All Property Week articles in 16 April 2010
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Grosvenor to partner RBS on resi scheme
Grosvenor has been confirmed as Royal Bank of Scotland’s partner to resume work at 3-10 Grosvenor Crescent, the residential project in Belgravia whose original developer collapsed into administration last year.
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REIT chiefs survey: doubts over George Osborne
Leading property investors, surveyed by Reita, are concerned about whether George Osborne is fit to run the economy if the Conservative party wins next month’s general election.
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Leighton & Henley eyes up London development sites
Residential developer and investor Kerry Kearton-Gee’s Leighton & Henley has launched a new strategy to take advantage of the central London residential market.
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Investors to resubmit bids for former In & Out club
The site of the former In & Out Club at 90-100Piccadilly is up for grabs as a whole or in parts following advisor Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels considering new bids from investors looking at just part of the block.
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Tesco to expand store portfolio at home and in China
Tesco is planning to develop more retail and leisure space in China over the next five years than it trades from in the UK currently.
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Henderson buys Tesco shed
Henderson Global Investors UK Property Unit Trust, the former New Star, has bought a 300,000 sq ft distribution unit in the west Midlands let to Tesco from Israeli investor Igal Ahouvi.
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Anthony Lyons sells Hampstead home for record £43m
Anthony Lyons, the entrepreneur who with his partners sold Earls Court & Olympia earlier this year, has sold his north London home for a record breaking £43m, to a private Russian investor.
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Countryside Properties appoints new chairman
Countryside Properties has moved to strengthen its board following the death of its founder Alan Cherry in January.
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Plaza Centers makes first US investment
Plaza Centers has made its first investment in the USA in a bid to take advantage of low retail values following the recession.
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PWTV: Election campaigning reduced to level of "Strictly Come Dancing" says Liz Peace
Lib Dem fever is a result of “reality TV show” popularity rather than policy substance, Liz Peace, chief executive of the British Property Federation told Property Week ahead of the leaders’ televised debate tonight.
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Barrie blogs on a volcanic ash "balls-up"
David Coffer is stuck in Miami, INREV’s conference in Venice was cancelled, and Richard Caring’s partner Nick Jones believes London is noticeably quieter this week.
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ING REIM buys in Glasgow
ING Real Estate Investment Management has bought a Glasgow office building for £17.4m.
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Cap & Reg chairman steps down
Tom Chandos, chairman of Capital & Regional, will retire from the board at the end of June.
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Borough Market boss poached for Covent Garden market
The Covent Garden Real Food Market has poached market manager Chris Denning from Borough Market to head up its own Saturday fresh produce market.
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Savills to sell three former Kenmore shopping centres
The joint administrators to Kenmore Capital and Kenmore Capital 2 have instructed Savills to sell its three UK shopping centres.
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Cushman & Wakefield mourns loss of West End agent
Cushman & Wakefield's West End leasing agent John Tranter has passed away.
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Leeds council names Riordan new chief exec
Leeds City Council is set to appoint Tom Riordan as the new chief executive of the city council, following a vote by councillors this afternoon.
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Mike Edwards to return to CB Richard Ellis
Mike Edwards is to return to CB Richard Ellis just six months after he quit as CBRE’s head of investment in the City of London to set up a new company.
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Property Week Podcast 21 - Richard Flack, David Brackin and Chris Ireland
In the first part of this month’s Property Week podcast, sponsored by DPP, Chris Ireland, senior partner at King Sturge, discusses where money is being spent, being a partnership in the recession and what he expects from 2010.
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Council defers £120m Gravesend scheme
Developer Edinburgh House’s plans for a £120m regeneration of Gravesend’s Heritage Quarter have been deferred by the council this week in yet another major setback for the developer.