All Property Week articles in 18 February 2005
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Property to deliver 10.5% returns
Property is forecast to deliver total returns of 10.5% this year before steadying at an average of between 7% and 8% in the next four years, according to Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP).
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Scheme launched to bring Britain's brownfield back into use
English Partnerships and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister have launched a pilot scheme aiming to bring large tracts of brownfield land back into use.
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CBRE sets up global property securities arm
CB Richard Ellis Investors, the property services firm’s investment management arm, has set up a global property securities operation to take advantage of the rapid expansion of the market.
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Trillium reveals intention to bid for MoD contract
Land Securities Trillium is going head to head with six rival companies to contest the right to develop up to 346 acres (140 ha) of Ministry of Defence land.
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Consent granted for 17-storey Croydon office
The Dingwall Road Partnership has secured detailed planning permission for a 17-storey office scheme next to East Croydon station.
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GPT ditches Lend Lease as property manager
Australia’s biggest quoted property vehicle, General Property Trust (GPT), has axed Lend Lease as the manager of its A$9bn (£3.75bn) property portfolio.
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InsightRegeneration in peril
Leases are shorter, break clauses are commonplace and rental growth has stalled: tenants have never had it so good. Yet now, the upward-only rent review – one of the key reasons for property’s status as one of Britain’s three main asset classes, with equities and gilts – is under threat. ...
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NewsWestfield snaps up Nottingham
Australian shopping centre owner Westfield and Hermes have bought the Allders store in Nottingham as the department store’s administrator continues the break-up of the group.
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Networkers
Now that Edward Symmons & Partners has expanded its Leeds office, it offers an agency and investment service, a valuation and professional service, building consultancy and machinery and business assets.
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MarketsThe market in minutes
Jonathan Brasse tells you all you need to know about the Yorks + north Lincs market
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MarketsThe market in minutes
Stuart Watson tells you all you need to know about Surrey + London boroughs south
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NewsLandSecs secures rare letting in Victoria
Land Securities this week tied up the letting of three floors at its Cardinal Place development in London’s Victoria, to private equity firm 3i Group.
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MarketsThe legals have landed
Law firms are fighting over Leeds’ available speculative space as smaller occupiers are snapping up strata freeholds (overleaf). Jonathan Brasse reports
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Howard Holdings submits plans
Irish developer Howard Holdings has submitted a planning application for a 25-storey residential tower in Croydon. The developer hopes Altitude 25 will be granted consent in April.
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Woolworths signs up at Gazeley’s Godzilla ‘supershed’
Retailer takes 450,000 sq ft in Bedford as ProLogis closes in on Dunstable win
