All Property Week articles in 2 August 2002
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Online
Property borrowing reaches new record
Borrowing by commercial property companies has reached an all-time high of £76.85bn, almost twice the early 1990s peak of £40.7bn, according to new quarterly figures from the Bank of England.
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Regus reports grim second quarter and appoints UK CEO
Regus, the quoted provider of serviced offices, has announced another grim set of quarterly results and appointed a new chief executive to handle its business in the UK and Ireland.
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Online
Quintain bags 44-acre Wembley regeneration site
Quoted property company Quintain has secured its second major London regeneration site by acquiring the Wembley complex for £48m from Wembley Ltd.
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Online
Second deal this week at Royal Docks
Marylebone Warwick Balfour Group (MWB) has sold a 1.4 ha (3.5 acre) site for residential development at Royal Victoria Docks in London's Docklands.
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Chesterton Manchester hit by more resignations
Chesterton's Manchester office has been hit by the resignation of directors Sara Jane Preston and Brendan O Herlihy.
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Three new RDA chairmen appointed
Trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced new chairmen for three Regional Development Agencies (RDAs).
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Chelsfield recruits Redshaw to head Stratford City scheme
Keith Redshaw, former director for retail development and asset management at Land Securities and more recently, director of urban regeneration at Tops Estates, has joined Chelsfield.
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Akeler is snapped up for £294m
Akeler, the business park developer that has stricken telecoms firm WorldCom as its biggest tenant, has been sold to Lend Lease Global Properties by Security Capital European Realty (SCER) for £294m.
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Surge of pre-lets for Canary Wharf mall
Canary Wharf Group has announced that over half the retail space at its new Jubilee Place shopping mall has been pre-let, more than a year before it opens.
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Markets
Pubs: Pub sprawl
Not even a profits warning and tumbling share price are denting pub operator JD Wetherspoon's expansion plans.
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MarketsNuclear sites: Power play
The government is to sell long leases on former atomic energy plant sites. But it still has to convince developers that safety is not an issue.
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MarketsAnd now the NEWS …
… housebuilders have to prove they value affordable housing if they want planning permission.
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NewsNWDA makes tidy profit on shed sales
Development agency sells industrial workshops for £200,000 above guide
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News
Linlithgow plan unveiled
Morston Assets, the development group part-owned by KwikFit founder Sir Tom Farmer, has revealed plans for a £150m mixed use regeneration scheme at a 51ha (125 acre) former brickworks site in Linlithgow, West Lothian.
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News
Richardson secures Leicestershire letting
Richardson Developments has secured a 12,450 sq m (134,000 sq ft) letting at its Old Dalby Trading Estate industrial scheme in Leicestershire.
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Professional
PUT on your Jersey
UK Property Unit Trusts have grown in popularity, but they have limitations. Investors are now coming to realise the advantages a Jersey PUT has over its UK counterpart
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News
Raven spreads its wings
Anton Bilton's Raven group has acquired the property portfolio of Essex-based developer Carter Commercial Developments from its administrator.
