Anna Goldie Freelance
Property Week
Stories by this contributor.
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More besides the sea
18 May 2007
Southend wants to convince retail developers that it is not just a seafront with a town attached.
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Sleeping Lyons
Skyline April 2007
The government relocations heralded by the Lyons review have so far failed to live up to property industry expectations. Anna Goldie assesses the way ahead. Illustration by Jonathan Edwards
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Bournemouth’s sore point
16 March 2007
The Castlepoint shopping centre faces legal action.
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The market in minutes
16 March 2007
Anna Goldie and Richard Heap give you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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Wessex therapy
16 March 2007
Three schemes are vying to provide Trowbridge with the large shops so lacking in the town.
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Excess baggage
2 March 2007
Hotels want to join the REIT rush and release capital from their property. But Revenue and Customs will not be making it easy.
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Sleeping partners
2 March 2007
Investors can buy individual hotel rooms.
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Staybridge Suites takes up UK residence
2 March 2007
Intercontinental’s US apart-hotel brand lands seven contracts
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20-30-40-50
22 February 2007
Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. Today, Anna Goldie meets Reg Haslam, 58, director of development at ReBlackpool
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Above the parapet
16 February 2007
Developers are risking speculative projects as Sheffield’s occupier market grows stronger.
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Faith, hope and Trinity
16 February 2007
The council’s blessing for a delayed redevelopment of Leeds’ Trinity Arcade has cleared the way for a new retail quarter.
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Irish show steel with Sheffield purchase
16 February 2007
Oregan Financial buys Carmel House retail block at record 4.18% yield
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Still waters run deep
16 February 2007
John Bywater, Hammerson’s retail renaissance man, is returning to his Yorkshire roots.
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The market in minutes
16 February 2007
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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Way off track
16 February 2007
Is the Northern Way now as redundant as its creator, John Prescott?
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McAleer & Rushe buys £40m Leeds site
2 February 2007
Northern Irish developer buys 6.5 acres in city centre from Paul Sykes
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20-30-40-50
1 February 2007
Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. This week Anna Goldie meets Natasha Abbas, 29, assistant project manager at St Paul’s Developments
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Neutral colours
26 January 2007
Quintain has been selected to deliver a Will Alsop-designed masterplan for a carbon-neutral development in Middlesbrough. Anna Goldie reports
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The market in minutes
26 January 2007
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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Water under the bridge
26 January 2007
The underpopulated failed new town of Peterlee is fighting back after a recent call centre closure.
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When the boats come in
26 January 2007
One NorthEast hopes to turn the Port of Tyne into a North Sea cruise destination.
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Bedpans and broomsticks
12 January 2007
Land Securities and the Livingstone brothers are investing in uncharted property territory: hospitals.
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20-30-40-50
11 January 2007
Each week we meet a property figure from a different age bracket. Today, Anna Goldie meets Nick Phillips, 39, a property manager at the National Trust
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Yorkshire forward
15 December 2006
Rents are rising as investors head due north
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20-30-40-50-60-70-80
13 December 2006
Each week we meet a property figure from a different age bracket. This week Anna Goldie meets Roy Cadogan, 82, a valuer at Montagu Evans
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After the Scunthorpe effect
01 December 2006
Opus Land is attempting to put Lincolnshire on the map as a big sheds location.
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Dye another day
01 December 2006
Developer Reland is planning mixed-use schemes on two contaminated sites.
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Kenmore to spruce up Leeds’ City House
01 December 2006
Developer in joint venture for 120,000 sq ft office block
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Leeds’ leading ladies
01 December 2006
Council supremo Jean Dent and Montpellier chief Jan Fletcher have a mission: to turn Leeds into an iconic city.
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The market in minutes
01 December 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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Heart sell
17 November 2006
O&H is targeting Walton-on-Thames’s affluent residents at its shopping centre, the Heart.
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Recovery play
17 November 2006
Despite plummeting yields, office investors are parting with their cash in the hope that rental levels will improve.
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The market in minutes
17 November 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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Soho’s redemption
10 November 2006
Capital of sleaze or newly gentrified leisure spot? Anna Goldie burrows into the porn and drinking dens of Soho.
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20-30-40-50
03 November 2006
Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. This week Anna Goldie meets Paul Jenkins, 39, director at Mayfield Asset Management
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Extreme measures
Retail and Leisure Supplement 2006
One man is on a mission to bring kayaking and rock climbing into shopping centres. Anna Goldie meets TV’s Duncan McCallum
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Eye of the beholder
27 October 2006
Belvedere Road Retail Park has been named the ugliest building in Suffolk.
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King’s pools its resources
27 October 2006
A masterplan for the regeneration of King’s Lynn’s waterfront has been approved.
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Lagmar’s £9m profit on Anglia Square
27 October 2006
Joint venture sells Norwich mall for a third more after only nine months
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Millers tale
27 October 2006
KMiller Developments is kick-starting a much-needed makeover of Great Yarmouth’s shopping district.
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The market in minutes
27 October 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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20-30-40-50
18 October 2006
Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. This week Anna Goldie meets Nadeem Shah, 50, managing director of TLB Properties and Swan Homes
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20-30-40-50
27 September 2006
Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. This week Anna Goldie meets Adrian Cormican, 27, partner in the property finance team at Clydesdale Bank
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Developer shortlist for Newcastle Co-op site
22 September 2006
Hanro, Downing and Unite vie for 1.2 acre site
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Hill to climb
22 September 2006
Terrace Hill hopes its Baltic Business Quarter ‘urban office park’ can address the lack of space in Newcastle and Gateshead.
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Spatial effects
22 September 2006
The regional spatial strategy’s examination in public recommends limiting the land available to industrial developers. Anna Goldie reports
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The market in minutes
22 September 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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Vardy shifts gear
22 September 2006
Richard Vardy hopes to replicate his family’s success in the motor trade with his new venture, Vardy Property Group.
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Youd better shop around
22 September 2006
Shopping centre investors are on the move in the north-east. Anna Goldie reports
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20-30-40-50-60
01 September 2006
Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. This week Anna Goldie meets Sylvia Fisher, 66, help desk administrator at MERJS
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Donning a new image
01 September 2006
Frenchgate shopping centre, a thriving airport and potential city status are making Doncaster a boom town.
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Lost and foundry
01 September 2006
A former steelworks is still the hottest industrial site in South Yorkshire.
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Our trends in the north
01 September 2006
Anna Goldie analyses Investec research on the north of England and Scotland
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The last picture show
01 September 2006
A winning proposal has been selected for the development of the site of Bradford’s old Odeon cinema.
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The market in minutes
01 September 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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White Rose blooms with 95,000 sq ft expansion plans
01 September 2006
Leeds business park owner Munroe K to submit planning application for office development
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Bottle job
04 August 2006
City & Provincial aims to put the fizz back into a former Stockwell wine bottle store.
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Quintain and charity to develop riverside scheme
04 August 2006
Morden College and developer to regenerate 40 acre Greenwich Peninsula site
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Stall or nothing
04 August 2006
Morley Fund Management plans a mixed-use scheme around Bermondsey’s notorious antiques market.
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Rank agrees £172m sale and leaseback
21 July 2006
Pears and Khalastchi splash out for bingo halls
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Watch this space
21 July 2006
Cinema operators are overhauling wasted foyer space in an attempt to seduce audiences with better food and leisure facilities. Anna Goldie reports
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Britain's alternative offices
14 July 2006
Last week government adviser Kate Barker blamed high office costs on planning. Today Anna Goldie visits four weird workplaces to see how occupiers are beating the system
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Bohemian rhapsody
14 July 2006
Manchester’s Northern Quarter has long attracted ‘bohemian’ occupiers and the council’s regeneration framework is enabling developers of smaller offices to build on this. Anna Goldie reports
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Manchester tram still neglects poor
14 July 2006
Government’s overspending fears limit budget for Metrolink extension
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The market in minutes
14 July 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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20-30-40-50
12 July 2006
Each week we meet a property figure from a different age bracket. This week Anna Goldie meets Rosemary Tinker, 45, national chair of the Association of Women in Property for 2006-07
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Tanfield cherry-picksindustrial premises
23 June 2006
Engineering group takes 25-year lease on largest facility in region
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The market in minutes
23 June 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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Tyne after time
23 June 2006
The north-east has been transformed in the past decade but it could struggle to maintain a similar pace in the next decade.
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Small mercies
Offices and business parks supplement 2006
Cisco Systems has appointed niche firm Hicks Baker to market the biggest tranche of land in Reading. Anna Goldie reports
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A logistical move
26 May 2006
Industrial specialist Parkridge is attacking western Europe from its Paris office.
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Arlington buys French parks for €55.7m
26 May 2006
Business park specialist kicks off Pan-Euro logistics fund with double buy
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Bare-faced chic
26 May 2006
Hammerson's £85m Vendôme Saint-Honoré retail scheme epitomises Parisian elegance.
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Harbouring doubts
26 May 2006
Developers Gazeley and ProLogis have renewed their focus on Le Havre and Dunkirk, but expensive port taxes and complex labour relations could put off occupiers. Anna Goldie reports
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Thrill de France
26 May 2006
Paris investment is booming but pressure on rents could freeze the market. Anna Goldie reports
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Vive les différences
26 May 2006
The French retail and retail investment markets are a world away from their UK counterparts. Anna Goldie reports
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The new wave
12 May 2006
From Afghanistan to Abu Dhabi, from Bahrain to Beirut, developers want to emulate Dubai as the world's new property hotspot. Anna Goldie reports from the Gulf - and asks if the development frenzy is a timebomb waiting to explode
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Growing pains
05 May 2006
After haemorrhaging directors and instructions over the last few months, Jones Lang LaSalle in Leeds has recruited new office head Jeff Pearey to rejuvenate the office.
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The market in minutes
05 May 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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Automotive property investment to hit £600m
24 March 2006
Transactions rise from £20m in 2000 and £500m in 2005, says GVA Grimley
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Pendragon's den
24 March 2006
After buying out car dealership group Reg Vardy, Pendragon plans to streamline its portfolio.
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Counter argument
24 March 2006
Trade counters will remain a grey area until they are allotted a use classification.
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Bold storage
24 March 2006
Self-storage companies are seeking roadside sites as they pursue rapid expansion.
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Speaking english
North west supplement 2006
One of the leading candidates to take over as chief executive of English Partnerships, Paul Spooner still has plenty of work to do for the agency in the north-west. Photograph by John Boyce
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Developers vie with logistics groups for 150 acres of sites
03 March 2006
Land in Newton Aycliffe expected to attract offers of £50,000 or more an acre
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Highway patrol
03 March 2006
Stop orders from the Highways Agency are preventing development across the north-east.
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Out of fashion
03 March 2006
The days of small-town department stores are numbered, so the future of five Co-op stores in the region is in the balance.
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The market in minutes
03 March 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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A fairway to development
17 February 2006
The members of a 100-year-old Bradford golf club have welcomed the chance to oversee the redevelopment of their course.
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Delivering the goods
17 February 2006
Take-up of grade A space may have been down in Leeds in 2005, but the decline looks set to reverse later this year.
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Downing chosen for £50m Leeds student village tie-up
17 February 2006
Liverpool-based developer to build on former BBC HQ for Leeds Metropolitan University
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In the zone
17 February 2006
The enterprise zone incentives that attracted Next to Brookfields Park could entice other occupiers to South Yorkshire.
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Leeds' show-stopper
17 February 2006
It has been years since Leeds had a venue that could host the biggest rock acts, but plans for a 13,000-seat arena could change that.
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The market in minutes
17 February 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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The missing Link
17 February 2006
The East Leeds Link Road will be short, but it is hoped that it will spark the regeneration of the Aire Valley.
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In deep water
27 January 2006
Years of economic decline and last year's floods have made Carlisle a tough sell to developers, but those in charge of its regeneration think its potential can be tapped.
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New hope for the leak district
27 January 2006
The £77m New Squares development aims to lure Penrith's shoppers back to the town's high street.
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The market in minutes
27 January 2006
Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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Buncefield prompts hazard rethink
13 January 2006
Exclusion zones around UK industrial sites mooted by Cabinet Office
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Hope in hell
13 January 2006
December’s Buncefield oil depot explosion could change Hemel Hempstead and industrial development forever.
