All Property Week articles in Sheds February 2010
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Property given new route to lobby government
Property consultants and other professional services firms can lobby government directly under a new group that held its first meeting today.
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'Share chief execs and buildings', councils told
Local public bodies should share staff and buildings in order to save frontline services, a report by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) has said.
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Government criticises GLA housing strategy
London mayor Boris Johnson’s housing plans will not do enough to address the capital’s affordable housing shortage, the government has warned today.
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OnlineI am a landlord and my tenant has stopped paying their rent.
What can I do? Is it possible to evict them?
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Chief scientist calls for overhaul of land use planning
Government needs to overhaul the land use planning system to cope with future housing needs and the green agenda, its chief scientist has warned.
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InsightStarved of specs
Despite a barren 2009 and signs of occupier demand, few developers are brave enough to start developing speculatively
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InsightOwners could revert to type
Yes, you have heard it all before from many commentators, but just once more for the record, 2009 was a nightmare year for commercial property agents
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InsightHungry for more
Institutions are under pressure to spend but there is little to satisfy their appetite
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NewsTDG parks up with Honda in Swindon
TDG finalised the deal last month to take space in Swindon to make car part deliveries to Honda, even though it has been in occupation under a “tenancy at will” agreement since April
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A strong result for Goodman at Hinkley
Armstrong Logistics has taken a 15-year lease on a 96,500 sq ft logistics unit at Hinkley Commercial Park on junction 1 of the M59, near Leicester
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Industrial Evolution
The recession has spawned a new generation of industrial property start-ups
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InsightGazeley’s guy in Dubai
Former Gazeley development director Nick Cook has just completed his first year as vice-president of commercial development at parent company Economic Zones World in Dubai
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Market rent issues may cause conflict
At the end of 2009, the consensus for the sheds market appeared to be that signs of stabilisation had begun to emerge but recovery was — and still is — some way off
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InsightDriving a hard bar gain
Third-party logistics operators are being squeezed by their retail customers, so they are turning the screw on landlords
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Food retailers are the only ones eating away at the supply
I envisage 2010 as the year of the “living dead”, with the global businesses in our sector sustained solely by the life-support machine that is the Bank of England’s low interest rates
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NewsSavills pays Asda price for advice
Colliers CRE and BNP Paribas Real Estate retender for logistics contract
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Tough questions about ‘cheap’ stock
Last July, Hansteen Holdings raised about £260m of new capital, primarily to take advantage of industrial property investment opportunities in the UK
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NewsPrologis pressed for £3m in Corby
Prologis could face legal action in the next few weeks if it does not pay more than £3m in section 106 payments in return for planning permission already granted for its Eurohub near Corby
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Databank: Rent recovery in 2013
Industrial rents will continue to fall until they stabilise in 2012 and increase slowly in 2013, King Sturge has forecast
