All Property Week articles in 25 November 2005

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  • Online

    Knight Frank partners celebrate record year

    2005-11-28T15:15:00Z

    Knight Frank’s 31 proprietary partners received an average profit of £563,000 in the year to 30 April, as the firm enjoyed benign conditions in the commercial and luxury residential markets.

  • Online

    Slough completes Elstree sale

    2005-11-25T15:35:00Z

    Slough Estates has confirmed it has sold the first two phases of its Centennial Business Park in Elstree in Hertfordshire to Morley Fund Management for £35m.

  • Online

    Akeler poaches Morley fund manager

    2005-11-25T11:52:00Z

    Office and industrial developer Akeler has appointed former Morley fund manager Sarah Cockburn as investment manager.

  • Markets

    An upward trajectory

    25 November 2005

    Falling availability and rising take-up show that the west London industrial market is recovering slowly.

  • Red alert: scores of S-Mart stores, scattered across the north of England, have been offered for sale and leaseback since May 2003, but many have since fallen victim to the retail downturn
    Insight

    Not so S-mart

    25 November 2005

    Private buyers have piled into property thinking it is a rock-solid investment. But, as Sinead Cruise reports, many have lost money.

  • News

    Treasury’s retail wing

    25 November 2005

    Treasury Holdings, the Irish developer behind Dublin’s Spencer Dock scheme, has set up a retail division, launched at retail property expo MAPIC in Cannes last week.

  • Teresa Graham
    Professional

    REFORM or RUIN

    25 November 2005

    Over the next two months members of the RICS will have their say on a package of radical reforms. Without these changes, claims chief executive Louis Armstrong, the future of the Institution is at risk from government regulation. Over the next four pages we debate the key proposals and ask ...

  • Insight

    Paddington promise

    25 November 2005

    Sir, It is true that Development Securities’ immediate intention is to construct only one of the buildings at Paddington Central for which we have permission (West End, 11.11.05, p133).

  • Insight

    Olympic shame

    25 November 2005

    Sir, Your leading article on Ken Livingstone’s compulsory purchase plans for the Olympic site (analysis + opinion, 11.11.05, p41) sums up the problem of the mayor’s heavy-handed approach to land purchase.

  • Insight

    Networkers

    25 November 2005

    Turnstone Estates was formed in 1989 and is a property development and investment company with an office in Chelmsford. It covers East Anglia and the south-east.

  • News

    RJ McKinney

    25 November 2005

    Irish property company RJ McKinney has teamed up with Rioja Developments to develop a factory outlet scheme in Bellegarde Sur Valserine, at the French border with Switzerland. The joint venture, Bergerac Estates, will develop a 322,920 sq ft (30,000 sq m) village, designed by S&P Architects.

  • House proud: refurb will complete in 2006
    Markets

    The market in minutes

    25 November 2005

    Deirdre Hipwell gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region

  • Holy orders: the proposed Priory Place in Chelmsford
    Markets

    The market in minutes

    25 November 2005

    Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region

  • Lot 6
    News

    Lots to watch

    25 November 2005

    Allsop Commercial Auction, 8 December, Claridges, Brook Street, London W1

  • Model men: Major (right) and Thomlinson
    News

    Major league

    25 November 2005

    A caption competition for the photograph below, taken when Knight Frank senior partner Nick Thomlinson and Sir John Major met at a KPMG dinner, received a deluge of entries from Knight Frank staff.

  • Markets

    LDA warns reluctant Olympic occupiers over relocation...

    25 November 2005

    London Development Agency says businesses have ‘stuck their heads in the sand’

  • Professional

    Inside parliament

    25 November 2005

    Planning gain tariffs

  • Professional

    RICS warning over home information packs

    25 November 2005

    The government’s announcement last week that home information packs (HIPs) are to become mandatory on 1 June 2007 has been met by warnings from the RICS and the Law Society.

  • News

    Langtree scoops Warner holding

    25 November 2005

    Bill Ainscough’s developer Langtree has agreed to buy more than 200 acres (81 ha) of land from Warner Estate Holdings after a sale to Kier Property collapsed.

  • Insight

    Hanover Square

    25 November 2005