All Property Week articles in 27 August 1999
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Markets
Retail
Activity is accelerating in the high streets and shopping centres of north London. National retailing names, more often associated with Oxford Street or Regent Street, have expanded northwards to a new breed of shopping centre that offers leisure as well as retail. Consumer demand for a greater range of retailers ...
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Markets
Planning
Many of the north London boroughs are now reviewing their UDPs. Islington, Hackney, Barnet, Brent and Harrow all have various review documents out for consultation. Now is the time to influence planning policies in these boroughs. Most boroughs are responding to the government s targets to achieve more housing ...
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News
Toffs are top of the property pile
Almost half of all graduates entering surveying are from private school backgrounds, a Property Week survey reveals. Nationally, only 7.6% of the population attends a private school, such as Eton or Marlborough. Based on questionnaires sent to 20 leading surveying firms, the survey revealed that the industry still has ...
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Markets
Offices
The demand for offices in Harrow has improved over the last year, and it has come from local companies as opposed to new occupiers. There have been notable lettings indicating increased demand and confidence in the town. The second floor at Aspect Gate, owned by Threadneedle, has been let to ...
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Markets
Swindon motors on
Honda's decision to expand its Swindon plant and take on up to 1,500 more staff is causing a stir in the M4 town.
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Markets
Niche market
Cheltenham When a housebuilder pays £4.9m/ha (£2m/acre) for a 6.2ha (2.5 acre) site and has to knock an office block down you could reasonably assume we are talking about somewhere in London. Wrong. This is Cheltenham. And as the developer looking to persuade local residents to ...
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Insight
Loosening the old school ties
John Prescott may think there are too many toffs in politics, but there are considerably more in property. In the second of our features on education, we look at the findings of a Property Week survey and asks whether the old school network is holding back the profession
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News
Miller profits from new lease on Living
Phil Miller and his property development team continue to rake in the profits for Edinburgh-based Miller Group. In the first half of the year, Miller Developments contributed £5.4m to the group s operating profits, while housing contributed £1m and contracting for £163,000. The group s overall pre-tax ...
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News
Johnson vies for investment
Park Royal industrial specialist Andrew Johnson is aiming to build up a £100m investment portfolio of mainly London units. Johnson, who set up Chancerygate, has enticed Richard Melhuish from insurance company Liverpool Victoria to run the new investment venture, Chancerygate Asset Management. As well as buying London industrial stock, ...
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Markets
Industrial
Park Royal Park Royal is vast: it covers 650ha (1,600 acres), houses an estimated 1.6m sq m (17m sq ft) of sheds, supports 35,000 jobs, and is the biggest industrial estate in Europe. And it is only four miles north-west of central London. Since the property slump in the ...
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Markets
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire's image to many is of a prosperous and attractive rural county with pretty Cotswold villages and strong royal connections. The reality is very different, with a dynamic business sector centred on the main urban centres of Gloucester and Cheltenham, only eight miles apart, with a combined population of ...
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Markets
Gloucestershire retail
Despite negative predictions following the opening of The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, Gloucester and Cheltenham continue to grow as retail centres. In Gloucester, Arrowcroft is the city council's nominated developer for the redevelopment of Blackfriars, located between Southgate and Westgate streets and comprising a 23,000 sq m (250,000 sq ...
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News
New property fund in Jersey
Channel Islands investors are to make their first foray into the growing limited partnership investment market. Royal Bank of Scotland has teamed up with Weatherall Green & Smith to launch a £50m geared fund to invest solely in commercial property in Jersey and Guernsey. Weatheralls ...
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Georgi seeks quantum leap in new Soros fund looks to Georgi for quantum
Richard Georgi, head of billionaire investor George Soros s real estate empire, is planning to launch a $1bn (£625m) fund in the autumn. In a departure from the typical Soros hedge fund, it will be a private equity fund like those of Apollo Real Estate Advisors and Goldman Sachs s ...
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News
Tyser quits Knight Frank
Knight Frank partner Bill Tyser is to leave the firm after 19 years to join highly rated niche investment agent Andrew Meyer at Andrew Meyer Associates. Tyser spent 11 years in Knight Frank s City office before moving to West End investment. He will start his ...
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News
US firm on lookout for new site
Computer 2000 is thought to be eyeing Magna Park, Coventry Colliery and Central Park in Rugby as potential locations for a UK distribution facility. The computer hardware supplier has been scouring the Midlands for the last few months to find a suitable site to accomodate its 46,450 sq m (500,000 ...
