All Property Week articles in 8 July 2011
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Yorkshire Forward accepts Manor's £8.5m European funding bid
Manor Property Group’s application for European funding for its Manor Point development in Hull has been accepted, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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"Local authorities must keep between 40% and 60% of business rates"
Local authorities must be allowed to keep between 40% and 60% of business rates indefinitely if the UK is to get back on the path of sustainable economic growth, according to Centre for Cities.
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Baci Lingerie debut's at St David's
Baci Lingerie is to launch its first UK store at St David’s, the Cardiff shopping centre jointly owned by Capital Shopping Centres and Land Securities.
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Cordea Savills buys in Edinburgh
Cordea Savills has purchased a new prime project in Edinburgh and completed the sale of two assets on behalf of its Student Hall Fund.
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Irish auction raises €16m
The Allsop/Space Irish auction last night raised nearly €16m from the sales of 78 lots.
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News
Suite sale
When boom-time Manchester law firm Halliwells went bust last year, having spent around £20m on its gaudy office at 3 Hardman Square, many were left out of pocket. Lender Royal Bank of Scotland was owed £15m and landlord CS Euroreal was left without a tenant. But Ludgate has since learned ...
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Raw power
Only in property would five Highland campers on a fishing trip forget to bring their stove, but remember a frappuccino machine. That was the story last week when CB Richard Ellis’s Will Church, Mike Pope and Shaun Hose of BNP Paribas Real Estate, Felix Rabeneck of Savills and Farebrother’s Alastair ...
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Widows’ Plantation spoiler
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership last week blocked Delancey’s prospective £460m purchase of Plantation Place in the City of London, and could try to buy it for one of its own funds
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Parisian offices are Nordic but nice
The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund has completed its second property purchase in a £15bn investment drive, buying 50% of a €1.4bn Parisian portfolio from Axa Real Estate Investment Managers
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Securitised loan spike looms
The number of securitised loans in default is likely to rise in July, ratings agency Standard Poor’s predicts, and there are 25 securitised loans due to mature next month
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Markets
North-west offices show signs of life
There are signs of life emerging in the north-west office investment market. In Liverpool, two prime assets within a hundred metres of each other are vying to be the first big office building to change hands since CommerzReal bought 140,000 sq ft Mann Island for £49m in 2009. The 130,000 ...
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Professional
When possession is nine-tenths of property law
The Message: Tenants who serve lease break notices must vacate on time
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Suds’ law
In austere surroundings at the Honourable Artillery Company’s City of London estate last Wednesday, the zany folk at Henderson Global Investors decided to run It’s a Knockout for staff from six European countries. It was a day of inflatable slides, wacky races, and property bigwigs such as property investment chief ...
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Jones Lang LaSalle starts to organise swollen ranks
Jones Lang LaSalle has revealed the first phase of office moves to take place this summer following its merger with King Sturge
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Ninth joint venture
Galliford Try subsidiary Linden Homes and Wates Developments have secured planning consent for 150 homes on a 12 acre, greenfield site at King Harry Lane in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Construction will begin shortly on the project, the ninth joint venture between Linden and Wates.
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Insight
Power Network - The Property Investment Network
A new event for the investment market was launched by Property Week in Mayfair last month
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Markets
Housing revolution that’s just waiting for the signal
The coalition has scrapped many things in the name of localism but little has whipped up such excitement as its proposed abolition of the housing revenue account
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Peel to pilot green fund in Manchester and Liverpool
A community fund could help to develop environmentally friendly projects along the freight-shipping routes
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A good frothy head
It’s official, DE J Levy’s Nick Treadaway is the industrial agent with the most discerning beer palate