All Property Week articles in 17 March 2000
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Professional
Set your sites on strategy
Deciding to set up a new web site is one thing. Deciding what you want it to achieve – and getting the right professional advice to achieve it – is the real challenge.
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Markets
Recovery play
Earlier this season Newcastle United were in trouble and it seemed everyone had an opinion on the club's inevitable demisse. But now things have changed, just as in Newcastle itself, which is experiencing an upturn in investment, development and success.
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Markets
Retail North-eastern promise
A strong retail market and a lack of new space are making rents bulge in the north-east.
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News
Merivale surges on
The new, improved Merivale Moore increased pre-tax profits by 19% to £823,000 in the six months to 31 December. The half-year dividend has been raised by 10% to 1.1p a share. Rental income was 15% higher than a year earlier and profit from sales 9% higher. Net asset value ...
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News
Joint venture powers up to spark off Lots Road scheme
Taylor Woodrow and Hutchison Whampoa have been confirmed as the buyers of the Lots Road power station in Chelsea, as first revealed in Property Week (news, 17 Dec, p2). The pair have formed a joint venture to develop a £350m mixed-use scheme on the 2.5ha (6.2 acre) site, which ...
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Markets
Planning: important implications for regeneration
A proposal for 2,500 houses and A business park north of Newcastle was recently referred to the secretary of state. A development partnership agreement is being drawn up alongside the legal agreement, to ensure the consortium aids housebuilding on brownfield sites. The council aims to maintain its ratio of 60:40 ...
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News
Shares recover for fourth week running
Real Estate Index outperforms All-Share although majors suffer contrasting fortunes
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News
Liverpool park set for expansion
Liverpool s Estuary Commerce Park is poised for huge expansion as work begins on a second phase of 97ha (240 acres). Speke Garston Development Company and Peel Holdings , owners of Liverpool Airport, will develop the second phase as a joint venture. Estuary s 82,000 sq m (882,650 sq ft) ...
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News
Prescott warned on Swiss Re EIA
The Corporation of London has warned John Prescott that forcing an Environmental Impact Assessment on Swiss Re s proposed 42-storey London HQ will set a dangerous precedent. In a letter to Prescott, Judith Mayhew, chair of the Corporation of London s policy committee, asked him to clarify exactly when EU ...
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News
Hopes rise for freeze on commercial Stamp Duty
BPF offers Treasury pragmatic solution that could prevent tax hike on non-residential property sales
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News
Lawyers opt for Square Mile despite Canary Wharf drive
City beats off Canary Wharf in race to sign up space-hungry corporate law firms Withers and Freshfields
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Professional
Commercial break
There are rich commercial pickings for regional residential agents when national firms close provincial offices.
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News
Dewar says Scotland is a bonny place for business
Scottish First Minister Donald Dewar has defended Scotland s reputation as a good place to do business, in an exclusive interview with Property Week in this week s Scotland supplement. Dewar dismissed the suggestion that Scottish members of parliament were too busy playing local politics to encourage businesses. Discussing Scotland ...
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News
Bilton to do it the Petchey way
Private property and internet entrepreneur Anton Bilton is planning to follow the lead set by Jack Petchey and buy shares in undervalued quoted property companies. Bilton's company, Raven Group , which last year paid £78m for Pillar 's office portfolio, has £100m to spend on property company shares, which Bilton ...
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Insight
Are you being served?
Maps of the hi-tech cables that feed the multi-million pound IT companies are obsessively guarded.A report on the race to locate as close as possible to the secret subterranean lifelines
