All Property Week articles in Global October 2008

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  • Aloha from Hawaii: General Growth‘s Ala Moana Center in Honolulu
    News

    General Growth stunted by share dive and debt difficulties

    Global October 2008

    Second-biggest US mall owner in rush to pay back billions in short-term loans

  • News

    The benighted estates of America

    Global October 2008

    Toxic US subprime loans are at the heart of the current market turmoil. Lucy Scott reports from Manhattan – the eye of the global property storm

  • Professional

    Rain on Sarko’s parade

    Global October 2008

    President Sarkozy’s economic reforms have not left the country immune from the global financial turmoil. Mark Shepherd reports from Paris

  • News

    Man in the news: Michael Montebaur

    Global October 2008

    And now for something completely different from Union’s Monty

  • News

    ProLogis seals US lettings

    Global October 2008

    ProLogis has agreed new leases totalling 386,000 sq ft (35,860 sq m) with logistics operator Kuehne & Nagel at two distribution parks in the US.

  • News

    JEREMY NEWSUM: Unless we take the long view, we’ll keep selling ourselves short

    Global October 2008

    Hello from your new columnist. The more I’ve seen of it, the more I realise there really is only one world – we live in the global era – and I’m delighted to have the chance to write in Property Week Global every other month, now that I’ve removed myself ...

  • Professional

    Global q+a

    Global October 2008

    Is the 2014 Winter Olympic city of Sochi in Russia worth investing in?

  • Professional

    Global moves

    Global October 2008

    This month

  • Markets

    Hammerson’s French revolutionary

    Global October 2008

    Hammerson’s new French chief, Christophe Clamageran, is planning a change in strategy. Mark Shepherd met him in Paris. Photographs by Olivier Roller

  • News

    Four weeks that Rocked the world

    Global October 2008

    The turmoil in the financial markets is having a dramatic effect on property. Lucy Scott assesses the impact on the world’s key markets

  • News

    Romania mall first phase opens

    Global October 2008

    Argo Group has opened the first phase of ERA Shopping Park in the Romanian city of Iasi, which will be the country’s largest retail scheme outside Bucharest

  • News

    The wages of fear

    Global October 2008

    The latest European salary survey by Macdonald & Company and the RICS shows falling pay and benefits, and a growing number of professionals who are just glad to have any work at all. Lucy Scott explains

  • Markets

    Midnight express

    Global October 2008

    Shareholders in French REITs have been given a deadline of midnight on New Year’s Eve to reduce their stakes to below 60%. But, as Mark Shepherd reports, not all of them may be ready in time

  • News

    Equest to sell Sofia mall

    Global October 2008

    Equest Balkan Properties has sold the 246,603 sq ft (22,910 sq m) City Center Sofia Mall in Bulgaria’s capital to Heitman European Property Partners III for €101.5m (£80.3m)

  • Markets

    On the Défensive

    Global October 2008

    Paris’s La Défense faces a struggle to fulfil its ambitious office development targets. Mark Shepherd reports

  • News

    Kenmore and Goodman’s Dutch deals

    Global October 2008

    Two industrial Deals in the Netherlands have been completed for a combined €66m (£52.5m).

  • News

    No silver lining to the financial storm clouds

    Global October 2008

    The last four weeks have been marked by a chain of dire, depressing events

  • Professional

    An opening for closed

    Global October 2008

    Stephen Miles looks at how Germany’s closed-ended funds are starting to shift the limelight away from their more famous open-ended brethren

  • Professional

    Club class

    Global October 2008

    Leading figures from the central and eastern European property markets dispensed their wisdom at September’s Global Investment Club. Lucy Scott reports

  • Newfound land: McGivern is looking at regeneration
    News

    Crunch forces changes at Canadian resort developer

    Global October 2008

    Newfound, the holiday resort developer headed by former Multiplex UK chief executive Jayne McGivern, is to target retail-led regeneration schemes in a bid to improve on its poor performance this year.