All Property Week articles in 15 September 2000
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Markets
The Quay to success
Can South Quay become the new Canary Wharf? Liz Hamson reports on Docklands proposed Millennium Quarter an attempt to extend the prosperity across the dock, solving the area s office space problems
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News
VOA to lead rating system reform
The Valuation Office Agency has been ordered to lead the modernisation of the rating system away from an appeals-based culture. As Property Week predicted (28 July), the Next Steps Review of the agency by the Inland Revenue published this Wednesday concluded that the present system results in excessive costs for ...
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News
Hercules profits leap
Property services firm Hercules increased pre-tax profits by 53% in the year to 30 June on a doubling of turnover to £31.5m. The full-year dividend has been raised by a third to 8.75p a share, which will please shareholders who have seen the support services sector firm s share price ...
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Professional
A web of possible deceit
The e-commerce rollercoaster is gaining momentum, but maybe we need to pause and consider the security issues surrounding the web. Encryption and other measures can improve web security and boost consumer confidence
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Professional
The paperless deal
The high-pressure environment of property deal-making is speeding up. Technology is now enabling the fast-tracking of deals through the system, whereby the quickest mover is most likely to win the deal – and get the best price
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News
Share prices feel pressure from crude oil jitters
A bad week for the stock market last week enabled the property sector to outperform significantly, although it stalled for the second week running. The All-Share Index dropped 2.6% to 3178, as a burst of anxiety about the potential impact on profits of the upsurge in crude oil prices brought ...
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News
Developers eye up Dome as Nomura sale collapses
Legacy, Richardsons and Rotch circle beleagured site as £105m Japanese giant s deal collapses
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Markets
City Fringes - Southwark gains pace
The Jubilee Line Extension has improved development opportunities in the area.
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Markets
City Office Lettings - West End occupiers move
City rents rise but still fail to reach 1989 peak values achieved in West End.
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Markets
Docklands - Move over Canary Wharf
The leading Docklands office location is now having to compete with eager newcomers.
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News
Takers for C&A stores
H&M agreed this week to lease five more C&A stores, taking the total disposed of from the portfolio to 35. Alastair Gordon, managing director of Redevco, the property arm of C&A, said a further eight stores should exchange soon to a single retailer. Wolverhampton-based department store group J Beattie last ...
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News
Bourdais jilts Insignia
Insignia s search for a French partner goes on after talks collapsed with the French property management specialist Bourdais Expertises. This week, after Bourdais completed its merger with the state-backed property management company GFF, the company denied it ever planned to create formal links. Talks on a potential merger were ...
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News
CityPoint boosts Wates NAV
Wates City of London Properties, which is selling all its investment properties to focus on development, increased net asset value by 9% to 142p a share in the first half of the year. The uplift, following an interim revaluation, was due to further lettings at CityPoint, Wates only development. ...
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News
Bloomberg blossoms at City Gate
US DEVELOPER Tishman Speyer has sold City Gate House at 45 Finsbury Circus in the City to occupier Bloomberg for £69m to help fund its development programme. In its second deal in less than a month it sold Eastbourne Terrace to Land Securities for £55m at the ...
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News
Blitz planned for Heart of Slough
Poet Betjeman gets his wish as 29 acre town centre site is earmarked for massive redevelopment
