All Property Week articles in 25 May 2001
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Markets
Steamrollering
BMW is threatening to take the manufacturing of a new model of Rolls-Royce overseas, unless it gets permission to build a new factory on greenbelt land.
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News
Tidy profit for Workspace sale
Mentmore Abbey, Europe's largest space management company, has sold its 20% stake in Workspace Group at double its purchase price two years ago.
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Markets
The price of tagging
The war against 'tags', the graffiti that blights some of Brighton's commercial property, has united local agencies and led to some surprising benefits.
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Professional
People
Hot property Jonathan Sykes has been made head of King Sturge's new office in Dean Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the company's 15th office in the UK. Jonathan, who is originally from Bishop Auckland, is returning to his roots in the north-east after 13 years in London. Jonathan is ...
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Markets
Sussex: top shopping locations
The map attatched 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 non-food goods, visitor numbers to trading locations containing main grocery offers will always be higher than those ...
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News
Labour plans serviced office role for RDAs
Government promises publicly funded serviced business network throughout Britain
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Insight
Judgments made to measure
Dispute resolution has traditionally been a lengthy and expensive process. We report on a bespoke service that aims to speed things up
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News
Raynsford hints at lease reforms
Planning minister Nick Raynsford this week promised that Labour would not let the debate over lease reform die, even though landlords and occupiers seem further from agreement than ever.
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Insight
The land that timetables forgot
Developers fear that Railtrack's £450m-plus losses could shunt its 15m sq ft redevelopment programme into the sidings for good. With the company's boarddistracted, some of Railtrack's best assets such as Birmingham New Street station, above are stagnating.
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Markets
Terms of endearment
Until now, high take-up and attractive overages have given serviced offices a lever to win over unwilling landlords. But with falling take-up affecting prices, the honeymoon may be over.
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News
Scottish Life lets Edinburgh office
Scottish Life has let the whole of its 50/52 East Fettes Avenue office building in central Edinburgh to Guardian IT Group, a specialist in the provision of IT services.
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Insight
Edinburgh festival
More than 700 developers, investors and advisers packed into the Edinburgh International Conference Centre last Thursday night for the inaugural Scottish Property Awards. They were royally entertained by Clive Anderson on an evening now set to become a key feature of Scotland's property calendar The Roll of ...
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News
The fall and rise of the developer's developer
Stanhope founder Sir Stuart Lipton has learned his lessons from the recession and is no longer a big risk-taker
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Markets
Experiment in design
The new Regus centre in Covent Garden is an experiment in quirky design that has attracted clients from unexpected quarters.
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News
Slowing investment market dents LandSecs NAV growth
UK's largest property company reveals a mediocre 6% NAV increase despite 12% rental value rise
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News
Matrix lines up Edinburgh deal
Matrix Securities is believed to be close to snapping up Parlison Properties and Merrill Lynch's Edinburgh One office scheme in Scotland for more than £20m.
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Markets
Crawley industrial: Slow on the uptake
Progress has been sluggish during the first half of 2001
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Markets
Crawley offices: Pegasus flies high
New constructions near Gatwick, such as Pegasus Place, are improving prospects