to the cities
New company CitiKey had no trouble finding space in any of the major European cities... until it reached London.
