All Property Week articles in 8 October 2004
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Online
Quintain forms Wembley casino joint venture
Quintain has teamed up with New York-listed Caesars Entertainment to form a 50:50 joint venture to develop Caesars Wembley.
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Online
BL buys £192m Slough malls
British Land has bought the Queensmere and Observatory shopping centres in Slough for £192m.
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Online
£2.1bn bid for Chelsfield
Chelsfield is set to be taken over for the second time in five months in a £2.1bn deal that will net founder Elliott Bernerd around £20m.
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Online
Teesland seals PFM takeover
Teesland has succeeded in its £37m bid to take over John Sims’ Property Fund Management.
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Markets
Running a tight ship
A cruise on an ocean liner might seem a wholly different proposition to an office building, but there are lessons for the property industry
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News
Taljaard quits Sainsbury’s for Whitbread
Sainsbury’s property boss Desmond Taljaard has left for leisure operator Whitbread.
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News
The Odeon redeveloped
The Odeon Building on Glasgow’s Renfield Street is to be redeveloped as a retail and leisure complex.
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InsightREITs must satisfy occupiers
Sir, At last the REIT debate is getting round to what drives buildings’ underlying value: cash generation and its source, occupiers (letters, 13 August, p24).
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Insight
The real market
‘What’s your view of the market?’ is the most commonly asked question among members of the property industry
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News
Kensington site secured
A private investor client of DE&J Levy has bought 62-70 Kensington High Street, London W8, to complete site assembly for a mixed-use scheme.
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InsightA job for the professionals
Sir, The Valuation Office Agency is bracing itself for a possible deluge of queries about draft rateable values in the build up to the 2005 rating revaluation.
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ProfessionalSouthwark: Lord Ouseley investigates
Lord Ouseley is to investigate allegations of institutional racism at Southwark Borough Council’s planning and regeneration department
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News
JLL wins top London instructions
Jones Lang LaSalle has won two of London’s most prestigious office agency instructions.
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Professional
The harsh lessons of Holyrood
Damning report reveals that key questions were never asked
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Insight
‘Right first time’ rating is an impossibility
Sir, While I have the greatest respect for Paul Sanderson, I think his hope that ratepayers will raise their queries about the new rating valuations with the Valuation Office Agency and settle their differences before 1 April 2005, cutting the number of appeals, is a pious one to say the ...
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NewsSecond Mayfair fund hits equity target
MC Income Plus raises £7m and sets sights on eventual value of £35m
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MarketsPrivate enterprise
The East Midlands Development Agency hopes a new public-private vehicle will speed up redevelopment and encourage private investment in the region
