All Property Week articles in 19 November 1999
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Quantity surveyors threaten to quit RICS
The RICS moved ahead with its Agenda for Change this week when its general council voted by landslide majority in favour of reform. Of the 68 council members who attended the Monday meeting, just six voted against the root and branch reforms which would see the existing ...
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Markets
One for the road
The hospitality industry has taken to the road. Lucy Benyon reports on the hotel and restaurant companies springing up from Lands End to John O'Groats
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Notebook Point venture
Lottery cash has poured into leisure complex Millennium Point, but will it pull in the punters?
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Radisson pumps new life into Liverpool
Liverpool is to get its first upmarket international hotel. Radisson SAS s decision to locate in Liverpool has finally given the city the ammunition it needs to fight Manchester for the status of premier city in the north-west. In the same week, MEPC announced a ...
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Up the junction
Solihull is poised for a huge expansion in out-of-town office space at junction 4 of the M42. Guy Sheppard examines why so much interest is suddenly focused on one area of the town
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Liverpool investigation
John Prescott has ordered a government investigation into the activities of Liverpool developer Walton Group. Following allegations that the developer squandered a multi-million pound loan intended for a major Liverpool office scheme, the deputy prime minister has ordered English Partnerships to investigate a £4.4m DoE loan made ...
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Industrial remains top investor target
With yields falling and concerns over the level of rental growth in a low-inflation environment, where are property investors going to spend their money in the new millennium? According to Baring Houston & Saunders' annual institutional survey, institutional optimism is riding at 95%, compared with last year's 41%. Property ...
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Wolverhampton: Shedding outdated image
Terry Dinham, Bruton Knowles Traditionally viewed as a second-class location, the commercial market in Wolverhampton and the Black Country is showing encouraging signs of activity, now that a supply of good-quality land is coming to the market. For years, the traditional industrial base of brownfield sites, unsupported by ...
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MEPC lines up stake in Victoria House refurbishment
MEPC is in detailed discussions to take a stake in the refurbishment of Blackfriars Investments Victoria House, London WC2. Despite putting funding in place for the scheme with an end value of £110m, a well-placed source told Property Week that Malory Clifford s company was in talks ...
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Hermes seeks partner for Nottingham retail
hermes interviewed six top property developers this week in its search for a joint venture partner to turn its Broadmarsh city centre site in Nottingham into a £400m shopping centre. Only one major property developer declined an invitation from Hermes head of retail investment, Andrew Martin. Those vying ...
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Helical one-two with NCP
Helical Retail has been selected as the chosen developer by NCP for two retail schemes in Ipswich and Newcastle. The schemes represent the first evidence of the car park operator s strategy to redevelop a quarter of its non-operational sites in joint-venture partnerships over the next five years. In ...
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Weatheralls pays for old habits
Weatherall Green & Smith this week settled a court case in which it was being sued for £20m. In a statement, the firm said it had settled amicably on confidential terms with Tower Hill Properties, a consortium of finance houses. Tower Hill bought five hotels ...
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Planning: Inconsistency in the greenbelt
Warwickshire is reviewing its structure plan and one issue of concern is the setting of targets for affordable housing provision. The Government Office has warned the county council that the guidance figures being put forward equate to setting targets and this is not appropriate in a Structure Plan. Warwickshire County ...
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Lloyds TSB gears up for outsourcing revolution
Banking giant Lloyds TSB is exploring ways to outsource the running of its vast estate in what could be one of the biggest property deals ever. Rivalling Prime, the £2bn transfer of the Department of Social Security s estate to the private sector, a Lloyds TSB deal would ...
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Insight
No quick fix for Tory misrule
David Curry s observations about my role as secretary of state are uncharacteristic of someone who has a reputation for rising above the party fray. However, it is pleasing that he appears to support what the government has delivered on local government reform, regional economic development and urban renewal. ...
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Filling stations
Petrol station operators believe that tie-ups with major national retailers are necessary to attract brand-conscious motorists.
