All Property Week articles in North-west supplement 2005
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InsightWhere there’s a mill, there’s a way
An application for the redevelopment of Wigan’s Trencherfield Mill goes before the council's planning committee next week.
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InsightStrike it lucky
The government’s gambling bill has limited the number of supercasinos in the UK to just eight, and cities in the north-west are hoping to hit the jackpot.
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InsightTower games
Liverpool’s residential boom is evident in the city’s new skyscrapers, but there are doubts about its sustainability.
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InsightLate developer
After almost a decade, work has finally started on Kingsway Business Park, a £315m scheme on the M62 near Manchester.
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InsightHere comes the fund
The Agora Shopping Centres Fund is polishing up its prize assets in the north-west.
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InsightA tale of two brothers
Brothers Mohammed Ishtiaq and Mohammed Afaq run development and architecture firms from Manchester.
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InsightWater biscuits
Imagine millions of bourbon, shortcake and custard cream biscuits floating into thousands of gallons of dirty floodwater.
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Insight‘B of the Bang’ unveiled
Manchester has launched Britain’s tallest sculpture, B of the Bang, outside the City of Manchester Stadium.
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Insight‘Affordable’ house not so cheap
A three-storey house that the deputy prime minister hailed as the model £60,000 affordable home actually cost £90,000, it emerged, when the building was displayed at the Sustainable Communities Summit in Manchester last month.
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Brascan ‘makes £330m bid’ for Canary Wharf scheme
Canadian property group Brascan is believed to have made an unsolicited £330m bid for the 540,000 sq ft (50,170 sq m) office block at 20 Canada Square in London’s Canary Wharf from the Morgan Stanley-owned Songbird Estates.
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Savills staff share £70m bonus pool as profits rocket
Savills staff shared a £70m bonus pool last year after pretax profits soared above £50m – a record for a UK property services firm.
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Clarke takes on new role at Crown Estate
The Crown Estate has appointed Giles Clarke to the new role of director of investment and asset management.
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Mercury to buy West End agents
Mercury Group, a new AIM-listed company that is aiming to become a property professional services group, has agreed to buy London West End firms Smith Melzack Pepper Angliss and Lee Baron.
