All Property Week articles in 20 August 1999
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Markets
Public - spirited private sector
Eleven years after the introduction of competitive tendering, there are more opportunities than ever for surveyors to advise the public sector. This report examines two projects in education and property management
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News
London to be in the Old Navy
Gap is scouring central London for a flagship store for its Old Navy brand, which it intends to open in the next six months. The US retailer is hoping to sign a site of between 4,650 sq m (50,000 sq ft) and 9,300 sq m (100,000 sq ft) on ...
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News
Net investment
The UK property market could be set for a fundamental shake-up as institutions consider importing internet technology. Last week in the US, CB Richard Ellis signed a deal with an internet provider to market its clients' investment portfolios over the net. UK institutions want to adopt similar technology to ...
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Markets
Passing the Initiative test
Prime and STEPS may grab all the headlines, but it's local authority, health and education Private Finance Initiatives that make up the bulk of schemes in progress.
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News
Regus in fourth joint venture
Regus has signed its fourth joint venture with a major property company in 12 months, demonstrating the company s determination to ally itself with the industry s leading developers. The serviced office operator is to launch a new centre on three floors of Land Securities ...
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News
New look for Finsbury Sq
Developers looking to tempt City occupiers outside the square mile have persuaded the London Borough of Islington to give Finsbury Square a dramatic facelift. Scottish Widows , Standard Life , Pidemco and Earl Estates are all involved in discussions with the borough over funding improvements. A spokesman for the ...
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News
Unicorn flies into a new field
Ex-Johnson Controls head Wayne Felton is back on the acquisition trail following last week's £37m buyout of Unicorn Consultancy, a subsidiary of FM firm Building & Property.
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News
Kerry packs up in Europe and US
Kerry Packer may be Australia s richest man, but he is relatively unknown in the UK because his ambitions are not global he prefers to do his business on home soil. So the news that Packer wants to pull his Hoyts cinema chain out of the more diverse ...
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News
Net revolution in the West End
Easyeverything, the internet café-shop spin-off developed by airline Easyjet, will open in November in Oxford Street in London's West End. NatWest Properties has granted a new 25-year lease on its former bank at 358 Oxford Street. Easyeverything will trade from 120 sq m (1,300 sq ft) on the ground ...
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News
Returns ease but rents grow
After a very strong monthly performance in June, property returns eased in July with slower capital growth. According to the Richard Ellis St Quintin Monthly Index for July, capital growth was 0.5%. For the first time this year, all-property annual rental growth has risen from ...
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Orb takes a Gander at consolidating success
Orb Estates is vying with Quintain and Trefick as the most successful consolidator in the property sector, after agreeing its second corporate acquisition in three months. Fresh from buying the tiddly Albemarle Property Investments for £7.9m, Orb has agreed to snap up London residential investor Gander Holdings ...
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SC pulls out, GIC comes in
Chicago-based hotel investor Strategic Hotel Capital Inc (SHCI) may have lost Security Capital as a shareholder, but it has gained the mighty Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) as a joint venture partner for a push into Europe. Coinciding with Security Capital s announcement that it has sold ...
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Markets
Kingston College
Six years ago, Kingston College acquired around 0.4ha (1 acre) of largely vacant land in the centre of the town. The college now has outline planning consent for a 9,000 sq m (96,880 sq ft) mixed-use scheme comprising a sports centre, 3,700 sq m (39,830 sq ft) of private residential ...
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News
CNC deadline extended
Chesham Portfolio Management has extended the deadline for its proposed 114p-a-share offer for CNC Properties by a month. The company, set up by Nikko Principal Investments specifically to bid for CNC, has an option to acquire 49.6% of the ordinary shares from David Kirch and Jack Petchey s ...
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Professional
Limited partnerships clarified
Legal More than 30 property-investing limited partnerships have been launched in the last two years. Setting up a partnership demands meticulous planning.
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Markets
Taking cities to task
If the Urban Task Force is to succeed in kick-starting an urban renaissance, it will have to sell its package of financial incentives to the property industry.
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Insight
University challenge
Yesterday, thousands of students across the country discovered the truth about their A level results. But few of those with the best results are likely to go into property. We ask whether the latest report from the RICS education task force can reverse the dumbing-down of property
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News
Report highlights differences in UK shopping centre rents
Northampton will see the highest retail rental growth of any UK Town Centre in the next four years, while Watford will produce the lowest growth. Whatever the state of the national economy, Northampton can look forward to estimated annual rental values increasing by 2.7% a year, ...
