All Property Week articles in 18 February 2000
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Insight
Track and yield
Railtrack Property director John O Brien has taken control of a development programme larger than that of Land Securities. But this isn t enough he plans to crank it up further.
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Markets
Short but sweet
An undersupply of new and available product is benefiting Maidenhead s office market.
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News
Scots rating row
Scottish businesses have slammed the Scottish Executive s proposals to establish a separate rating system to that in England. The executive s consultation period on proposals for transitional relief ends today, but occupiers have hit out at plans they believe would put Scotland at a disadvantage to England. Scottish Finance ...
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Insight
The PCP stable
Wrenbridge Land Cambridge-based Wrenbridge is not your average property developer. Of a team comprising 13 people, 11 are architects and only two are surveyors. The format is attributable to founders Tim Holmes and Peter Jarman, who spent their formative years at another architect-led developer, Tartan International. It means that the ...
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News
Railtrack to roll out Spacia plan
Railtrack Property is planning to build up Spacia, the division that manages its railway arch portfolio, to rival Workspace , the business space specialist. John O Brien, who became Railtrack property director last October, wants to expand the Spacia concept into other Railtrack properties, such as warehouses. We ...
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News
Merrill Lynch stays on top
Merrill Lynch retained its billing as the fund managers' favourite property analyst this week, while great rival Credit Suisse First Boston remained number one among the property companies. Alec Pelmore and Robert Fowlds at Merrill held on to first place in two annual analyst-ranking surveys published this week: the ...
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News
Scottish quango launches massive planning overhaul
Changes in planning and regeneration on the cards as Scottish Enterprise announces new initiative
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Markets
Mobile home
When mobile phone giant Vodafone merged with US firm Airtouch, Newbury braced itself to lose its biggest occupier. However, the recent Mannesmann takeover has secured Vodafone s future in the Berkshire town.
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Markets
Newbury Home truths
Huge demand for residential sites has left Newbury s commercial market flagging.
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Professional
Small is fruitful
Small firms are ideally placed to tap into new and emerging markets. Christine Eade looks at three growing market sectors that independent firms could make their own
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News
Lipton logs on to e-procurement revolution
Stuart lipton became the latest developer to climb aboard the dot com bandwagon last week by joining the board of building services group Premisys to advise on its push into e-commerce. Lipton, the government s architectural supremo and chief executive of Stanhope, will join Rotch s Robert Tchenguiz ...
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Markets
Notebook: Is it really elementary?
Stephen Killick wonders whether the property profession has forgotten the true value of our countryside in its quest for more developments, and subsequently more profit
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News
Trizechahn revamp to double Euro plans
Canadian property giant proposes to divert funds from £5bn US and Canadian sell-off
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News
Developers to pounce as RBS offloads properties
Property companies wait in wings to take properties sold off after NatWest takeover
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Markets
Reading Offices Meeting demand halfway
Office take-up in Reading increases annually as rampant demand for space continues.
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Markets
Slough offices Quality controls market
Larger occupiers are finding it increasingly difficult to find prime office space.
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News
Property shares continue to tumble
Shareholder sale hits MEPC, while other majors also see share prices fall again
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Markets
Comment: driving Reading forward
Planned since 1974, costing more than £20M and finally open to the public in June 1999, the new A33 provides fast and direct access from the M4 to the heart of Reading. Reading s front door has moved to junction 11 and nearby locations have benefited. The road has not ...
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News
CLS results impress but shares stay low
Swedish revaluation and dot com investments boost NAV to 244p
