All Property Week articles in 18 May 2001
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Markets
A question of sport
Asda wants to build a store on the site of a playing field, school and community centre. Locals are up in arms, but the council wants it to go ahead.
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Professional
People
Hot property Charlie Withers is to join Chancerygate as director of leasing and marketing. Charlie has spent 12 years at Strutt & Parker, where he was part of the industrial agency team which was named best industrial/business space agents at the 2001 Property Awards. Charlie is married with two sons, ...
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Insight
Stepping out of the shadows
Dr Eckart John von Freyend, IVG's publicity-shy CEO, is finally stepping into the limelight. Property Week talks to the man behind Germany's biggest listed property company
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Markets
West Midlands: top shopping locations
The map attatched has been derived by allocating each postal sector in the West Midlands and Warwickshire area to the non-food trading location achieving the highest market penetration. This type of map identifies 'dominant' trading locations. There are about 300 or so in the UK, 14 in West Midlands/Warwickshire. The ...
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Markets
The skyline's the limit
The race is on to build Frankfurt's tallest tower. We report on the banks and corporations for whom size really is everything
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News
Newsum warns on lease laws
New British Property Federation president Jeremy Newsum has warned that a sensible supply of property, not a ban on upward-only rent reviews, is the answer to complaints about tenants' conditions.
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News
Labour proposal to speed up slowcoach planning system
Legislation would axe development plans and see large schemes leapfrog household applications
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Markets
Planning: Merry Hill tops the regional shopping offer
The shopping centre at Merry Hill has Enterprise Zone designation, with built-in planning permission for a range of development, and is one of the UK's most popular centres.
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News
Mitchell to head Insignia team in Manchester
One of Glasgow's best-known office agents is to move to Manchester to fill the gap as the head of Insignia Richard Ellis's commercial team in the north-west.
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News
Peacock to head JLL
Jones Lang LaSalle, the New York-listed property services firm, confirmed on Wednesday that Chris Peacock, an Englishman, would succeed Stuart Scott, an American, as chief executive officer.
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Markets
Frankfurt has a growth spurt
The Frankfurt office market remained strong throughout 2000, with rents being driven higher through a lack of first-class space.
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Insight
Foreign offices
The British Council for Offices annual conference takes place in Berlin at the end of the month. Property Week talks to the conference's keynote speakers about their visions of European property in the future
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News
Tories to fight towers and top-up rates
The Conservatives have vowed to prevent any moves by London mayor Ken Livingstone to allow a rash of skyscrapers in the capital.
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News
IPD Euro Index within five years
IPD, the World's largest property performance measurement company, wants to publish a European Property Index within the next three to five years.
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News
Election victory falls to which side's supporters turn out in force to vote
Ah, the roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the crowd! Nothing quite like it for those of us who enjoy roaming the highways and byways looking for innocent passers-by to harangue.
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Markets
Gateway to the Eastside
The redevelopment of land around a junction of Birmingham's inner ring road is the lynchpin to regeneration on the east side of the city. Could the need to maximise the value of this site upset plans for the entire area?
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Professional
Hang the money- launderers out to dry
Money-laundering is a serious concern for the property sector. Companies may find themselves the unwitting recipients of illegal earnings and need to be vigilant if they are to avoid being an accessory after the fact
