All Property Week articles in Property Awards April 2009
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Southampton’s Watermark West Quay plans get go ahead
Hammerson's plans for a development in Southampton city centre have been given outline planning consent.
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Two million shoppers visit London’s West End
London’s West End saw more than 2 million shoppers visit over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.
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UK favourite with overseas retailers
The UK is the country which attracts the most international retailers, with 58% of non-UK retailers surveyed present in the country, according to CB Richard Ellis’s second annual cross border retail survey.
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Night of a thousand stars
Braving high-level security and anti-capitalism protesters in central London, 1,000 professionals gathered on Wednesday for the biggest night in the property industry calendar: the Property Awards
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Property personality of the year: Stephen Hester
It was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire for Hester when he quit the property market in October for the banking sector
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Innovation of the year: Hermes’ monthly rents
In September, the UK’s biggest pension fund manager set about breaking the deadlock between landlords and retailers over rent payments by offering all the tenants in its £10bn property portfolio the chance to pay monthly, rather than quarterly, in advance.
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Property fund manager of the year: Threadneedle Property Investments
After taking over from Andrew Strang ashead of property in January, Don Jordison led the Threadneedle team to a successful year
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Entrepreneurs of the year: Raymond Mould and Patrick Vaughan
Mould and Vaughan have a reputation for reading the property market better than anyone, after selling Arlington Securities and Pillar Property in successive booms
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Developer of the year: Hammerson
Hammerson began last year with six key developments under way at an estimated total cost of £955m – £330m of which had still to be spent
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Judgement days
The Property Awards are the industry’s top accolades. This year judging took place in two stages. First, the 280-strong Property Academy of the industry’s top names nominated their candidates for this year’s awards. Then our specialist judging panels convened over two days to whittle down the nominees into shortlists, before ...
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Property Company of the year: Derwent London
Asset management was key last year for the largest central London REIT. John Burns (below) and his team focused on the reversionary potential of the portfolio through lettings, rent reviews and lease renewals
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Deal of the year: JP Morgan’s move to Canary Wharf
On 17 November, Canary Wharf Group, still reeling from the collapse of Lehman Brothers two months earlier, pulled off a coup, when JP Morgan agreed to move from the City of London to Docklands.
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Residential developer of the year: Berkeley Group
Berkeley Group founder and managing director Tony Pidgley cemented his reputation for being an astute reader of the housing market by starting this year with £236m of cash, no debt and having made no land writedowns last year.
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The regeneration award: Grosvenor
The Duke of Westminster’s property company completed its biggest-ever regeneration project, Liverpool One, the £1bn development of 42 acres of Liverpool city centre
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Occupier of the year: Aldi
Discount retailers across the globe are set to be the next retail superpowers, according to a report last year from Deloitte
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Investment agency team of the year: CB Richard Ellis
CB Richard Ellis maintained its dominance of the UK investment market
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Retail agency team of the year: Jones Lang LaSalle
Jones Lang LaSalle significantly boosted its retail coverage when it bought retail consultancy Churston Heard
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Office agency team of the year: DTZ
After a competitive pitch, DTZ secured the biggest office leasing pitch of the year
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Industrial agency team of the year: CB Richard Ellis
CB Richard Ellis’s industrial team, which comprises 18 fee earners nationally, ended last year with a 29% share of the 41m sq ft of available industrial space of more than 100,000 sq ft
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Professional agency team of the year: Knight Frank
Knight Frank’s valuations team, headed by Rupert Johnson (far right), won contracts at competitive tender to value quarterly three funds with a combined value of £1bn: the HBOS Final Salary Pension Scheme, the West Midlands Metropolitan Authority Pension Fund and the BMW (UK) Operations Pension Scheme.