All Property Week articles in 20 February 2004
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Online
Hammerson sells £47m EC2 office
Hammerson has sold the former Lazards headquarters in the City to The Gertner Family Interests for £47.7m after more than six months of talks.
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Online
Property Awards 2004 finalists unveiled
The finalists for the Property Awards 2004 are announced today.
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Online
Go-ahead given for Millennium Dome site
The London Borough of Greenwich has given the go-ahead to Meridian Delta Limited for the redevelopment of the site around the Millennium Dome.
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Online
Met Police plans huge property sell-off
The Metropolitan Police Property Services has launched a scheme to modernise the UK’s 600 operational police estate buildings.
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Online
Freeport sells £245m assets to Hermes
Freeport, the factory outlet developers, announced today it had sold the majority of its UK assets to Hermes for £245m, in a deal first reported by Property Week in December 2003.
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Online
E&G to build Wiltshire facility
Estates & General, the strategic property investment company, has announced it is to develop a 91,500 sq ft (8,500 sq m) office and production facility on its Melksham estate in Wiltshire.
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Online
£1.5bn Elephant & Castle revamp approved
Southwark Council has approved a £1.5bn regeneration scheme for 170 acres of the much-maligned Elephant & Castle area.
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Markets
Twilight zones
The enterprise zones that revived south Yorkshire's Dearne Valley in the wake of the miners' strike are to be wound up next year. The fear is that the region may suffer again.
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Markets
Talk of the towns
Britain’s beleaguered motorists have a lot to contend with. A hardworking chap going about his business can hardly fail to fall foul of the ubiquitous jobsworth traffic wardens and the ever-increasing network of speed cameras that line the country’s roads. At least, that’s what Knight Frank associate Will Foster ...
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Talk of the towns
Surveyor Lyndsay Burns has started up a new agency under his first name, Harvey, in a bid to become the property, and musical, king of Leeds. After leaving NAI Gooch Webster (now Colliers CRE ), Burns set up Harvey Burns & Co, landing some large instructions such as Jan ...
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Professional
Who’s suing whom
Negligent solicitors claimOn 22 December 2003, Preecegrove sued solicitor Kidd Rapinet for damages and interest totalling £40,000 in relation to their advice on the termination of a tenancy at 36-38 Market Place St Albans. They claim they were negligently advised that they could repossess the premises without prejudicing their right ...
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Markets
Retail Revolution
Times are changing in the Surrey and south London retail sector. In Guildford, the Friary extension, which could transform the town, is finally getting moving, while elsewhere, almost every centre is undergoing a makeover.
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Urban village people
Merton council is looking to the private sector to undertake the regeneration of Mitcham town centre.
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Markets
Oil supplied
Two Surrey sites are in the running to satisfy a requirement from oil conglomerate ExxonMobil.
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Professional
Renewal notice is matter of time
Changes to the Landlord and Tenant Act will leave both parties with difficult decisions to make. Jonathan Ross reports
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Markets
Last-minute winner
Croydon's industrial market was facing a poor result for 2003, but Carlsberg Tetley's sale-and-leaseback deal at the old Direct Line building helped both disposal and lettings figures look more respectable.
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News
ING and Stanhope victorious
ING Real Estate and Stanhope are to develop up to 1m sq ft (92,900 sq m) of mixed-use in the centre of Stevenage. The council is due to name them this week as preferred partners for the retail/leisure regeneration, including a bus station relocation. Chesterton is advising Stevenage council.
