All Property Week articles in 24 March 2000
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Insight
Speech therapy
What s important to the property industry s key players? Will e-commerce overhaul the sector, or is everything OK after all? Liz Hamson, Christine Eade, Renée Barnes and Stuart Watson talked to the top 10 executives
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Professional
Sex, spies and videotape
Employment law. Many employers use surveillance to ensure security or levels of customer service, but when is monitoring an infringement of an employee's right to privacy?
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Insight
Scope for service
How can property companies lose their reputation as dinosaurs? Perhaps technology holds the key to the reinvention of the industry, especially when applied to tenant services.
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Markets
Staffordshire On the road to success
The new A50 link road has improved access to Staffordshire and its fortunes.
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News
Westminster in planning sell-off
Tory council to start privatisation of Britain s busiest planning department at meeting on Tuesday
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Markets
Out on the pull
Despite low rents and land values, Staffordshire has to work at attracting occupiers.
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Markets
Offices Take-up takes off
Office take-up has reached a peak as more companies move into Birmingham city centre.
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Professional
Landlords take note
Clear documentary evidence is the best means of securing rectification of a mistake, as a growing body of recent case law demonstrates.
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News
Leslau hits out at undervalued shares
Prestbury chief hopes greater level of financial disclosure will fuel investor interest
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Markets
Highway to shed heaven?
The dualling of the A50 has at last provided an alternative to the heavy congestion of the M6-M40. But does this mean that Stoke can attract big industrial occupiers and, along with them, big business opportunities?
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News
Glasgow office market set for huge increase in take-up
Demand from public sector organisations, hi-tech occupiers and call centres marks end of stagnant half-year
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News
Grosvenor revamps geography
Grosvenor Estate Holdings, one of the UK s largest private property companies, last week announced its first major shake-up since it was founded in 1979. Stephen Musgrave takes over as chief executive of Grosvenor s UK home patch, in a reorganisation that will see the company split into four ...
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Markets
Retail The waiting game
Regeneration means that Birmingham will at long last enjoy a facelift, but occupiers will have to wait before they can enjoy the advantages that redevelopment of its retail core will surely bring.
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Insight
Future shock
What can property companies do to compete with the relentless rise of dot coms and telecoms? The planned share buybacks by some of the major property companies may save them or will the sector need to consolidate to survive?