All Property Week articles in 4 August 2000
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Markets
Tinsel towns
Britain s high streets must look to international examples of festive flair if they are to compete for custom with the shopping centres.
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Markets
Out of town and out of here
The takeover of Harveys by Rosebys has re-opened the debate on how many retail warehouse chains will survive.
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News
Holborn move for Kinney Green
Specialist City agent Kinney Green is to open an office in Midtown as the area s office market squeezed between City and the West End moves into overdrive. With a string of high-profile lettings to dot com tenants and lawyers, the Midtown office market is ...
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News
Wiggins forced to restate profits
Wiggins Group, the property developer-turned-airport operator, has been forced to restate profits over the last four years after criticism from the financial reporting review panel for prematurely crediting two deals. Wiggins included revenues before they began to flow or before planning approval had been finalised on a deal with MEPC ...
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Markets
High street: fashion victim
Haute expenditure: rents are soaring at out-of-town parks where customers can park nearby and many are now rebranding with new stylish identities. New Look, Next and Gap are leading the fashion march out of town. Christine Eade finds out how creative landlords accommodate ...
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News
Italian market gets ever hotter
Deutsche Bank has plunged into the Italian property market by acquiring a 51% of electricity giant Enel's real estate subsidiary SEI. The new company, to be called Immobiliare Rio Nuovo (IRN), will own SEI's 62 properties, valued at L665bn (£210m). Deutsche will use IRN as a vehicle to build an ...
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News
TrizecHahn profits hit by European switch
Poor stock market conditions lead Toronto-based company to narrow pan-European focus
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Insight
Laying down the law
Scottish Widows purchase of the £700m Guardian portfolio in May, followed by its merger with Hill Samuel at the end of June, has pushed its head of property Tom Laidlaw into the spotlight. The one-time lad of property funds is relishing the challenge of restructuring the team and the ...
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News
P&O to lease Doncaster site
Helios Properties has tied up the first deal at its Traxpark scheme at Doncaster Railport in Yorkshire. P&O is taking a 15,140 sq m (163,000 sq ft) warehouse on the rail-connected site, which has outline consent for a total of 65,000 sq m (700,000 sq ft) of distribution space. The ...
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News
Management company to push West End retail
Landlords and retailers in the West End join together to fight back against the regional shopping centres
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News
Dot com companies set off lettings frenzy in Midtown
Internet-specialist law firm Olswang and monster.com head influx of net-related companies
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News
JLL to co-develop worldwide HQ
Midtown is early front runner for firm s new showcase home to be built in partnership with clients
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Markets
Online Christmas presence
This Christmas could see traditional shops facing a heavier threat from the dot com companies. David Lawson finds out what lies in store for surviving e-tailers and conventional retailers as they compete for the season s riches
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Professional
Legal case round-up
Property Week's regular review of recent case law includes why landlords and tenants should never rely on terms of contracts being implied.
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Markets
Brief counters
Agents predict that there will be more available units this Christmas. If landlords want to fill them, they may have to change their approach to temporary lettings.
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News
Europe and US boost JLL figures
Jones Lang Lasalle reported better-than-expected second quarter figures this week, driven by a sparkling performance from the European division and a vast improvement in the US. Adjusted net income in the three months to 30 June was $7.6m (£5.1m), or 25 cents (17p) a share, compared with a loss ...
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News
Buy backs 'destroyed shareholder value'
Analysts claim Land Securities reduced value by 3.4% and Great Portland Street by 0.1%
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News
New JLL England chief plans autumn rethink
34-year-old managing director Hughes will revamp client and management systems
