All Property Week articles in 16 December 2005
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Persimmon shareholders urged to challenge payout
Shareholders in Persimmon have been urged by RREV to challenge an incentive plan that could enable four of its directors to receive up to £10m in shares.
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Jaegar reports first profits since takeover
Jaegar, the fashion retailer has declared profits for the first time since entrepreneur, Harold Tillman took over the company in 2003.
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Alfred McAlpine signs SAS in West Midlands
SAS International is to take 90,000 sq ft (8,360 sq m) of manufacturing and distribution space at the Apollo Park Development in Oldbury in the West Midlands.
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John Lewis reports improved sales in pre-Christmas period
Hopes of a British retail revival were boosted yesterday when John Lewis reported a rise of 11.7% in store sales for the 28 days leading up to Christmas.
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CLS sells two London offices
CLS Holdings today announced the sale of two London offices to two joint venture funds for a total of £32.2m.
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Saunders and Bloomfield to launch £1bn property fund
Robin Saunders, the former WestLB financier, has teamed up with property entrepreneur Paul ‘Boom-Boom’ Bloomfield to launch a £1bn property fund to invest across Europe.
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Takeover Panel gives go-ahead for Stanhope takeover
Stanhope chief executive David Camp has been given Takeover Panel clearance to buy the developer from its founder and chairman Sir Stuart Lipton.
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St John Hartnell dies aged 66
St John Hartnell, former senior partner of Bristol-based retail agency Hartnell Taylor Cook, has died, it was announced today.
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Secretary of state grants Smithfield Market listing immunity
Thornfield Properties has moved another step closer to realising controversial plans for a partial redevelopment of London’s Smithfield Market.
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Workspace takeover collapses
Workspace will remain a publicly listed company in the new year after takeover talks between the niche landlord and a mystery bidder ground to a halt yesterday.
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Telegraph to relocate to London's Victoria
The Daily Telegraph is to preparing to shift its operations westwards from Canary Wharf to Victoria Plaza, SW1.
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Multiplex announces further Wembley losses
Multiplex announced a further blow to its troubled Wembley stadium project today, admitting losses will be ‘substantially adverse from the position’ that it had indicated last month.
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Cordea Savills buys £64m student accommodation
Cordea Savills, fund manager and wealth management arm of Savills, has bought a unit trust comprising three student accommodation buildings from Unite Group for £64.1m.
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Sleath is new finance director at Slough
Slough Estates has appointed David Sleath to the role of finance director, the company announced this afternoon.
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MWB Business Exchange in line for AIM flotation
MWB Business Exchange, the serviced office subsidiary of Marylebone Warwick Balfour (MWB), is making its final preparations for a £55m pre-Christmas flotation on AIM.
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Tomorrow’s world
Over the next five pages, Claer Barrett, Heather Greig-Smith, Christine Eade, Sean McAllister, Jonathan Brasse, Anna Goldie and Deirdre Hipwell round up the key schemes coming to the market in the UK and Ireland in 2006
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Redevco
Redevco has unveiled the first images of Primark’s London flagship, in the former Allders department store on Oxford Street. Primark has taken a 25-year lease at the 100,000 sq ft (9,290 sq m) shop at 499 Oxford Street, its first in central London. Primark was advised by CB Richard Ellis ...
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Professional
Question time
Gordon Brown’s planning gain supplement will radically change development. Simon Ricketts looks at how the system will work in practice, while David Ryland reports on the chancellor’s plans for REITs
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MarketsA place in the sunbelt
Quoted housebuilders are increasingly making inroads into the booming US market.
