All Property Week articles in 24 June 2005

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  • Online

    Hammerson sells €269m Paris office building

    2005-06-27T09:44:00Z

    Hammerson has sold Néo at 14 Boulevard Haussmann in Paris to German fund KanAm Grund for 269m (£179m).

  • Online

    Consent for 1m sq ft Rochester development

    2005-06-24T14:05:00Z

    The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and Medway Council have won outline planning consent to develop more than 1m sq ft (92,900 sq m) of residential and commercial space in Rochester, Kent.

  • Online

    ODPM: planning decisions speeding up

    2005-06-24T11:47:00Z

    The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is moving closer to achieving its 2007 target to decide 60% of all major planning applications within 13 weeks.

  • Professional

    Trouble on site

    24 June 2005

    The fool’s gold rush

  • Markets

    Sweet shops

    24 June 2005

    Yields are down. Returns are up. Retail is Scotland’s strongest-performing property sector.

  • Markets

    Sweet shops

    24 June 2005

    Yields are down. Returns are up. Retail is Scotland’s strongest-performing property sector.

  • Homing in: the Marsham Street office has brought Home Office employees together on a single 4.9 acre site
    Professional

    Service with a smile

    24 June 2005

    On 14 June the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden played host to the RICS Property Management Awards.

  • News

    Scotland

    24 June 2005

  • St James House
    Markets

    RBS’s secret scheme

    24 June 2005

    t James House, bought by the Royal Bank of Scotland for its new Edinburgh headquarters, is the subject of speculation again now that the bank has completed Gogarburn.

  • Tour de force: the Paradise Project took centre stage at Property Week’s north-west retail conference on 13 May (analysis + opinion, 27.05.05, p44)
    Professional

    The trouble with paradise

    24 June 2005

    The transformation of the Paradise Street area in Liverpool is one of the most legally complex assignments to have been undertaken for a development in the UK. This is how it was done.

  • Insight

    Networkers

    24 June 2005

    King Sturge’s Edinburgh office provides agency and professional services throughout east Scotland and specialist expertise on petrol stations internationally.

  • McGovern (pictured left): joining former colleague Roger Howson
    News

    McGovern to quit Tishman Speyer

    24 June 2005

    UK chief to move to ex-colleague’s group Manly International

  • Blue room: Kenmore paid £11.3m for Citypoint
    Markets

    The market in minutes

    24 June 2005

    Claer Barrett gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region

  • Markets

    London Merchant Securities

    24 June 2005

    London Merchant Securities has submitted a planning application for Greenwich Reach, a 1sq m ft (92,900 sq m) mixed-use scheme on an 8 acre (3 ha) site near the centre of Greenwich. It will comprise commercial space, 900,000 sq ft (83,610 sq m) of residential and 75,000 sq ft ...

  • News

    Propex man launches secondary trading platform

    24 June 2005

    Liquidity, or the lack of it, is the bane of the private investor’s life. A study in July 2004 by the University of Reading Business School showed that UK commercial properties take almost 200 days to sell, leaving little chance for the investor to change direction quickly. Intrepid fund managers ...

  • Markets

    Kenmore

    24 June 2005

    Edinburgh-based property company Kenmore has gained planning consent for the redevelopment for a 150,000 sq ft (13,935 sq m) mixed-use leisure complex at the eastern end of Union Street in Aberdeen. Plans for the City Wharf scheme include a 106-room Ibis hotel as well as bars, restaurants, a casino ...

  • A Brum do (left to right): Ian Clark of Argent; Chris Dinsdale, a resident of Symphony Court; Mark Gribben of florist Urban Ethos; Ian Stringer of GVA Grimley; and Matt Adey of Living Well
    Markets

    There’s no place like home

    24 June 2005

    With more mixed-use schemes being built, the biggest challenge is meeting the needs of occupiers. Ten years after the opening of Brindleyplace, Gwyn Roberts speaks to people that live and work there.

  • News

    Highcross snaps up shed at Wirral International

    24 June 2005

    A private investor has sold the long leasehold interest of an industrial unit at Wirral International Business Park in Bromborough, Merseyside, to Highcross for £3.68m.

  • News

    Helioslough’s love unlimited

    24 June 2005

    A few eyebrows were raised in the office this week when we heard that HelioSlough had appointed Barry White to manage its £200m sheds portfolio.

  • Insight

    Hanover Square

    24 June 2005