All Property Week articles in 9 July 2004
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Online
M&S property portfolio valued at 3.6bn
Marks & Spencer has revealed its property portfolio is valued at £3.6bn today, but effectively ruled out the prospect of a big sale-and-leaseback deal or securitisation
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Online
Irish land at £100m London aviation base
A consortium of Irish investors has spent £100m on an iconic 1960s office building in London’s Midtown.
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Online
Great Portland pays out 18.7m for London Bridge sites
Great Portland Estates has acquired a development site and two adjoining investment properties opposite the More London development near London Bridge.
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Insight
Wet and wild
High winds are not ideal for sailing a yacht – particularly when most of the property professionals on board know as much about sailing as Ellen MacArthur knows about rent reviews.
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Markets
Twelve steps to recovery
Retailers and developers are being urged to lead regeneration in a dozen deprived areas the government terms 'under-served markets'. Tristan McConnell reports on how companies are responding to the call
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Insight
Pass the parcel
The investment market is so hot that investors are selling properties on just months after buying them.
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Markets
Ministers miss the retail message
On the surface, the retail warehouse sector seems to be in good shape – always one step ahead of a government determined to slow its progress in the name of protecting town centres.
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Professional
The law made simple
Hotel buyer pays for false statement The message: Do-it-yourself conveyancing is dangerous, but the court can interpret and correct the documentation to reflect the true intentions of the parties.
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Insight
Mind your language
Sir, I write to express my concern regarding your profile of Quintain chief executive Adrian Wyatt (‘Plain speaking’, insight, 25 June, p32).
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News
Irish investor sells portfolio
Private property company Solram has bought a £21.5m retail portfolio from Irish syndicated investor Everest Properties, run by Monalin Enterprises.
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Insight
Institutions must play safe in 'pass the parcel'
Buying a property from Tony Clegg's Mountleigh in 1988 was tricky, not only because it always got the best price but because you had to move like lightning before Mountleigh sold it on.
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News
LandSecs to offload industrial portfolio
New chief executive Salway to sell £350m of properties in restructuring
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News
Mourant’s Jersey HQ snapped up
A private overseas investor has bought the Jersey headquarters of investment trust company Mourant for £16.55m.
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Insight
HQ sell-off would be right move for RICS
Sir, It is with great relief that I read the RICS is proposing to sell part of its Great George Street headquarters in Westminster (news, 25 June, p5).
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Professional
What went wrong at Queens Moat Houses
After a 10-year investigation into the collapse of the Queens Moat Houses hotel chain, DTI inspectors have launched a withering attack on hotel valuations.
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Insight
Hammer time
Investment agent Whitmarsh Holt Young has just made its first recruitment since it was set up in 1999, and it seems that co-founder James Young may have forgotten how the usual interviewing process works.