All Property Week articles in 03 August 2012 – Page 9
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Professional
Internship brings valuable insights
Property Week has adopted six University of Reading real estate students. This month, James Davies values his time in a valuation team
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Insight
CBRE and JLL must up game to bring home gold
Global agencies CBRE and Jones Lang LaSalle reported solid, but unspectacular first-half 2012 figures this week (finance). However, in a tough market, question marks hover over the pair’s results.
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Insight
BREEAM dream is over
Sir, I recently looked around a prime central London office property — a temple to excess that would require the planting of half a Brazilian rainforest to offset its outrageous carbon footprint (“Keep your green promise or risk green court case”, professional, 06.07.12).
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Professional
Divide and keep open: courts rule differently north and south of border
The 2012 State of the Retail Nation survey makes for sobering reading.
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Markets
London fashion designer blooms
London-based fashion designer Fleur B has signed for a second store, at 20 Duke Street in the West End, as part of plans to grow to five sites in the capital in the next five years.
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News
Blackrock conquers Enfield’s Coliseum
Blackrock has agreed to buy the Coliseum Retail Park in Enfield, north London, for £46m.
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News
Terra Catalyst bites the dust
Recession-ravaged Laxey fund set up to buy underperforming property shares faces early termination
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News
Betfred’s Manchester bet
Betfred’s millionaire owners are preparing to submit plans for a 12-storey office property on Manchester’s St Peter’s Square.
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Insight
Retailers must pick up on benefits of ‘click and collect’
Click and collect” is not a new phenomenon, but the growth of its popularity among consumers is paving the way for it to be seen as playing a key role in the changing face of high streets and shopping centres.
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Markets
Brent Cross ‘will not become Westfield North London’
Hammerson is to push on with extension and Cricklewood scheme. David Hatcher reports
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Professional
New front opens up in battle of squatters’ rights
Judgment over Grow Heathrow considers breaches of human rights. David Hatcher reports
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News
Hearthstone is where Barratt’s heart is
Barratt Developments is to carry out a £22.5m show home sale and leaseback to the TH Hearthstone UK Residential Property Fund.
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News
Banks step up property loan portfolio sales
Three loan portfolios with a face value of more than £1.5bn were in the final stages of being sold this week, as banks step up their sales process to try to reduce their exposure to the property sector.
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News
Ex-ING man bags Guernsey mall project
Ian Pearce buys out former company’s share in £150m Leale’s Yard
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Professional
Sociable interns bag their placements
The winners of Sociable Surveyors’ 2012 global internship scheme were named at an awards evening at law firm Allen & Overy’s Bishops Square office in the City of London on 19 July.
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Markets
Take three … schemes to bring Tottenham back to life
Property Week takes a look at three schemes in Tottenham
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Professional
Auctioneer counts cost in case of mistaken identity
The message: Auctioneers need to double-check the true ownership of properties they sell
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News
Panic attack is no cure for hedging hangover
The elephant in the room in many property debt restructuring meetings is the “mark to market” exposure on the derivative position accompanying the financing.