All Property Week articles in 03 August 2007 – Page 4

  • News

    Louis Vuitton

    03 August 2007

    Louis Vuitton has signed up to take space at Westfield and CGI’s £1.5bn Westfield London shopping centre at White City in the west of the capital. The luxury goods brand has taken a 3,000 sq ft store in the Village, the centre’s ‘luxury area’. It is the first time it ...

  • Professional

    Tenant liquidation

    03 August 2007

    Question: My corporate tenant has gone into liquidation and I have received a notice of disclaimer from the liquidator. What should I do?

  • Markets

    Power lift

    03 August 2007

    An Irish developer is battling against the odds to redevelop Battersea Power Station.

  • Professional

    Lease renewals

    03 August 2007

    Question: My lease has expired but the landlord has not taken any steps to remove me from the premises. I am not sure if I want to remain there or relocate, but what are my options?

  • News

    Private investor syndicate

    03 August 2007

    Private investor syndicate Property Bourse has launched a residential fund focusing on the former East Germany.

  • Insight

    Land of Hope and Rory

    03 August 2007

    Rory Bremner kept the crowds entertained at the Midlands Property Awards last month.

  • News

    Triple-whammy of trouble hits US REITs

    03 August 2007

    Plummeting share prices and huge outflows from trusts hit US markets

  • Markets

    Victim of hips

    03 August 2007

    This week’s bungled introduction of home information packs has cost energy assessors, such as Robert Lisle, thousands, says Mira Bar-Hillel

  • News

    Hines signs for Parisian offices

    03 August 2007

    Hines has signed a forward-funding agreement with French developer Nexity to purchase an office building that is to be developed by early 2009 in St Ouen, Paris. The sum committed was undisclosed.

  • News

    Robson homes in on Hilton hotels

    03 August 2007

    A new investment firm set up by a former principal finance chief at the Royal Bank of Scotland is close to acquiring the £1.1bn Hilton hotels portfolio.

  • News

    Quintain loses patience with HBOS

    03 August 2007

    HBOs has been told by the Takeover Panel to decide by 10 September whether it will launch a takeover bid for Quintain.

  • News

    Hanover Square

    03 August 2007

  • Professional

    Studies in green

    03 August 2007

    Academic training for young surveyors is becoming increasingly Green. Universities across the UK are adding environmental modules to their courses in response to new legislation in planning and construction, which demands that properties become more sustainable. New career opportunities are also opening up for surveyors with an interest in the ...

  • News

    For he’s a jolly good velo

    03 August 2007

    Another property ironman is Catalyst Capital’s Charles Baigler, who has completed one of this year’s toughest stages in the Tour de France without the aid of drugs.

  • David Farrow
    Insight

    Going places

    03 August 2007

    This weeks movers

  • Markets

    Going into reverse

    03 August 2007

    The government is to overhaul the 15-year-old planning policy on development.

  • News

    Hillview green light at Genesis

    03 August 2007

    Hillview Developments, which is a subsidiary of McInerney Holdings, has won planning consent for the second phase at its Genesis Business Park in Park Royal, west London.

  • News

    Gale International

    03 August 2007

    Gale International has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle as the sole agent for Korea’s tallest building, the $500m (£250m) Northeast Asia Trade Tower, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Its 65 storeys will feature 1.3m sq ft and rise more than 1,000 ft above the Yellow Sea.

  • News

    Gale International

    03 August 2007

    Gale International has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle as the sole agent for Korea’s tallest building, the $500m (£250m) Northeast Asia Trade Tower, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Its 65 storeys will feature 1.3m sq ft and rise more than 1,000 ft above the Yellow Sea.

  • News

    Macquarie takes flight in Poland with Wings

    03 August 2007

    Fund manager buys resi scheme stake as part of €1bn spending spree