All Property Week articles in 28 April 2011
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Online
US hedge fund opposes ProLogis’s offer for PEPR
Fir Tree Partners, a New York-based hedge fund manager that owns 4.3% of ProLogis European Properties (PEPR) is opposing a €1.2bn tender offer by its largest shareholder and manager ProLogis.
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Online
Last three Kenmore assets for sale
Administrators to the Kenmore Property Group have put up for sale the three remaining assets formerly owned by the company, which collapsed in November 2009.
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News‘Stubborn’ Mori succumbs
China’s tallest building is being sold off floor by floor by its Japanese developer and owner, Mori Building
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NewsNAMA premieres on Leicester Square
Allsop receivers appointed to West End scheme once valued at £200m
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MarketsNeed to know: New Street station redevelopment
Network Rail submitted plans for its £550m redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station and the Pallasades shopping centre last week. David Hatcher spoke to Ian Lindsey, head of major development at Network Rail
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ProfessionalNeed to know: Traveller sites
The government wants to make new rules on traveller sites part of its localism agenda
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News
Valad loses Kefren work
Valad’s European fund management business suffered a blow last week when the company behind a A$726m (£467m) mandate it won last year was pushed towards bankruptcy
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News
JLL’s Noel Taylor’s memorial service
The memorial service for former senior Jones Lang LaSalle partner Noel Taylor is on Wednesday 6 July at St George’s church in London’s Hanover Square. He died in February, aged 91.
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Markets
Premier Inn’s shop treatment for Leamington Spa
Whitbread-owned hotel chain to revamp failing retail centre
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NewsMiller takes wheel at Scotland’s Imp site
Miller Developments has bought the 120 acre Hillman Imp factory site from the administrators of Mountgrange Capital
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Markets
New hotels with history on London scene
Two London buildings that date from the 1880s and symbolise Victorians’ authoritarian outlook are to become hotels.
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Markets
New hotels with history on London scene
Two London buildings that date from the 1880s and symbolise Victorians’ authoritarian outlook are to become hotels. The stories behind the conversions of the Old War Office on Whitehall Place into the Corinthia Hotel and Bow Street Magistrates Court into a boutique hotel reflect today’s political and economic turmoil: the ...
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Markets
Overseas investors in UK hotels are here to stay
Foreign investment in hotels doubled last year, says Savills’ forthcoming UK Hotel Investment Report
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News
GSW flotation in Frankfurt
GSW Immobilien, the German residential property company, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange last week in the largest property flotation in western Europe since the crash
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Professional
North-west law firms merge
North-west England law firm Brabners Chaffe Street is to merge with property specialist Murphy Hodgkinson on 1 May. Murphy’s staff will move into Brabners’ offices in Liverpool and Manchester.The combined firm’s turnover is expected to be more than £31m. Karen Murphy, who set up Liverpool-based Murphy Hodgkinson in 2000, will ...
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NewsProperty in full voice for final Party Near the Park
Party Near the Park, property’s take on talent show Stars in Their Eyes, is back for its last hurrah, marking its 10th year of showcasing the industry’s top vocal talent
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MarketsFR by Fashion Rocks on a roll
FR by Fashion Rocks completes its first month of trading in Sheffield’s Meadowhall this weekend, and the clothes of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood have so far proved its most popular merchandise
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MarketsMarriott services Edinburgh
Marriott International has chosen Quartermile, Gladedale’s £450m development in central Edinburgh, for its first serviced apartments in the UK, known as Residence Inn. Richard Candey, head of DTZ’s hospitality group, who advised Gladedale, says that the aim is to have the serviced apartments open in time for this year’s Edinburgh ...
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Professional
Firm shut down for misselling
The Insolvency Service has ordered a property investment firm into liquidation after it missold land in Lewes in East Sussex
