All Property Week articles in 20 April 2001

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  • Insight

    Traffic rights

    20 April 2001

    Developers saw red at the restrictive parking guidelines of the draft PPG13. But the final version has addressed some of their concerns, although it has kept up the pressure to force development back into town centres

  • Professional

    Q&A

    20 April 2001

    Can a tenant successfully challenge a larger-than-usual service charge demand made towards the end of a lease solely on the basis of the imminent expiry of the lease?

  • Professional

    People

    20 April 2001

    Hot property Philippa Harrison has joined Insignia Richard Ellis's international hotels team. Based in London, Philippa will be focusing mainly on international portfolio valuations and investment advice. Philippa previously worked with Christie & Co, and has extensive experience in the hotel field. Philippa is married, and her interests ...

  • News

    New team in self-storage

    20 April 2001

    Safestore, the AIM-listed self-storage provider, has linked up with Spacia, the division of Railtrack Property that manages its railway arch portfolio.

  • News

    Rugby NAV rise ups share price

    20 April 2001

    Rugby Estates saw its shares soar 6% in early Wednesday trading after revealing an impressive 24% increase in net asset value in the year to 31 January.

  • Markets

    West Yorkshire retail: Prime movers

    20 April 2001

    Prime retail rents in Leeds are catching up with Newcastle and Manchester

  • News

    Plans in for Oxford mixed-use scheme

    20 April 2001

    Trevor Osborne's Osborne Group this week submitted a planning application for the development of Oxford's Castle site.

  • Insight

    Will online mean on time?

    20 April 2001

    Imagine a world where you can get information on a planning application at the touch of a button, keep tabs on the progress of your application, and even pay for it electronically. Sounds too good to be true?

  • Markets

    Yorkshire: top shopping locations

    20 April 2001

    The map attached shows the proportion of overall shopping populations in each trading location visiting for convenience and comparison goods shopping purposes. Because consumers generally shop more often for food than for non-food goods, visitor numbers to trading locations with main grocery offers will always be higher than those of ...

  • Professional

    Straining at the lease

    20 April 2001

    Changes to lease renewal procedures come into effect this autumn.But are the Civil Procedure Rules appropriate?

  • Markets

    How the land lies

    20 April 2001

    The party's over for land sellers. These are the latest findings of FPDSavills Research, which show the six-year growth in land prices slowing right down

  • Markets

    A real home industry

    20 April 2001

    Residential developers and agents are not shy about turning up at factory gates and making owners an offer for their site

  • News

    Local government: neither party's policies give 'grounds for optimism'

    20 April 2001

    Whoever wins the 7 June elections, the structure of local government in England is likely to change dramatically.

  • Markets

    West Yorkshire offices: Leeds the field

    20 April 2001

    Take-up is high in the dominant centre but other towns would benefit from new-build

  • News

    RBS eyes Northern Quarter for giant Manchester lease

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    Amec and Crosby Homes mixed-used scheme is surprise front-runner to satisfy Royal Bank of Scotland s requirement

  • Markets

    East Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire industrial: A hope in Hull

    20 April 2001

    Strong demand means developers are committing to Hull's brownfield sites

  • Markets

    Fields of dreams

    20 April 2001

    While government policy favours brownfield development, buying farmland is a long-term game. We chart the rise of option agreements and the experts who advise on them

  • News

    US downturn dents Grubb & Ellis profits

    20 April 2001

    US property services firm allied to Knight Frank makes surprise loss warning