All Property Week articles in 29 July 2011
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JLL to sell ITV’s Manchester site
ITV has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle to prepare its Quay Street HQ in Manchester for sale in 2013.
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Warner future hangs on debt talks
Warner Estate warned shareholders today that it is in crunch talks with lenders to refinance £250m of debt which matures next year, but that even if these talks were successful it would provide little value for shareholders.
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Online
Tishman Speyer confirms Sanctuary buy
Tishman Speyer has today confirmed its purchase of Sanctuary Buildings in London’s Victoria, which was first revealed by Property Week in June.
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Insight
The Rock is on a roll
Sir, First, I would like to thank you for Property Week’s supportive coverage of the Rock, Bury, during its first year of trading. This year has been an exciting one for us and a year in which, despite a continuingly difficult economic period, has seen the scheme beat its trading ...
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Sun, sea … and planning?
Decentralisation minister Greg Clark this week unveiled the first draft of the National Planning Policy Framework, which he has slashed from 1,000 pages down to 52.
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Professional
Right place, right time for Reading University students
The first dozen first- and second-year BSc real estate students from Reading University have taken up month-long summer work placements at 10 firms of advisers, developers and investors.
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RBS registers a new recruit
The Royal Bank of Scotland has recruited Legal & General Investment Management’s Helen Gordon to head its West Register vehicle, set up in the 1990s to handle the bank’s own distressed assets.
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Insight
London super-prime’s vintage could be last of the summer wine
It was supposed to be the greatest Bordeaux release for years. Hailed by French critics as “the vintage of the decade”, the top first growths from 2010 were tipped to eclipse the outstanding 2009, which had commanded a record £15,000 per case en primeur. But something went wrong. Rival producers, ...
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IPF to probe high street ‘locational obsolescence’
New chairman Clark to lead revamped research programme.
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Parliament plans for urban growth
A cross-party group of MPs and peers is to investigate why so little regeneration is under way at the moment and suggest new policies that could kickstart schemes.
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Grimley reading for GVA staff
Investment agency stalwart Andrew Mayer has given Ludgate exclusive access to an Aladdin’s cave of property-related cuttings, going back 30 years.
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Government in two minds over village green preservation
Experts have criticised the government for sending contradictory messages on legislation used by councils to block development.
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Professional
Government needs more grit and less gloss to tackle law reforms
In 1307, Chief Justice Hengham chided an advocate with, “Do not gloss the statute, for we know it better than you: we made it.”
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Professional
Setting standards for global valuation
Last Wednesday the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC) published its 2011 set of global standards for the valuation of commercial property, financial assets and other business interests. The standards have been compiled over the three years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and are intended to strengthen capital markets’ confidence ...
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King Sturge gives JLL a lift
Jones Lang LaSalle’s European division this week produced a 15% increase in revenue to $218m. This includes one month of revenues from its takeover of King Sturge, as its new acquisition starts to feed through to the bottom line. Profits from the £197m King Sturge deal will be fully reflected ...
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Grosvenor executives find a style that fits
Managers at Grosvenor are sent to a finishing school in Switzerland.
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Montagu Evans’ lupine lease
Montagu Evans has a new West End headquarters after taking all of the office space at Red Wolf House on 5 Bolton Street in Mayfair.
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Insight
It’s the end of localism as we know it
“Tories’ idealism would quickly turn to realism” was the future we forecast for the localism agenda that seized Conservative voters in the lead-up to the election last year (leader, 16.04.10).
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Property industry embraces new planning framework
Government publishes long-awaited draft after months of uncertainty