All Property Week articles in 28 October 2011
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Richard Desmond's Luton media hub gains Regional Growth Funding
Media mogul Richard Desmond can now take forward his plans for the creation of a media city in Luton following the granting of Regional Growth Funding from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
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CBRE Marketview: EMEA Rents and Yields
This report is designed to provide our clients with an immediate view on prime rents and yields across major markets and sectors in the region as at the end of the quarter.
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DTZ Investment Market Update: UK Shopping Centres Q3 2011
There have been 16 transactions in Q3 2011 totalling £447m, a significant increase on the £339m transacted in Q2. Despite this, it has been a quiet summer period, with little new stock appearing until September.
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Henderson Research: Think/Retail Typology
‘Location, Location, Location’ is a popular property idiom and one that rings true when applied to investment and choosing where best to locate your money. Here at Henderson, however, we also believe in ‘Thinking Typology Tactics’. But what does this mean….?
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Peel's Mediacity could benefit from further BBC cost-cutting
Peel’s Mediacity scheme in Salford could potentially derive further benefits from the BBC’s drive to trim 20% from its budgets, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Former Norther Foods chairman Haskins to lead Humber LEP
Former Northern Foods chairman Lord Haskins is to lead the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Rugby reports loss and predicts gloomy “next few years”
Rugby Estates has reported a pre-tax loss of £0.64m in its half year results and put out a downbeat forecast for the “next few years”.
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Hammerson sells further 24% in Parisian shopping centre to Rockspring
Hammerson will sell a further 24% interest in O’Parinor shopping centre, Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris to a client of Rockspring Property Investment Managers, Rockspring, raising its stake in the centre to 75%.
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New Squatting laws will not apply to commercial property, VPS warns
New squatting laws will not protect commercial buildings, the Vacant Property Specialist warns, and anincrease in commercial property being targeted by squatters is predicted.
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Professional
Take two ... property start-ups
Better to be a partnership or over 50 when starting your own business. Christine Eade reports
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Professional
Radical planning reform is needed to overcome the nimbys
The loudest voices tend to get the most attention in politics.
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Paddy McKillen sells on Oxford Street
Irish property entrepreneur Paddy McKillen has sold a building on Oxford Street for around £53.5m to an overseas investor.
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Reaching our limit
Property Week reported in July that one of Westminster City Council’s top property officers had been relieved from his duties, pending an internal investigation.
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Swaps should not be a part of property lending
Given that banks will be forced to deleverage their balance sheets for some time, a diversification of debt funding for commercial property is very welcome and needed.
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Nido Student Living to open in Kensal Road
Third degree: Nido Student Living is to open its third independent student hall in west London next week.Nido Notting Hill, a “boutique residence” on Kensal Road, near Westbourne Park, is 96% occupied, and is understood to have tenants from 55 countries.The six-storey, 277-bedroom hall is smaller than Nido’s King’s Cross ...
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Second wave of rights issues looms for mid-cap propcos
Analyst says Unite, Quintain, Safestore and Big Yellow among those that must refinance maturing debt
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Insight
Too much “Pesto” leaves housebuilders
Housebuilders may have invented a new instrument to gauge the health of the housing market: the “Pesto-meter”. Greg Fitzgerald, chief executive of Galliford Try, recently told analysts and investors that while the BBC’s lugubrious business editor Robert Peston’s appearances remain limited to once a week, his board feels OK. “Four ...
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Technical hitch
Sir, I wholeheartedly agree with the your leader (14.10.11).The digitisation of business is a “fantastic phenomenon” but in our experience, as a software provider, the property industry has been slower than most in realising its potential. Releasing property managers from mundane office administration, allowing them to develop the business in ...
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Off with their heads
Ping — a press release from agents at Colliers International claims Henry VIII’s “resting place” is up for sale.