Angela Monaghan Editorial
Property Week
Stories by this contributor.
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Boom bust
Property partners
There is plenty of work out there for contractors, so why do so many of them appear to be struggling?
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Irish take £170m Unilever House
03 September 2004
Racing tycoons John Magnier and JP McManus make stunning entry into UK commercial market
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Coull reverses decision to end California dream
03 September 2004
Slough chief signals intention to keep investing in Golden State’s biotech sector
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Disney picks three for global portfolio
27 August 2004
CWHB wins European slice of media giant’s 8m sq ft estate
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Latest letting lifts Leeds office market
27 August 2004
Law firm Cobbetts takes 50,000 sq ft at Town Centre’s Whitehall Riverside
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Property’s sex timebomb
27 August 2004
A string of high-profile sexual harassment cases have stunned the City in recent months. Angela Monaghan asks if similar scandals will hit the property industry
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Directors at DTZ win 30% rise in pay packets
13 August 2004
Profit increase of 32% gives board £100,000-plus bonuses, but firm still lags behind global rivals
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Sun and Paribas join global adviser trend
13 August 2004
Corporates tender for contracts to advise on worldwide portfolios
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Private Green turns in 700% profit rise
13 August 2004
Two years after MBO, portfolio disposals boost profits to €79.8m
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Scottish joint venture buys 62 acre Edinburgh site
13 August 2004
Ediston Properties and Arlington Property Investors buy industrial site near airport for £100m scheme
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JLL plugs industrial team gap but loses regional boss
13 August 2004
David Emburey bucks the trend by joining big practice following a year of shed shuffles
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Delancey in talks to sell stake in Mapeley
06 August 2004
Fund manager to offload 15% holding partners Fortress and Soros
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Fergie vehicle ties up £100m Aviva deal
06 August 2004
Alex Ferguson-backed AAIM buys and leases back Norwich Union properties
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Cash-rich Glanmore begins £100m spree
30 July 2004
New equity enables fund manager to snap up initial £60m of properties
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Liberty nets solid results as Lakeside busts 1bn barrier
23 July 2004
Thurrock shopping centre is star performer as Donald Gordon reveals 6% NAV rise in half-year results.
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Arlington in 500ha Unilever alliance
23 July 2004
Push to become fund manager sparks science park deal in Bedfordshire
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Strong trading keeps Savills on top of share league
23 July 2004
Takeover targets skew table but last year’s winner maintains stranglehold on share performance
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Arlington in 500ha Unilever alliance
23 July 2004
Push to become fund manager sparks science park deal in Bedfordshire
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IPD prepares to compile first Euro property index
23 July 2004
Consultation document sent out on pan-European property performance report
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Hunter, Leslau and BoS seal £140m City deal
16 July 2004
Bank of Scotland has teamed up with Tom Hunter’s West Coast Capital and Nick Leslau to buy its City of London headquarters for £140m.
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Advisers to bid for place on property advisory panel
16 July 2004
Government to appoint up to eight firms to advise on entire portfolio
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Biggest office deal of year in Edinburgh
16 July 2004
Fund manager puts Premier’s 60,000 sq ft One Morrison Street under offer
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MoD triggers 200m sell-off
16 July 2004
Ministry of Defence responds to Brown’s asset sales call by selling off 12 M25 sites
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Irish land at £100m London aviation base
9 July 2004
A consortium of Irish investors has spent £100m on an iconic 1960s office building in London’s Midtown.
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Selfridges in new Glasgow tie-up
9 July 2004
Upmarket retailer selects Wilson Bowden as partner for 200,000 sq ft store
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Top agencies square up for Motorola role
9 July 2004
CBRE, CWHB and JLL among those invited to pitch for 3m sq ft EMEA contract
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Net loss
9 July 2004
More companies are using internet auctions to procure property management services. But by appealing to the lowest bidder, will firms lose the personal touch that agents can provide?
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£15bn going offshore
2 July 2004
Industry working overtime in rush to beat July introduction of tax on limited partnerships
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Trillium pulls out of Bradford outsourcing
2 July 2004
Mapeley and Carillion left to battle for city council property contract
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British Land rides Marconi recovery
25 June 2004
Ritblat to develop Midlands campus for ejuvenated telecoms group
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Developers pursue Peugeot HQ campus
25 June 2004
Car manufacturer reveals shortlist for 85 acre Coventry development site
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Jamie hopkins wants to turn Mapeley around. Is buying direct property the answer?
25 June 2004
The new chief executive of the outsourcing specialist is planning to join the mainstream investment market.
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ODPM signs up with Hermes in Leeds
18 June 2004
Department's Wellington Place deal is further blow for Town Centre Securities
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Bartram returns to fold at Haslemere
11 June 2004
GE appoints former chief to advise on strategy after £156m deal
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CWHB to tailor Coats' global property strategy
11 June 2004
Textile company commissions review of 20m sq ft portfolio in Europe, America and Asia
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LandSecs and Ritblat in retail fund tie-up
11 June 2004
Jamie Ritblat's Delancey forms £270m London venture
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Property lending 'needs tempering with rationality'
11 June 2004
Savills expert Newsom warns against over-enthusiasm as interest rates rise
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Five chosen for Royal Mail property management
4 June 2004
ATIS, Sanderson Weatherall, Nelson Bakewell, J&E Shepherd and Osborne King scoop prize
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Watch this space
4 June 2004
Property Week and the British Council for Offices invited four top occupiers and a developer to debate key issues ahead of a major joint conference this autumn. Angela Monaghan relays their thoughts. And below, we report on May's BCO conference in Manchester
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Kilmartin branches out into residential
21 May 2004
Scottish developer follows Miller into housing development
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Morley takes £100m control of Cardiff Bay
21 May 2004
Associated British Ports leaves regeneration scheme after more than a decade
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$850,000 package for JLL's Peacock
14 May 2004
Company to cover car, phone, accountancy and insurance until April 2005
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Ex-Aberdeen chief Reid founds European investor
14 May 2004
Reid sets up Protego, backed by Norwegian billionaire, with former API colleagues Weeks and Llewelyn
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Ex-Aberdeen chief Reid founds European investor
14 May 2004
Reid sets up Protego, backed by Norwegian billionaire, with former API colleagues Weeks and Llewelyn
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Tax cut
7 May 2004
Mapeley revealed to have bid £555m less than rival to win Inland Revenue property deal
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Apollo makes ¤700m Polish EU accession purchase
7 May 2004
Investor buys shopping centre portfolio in new member state's biggest-ever deal
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Kershaw and Soros expand HQ with £52m portfolio buy
7 May 2004
Serviced office operator buys in Edinburgh, Bristol and London
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Disney review sparks global adviser battle
30 April 2004
Advisory role on 8m sq ft portfolio could go to single firm.
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Reichmann to back Morgan Stanley
23 April 2004
Canary Wharf founder privately pledges support to rival consortium
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Frontier party plots Birmingham refurb
23 April 2004
Consortium buys 100,000 sq ft Windsor House from Legal & General
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St Paul’s picked for £100m Yorkshire business park
23 April 2004
Developer to build 1.3m sq ft mixed-use scheme in Dearne Valley enterprise zone
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Canary Wharf takeover: Morgan Stanley in front
16 April 2004
Investment bank and Brascan offers finalised at 292p and 275p a share respectively
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Multiplex buys 25% of UK retail fund
16 April 2004
Australian developer moves closer to Chelsfield with £16m stake in Sapphire
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Isis launches second listed investment fund
8 April 2004
Isis Asset Management is set to launch a second listed property investment company, to invest around £170m in the UK's office, retail and industrial sectors
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Leeds to get 47-storey tower
8 April 2004
Simons Estates has been selected by Leeds City Council to develop what will be the city’s tallest building at the £200m mixed-use Criterion Place scheme.
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Savills still top of share league as rivals close in
8 April 2004
Last year's runaway winner joint top with St Modwen and LAP after a good start to 2004 for property
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Slough and Helios team up in £150m big shed venture
8 April 2004
Quoted company joins private developer to invest in UK distribution units of more than 1m sq ft
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Arlington buy ends long saga of Aberdeen sale
8 April 2004
Aberdeen Property Investors finally to be sold to business park specialist
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Kempner stays as chief at Benchmark after GE deal
8 April 2004
GE Real Estate confirms £273m agreement for West End specialist and will keep 'respected team'
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Capital & Provident takes £47m fund trio
7 April 2004
Montagu Evans has sold the last of its three UK retail property funds to Capital & Provident for £47m.
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Trio of deals brings Scottish office market back to life
2 April 2004
Signs of recovery as Edinburgh and Kilmarnock lettings near completion
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British Land provides £125m for Canary bid
26 March 2004
Support helps Morgan Stanley consortium raise offer to 292p a share
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Royal Mail to outsource portfolio in web auction
26 March 2004
Cost-cutting postal group invites agents’ bids for management of 45m sq ft estate
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Salmon sues Met for £1m over Bow Street
26 March 2004
Developer issues writ after police's U-turn on Covent Garden scheme sale
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British Land enters Canary Wharf battle
19 March 2004
British Land has entered the bid battle for Canary Wharf Group by giving financial support to an improved offer from Morgan Stanley’s Silvestor consortium.
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PRICOA Property arm in buyout talks
19 March 2004
Parent Prudential Financial agrees to investment management MBO
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Dickinson spirit
19 March 2004
Grainger Trust's Rupert Dickinson is in a prime position to grow the company through a UK real estate investment trust.
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Trillium driving test deal breaks down
19 March 2004
LST contract to run UK centres collapses after publisher Pearson pulls out
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Scotland's forgotten village
Scotland Supplement March 04
Freeport's deserted factory outlet scheme in Scotland is the disappointment of its UK portfolio. Angela Monaghan visits the site and reports on the developer's plans to resurrect it
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Savills toasts record profits and bonuses
5 March 2004
Bonus pool of £54m revealed after 73% profits rise in 2003
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GE Capital in talks for £325m Benchmark
5 March 2004
West End specialist reveals exclusivity agreement with US firm
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Institutions end 2003 as £2.5bn net sellers
5 March 2004
IPD figures show that funds sold more than they bought in stiff competition with private buyers
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REIT-hungry Hammerson applies for French listing
5 March 2004
UK property company plans secondary listing followed by asset conversion into a French REIT
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LSH blow as new east of England chief quits
2 March 2004
Lambert Smith Hampton’s east of England chief Richard Coke has quit just months after succeeding top shed shifter John Burbage in the role.
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Arresting development
27 February 2004
A private finance initiative looms after the Metropolitan Police this week announced plans to sell part of its property portfolio for £900m.
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Brascan reveals plans to grow across Britain
27 February 2004
Canadian front-runner to buy Canary Wharf would diversify Docklands developer's portfolio
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Selfridges in talks with Miller over Glasgow store
27 February 2004
Pair discuss tie-up at 770,000 sq ft Merchant City scheme for retailer's fifth UK outlet
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RBS begins disposal of surplus property
20 February 2004
UK's biggest bank is latest to examine portfolio
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£450m Arena Central gets moving
19 February 2004
Arena Central, Birmingham’s £450m mixed-use scheme dubbed the next Brindleyplace, finally looks set to start.
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Volkswagen revs up for £300m sale-and-leaseback
13 February 2004
Royal Bank of Scotland tipped to buy portfolio while Trillium scoops Pearson deal
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Raising The Stakes
13 February 2004
Canary Wharf's non-executive directors are backing Morgan Stanley while rival Brascan is upping the ante itself.
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LSH reverses office closure programme
12 February 2004
Lambert Smith Hampton today reversed the decision of former chief executive Chris Boulton to close four of its regional offices, just three weeks after he left the firm in the wake of a failed £28.5m management buyout
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Brascan raises Canary Wharf bid
12 February 2004
Brascan, the Canadian property and power conglomerate battling for a £1.6bn takeover of Canary Wharf Group, today announced an increased offer for the company that looks set to kill off a rival bid from Morgan Stanley
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Brascan plots to capture Canary with £1.6bn offer
6 February 2004
Reichmann-backed conglomerate to trump Morgan Stanley for Docklands developer
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Procter gambles on new strategy
6 February 2004
Procter & Gamble appoints CWHB to advise on 32m sq ft EMEA property portfolio
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Former BT property chief to head Network Rail estate
6 February 2004
John Pike will identify partners for developing redundant land in new role
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St Modwen chosen for £75m Bedford mixed-use scheme
6 February 2004
Developer also on final shortlist to manage 1,400 properties in Great Yarmouth
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JLL profits up 33%
5 February 2004
Jones Lang LaSalle today revealed better than expected results for 2003, with net profits up 33% to $36.1m (£19.7m).
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Arlington set to buy Aberdeen
30 January 2004
Fund manager ahead in race to buy Aberdeen Asset Management property division
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Bernerd’s improved bid for Chelsfield recommended
30 January 2004
Backers include Reuben brothers with 35% stake in new privatised vehicle
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Big two drop out of Benchmark takeover
23 January 2004
Schroders and Delancey bids fail to match 300p-a-share asking price
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LSH buyout near collapse
23 January 2004
Team led by chief executive struggles to raise funds to finalise £28.5m deal
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Savills pulls plug on Trammell Crow JV
23 January 2004
Huge cost of bidding for contracts and low margins deter top agent
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Savills recovers from slow start to shine in 2003
23 January 2004
Property services firms push Real Estate Index up 27%, as Savills tops the league
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Silvestor nets Qatar funding for Canary
23 January 2004
Gulf state pledges £60m to Morgan Stanley’s consortium
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Audit Office report attacks £400m NHS portfolio sale
16 January 2004
NHS Estates' handling of faltering 4,800 acre deal with Miller and HBOS criticised
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LSH office mergers prompt Thames Valley closures…
16 January 2004
Peterborough and Luton branches also to shut as part of consolidation programme
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Prudential backs £200m speculative Solihull park
16 January 2004
Insurer joins Frontier and Opus to develop 25 acre scheme in second West Midlands tie-up
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LSH appoints City chief
15 January 2004
Lambert Smith Hampton has completed the rebuilding of its City of London operation with the appointment of Rob Riley as head of its office in the Square Mile.
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Kilmartin starts new year with development double
9 January 2004
Scottish company applies for £90m extension in Sheffield and wins consent for Edinburgh scheme
